The top 10 money earners in FedEx Cup history

August 17, 2019

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10: Billy Horschel

Total earnings: $18,281,731 Playoff starts: 23. Tournament earnings: $6,468,731 (rank for earnings alone: 12th) 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 outside the top 20 on the points list to start the Playoffs and went on to win.

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9: Brandt Snedeker

Total earnings: $19,189,046 Playoff starts: 38. Tournament earnings: $6,440,546 (13th). Memorable moment: A four-putt on the final hole of the 2009 BMW Championship kept him out of the Tour Championship, but Snedeker would bounce back in a big way three years later. A birdie chip-in on the 17th hole at East Lake in 2012 helped seal a FedEx Cup title by vaulting past a red-hot Rory McIlroy.

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8: Henrik Stenson

Total earnings: $19,829,164 Playoff starts: 21 Tournament earnings: $6,029,165 (15th) 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.

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7: Justin Thomas

Total earnings: $20,970,406 Playoff starts: 18 Tournament earnings: $6,325,406 (14th) 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.

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6: Jordan Spieth

Total earnings: $21,975,968 Playoff starts: 25 Tournament earnings: $7,143,968 (10th) 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 British 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. He missed reaching East Lake in 2019 and starts this year's Playoffs just inside the top 100.

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5: Dustin Johnson

Total earnings: $22,708,641 Playoff starts: 39 Tournament earnings: $11,751,641 (first) Memorable moment: DJ's FedEx Cup Playoff numbers are pretty incredible: four tournament wins and more than $11.7 million in tournament prize money, the most of any golfer, including Tiger Woods, in the FedEx Cup era. The only thing missing from Johnson's résumé is an actual FedEx Cup title. His closest call was his runner-up showing to Rory McIlroy in 2016. He also grabbed fourth-place finishes in 2011, 2017 and 2018.

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4: Jim Furyk

Total earnings: $23,514,493 Playoff starts: 37 Tournament earnings: $8,107,493 (seventh) 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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3: Justin Rose

Total earnings: $25,205,275 Playoff starts: 43 Tournament earnings: $10,267,775 (third) Memorable moment: No golfer on this list has played in more FedEx Cup Playoff events than Rose with 43. And no other has competed in the Playoffs all 13 years. 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. His Playoff run in 2020 could be brief; he just barely qualified for the postseason with a ninth-place finish at the PGA Championship.

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2: Tiger Woods

Total earnings: $38,848,744 Playoff starts: 24 Tournament earnings: $10,404744 (second) 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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1: Rory McIlroy

Total earnings: $40,551,453 Playoff starts: 30 Tournament earnings: $9,651,453 (fourth) Memorable moment: McIlroy joined Tiger as the only other player 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

10: Billy Horschel

9: Brandt Snedeker

8: Henrik Stenson

7: Justin Thomas

6: Jordan Spieth

5: Dustin Johnson

4: Jim Furyk

3: Justin Rose

2: Tiger Woods

1: Rory McIlroy

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