Quick Answer: Scottie Scheffler won his second FedEx Cup on August 30, 2026, closing with a 4-under 66 to beat Viktor Hovland by three shots. The win paid $10 million and pushed his career earnings past Tiger Woods for the all-time PGA Tour record. It’s his third win of the season.
Scottie Scheffler trailed by three shots when Sunday started at East Lake. He didn’t trail for long. A 5-iron to two inches on the par-3 second hole got him moving, and by the 13th he’d taken the lead for good.
Four hours later he was holding the FedEx Cup trophy for the second time in three years, cracking open a beer he later said he doesn’t drink very often. Here’s everything that happened at the 2026 Tour Championship: the round itself, the full payout, the record he broke, and honest answers to the questions people are actually typing into Google about this right now.
How Scheffler Won It: Round 4 at East Lake
Scheffler started the final round three shots back of 54-hole leader Viktor Hovland. He didn’t wait around. A 25-foot birdie on the fourth hole pulled him level, right after a near-ace with a 5-iron on the 211-yard second hole that finished two inches from the cup.
Two bogeys interrupted the round. One came on the par-4 seventh, after an aggressive wedge miss from the fairway. The other came from a gnarly lie in the rough on 14. Neither one mattered much.
Scheffler grabbed the outright lead for the first time on the 13th and never gave it back. He sealed the margin with a birdie from a fairway bunker to 11 feet on 16.
Hovland couldn’t answer. He made only one birdie all day, and three separate putts caught the lip of the cup in a four-hole stretch on the back nine. A closing 72 left him alone in second at 13-under, three shots behind. Ryan Gerard, one back of Hovland at the start of the day, made double bogey on the opening hole and shot 72 to finish third at 12-under.
East Lake played tough on Sunday. The field’s average score jumped from 67.35 through three rounds to 70.07 in the final round. Scheffler’s 66 tied for the low round of the day, and he was the only player from the last three pairings to break par.
2026 Tour Championship Prize Money: Full Payout Table
The Tour Championship carried a $40 million purse this year, the biggest single payday of the 2026 PGA Tour season. Below is the full breakdown for the top finishers, along with how many FedExCups each player has actually won in his career, a detail that puts Rory McIlroy’s tie for fourth in a different light.
| Finish | Player | 2026 Payout | FedExCup Titles (Career) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | $10,000,000 | 2 (2024, 2026) |
| 2 | Viktor Hovland | $5,000,000 | 1 (2023) |
| 3 | Ryan Gerard | $3,705,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Rory McIlroy | $1,695,000 | 3 (2012, 2016, 2022) |
| T4 | Alex Fitzpatrick | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Ludvig Åberg | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Chris Gotterup | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Jacob Bridgeman | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Min Woo Lee | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T4 | Russell Henley | $1,695,000 | 0 |
| T11 | Tommy Fleetwood | $661,666 | 1 (2025) |
| T11 | Cameron Young | $661,666 | 0 |
| T11 | Adam Scott | $661,666 | 0 |
McIlroy actually owns more FedExCups than anyone else at East Lake this week, Scheffler included, and he still finished seven shots back. That’s how good Scheffler was on Sunday.
Nobody made a bigger jump than Alex Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick sat 16th entering the day, worth roughly $505,000 by that spot on the leaderboard. A closing 66 carried him to a share of fourth and more than $1.7 million, a swing of over $1.19 million from one round of golf. For more on how his season built toward that finish, Alex Fitzpatrick’s full profile covers his path from the Zurich Classic win to East Lake.
Sunday’s $40 million payout is part of a $100 million FedExCup bonus pool for the whole postseason. The Tour splits that pool across three stages: a payout after the regular season for the top 10 in points, another after the BMW Championship, and the largest chunk at the Tour Championship itself.
Second FedEx Cup, First One That Felt Fully Earned
On paper, this win looks like the one from 2024. To Scheffler, though, it isn’t the same trophy at all.
Two years ago he started the week with a two-shot lead before hitting a single ball, a bonus for finishing atop the FedEx Cup standings under the old “starting strokes” format. He won that year by four shots, even though two other players in the field actually posted lower 72-hole scores than he did. Scheffler called that setup silly back then, and the Tour scrapped it days later.
Every player at East Lake in 2025 and 2026 has started at even par instead. The FedEx Cup and the Tour Championship trophy now go to whoever shoots the lowest score over four rounds, full stop. Scheffler said afterward that winning it this way, as the tournament’s actual low scorer rather than a beneficiary of bonus strokes, feels like “a bit more of an accomplishment” than 2024 did.
He’s not wrong to draw that line. Under the old system, the No. 30 seed started the week 10 shots behind the leader before a single tee shot, which meant one bad week in the regular season was enough to end a great season with a whimper. If you liked the built-in drama of a big overnight lead, you’ll miss the old format. Most players, Scheffler included, don’t seem to.
Scottie Scheffler’s Career Earnings Now Top the All-Time List
Winning didn’t just fund a nice offseason for Scheffler. It made him the highest-earning player in PGA Tour history.
He entered tournament week roughly $600,000 behind Tiger Woods’ mark of $120,999,166, a record that had stood since February 2000. Two playoff wins and $14.1 million later, Scheffler’s official career total now sits at $130,390,661.
| Fact | Scottie Scheffler | Tiger Woods |
|---|---|---|
| Career PGA Tour Earnings | $130,390,661 | $120,999,166 |
| Seasons on Tour | About 6, since 2020 | Record built over 26+ years |
| Held the No. 1 Spot Since | August 30, 2026 | February 2000 to August 2026 |
Purses have exploded since Woods was in his prime. He never played for a purse larger than $10 million during his best years, and Scheffler cleared that amount in a single week at East Lake. It’s a record about money more than a record about who played better golf, and it’s worth remembering that distinction before anyone calls Scheffler the better player because of it.
Rory McIlroy isn’t far behind either. His T4 finish pushed him to just over $119.5 million, and he’ll pass Woods within the next year too.
Where This Leaves the 2026 Player of the Year Race
Scheffler has won the Jack Nicklaus Award, the PGA Tour’s official Player of the Year honor, in each of the last four seasons. A fifth in a row would tie the record Tiger Woods set between 1999 and 2003, and Sunday’s win makes Scheffler the clear favorite heading into the vote.
He closes the season with three wins, five runner-up finishes, and the Tour’s best strokes-gained total. Wyndham Clark has a real case too, with three wins of his own including the U.S. Open, but he trails Scheffler in almost every other category the voters weigh. PGA Tour members cast their ballots in December, so the race isn’t over yet. Based on where the numbers stand today, betting against Scheffler would be a mistake.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much did Scottie Scheffler win today in the FedEx Cup?
Scheffler earned $10 million for winning the 2026 Tour Championship and FedEx Cup, the top prize from the event’s $40 million purse.
Has Scottie Scheffler ever won the FedEx Championship?
Yes. Scheffler won his first FedEx Cup in 2024 under the old starting-strokes format, and his second FedEx Cup in 2026 under the current straight stroke-play format. He also won the FedEx St. Jude Championship, a separate playoff event, earlier in August 2026.
What does Scottie Scheffler have to do to win the FedEx Cup?
Under the current format, the FedEx Cup goes to whoever shoots the lowest 72-hole score at the Tour Championship. All 30 qualifying players start the week at even par, so Scheffler simply had to outscore the other 29 players across four rounds at East Lake, which he did by three shots.
Why is Bryson DeChambeau suspended from the PGA?
The PGA Tour has suspended DeChambeau since 2022, when he left to join LIV Golf without Tour approval, a violation of the Tour’s rules on conflicting events. Earlier in 2026, the Tour offered a small group of LIV players, DeChambeau included, an expedited path back. Only Brooks Koepka used it. DeChambeau has said he won’t return to the PGA Tour this year and remains committed to LIV through the rest of the 2026 season.
For the fuller story on his career and the LIV move, Bryson DeChambeau’s background explains how he got here.
What’s Next for Scottie Scheffler
The PGA Tour season is over, but Scheffler’s year isn’t quite finished. He leads the U.S. Presidents Cup team into Medinah Country Club later this month as the automatic points leader, with the matches running September 24-27 against the International side.
Three wins, a second FedEx Cup, and the all-time money record make for a strange kind of down year. For the full story of how Scheffler built this career from a Texas college standout into the sport’s dominant player, Scottie Scheffler’s complete profile has the rest.