The top 10 money earners in FedEx Cup history

August 08, 2022

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It's Year 16 of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Here's a look back at the players who have made the most money—tournament prizes and bonuses—since the playoffs began in 2007.

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10: Billy Horschel

Total earnings: $19,686,938 Playoff starts: 29 Tournament earnings: $6,588,938 Memorable moment: Horschel is the rare FedEx Cup champion to have rallied from far down the points list at the start of the playoffs and win. In 2014, he started the playoffs in 69th place, but won the BMW and Tour Championship to walk off with the title. Just one other FedEx Cup champion (Rory McIlroy, 2016) started the playoffs outside the top 30 on the points list and went on to win.

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9: Henrik Stenson

Total earnings: $19,829,164 Playoff starts: 21 Tournament earnings: $6,029,165 Memorable moment: After finishing runner-up and third at the final two majors of 2013, Stenson kept the momentum going by winning two playoff events, including the Tour Championship. It was the first trip to East Lake for Stenson, who previously had battled a prolonged slump and also wasn't a PGA Tour member every year. In 2015, Stenson added a second-place finish, bringing home another $3 million in bonus money. A poor showing on the PGA Tour in 2022 was already going to keep him outside the top 125 this year, but his jump to LIV Golf also made him ineligible to compete.

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8. Patrick Cantlay

Total earnings: $20,613,948 Playoff starts: 16 Tournament earnings: $4,544,948 Memorable moment: Cantlay followed up a thrilling playoff victory at last year's BMW Championship with a win at the Tour Championship to claim his first FedEx Cup title and propel himself into the career top 10 in FedEx Cup earnings. He enters the 2022 playoffs fifth on the points list as he tries to become the first back-to-back FedEx Cup winner.

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7: Jordan Spieth

Total earnings: $22,643,485 Playoff starts: 29 Tournament earnings: $7,212,985 Memorable moment: If Spieth didn't win the FedEx Cup in 2015—the same year he won the Masters and U.S. Open, just missed a playoff at The Open and finished second to Jason Day at the PGA—the system probably needed an overhaul. Day spiced things up by winning two playoff events, but Spieth asserted himself at the Tour Championship, shooting a closing 69 to win by a comfortable four shots. After failing to reach East Lake in 2019 and 2020, he returned a year ago and enters the 2022 playoffs 15th on the eligibility points list.

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6: Jim Furyk

Total earnings: $23,514,493 Playoff starts: 37 Tournament earnings: $8,107,493 Memorable moment: The 2010 FedEx Cup Playoffs got off to a disastrous start for Furyk when he was disqualified from the Barclays after he overslept and missed his pro-am tee time. But Furyk recovered to win the Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup and the then $10 million bonus. With rain falling at East Lake, Furyk turned his hat around backward and sank a par putt to cap the victory and set off an emotional celebration.

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5: Justin Rose

Total earnings: $25,456,512 Playoff starts: 44 Tournament earnings: $10,344,012 Memorable moment: Rose is back in the playoffs in 2022 after his streak of making the playoffs every season came to an end a year ago when he missed out on the No. 125 spot on the points list by 1 point. Rose has just one playoff win (2011 BMW), but his FedEx Cup highlight came in 2018, when his T-4 showing at the Tour Championship (after runners-up at the Dell and the BMW) clinched the title.

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4: Justin Thomas

Total earnings: $29,057,836 Playoff starts: 24 Tournament earnings: $6,912,836 Memorable moment: Shortly after winning the PGA Championship, Thomas claimed the FedEx Cup title to cap a stellar 2017 season. In 2019, in the first year of the new staggered start format for the Tour Championship, Thomas, No. 1 in FedEx Cup points, began play at East Lake with a two-stroke advantage on his nearest competitor. He admitted feeling uneasy about leading a tournament before it started, and eventually finished T-3, shooting only three under at East Lake during the week. In 2020, he tied for second at the Tour Championship to earn another $4.5 million in FedEx Cup bonus money and move up from seventh in career FedEx Cup earnings to fourth. In 2021, he finished fourth at East Lake for another $3 million bonus.

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3: Tiger Woods

Total earnings: $39,042,804 Playoff starts: 26 Tournament earnings: $10,448,804 Memorable moment: Woods is one of two two-time FedEx Cup winners, and his dominance en route to victory in 2007 and 2009 has still not really been matched (45 under par while winning the 2007 BMW and Tour Championship; eight-shot win at the 2009 BMW). Still, it's hard not to think that his greatest personal triumph in the FedEx Cup came in 2018, when Woods was victorious at the Tour Championship at East Lake for his first PGA Tour win since 2013 and his 80th career PGA Tour title.

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2: Dustin Johnson

Total earnings: $41,874,766 Playoff starts: 45 Tournament earnings: $14,817,766 Memorable moment: After years of standout performances in the playoffs, including four tournament wins and making more money in playoff events than any other golfer, DJ finally claimed the FedEx Cup in 2020. His impressive stretch in the playoffs comes to an end this year after joining LIV Golf in June.

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1: Rory McIlroy

Total earnings: $42,796,682 Playoff starts: 36 Tournament earnings: $10,252,932 Memorable moment: McIlroy joined Tiger as the only other player to win the FedEx Cup title twice when he closed with a 66 at East Lake to beat Xander Schauffele in 2019. The Northern Irishman was the first to win the title in the revised format, starting the Tour Championship five strokes back of Justin Thomas before hitting a shot, but shooting no worse than 68 in any of the four rounds. He finished second in the overall race in 2012 and third in 2014 before claiming his other victory in 2016.

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The top 10 money earners in FedEx Cup history

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10: Billy Horschel

9: Henrik Stenson

8. Patrick Cantlay

7: Jordan Spieth

6: Jim Furyk

5: Justin Rose

4: Justin Thomas

3: Tiger Woods

2: Dustin Johnson

1: Rory McIlroy

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