Jordan Spieth is about to set another record in this season full of them. Entering the final tournament of the season, Spieth led the PGA Tour with $10,545,465 in earnings. The single-season money record is $10.91 million, set by Vijay Singh during his incredible 2004 season. Unless Spieth completely implodes over his last few holes, that record is going to fall.
2015 TOUR Championship purse: Jordan Spieth is going to break single-season money record
Jordan Spieth already had one of the most lucrative seasons in golf history and now he’s about to bank $11.5 million more on Sunday with a FedExCup title.
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Spieth has a three-shot lead heading to the back nine at East Lake. The fourth-place finisher earns $396,000 and that would be enough to set a new single season record. More likely than a fourth-place finish, however, is yet another Spieth win and $1 million-plus payout. This would be Spieth’s fifth win of this incredible year and push him juuust over the $12 million mark for the season, blasting past Singh’s record.
The purses some 11 years after that record, however, would translate to about a $13.8 million Singh season on today’s Tour. Regardless, it’s going to be Spieth’s record and he will have set it in 24 events. Tiger Woods cashed $10.87 million in just 16 starts in his amazing 2007 season. These money marks are all relative.
If Spieth hangs on, he'd earn $22-million in prize money (including the $10-mil bonus) for year... or more than 4X Nicklaus' career earnings
— Bob Harig (@BobHarig) September 27, 2015 Or to put the Spieth money stat ($22-mil this year if he wins) in diff light. That's approx 22X career PGA Tour earnings of Arnold Palmer.
— Bob Harig (@BobHarig) September 27, 2015 Spieth’s record-breaking money season is obviously helped by the fact that he’s winning some of the biggest and most lucrative tournaments. The Masters and U.S. Open both bumped their purses to $10 million, matching the largest in the game and paying the winner around $1.8 million. His near-misses at the last two majors of the year also yielded massive six-figure payouts as well. All four FedExCup tournaments also have some of the bigger purses, with only the majors, Players, and WGCs paying out more.
Oh, and all of this is just the cash he’ll earn for winning the instant tournament. The win in Atlanta would deliver him the overall FedExCup and the biggest cash windfall in the game, that $10 million bonus money check. He’s 22 years old and had almost $20 million in career earnings before this Sunday which will probably earn him $11.5 million. There are many reasons it’s not bad to be Jordan Spieth.
Here’s the full purse breakdown for TOUR Championship:
| Place | Percent of Purse | Payout |
| 1 | 18.00% | 1,485,000 |
| 2 | 10.80% | 891,000 |
| 3 | 6.80% | 561,000 |
| 4 | 4.80% | 396,000 |
| 5 | 4.00% | 330,000 |
| 6 | 3.60% | 297,000 |
| 7 | 3.35% | 276,375 |
| 8 | 3.10% | 255,750 |
| 9 | 2.90% | 239,250 |
| 10 | 2.70% | 222,750 |
| 11 | 2.50% | 206,250 |
| 12 | 2.30% | 189,750 |
| 13 | 2.10% | 173,250 |
| 14 | 1.90% | 156,750 |
| 15 | 1.80% | 148,500 |
| 16 | 1.70% | 140,250 |
| 17 | 1.60% | 132,000 |
| 18 | 1.50% | 123,750 |
| 19 | 1.40% | 115,500 |
| 20 | 1.30% | 107,250 |
| 21 | 1.20% | 99,000 |
| 22 | 1.12% | 92,400 |
| 23 | 1.04% | 85,800 |
| 24 | 0.96% | 79,200 |
| 25 | 0.88% | 72,600 |
| 26 | 0.80% | 66,000 |
| 27 | 0.77% | 63,525 |
| 28 | 0.74% | 61,050 |
| 29 | 0.71% | 58,575 |
| 30 | 0.68% | 56,100 |
| 31 | 0.65% | 53,625 |
| 32 | 0.62% | 51,150 |
| 33 | 0.59% | 48,675 |
| 34 | 0.57% | 46,612 |
| 35 | 0.54% | 44,550 |
| 36 | 0.52% | 42,487 |
| 37 | 0.49% | 40,425 |
| 38 | 0.47% | 38,775 |
| 39 | 0.45% | 37,125 |
| 40 | 0.43% | 35,475 |
| 41 | 0.41% | 33,825 |
| 42 | 0.39% | 32,175 |
| 43 | 0.37% | 30,525 |
| 44 | 0.35% | 28,875 |
| 45 | 0.33% | 27,225 |
| 46 | 0.31% | 25,575 |
| 47 | 0.29% | 23,925 |
| 48 | 0.27% | 22,605 |
| 49 | 0.26% | 21,450 |
| 50 | 0.25% | 20,790 |
| 51 | 0.25% | 20,295 |
| 52 | 0.24% | 19,800 |
| 53 | 0.24% | 19,470 |
| 54 | 0.23% | 19,140 |
| 55 | 0.23% | 18,975 |
| 56 | 0.23% | 18,810 |
| 57 | 0.23% | 18,645 |
| 58 | 0.22% | 18,480 |
| 59 | 0.22% | 18,315 |
| 60 | 0.22% | 18,150 |
| 61 | 0.22% | 17,985 |
| 62 | 0.22% | 17,820 |
| 63 | 0.21% | 17,655 |
| 64 | 0.21% | 17,490 |
| 65 | 0.21% | 17,325 |
| 66 | 0.21% | 17,160 |
| 67 | 0.21% | 16,995 |
| 68 | 0.20% | 16,830 |
| 69 | 0.20% | 16,665 |
| 70 | 0.20% | 16,500 |
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