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With a dramatic come-from-behind win at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on March 17, Scottie Scheffler collected a cool $4.5 million, the largest winner’s share of the young 2024 PGA Tour season.
Scheffler, of course, won another $4 million just seven days earlier on March 10, with a victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. In just seven starts, the world’s top-ranked player has already earned $10,939,500 this season, giving him a commanding lead on the 2024 PGA Tour money list.
Wyndham Clark, who finished second in each of the last two events, sits in second with $7,896,591 million in on-course earnings.
PGA Tour purses have grown exponentially over the last quarter-century and even more so in the last two seasons with the addition of Signature Events, which were essentially an answer to the big purses distributed by LIV Golf.
To put into perspective just how much more money is available on the PGA Tour today, Scheffler, with his seven starts and two victories in 2024, has already made more money this season than Tiger Woods did during his record-setting campaign in 2000.
In 20 starts that season with nine wins, including three major championships, Woods pocketed $9,188,321, more than $1.75 million less than Scheffler has earned this year.
Scottie Scheffler Has Already Earned More Than $10 Million in 2024
Six of Scheffler’s seven starts have resulted in top-10 finishes, including his two victories at the Arnold Palmer and The Players.
His lowest finish was a tie for 17th at The American Express, the tourney where Nick Dunlap made history by becoming just the eighth amateur to win a PGA Tour event since 1945. Scheffler still earned $132,300 that week, by far his lowest paycheck of the season.
Here’s a quick look at Scheffler’s season thus far.
