The Korn Ferry Tour is loaded with talent and by the end of the 2026 season, 20 players will have earned a promotion in the form of a PGA Tour card for the 2027 season.
But along the way, what kind of money are the KFT players battling for? The numbers are consistent, as each regular-season Korn Ferry Tour event has a prize fund of $1 million. The winner at each of those takes home $180,000.
The money is bumped in the four-event playoffs, where the prize pool grows to $1.5 million and the first-place prize goes up 50 percent to $270,000.
Who was the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour money leader?
In 2025, Johnny Keefer won the most money on the circuit. His season-long haul was $831,686. He was one of four golfers to win twice. Keefer played 23 times and made 19 cuts. Along with his two wins he also had two seconds, six top 5s and nine top 10s.
Chandler Blanchet ($762,550), Austin Smotherman ($658,905) and Neal Shipley ($646,595) were the others who also won twice in 2025.
Adrien Dumont de Chassart ($558,622) won the most of the one-time winners.
Seven golfers cleared a half million dollars in earnings in 2025. The tour average was $118,737 with 90 players breaking into the six figures.
How much the leading money winners made on each pro golf circuit in 2025
As a comparison, here’s what the other major golf circuit’s money look like:
Scottie Scheffler was the PGA Tour’s season-long money winner (again) in 2025. He made $27,659,550 over the course of his six-win season.
The LPGA’s top earner in 2025 was Jeeno Thitikul, who made $7,578,330.
Rory McIlroy won the most money on the DP World Tour last season with $9,258,401 in earnings.
LIV Golf awards the most prize money, and in 2025, the top earner was Jon Rahm, who earned a combined $33,013,792 in prize money and bonuses.
On the PGA Tour Champions, Charles Schwab Cup winner Stewart Cink earned $3,247,147.
The Epson Tour’s top money winner was Melanie Green, who totaled $186,986 during her two-win campaign.
On the PGA Tour Americas in 2025, Michael Brennan won three times and $202,899 in cash. He then claimed the title at the PGA Tour’s Bank of Utah Championship, allowing him to jump from essentially AA to the bigs.