Travelers Championship purse: Winner will earn $1.2 million payout in Hartford

The Travelers Championship has carved out a niche and strong identity on the PGA Tour despite its unenviable position on the schedule. The annual stop in Hartford usually falls the week after the U.S. Open in late June, when players are coming off four rounds at the “toughest test in golf” and probably looking for a breather. This year’s edition falls in just as rough a spot -- one week after the PGA, which was the second major in three weeks, and one week before the Olympics. Yet it draws a pretty strong field and the players who do show up always come away raving about the experience. The tournament organizers have managed to put together and promote one of the stronger events on Tour.

While it may not be the biggest event on Tour, the purse is competitive. The total pot is a healthy $6.6 million, with the winner earning $1,188,000 this year. That will be $36,000 more than Bubba Watson earned for his second Travelers win last year at TPC River Highlands.

Daniel Berger started the round with a three-shot lead, looking to bag his second million-dollar payday this summer. Berger got his first PGA Tour win in June at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, taking home a $1,116,000 winner’s check. The reigning rookie of the year on Tour has struggled to back up his Saturday 62 that put him in that three-shot lead at the start of the day, throwing away four shots and failing to make a birdie on a Sunday when the course is yielding red numbers. Russell Knox, Jerry Kelly and Russell Henley are the three beneficiaries so far of Berger stalling out, sharing the lead on the back nine in Hartford.

The biggest mover of the day was Jim Furyk, who certainly doesn’t need the money thanks to a lengthy, successful and incredibly lucrative career. But Furyk is now looking at a six-figure payout after starting the final round before 9 a.m. in one of the earlier tee times. After shooting the lowest round in the history of the PGA Tour, the first-ever 58, Furyk is now 64 spots higher on the board than when he started. He’ll almost certainly make top-10 money.

Here are your payout totals for the 73 players who made the cut this week in Hartford (totals will be impacted by ties and we’ll update when results go final):

1 -- $1,188,000
2 -- $712,800
3 -- $448,800
4 -- $316,800
5 -- $264,000
6 -- $237,600
7 -- $221,100
8 -- $204,600
9 -- $191,400
10 -- $178,200
11 -- $165,000
12 -- $151,800
13 -- $138,600
14 -- $125,400
15 -- $118,800
16 -- $112,200
17 -- $105,600
18 -- $99,000
19 -- $92,400
20 -- $85,800
21 -- $79,200
22 -- $73,920
23 -- $68,640
24 -- $63,360
25 -- $58,080
26 -- $52,800
27 -- $50,820
28 -- $48,840
29 -- $46,860
30 -- $44,880
31 -- $42,900
32 -- $40,920
33 -- $38,940
34 -- $37,290
35 -- $35,640
36 -- $33,990
37 -- $32,340
38 -- $31,020
39 -- $29,700
40 -- $28,380
41 -- $27,060
42 -- $25,740
43 -- $24,420
44 -- $23,100
45 -- $21,780
46 -- $20,460
47 -- $19,140
48 -- $18,084
49 -- $17,160
50 -- $16,632
51 -- $16,236
52 -- $15,840
53 -- $15,576
54 -- $15,312
55 -- $15,180
56 -- $15,048
57 -- $14,916
58 -- $14,784
59 -- $14,652
60 -- $14,520
61 -- $14,388
62 -- $14,256
63 -- $14,124
64 -- $13,992
65 -- $13,860
66 -- $13,728
67 -- $13,596
68 -- $13,464
69 -- $13,332
70 -- $13,200
71 -- $13,068
72 -- $12,936
73 -- $12,804