Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club on Sunday, capturing a $10 million prize and surpassing Tiger Woods to become the tour’s all-time career earnings leader with $130,390,661.
A dominant season for Scottie Scheffler ended with a historic milestone in Atlanta. The No. 1 player in the world shot a 66 on Sunday to win the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, coming from three shots back of third-round leader Viktor Hovland. Scheffler finished at 16 under par, three shots ahead of Hovland.
Scottie Scheffler passes Tiger Woods, becomes PGA Tour's all-time
The win wrapped up the FedExCup Playoffs and brought an immediate, lucrative prize. Scheffler earned a $10 million check to go with the FedExCup title, which was part of a larger $40 million purse.
Overtaking Tiger Woods on the All-Time Money List
With his earnings from East Lake, Scheffler’s career total reached $130,390,661. That figure pushed him well past Tiger Woods’ mark of $120,999,166. Woods had held the top spot for more than a quarter of a century, since Feb. 13, 2000.
Scottie Scheffler passes Tiger Woods on PGA Tour money
Scheffler nearly surpassed Woods the previous week at the BMW Championship in St. Louis. He entered that tournament with $119,964,411 in career earnings, just $1,034,755 behind Woods, but finished T12 and revealed he was dealing with hand, foot and mouth disease throughout the week. That earned him $426,250, and brought him just $608,505 behind Woods. Scheffler needed a solo-13th or better finish at the Tour Championship in order to surpass Woods.
Rory McIlroy is in third on the career earnings list with just more than $117 million. McIlroy finished T-4 at the Tour Championship with six other players, just narrowly missed getting back to No. 2 and now will have to wait until his next PGA Tour event to bump Woods to No. 3 on the career money list. He would have passed Woods for second spot if he had finished solo fourth or better in Atlanta. Rounding out the Tour’s top five career earners are a pair of 46-year-old veterans, Justin Rose and Adam Scott. Rose finished T-18 at the Tour Championship, earning just under half a million dollars for his work at East Lake this week, highlighted by making an ace on the par-3 9th hole during Sunday’s final round—his fourth career hole-in-one. Scott knocked Justin Thomas from the No. 5 money spot finishing T-11 this week at 10.
Scottie Scheffler wins Tour Championship, passes Tiger Woods on
Format Changes and Future Competition
It is Scheffler’s second Tour Championship after winning the 2024 edition by four strokes over Collin Morikawa. That was in the starting strokes
era, however, when Scheffler walked into East Lake with the lead thanks to his season-long dominance. The rules changed before the 2025 Tour Championship to have all 30 players begin the tournament level and will change again in 2028, when the PGA Tour moves to a match-play tournament.
The PGA Tour announced Aug. 25 that its season-ending competition will shift to a new format beginning in 2028, culminating in a two-week, 32-player match play competition. Woods, who has played a significant behind-the-scenes role in shaping the Tour’s future competitive structure, reacted quickly to the announcement on social media. The conclusion of the season should be worthy of the journey it takes to get there,
Woods wrote on Instagram. Today's announcement is a result of the hard work and passion of our players. Excited to usher in a new era of match play on the PGA Tour.
