2024 FedEx Cup standings, schedule, leaderboard, purse, prize money for Tour Championship, FedEx Cup Playoffs

After an exciting regular season, the PGA Tour hosts a three-tournament postseason, the 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs, culminating with a massive Tour Championship where the majority of the $100 million total is on offer to golfers. In fact, the $25 million top prize is tied with The Players Championship for the biggest payout on the PGA Tour this season.

Just like last season, only 70 golfers advanced past the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship playoffs. 40 of those players are now eliminated after the BMW Championship, narrowing the field in terms of the world’s best golfers capable of competing for the league’s top prize. However, there is still plenty of star power left, with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele atop the standings and other important players like Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark also in contention.

For Scheffler, the FedEx Cup win would be his first, but it would be another milestone for him, as he has already had a stellar season including six PGA Tour wins and an Olympic gold medal. The same applies to Schauffele, who has already won two major championships this season.

For everyone involved, there’s a lot of money and a lot of accolades at stake over the next three weeks. Let’s take a closer look at what’s happened and what we can still expect from this year’s festival.

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs Schedule

The top 70 FedEx Cup teams, based on points earned throughout the year, competed in the St. Jude Championship last week, while 50 teams took part in the BMW Championship, after which the number of teams was reduced for the final time.

All three events are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, though the fields get progressively smaller as the playoffs go on. The points also change, as everything is quadrupled. During regular-season events, most winners receive 500 FedEx Cup points for finishing first in the tournament (at a few events, 600 points went to first place). The winners of the first two FedEx Cup Playoff events will receive 2,000 points instead. There’s a point boost for each slot on the leaderboard: 300 for second becomes 1,200 and so on.

Only seven golfers surpassed a 2,000-point total during the entire regular season: Scheffler, Schauffele, McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clarke, Ludwig Oberg and Sahith Theegala. Scheffler began these playoffs with a nearly 3,500-point lead over third-place McIlroy — who has since fallen off the pace — while Schauffele himself was more than 1,500 points ahead of the rest.

Winners are rewarded disproportionately, and that reward is fair, since it’s the postseason. This gives golfers the opportunity to put on a great performance and climb up the FedEx Cup standings, as Hideki Matsuyama and Keegan Bradley did in the first two weeks.

The top 50 FedEx Cup teams after the St. Jude Championship advance to the BMW Championship. The top 30 teams after that advance to the Tour Championship.

2024 FedEx Cup status

Scheffler and Schauffele have performed exceptionally well. They are ranked first and third in the rankings full time After the second playoff event, the single-season money lists are $29.2 million and $18.4 million, respectively. These numbers are officially locked in because money from the FedEx Cup does not count toward a player’s official money.

Here is a look at the top 30 standings after the BMW Championship.

Matsuyama won the St. Jude Championship to move into third place. Bradley made a big jump at the BMW Championship as he barely reached the second playoff event but is now tied for fourth as the Tour Championship begins.

2024 Tour Championship format

Entering the Tour Championship inside the top five or top 10 in the FedEx Cup standings is important because of how scoring is distributed. Whoever is first in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship will start the Tour Championship at 10 under, and the event will be played under normal scoring conditions thereafter.

With so much money at stake (again, $25 million for first place), these odds become even more meaningful than they are in a normal week. The eventual winners of the four FedEx Cups played under this format have all started in the top seven at the Tour Championship.

• 10 Under – Scottie Scheffler
• 8 Under – Xander Schauffele
• 7 Under – Hideki Matsuyama
• 6 Under – Keegan Bradley
• 5 Under – Ludvig Aberg
• 4 Under – Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay
• 3 Under – Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Tony Finau
• 2 Under – Ben Ngan, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre
• 1 Under – Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Matthew Pavone, Taylor Pendrith
• Even – Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Aaron Rae, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs purse, prize money

2024 St. Jude Championship purse, prize money

• First: $3.6 million
• 2nd: $2.2 million
• Third: $1.4 million
• 4th: $960,000
• 5th: $800,000
• 6th: $720,000
• 7th: $670,000
• 8th: $620,000
• 9th: $580,000
• 10th: $540,000

2024 BMW Championship purse, prize money

• First: $3.6 million
• 2nd: $2.2 million
• Third: $1.4 million
• 4th: $990,000
• 5th: $830,000
• 6th: $750,000
• 7th: $695,000
• 8th: $640,000
• 9th: $600,000
• 10th: $560,000

2024 Tour Championship purse, prize money

The numbers for the finals are staggering. The winner of the Tour Championship gets $25 million. The second-place finisher gets $12.5 million! Let’s take a look at how the top 10 players will fare in the Tour Championship.

• First: $25 million
• 2nd: $12.5 million
• Third: $7.5 million
• 4th: $6 million
• 5th: $5 million
• 6th: $3.5 million
• 7th: $2.75 million
• 8th: $2.25 million
• 9th: $2 million
• 10th $1.75 million

Last year, Viktor Hovland won the BMW Championship and then won the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup over Schauffele. Both players shot the same 19-under score at East Lake to end the year, but Hovland started the tournament at 8 under while Schauffele started at just 3 under, so Hovland easily won by five and took home the $18 million first prize.