Like the first FedEx Cup Playoffs event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, there is an overall purse of $20m at the Caves Valley Golf Club tournament. There is also $22.93m to be distributed of the $100m FedEx Cup bonus money, bringing the total to $42.93m on offer this week.

Here's the breakdown of how much money each PGA Tour player earned at the 3M Open, where there was a purse of $8.4 million.

He was runner-up to runaway leader Scheffler at The Open in a lucrative late-season prize money boost. The Team USA Ryder Cup captain’s sole win came at the Travelers Championship, where he stole victory from a crestfallen Tommy Fleetwood on the last hole.

That shores up a spot in the TOUR Championship that concludes the Playoffs. Thinking longer-term, he’s also now exempt into the 2026 editions of The Sentry, THE PLAYERS Championship and the PGA Championship.

Owings Mills, Maryland. Course: Caves Valley GC. Yardage: 7,601. Par: 70. Prize money: $20 million. Winner's share: $3.6 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.

Rickie Fowler would have been nowhere near this week’s BMW Championship if it weren’t for a bunch of special invites to big-money tournaments.