Scottie Scheffler on Saturday at East Lake Golf Membership.
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Scottie Scheffler, the person who’s made extra money than every other PGA Tour participant this season, is speaking about money.
It’s a stylish subject in golf, after all, and Tuesday, forward of this week’s Tour Championship, the Tour’s highest-paying occasion, Scheffler had been requested this query by a reporter:
“If the Tour got here to you — you stated you’ll play how the sponsors need it. If the sponsors or Strategic Sports activities Group got here in and needed to fully change issues up and make it a match-play occasion or beneath the lights, how open do you assume Tour gamers can be to deviating from 72-hole stroke play? Clearly not each week, however in one thing like in the event that they made the playoffs and so they went method outdoors the field?”
In response, Scheffler labeled it “a extremely in-depth dialog,” and the remainder of his reply mirrored that.
He stated he hoped to be paid pretty. He stated he didn’t care what he’d he get for profitable the Masters.
Right here’s his full response:
“Effectively, it’s a extremely in-depth dialog,” Scheffler began. “On the finish of the day by way of sponsors, I might play a number of the tournaments I play all year long if the purses had been considerably much less. I might decide and select a bit extra, but when it was — if it’s the Masters, I’m going to play the Masters. I need an opportunity to win a serious championship. I don’t care what you pay me for profitable the Masters. I actually don’t.
“However on the finish of the day by way of a number of these tournaments, you simply need to receives a commission what you assume can be honest. After which by way of what sponsors need, if you happen to’ve obtained FedEx placing up the form of cash they’re placing up for this occasion, persons are going to indicate as much as play.
“It’s a enterprise on the finish of the day. It’s a part of the sport. It is a product that appeals to lots of people. Sports activities is leisure, however on the finish of the day I nonetheless stand on the facet of the fence of my golf golf equipment will at all times be my leisure. If you wish to come watch me play golf, that’s what we’re going to see. When you’re displaying up, you’re going to look at me play golf. I’m not going to exit on the primary tee and do dances and have a good time like loopy. I’m going to do my finest to compete in a golf event. Wherever the perfect gamers are competing, I’m displaying as much as these tournaments as a result of I like the competitors. That’s actually what I get pleasure from probably the most.
“So far as the format goes, golf is a humorous recreation. You’re not at all times going to — there’s no good system in an effort to play a golf event that’s probably the most entertaining product and in addition the product that will get the perfect participant every time. Loads of occasions in golf, the man that performs the perfect could not even win that week. When it comes to little bounces, it’s a fickle recreation. It’s a difficult sport. I’m open to options. I do nonetheless assume that 72 holes of stroke play is the perfect format for a golf event, but when a sponsor needs to come back in and alter it up just a little bit, I like competing, and I need to win after we go house and play Wolf for 4 hours, and I’m giving 20 strokes to a man.
“I don’t need to be giving him cash on the finish of the day whether or not it’s $5 or $500. I don’t need to take out my pockets and hand him cash on the finish of the day. That’s simply not in my blood. I need to win, whether or not we’re enjoying Ping-Pong or no matter it’s.
“Regardless of the format, I’m going to indicate up and attempt to do my finest. That’s actually all it’s.”
With that, right here is the whole payout breakdown for this week’s Tour Championship, performed at East Lake Golf Membership.
How a lot each participant made on the 2024 Tour Championship
1. Scottie Scheffler $25 million
2. Collin Morikawa $12.5 million
3. Sahith Theegala $7.5 million
T4. Russell Henley $4,833,333
Adam Scott $4,833,333
Xander Schauffele $4,833,333
7. Sungjae Im $2.75 million
8. Wyndham Clark $2.25 million
T9. Rory McIlroy $1,608,333
Hideki Matsuyama $1,608,333
Shane Lowry $1,608,333
T12. Viktor Hovland $1 million
Sam Burns $1 million
T14. Taylor Pendrith $905,000
Justin Thomas $905,000
16. Ludvig Aberg $795,000
T17. Robert MacIntyre $755,000
Patrick Cantlay $755,000
Matthieu Pavon $755,000
20. Tommy Fleetwood $715,000
T21. Keegan Bradley $660,000
Byeong Hun An $660,000
T23. Billy Horschel $615,000
Aaron Rai $615,000
Tony Finau $615,000
26. Akshay Bhatia $590,000
T27. Chris Kirk $575,000
Sepp Straka $575,000
T29. Christiaan Bezuidenhout $555,000
Tom Hoge $555,000
