Winner: Scottie Scheffler
Let’s start with the obvious one.
Scottie Scheffler is once again the FedExCup champion.
And considering how the week started, he had to earn it.
Scheffler opened with a 5-under 65 and remained in the mix throughout the week. But heading into Sunday, the 2nd most popular Norwegian professional athlete, Viktor Hovland, led, and Scheffler trailed by three shots. Even Halland himself was confident that Hovland was going to hold off Scheff and win the year’s biggest prize.
That’s when Scottie did Scottie things.
He birdied the second hole. Then he birdied the fourth.
He kept applying pressure while Hovland struggled to find the same magic that had carried him to the 54-hole lead.
Scheffler eventually took the lead with a birdie on No. 13 and stretched it to two with another birdie at No. 16.
By the time Hovland made bogey at 17, the tournament was basically over.
Scheffler finished with a 66 and a three-shot victory. Scheffler now joins Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods as the only players to win the FedExCup multiple times.
His final scores for the week:
65-67-66-66 = 264, 16-under par.
And a $10 million check.
Not bad for four days of work.
But Scheffler actually had a much bigger payday this week.
Because the FedExCup bonus money is separate from the TOUR Championship purse, Scheffler had already secured $23 million for finishing No. 1 in the FedExCup standings following the BMW Championship.
Add the $10 million TOUR Championship winner’s check and Scheffler’s postseason haul gets downright silly.
$33 million. Add that to the $21 million he made in official earnings before the Tour Championship, and he ended up netting more than $54 million for the season. Wow.
Winner/Loser: Viktor Hovland
Here’s the weird thing about golf.
Hovland lost by three shots and still had a terrific week.
He opened the tournament with a 6-under 64, followed it with a 66, and then shot a 65 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into Sunday.
Unfortunately for Hovland, Sunday was a different story. He shot 72.
Still, a runner-up finish earned him $5 million, his best finish ever at the TOUR Championship.
And considering how good Hovland looked for 54 holes, he has plenty to feel good about heading into the offseason.
He just ran into Scottie Scheffler. Which, historically, has been a fairly difficult thing to do.
Winner: Ryan Gerard
Ryan Gerard wasn’t supposed to be the guy battling for second place at East Lake.
And yet, here we are.
Gerard finished alone in third at 12-under par after rounds of 65-65-66-72.
He earned $3.705 million.
That’s the largest payday of his PGA TOUR career.
Even better, Gerard finished the season with the best result of his career at the TOUR Championship after making a massive jump in the FedExCup standings over the last year.
The only problem? His final-round 72 probably cost him another couple million bucks.
But we’re guessing he’ll survive.
Winner: Rory McIlroy
Rory didn’t win. Again. (Note: Let’s not forget his delcious Masters victory.)
But finishing tied for fourth at 11-under is hardly a disaster.
McIlroy shot a ridiculous 8-under 63 in the third round to put himself firmly in contention, but couldn’t quite finish the job Sunday.
He finished five shots behind Scheffler and earned $1.707 million. More importantly, Rory remains the only player in history with three FedExCup titles.
Scheffler is now chasing him.
And if these two keep doing this for another decade, the FedExCup record book is going to get very interesting.
Big Winner: Alex Fitzpatrick
This one deserves some attention.
Alex Fitzpatrick — yes, Matt’s younger brother — finished tied for fourth at 11-under.
That earned him $1.707 million.
Not exactly a bad way to wrap up a breakout season.
Fitzpatrick was one of the biggest stories of the 2026 season, going from a player trying to establish himself on the PGA TOUR to one of only 30 guys standing at East Lake. His win at theZurich with his brother catapulted Alex to quasi-stardom. He’s got a bright future to say the least.
And then he went out and finished fourth.
Family dinner at the Fitzpatrick house should be pretty entertaining this week.
Winner: Min Woo Lee
Min Woo Lee opened the TOUR Championship by shooting a ridiculous 8-under 62.
That gave him the early lead and tied his career low on the PGA TOUR.
He ultimately finished tied for fourth at 11-under.
That’s a $1.707 million payday.
More importantly, Lee showed that his game is ready for this stage.
If he can put four rounds together consistently, he’s going to be a problem.
A big problem.
Loser: Wyndham Clark
This feels strange because Clark had an excellent season.
But East Lake was a missed opportunity.
After winning the BMW Championship the previous week, Clark entered the TOUR Championship with legitimate Player of the Year momentum.
Three wins. A U.S. Open championship. A BMW Championship victory.
And a late-season surge that put him right into the conversation with Scheffler.
Then he finished T21 at 5-under.
Clark earned $408,750. That’s obviously a fantastic payday.
But compared with what was at stake, this was a disappointing finish.
Scheffler’s victory likely closed the door on Wyndham’s hope of winning Player of the Year. It felt like if Wyndham had won the tourney, or at least beat Scheff by a pretty good size margin, Wyndham may have pulled off the feat of besting World #1 for this year’s POTY. But he didn’t. Sorry Wyndham.
Loser: J.J. Spaun
Spaun didn’t even get the chance.
He withdrew after the opening round, leaving the 30-man field with 29 players completing 72 holes. That’s a particularly brutal way to end the season when the entire year’s work has been building toward this tournament.
Still, Spaun’s appearance at East Lake meant he was one of the 30 best players in the FedExCup standings. Not exactly a bad year. He also would have won 30th place money.
The Bottom Line
The 2026 PGA TOUR season ended exactly where it started:
With Scottie Scheffler looking like Scottie Scheffler.
He didn’t win a major.
He didn’t dominate the regular season the way he has in recent years.
He didn’t even start the final round with the lead.
None of that mattered.
When the PGA TOUR season came down to four rounds at East Lake, Scheffler shot 16-under and won by three.
2026 TOUR Championship prize money payouts
| Position | Player | Score | Earnings |
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | -16 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | Viktor Hovland | -13 | $5,000,000 |
| 3 | Ryan Gerard | -12 | $3,750,000 |
| T4 | Alex Fitzpatrick | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Jacob Bridgeman | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Min Woo Lee | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Russell Henley | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Rory McIlroy | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Chris Gotterup | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T4 | Ludvig Aberg | -11 | $1,695,000 |
| T11 | Cameron Young | -10 | $661,666 |
| T11 | Tommy Fleetwood | -10 | $661,666 |
| T11 | Adam Scott | -10 | $661,666 |
| T14 | Xander Schauffele | -9 | $545,000 |
| T14 | Tom Kim | -9 | $545,000 |
| T14 | Collin Morikawa | -9 | $545,000 |
| T14 | Si Woo Kim | -9 | $545,000 |
| T18 | Akshay Bhatia | -7 | $460,000 |
| T18 | Sam Burns | -7 | $460,000 |
| T18 | Justin Rose | -7 | $460,000 |
| T21 | Patrick Cantlay | -5 | $408,750 |
| T21 | Hideki Matsuyama | -5 | $408,750 |
| T21 | Matt Fitzpatrick | -5 | $408,750 |
| T21 | Wyndham Clark | -5 | $408,750 |
| 25 | Kristoffer Reitain | -3 | $380,000 |
| 26 | Ryan Fox | -2 | $375,000 |
| 27 | Alex Smalley | -1 | $370,000 |
| 28 | Robert MacIntyre | E | $365,000 |
| 29 | Gary Woodland | 2 | $360,000 |
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