The FedEx St. Jude Classic has been a logistical nightmare this year, with weather halting play on the first three days and then a chase to get in ahead of more storms leading to a tape-delayed finish on Sunday. That’s not ideal for TV partners, sponsors, the venue, and the players, but at least they’ll still walk away with plenty of cash for playing through the weekend.
2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic payout: Memphis winner will earn $1.044 million of total purse
Most minds have turned to Pinehurst and the U.S. Open, but there’s still a lot of prize money to hand out in Memphis.
Christian Petersen
St. Jude Classic
The St. Jude Classic has a purse that would be considered on the smaller side for the Tour. It’s one of 10 events with a total pot below $6 million, but the winner still earns a $1M- plus payday. Ben Crane is trying to hold on for a wire-to-wire win, his first victory since 2011. A win would earn Crane $1,044,000 of a total $5.8 million purse. It’s an impressive prize for one of the smaller events on the PGA Tour schedule, but in comparison, next week’s U.S. Open winner will cash around $1.5M of a purse that should be north of $8M.
Crane is a successful veteran and has almost $18.5M in career earnings, so while this would be one of the biggest prizes of his career, it won’t be a game changer like it is for some others in need of a win. On the other hand, Troy Merritt, who is the closet chaser and one back of Crane, would come close to equaling his career total of $1.344M earnings in just one day. Merritt has one Nationwide Tour (now Web.com Tour) win back in 2009, but has never won on the top circuit in the America.
UPDATE: Here are the final payout amounts (from $5.8M total) for the field:
| Place | Player | Score | Payout |
| 1 | Ben Crane | -10 | $1,044,000 |
| 2 | Troy Merritt | -9 | $626,400 |
| T3 | Webb Simpson | -8 | $301,600 |
| T3 | Matt Every | -8 | $301,600 |
| T3 | Carl Pettersson | -8 | $301,600 |
| T6 | Ian Poulter | -7 | $181,540 |
| T6 | James Hahn | -7 | $181,540 |
| T6 | Andrew Svoboda | -7 | $181,540 |
| T6 | Billy Horschel | -7 | $181,540 |
| T6 | Brian Harman | -7 | $181,540 |
| T11 | Phil Mickelson | -6 | $139,200 |
| T11 | Camilo Villegas | -6 | $139,200 |
| T13 | Rickie Fowler | -5 | $102,467 |
| T13 | Ben Martin | -5 | $102,467 |
| T13 | J.J. Henry | -5 | $102,467 |
| T13 | Chesson Hadley | -5 | $102,467 |
| T13 | Ted Potter, Jr. | -5 | $102,467 |
| T13 | Austin Cook | -5 | $102,467 |
| T19 | Brooks Koepka | -4 | $70,296 |
| T19 | Will Wilcox | -4 | $70,296 |
| T19 | John Peterson | -4 | $70,296 |
| T19 | Tim Clark | -4 | $70,296 |
| T19 | Peter Malnati | -4 | $70,296 |
| T24 | Paul Casey | -3 | $49,445 |
| T24 | Graeme McDowell | -3 | $49,445 |
| T24 | Dustin Johnson | -3 | $49,445 |
| T24 | Jason Bohn | -3 | $49,445 |
| T28 | George McNeill | -2 | $40,310 |
| T28 | Charlie Wi | -2 | $40,310 |
| T28 | Steve Marino | -2 | $40,310 |
| T28 | Charles Howell III | -2 | $40,310 |
| T32 | Tommy Gainey | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Cameron Tringale | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Danny Lee | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Jhonattan Vegas | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | William McGirt | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Ryan Palmer | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Tim Wilkinson | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Heath Slocum | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Ben Curtis | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Scott Stallings | -1 | $28,842 |
| T32 | Retief Goosen | -1 | $28,842 |
| T43 | Luke Guthrie | E | $20,300 |
| T43 | Sean O'Hair | E | $20,300 |
| T43 | Davis Love III | E | $20,300 |
| T46 | Chad Campbell | 1 | $16,443 |
| T46 | Boo Weekley | 1 | $16,443 |
| T46 | Gonzalo Fdez-Castano | 1 | $16,443 |
| T46 | Robert Streb | 1 | $16,443 |
| T50 | Kevin Kisner | 2 | $14,268 |
| T50 | John Rollins | 2 | $14,268 |
| T50 | Ryuji Imada | 2 | $14,268 |
| T53 | Zach Johnson | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Miguel Angel Carballo | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Stuart Appleby | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Stewart Cink | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Jeff Overton | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Woody Austin | 3 | $13,241 |
| T53 | Benjamin Alvarado | 3 | $13,241 |
| T60 | Freddie Jacobson | 4 | $12,644 |
| T60 | Martin Laird | 4 | $12,644 |
| T60 | Greg Owen | 4 | $12,644 |
| T63 | John Merrick | 5 | $12,354 |
| T63 | Shawn Stefani | 5 | $12,354 |
| T65 | Jerry Kelly | 6 | $12,064 |
| T65 | Padraig Harrington | 6 | $12,064 |
| T65 | Martin Flores | 6 | $12,064 |
| 68 | Josh Teater | 7 | $11,832 |
| T69 | Justin Leonard | 8 | $11,658 |
| T69 | David Lingmerth | 8 | $11,658 |
| 71 | John Daly | 11 | $11,484 |
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