Tommy Fleetwood broke his PGA Tour duck on Sunday by winning the Tour Championship, but the Englishman took home far less prize money than last year’s victor, Scottie Scheffler
Tommy Fleetwood won the FedEx Cup on Sunday(Image: Getty Images)
Tommy Fleetwood finally tasted victory at a PGA Tour event on Sunday when he won the lucrative Tour Championship. But the 34-year-old earned considerably less than 2024 champion Scottie Scheffler.
Fleetwood had gone 163 Tour competitions without a win before he took to East Lake Golf Club last week. Having shared the lead into the final round, he stood firm and won by three strokes over Patrick Cantlay.
The Englishman will pocket £7.4m for his efforts, but thanks to changes in how the Tour dish out FedEx Cup prize money, he’ll be receiving far less than last year’s winner, Scheffler. The American earned £18.5million for his exploits 12 months ago.
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Fleetwood has been one of the Tour’s finest shooters for some time, but had long been unable to shake his lack of a tournament win. At the FedEx St. Jude Championship earlier this month, for example, he surrendered a two-shot gap with three to play and eventually finished in third.
However, this all changed on Sunday evening, when Fleetwood was able to hang on to his lead and beat both Cantlay and Russell Henley by three strokes to secure his first-ever victory.
For his efforts, he was rewarded with the Tour Championship’s top prize of £7.4m, the richest individual reward on the PGA Tour. Though the world No. 1 was handed a substantial amount more last year. Scheffler, who has continued his golden streak into 2025 with five wins, including at The Open and US PGA Championship, won the event last year and was rewarded handsomely.
The Tour Championship adopted a new format in 2019, with the FedEx Cup points leader beginning the event at 10 under par, the golfer with the second-highest number of points starting at eight under, and so on. If such a format had been in place this time around, Scheffler, who finished tied for fourth at the Tour Championship on 14 under, would have trumped Fleetwood’s winning 18 under score as the American ended the season atop the FedEx Cup standings.
The Englishman will earn £7.4m for his efforts in Georgia(Image: Getty)
Scheffler took advantage of this last year when he won the Tour Championship by four strokes, becoming the first player to win The Players Championship, the Masters, and the FedEx Cup in one season.
He earned a total prize of £18.5m for his efforts, but this year, Fleetwood collected £11m less thanks to readjustments to the competition. The Tour Championship abolished the starting strokes format this year, and therefore, the £7.4m grand prize counts as official money.
The tournament’s £30m purse is just a fraction of the total FedEx Cup prize pool, which stood at £74m for 2024 and remained the same in 2025. As of this year though, it is distributed at three different points, which is the reason behind Fleetwood’s reduced winning prize.
Roughly £15m of this total was handed to the top 10 players on the FedEx Cup leaderboard after the Wyndham Championship, with another £22m dished out after the BMW Championship. The remainder of the prize fund was given to golfers at the Tour Championship, unlike in 2024, when all of the £74m made up the final Play-Off event’s fund.
Scheffler was victorious at the Tour Championship in 2024(Image: Getty)
Yet, this didn’t bother Fleetwood, who was emotional after his win. “When you’ve lost so many times, a three-shot lead down the last doesn’t feel like that many,” joked a tearful Fleetwood on Sunday.
“[The fans] are amazing, it makes me a bit emotional. I’m so lucky with the support I get – it’s so special and I hope everyone knows how grateful I am for it.”
During the FedEx Cup Play-Offs, both Scheffler and Fleetwood have been prevalent. The Englishman finished tied for third at the FedEx St. Jude with Scheffler, and the American won the BMW Championship a week later with Fleetwood tied for fourth.
With their Tour Championship finishes taken into account, Scheffler has amassed roughly £16.4m, with Fleetwood earning £10.3m in prizes and FedEx Cup bonuses over the last few weeks.
