Scottie Scheffler final week on the Olympics.
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Scottie Scheffler is off this week. He may be at house. He may be readying for subsequent week’s PGA Tour cease, the FedEx St. Jude Championship. What precisely he’s doing as an alternative of enjoying is unclear. However this apparently isn’t:
He’ll earn $8 million on the finish of the Tour’s Wyndham Championship, his greatest verify of the yr (thus far). Notably, that’s $6,578,000 greater than the Wyndham winner will make ($1,422,000). And $100,000 greater than the complete purse ($7.9 million). All of which raises a query:
How?
By enjoying extraordinarily properly when he has performed.
With one week left within the Tour’s common season, Scheffler has constructed an insurmountable lead within the Tour’s season-long factors standings, giving him the $8 million high prize via this system that rewards the standings’ high 10 (the aptly named Comcast Enterprise Prime 10). The Wyndham awards 500 factors to the winner — and Scheffler has a 1,936-point benefit over the professional in second, Xander Schauffele, who’s additionally not enjoying this week.
How Scheffler received there may be spectacular. He missed no cuts in 16 begins. He completed within the high 10 14 occasions. He received six occasions (the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Gamers Championship, the Masters, the RBC Heritage, the Memorial and the Vacationers Championship). All of that has additionally netted him $28,148,691 in earnings — which is able to bounce with the $8 million verify, and will develop much more. The following two occasions have two of the most important purses of the yr (each the FedEx St. Jude subsequent week and the BMW Championship the next week award $20 million in complete), and the Tour Championship arms out the yr’s greatest prize. (It hasn’t been formally introduced, however final yr’s purse was $75 million.)
Beneath is a have a look at the highest 25 within the season-long standings heading into the Wyndham. These enjoying this week are marked with an asterisk.
1, Scottie Scheffler, 5,993
2, Xander Schauffele, 4,057
3, Rory McIlroy, 2,545
4, Collin Morikawa, 2,456
5, Wyndham Clark, 2,154
6, Ludvig Aberg, 2,092
7, Sahith Theegala, 2,037
8, Hideki Matsuyama, 1,899
*9, Sungjae Im, 1,883
*10, Shane Lowry, 1,867
11, Patrick Cantlay, 1,780
12, Byeong Hun An, 1,755
13, Russell Henley, 1,671
14, Tony Finau, 1,635
*15, Akshay Bhatia, 1,610
16, Matthieu Pavon, 1,569
*17, Robert MacIntyre, 1,535
18, Sepp Straka, 1,498
19, Justin Thomas, 1,445
20, Tom Hoge, 1,441
*21, Brian Harman, 1,409
*22, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 1,370
23, Jason Day, 1,345
*24, Davis Thompson, 1,333
25, Taylor Pendrith, 1,324
