The more you compare the payouts for the PGA Tour’s “Elevated events” and LIV events to tourneys like the Valero or Honda or The American Express, the more it becomes clearer why you are seeing less and less stars playing in events where only the winner takes home seven figures. In the bigger PGA Tour/LIV events, 4-5 top finishers are taking home >$1M, and everyone who makes the cut or finishes the 54-hole shotgun is taking home bank.
Conners played admirably. Hell, half-a-dozen guys on Sunday had a real chance to lift the Big-A Trophy, but very few were ever going to take home enough money to change their future lifestyle or vacation plans.
We hope the Tour’s plan for balancing Elevated and non-Elevated events comes together and succeeds. They need to find sponsors to feed the 2nd tier events with bigger purses so that at least a dozen or so stars show up. If not, tourneys like the Valero—and the Valero-level partners on Tour—will cease to exist.
Payouts:
| Position | Player | Score | Winnings |
| 1 | Corey Conners | -15 | $1,602,000 |
| 2 | Sam Stevens | -14 | $970,100 |
| T3 | Sam Ryder | -13 | $525,100 |
| T3 | Matt Kuchar | -13 | $525,100 |
| 5 | Patrick Rodgers | -11 | $364,900 |
| T6 | Chez Reavie | -10 | $300,375 |
| T6 | Lee Hodges | -10 | $300,375 |
| T6 | Byeong Hun An | -10 | $300,375 |
| 9 | Andrew Novak | -9 | $260,325 |
| T10 | Chris Kirk | -8 | $206,925 |
| T10 | Ben Martin | -8 | $206,925 |
| T10 | Hayden Buckley | -8 | $206,925 |
| T10 | Rickie Fowler | -8 | $206,925 |
| T10 | Padraig Harrington | -8 | $206,925 |
| T15 | Robby Shelton | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | MJ Daffue | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | Lanto Griffin | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | Alex Noren | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | Nick Taylor | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | S.H. Kim | -7 | $135,725 |
| T15 | Hideki Matsuyama | -7 | $135,725 |
| T22 | Jimmy Walker | -6 | $83,066 |
| T22 | J.J. Spaun | -6 | $83,066 |
| T22 | Sepp Straka | -6 | $83,066 |
| T22 | Charley Hoffman | -6 | $83,066 |
| T22 | Taylor Montgomery | -6 | $83,066 |
| T22 | Peter Malnati | -6 | $83,066 |
| T28 | Nick Hardy | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Aaron Rai | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Nicolai Hojgaard | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Matt Wallace | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Harry Hall | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Nico Echavarria | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Andrew Putnam | -5 | $55,921 |
| T28 | Harry Higgs | -5 | $55,921 |
| T37 | Roberto Diaz | -4 | $43,165 |
| T37 | Augusto Nunez | -4 | $43,165 |
| T39 | Eric Cole | -3 | $36,045 |
| T39 | Michael Thompson | -3 | $36,045 |
| T39 | Luke List | -3 | $36,045 |
| T39 | Si Woo Kim | -3 | $36,045 |
| T39 | Kevin Chappell | -3 | $36,045 |
| T39 | Dylan Wu | -3 | $36,045 |
| 45 | Lucas Glover | -2 | $29,815 |
| T46 | Matti Schmid | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Michael Kim | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Beau Hossler | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Luke Donald | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Kevin Streelman | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Tano Goya | -1 | $24,246 |
| T46 | Akshay Bhatia | -1 | $24,246 |
| T53 | Brendon Todd | E | $21,152 |
| T53 | Emiliano Grillo | E | $21,152 |
| T53 | Pierceson Coody | E | $21,152 |
| T56 | Ryan Gerard | 1 | $20,648 |
| T56 | Trevor Werbylo | 1 | $20,648 |
| T58 | Brandon Wu | 2 | $20,292 |
| T58 | Tyler Duncan | 2 | $20,292 |
| T60 | Brice Garnett | 3 | $19,758 |
| T60 | Jason Dufner | 3 | $19,758 |
| T60 | Chesson Hadley | 3 | $19,758 |
| T60 | Henrik Norlander | 3 | $19,758 |
| T64 | Patton Kizzire | 4 | $18,868 |
| T64 | Satoshi Kodaira | 4 | $18,868 |
| T64 | Garrick Higo | 4 | $18,868 |
| T64 | Cole Hammer | 4 | $18,868 |
| T64 | Thomas Detry | 4 | $18,868 |
| T64 | Chandler Phillips | 4 | $18,868 |
| 70 | Justin Lower | 7 | $18,245 |
| 71 | Kyle Stanley | 8 | $18,067 |