Scottie Scheffler Won a Second FedExCup on Sunday and Passed Tiger Woods on the Career Money List
The Tour Championship finished at East Lake on 30 August. Scheffler shot 66 to come from three back, taking ten million dollars from a record forty million purse.
The 2026 Tour Championship was played at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta from 27 to 30 August, and Scottie Scheffler won it with a closing four-under 66 after starting the final round three shots behind.
It is his second FedExCup in three years. That puts him alongside Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the only players to have won the season-long title more than once since it was introduced in 2007. Viktor Hovland finished second.
The format matters to how the result should be read. For most of its history the Tour Championship handed out staggered starting scores, so the leader of the FedExCup standings began the week several strokes clear of everyone else and the tournament doubled as a coronation. That was scrapped from 2025. The 2026 event ran as a straight 72-hole stroke-play tournament with all thirty players starting level at even par, which means Scheffler won the golf tournament and the season title in the same four rounds rather than inheriting one from the other.
The purse was a record forty million dollars, with ten million to the winner. That payment pushed Scheffler's career PGA Tour earnings to 130,390,661 dollars, moving him past Tiger Woods at the top of the all-time money list.
The symbolism of that number is worth handling carefully. Career earnings lists are not a ranking of players; they are a ranking of how much prize money existed during a career. Woods won 82 PGA Tour events across three decades in which purses were a fraction of today's. Scheffler has passed him on a list that inflation and the tour's response to LIV Golf did most of the work on.
What the number does measure accurately is the scale of the modern top end. A single tournament now pays its winner ten million dollars, which is more than Woods earned in any season before 2000.
Exact final scores and the winning margin were reported inconsistently and should be checked against the PGA Tour's own leaderboard before being quoted.