The FedExCup is a nice little competition for the once-barren post-majors stretch of the calendar in golf. It brings the biggest names in the game out for a few more tournaments before golf completely drops off the radar for the rest of the year. The motivator, however, is largely not some sort of postseason or “playoffs” glory, but rather cash. There’s just so much cash.
The Barclays purse: Jason Day wins another massive payout in FedExCup opener
With three wins in his last four starts, Jason Day takes another money bath to start the extremely lucrative FedExCup.
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First, there are the individual purses at four separate events. Those were all bumped $250,000 this year to a total of $8,250,000 at each leg of the postseason. Obviously, the fields get smaller as the postseason progresses, so the share of that purse gets larger and larger. The only richer purses on Tour are at the majors, the WGC events, and The Players. So these purses on their own are enormous and worth playing for over the month of September.
Then there’s all that bonus cash that commissioner Tim Finchem and the suits at the PGA Tour dump on the table each year to get these world-class pros all fired up for their FedExCup. There’s $33 million in purse money across four events, but another $35 million in bonus money doled out over this month-long postseason. In fact, 25 guys who weren’t even good enough to get into the playoffs still earn $32,000 just for having a mediocre season and never hitting a shot in the FedExCup. The winner, of course, walks away with that outrageous $10 million grand prize in Atlanta.
At this week’s Barclays, the bottom 25 of the initial 125 qualifiers will be knocked out of next week’s second leg in Boston. Their season may be over, but they’re going home with an additional $70,000 from the bonus money pool. Here’s a breakout of that pool for this month’s postseason:
| FEC Finishing Spot | Bonus Money | FEC Finishing Spot | Bonus Money |
| 1 | $10,000,000 | 31 | $165,000 |
| 2 | $3,000,000 | 32 | $155,000 |
| 3 | $2,000,000 | 33 | $150,000 |
| 4 | $1,500,000 | 34 | $145,000 |
| 5 | $1,000,000 | 35 | $142,000 |
| 6 | $800,000 | 36 | $140,000 |
| 7 | $700,000 | 37 | $138,000 |
| 8 | $600,000 | 38 | $137,000 |
| 9 | $550,000 | 39 | $136,000 |
| 10 | $500,000 | 40 | $135,000 |
| 11 | $300,000 | 41 | $134,000 |
| 12 | $290,000 | 42 | $133,000 |
| 13 | $280,000 | 43 | $132,000 |
| 14 | $270,000 | 44 | $131,000 |
| 15 | $250,000 | 45 | $130,000 |
| 16 | $245,000 | 46 | $129,000 |
| 17 | $240,000 | 47 | $128,000 |
| 18 | $235,000 | 48 | $127,000 |
| 19 | $230,000 | 49 | $126,000 |
| 20 | $225,000 | 50 | $125,000 |
| 21 | $220,000 | 51 | $120,000 |
| 22 | $215,000 | 52 | $115,000 |
| 23 | $210,000 | 53 | $114,000 |
| 24 | $205,000 | 54 | $113,000 |
| 25 | $200,000 | 55-70 | $110,000 |
| 26 | $195,000 | 71-80 | $80,000 |
| 27 | $190,000 | 81-100 | $75,000 |
| 28 | $185,000 | 101-125 | $70,000 |
| 29 | $180,000 | 126-150 | $32,000 |
| 30 | $175,000 | TOTAL | $35,000,000 |
This is what makes the FedExCup so unique and attractive to these already wealthy pros. There’s two enormous streams of cash flowing into their pockets when they tee it up and play well (and sometimes even when they play like garbage). It’s not bad work.
Jason Day, who already had $6,066,205 in earnings in this monster season alone, added another hefty check with his third win in four starts on Sunday. He ran away with The Barclays by six shots and if he keeps anything close to this form up, he’s going to have another $10 million check in a month. Day is your new No. 1 in the FEC Standings. Here’s the purse breakdown for this standalone Barclays event:
| Place | Player | Score | Payout |
| 1 | Jason Day | -19 | $1,485,000 |
| 2 | Henrik Stenson | -13 | $891,000 |
| 3 | Bubba Watson | -11 | $561,000 |
| T4 | Zac Blair | -10 | $363,000 |
| T4 | Zach Johnson | -10 | $363,000 |
| T6 | Daniel Summerhays | -9 | $276,375 |
| T6 | Ryan Palmer | -9 | $276,375 |
| T6 | Sang-Moon Bae | -9 | $276,375 |
| T9 | Jason Bohn | -8 | $231,000 |
| T9 | Dustin Johnson | -8 | $231,000 |
| T11 | Jim Furyk | -7 | $198,000 |
| T11 | Bryce Molder | -7 | $198,000 |
| T13 | Steven Bowditch | -6 | $159,500 |
| T13 | Jim Herman | -6 | $159,500 |
| T13 | Hideki Matsuyama | -6 | $159,500 |
| T16 | Justin Thomas | -5 | $127,875 |
| T16 | Tony Finau | -5 | $127,875 |
| T16 | Justin Rose | -5 | $127,875 |
| T16 | Spencer Levin | -5 | $127,875 |
| T20 | Pat Perez | -4 | $96,112 |
| T20 | Kevin Na | -4 | $96,112 |
| T20 | Russell Knox | -4 | $96,112 |
| T20 | Kevin Kisner | -4 | $96,112 |
| T24 | Kevin Chappell | -3 | $66,825 |
| T24 | Mark Wilson | -3 | $66,825 |
| T24 | Rory Sabbatini | -3 | $66,825 |
| T24 | Brendon Todd | -3 | $66,825 |
| T24 | Luke Donald | -3 | $66,825 |
| T24 | Carlos Ortiz | -3 | $66,825 |
| T30 | Webb Simpson | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Brian Harman | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Jason Gore | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | George McNeill | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Danny Lee | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Harris English | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Cameron Tringale | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Camilo Villegas | -2 | $46,933 |
| T30 | Jason Dufner | -2 | $46,933 |
| T39 | Paul Casey | -1 | $33,000 |
| T39 | Morgan Hoffmann | -1 | $33,000 |
| T39 | Shawn Stefani | -1 | $33,000 |
| T39 | Stewart Cink | -1 | $33,000 |
| T39 | Matt Kuchar | -1 | $33,000 |
| T39 | Robert Streb | -1 | $33,000 |
| T45 | John Senden | E | $24,156 |
| T45 | David Hearn | E | $24,156 |
| T45 | Johnson Wagner | E | $24,156 |
| T45 | J.J. Henry | E | $24,156 |
| T45 | Sean O'Hair | E | $24,156 |
| T50 | Scott Pinckney | 1 | $20,295 |
| T50 | Phil Mickelson | 1 | $20,295 |
| T50 | Hudson Swafford | 1 | $20,295 |
| T53 | Matt Jones | 2 | $19,008 |
| T53 | Kevin Streelman | 2 | $19,008 |
| T53 | Troy Merritt | 2 | $19,008 |
| T53 | Nick Taylor | 2 | $19,008 |
| T53 | Bill Haas | 2 | $19,008 |
| T58 | J.B. Holmes | 3 | $18,232 |
| T58 | Lee Westwood | 3 | $18,232 |
| T58 | Charles Howell III | 3 | $18,232 |
| T58 | James Hahn | 3 | $18,232 |
| T62 | Patrick Reed | 4 | $17,572 |
| T62 | Charley Hoffman | 4 | $17,572 |
| T62 | Scott Piercy | 4 | $17,572 |
| T62 | Ken Duke | 4 | $17,572 |
| T66 | Vijay Singh | 5 | $17,078 |
| T66 | Ryo Ishikawa | 5 | $17,078 |
| 68 | Ben Martin | 6 | $16,830 |
| T69 | Jimmy Walker | 7 | $16,582 |
| T69 | Jeff Overton | 7 | $16,582 |
| 71 | Fabian Gomez | 9 | $16,335 |
| 72 | Russell Henley | 10 | $16,170 |
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