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    Payday at Sea Island

    Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 RSM Classic

    November 21, 2024
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    Cliff Hawkins

    On Sunday, Maverick McNealy happily lost his place in one of the most frustrating clubs on the PGA Tour. Previously the 29-year-old former national college player of the year from Stanford was one of 19 tour pros to have made $10 million or more in his PGA Tour career without actually claiming a PGA Tour title.

    But a birdie on the 18th hole at the Seaside Course at Sea Island Resort allowed McNealy to post a final-round two-under 68 and claim the RSM Classic title by one shot, getting him that maiden win he had been longing for since joining the tour in 2020.

    With the victory, McNealy claimed a first-place prize money payout of $1.368 million from an overall purse of $7.6 million.

    Here’s the breakdown of the prize money payouts for everybody who makes the cut this week in Georgia. 

    Sea Island: Seaside
    Stephen Szurlej
    Private
    Sea Island: Seaside
    Saint Simons Island, GA
    The Sea Island resort continues to credit famed British golf architect H.S. Colt for its Seaside design, but in truth it was never purely Colt's design. It was the work of Colt's partner, Charles Alison, who traveled to the U.S. and beyond in the 1920s and 30s while Colt remained in England. But the Seaside Course isn't even Alison's anymore--it is purely Tom Fazio, who incorporated Alison's original Seaside nine (today's 10-18) along with a nine (the Marshland Nine) designed in 1974 by Joe Lee, to create a totally new 18- hole course. But in keeping with the resort’s heritage, Fazio styled his new course in the design fashion of Alison, with big clamshell bunkers, smallish putting surfaces and exposed sand dunes off most of the windswept fairways. The Seaside Course has hosted numerous USGA championships and has been a mainstay of the PGA Tour’s early season roster.
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    Win: Maverick McNealy, 266/-16, $1,368,000

    T-2: Daniel Berger, 267/-15, $676,400

    T-2: Nico Echavarria, 267/-15, $676,400

    T-2: Luke Clanton, 267/-15, Amateur

    T-5: Lee Hodges, 268/-14, $319,833.33

    T-5: Mackenzie Hughes, 268/-14, $319,833.33

    T-5: J.T. Poston, 268/-14, $319,833.33

    T-8: Patrick Fishburn, 269/-13, $238,766.67

    T-8: Michael Thorbjornsen, 269/-13, $238,766.67

    T-8: Vince Whaley, 269/-13, $238,766.67

    T-11: Joe Highsmith, 270/-12, $184,300

    Sea Island: Plantation
    courtesy of Sea Island
    Private
    Sea Island: Plantation
    Saint Simons Island, GA
    3.8
    14 Panelists
    Sea Island’s golf courses have a long and rather convoluted history covering nearly 100 years of expansion, reconfiguration and renovations. Through it all, the historic Seaside has been the one that people schedule their visits around, full of holes that skirt Saint Simons Sound, the intracoastal marshes and sandy dunes refurbished by Tom Fazio in the late 1990s. The Plantation course, which started as a combination of one nine designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s and another from Dick Wilson in 1960, and synthesized together by Rees Jones in the 1990s, has typically played second fiddle. Not so much now. Keying on the original forms and concepts laid out by Travis, the Sea Island-based team of Mark and Davis Love III, along with lead architect Scot Sherman, stripped Plantation in 2019 and rebuilt it as a homage to early Golden Age design with deep coffin bunkers and squared-off plateau greens. The staggered bunkers eat into the broad fairways at intervals to set up zig-zag angles and others have been introduced as dastardly centerline hazards, like the Principals Nose feature on the short, drivable 10th that replaces a long bending par 4 in order to make room for a massive putting course near the resort clubhouse. Other holes were broken up and recombined to better fit the property’s small footprint and create more sporting half-par holes. There’s even a touch of Pete Dye in the design in the use of bulkheading, small pot bunkers and S-shaped tee-to-green strategies. Guests will still instinctively gravitate toward Seaside and the long water views, but if they skip over Plantation they’ll miss a course jazzing it up on the opposite side of the architectural spectrum, and one of the more interesting designs in the southeast.
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    T-11: Michael Kim, 270/-12, $184,300

    T-11: Chandler Phillips, 270/-12, $184,300

    T-11: Kevin Yu, 270/-12, $184,300

    T-15: Eric Cole, 271/-11, $142,500

    T-15: Ben Griffin, 271/-11, $142,500

    T-17: Ludvig Åberg, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Stewart Cink, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Austin Eckroat, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Ryo Hisatsune, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Martin Laird, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Henrik Norlander, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Patrick Rodgers, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-17: Robby Shelton, 272/-10, $104,690

    T-25: Bud Cauley, 273/-9, $63,460

    T-25: Adrien Dumont de Chassart, 273/-9, $63,460

    T-25: Brian Harman, 273/-9, $63,460

    T-25: Denny McCarthy, 273/-9, $63,460

    T-25: Paul Peterson, 273/-9, $63,460

    T-30: Lucas Glover, 274/-8, $49,780

    T-30: Will Gordon, 274/-8, $49,780

    T-30: Kelly Kraft, 274/-8, $49,780

    T-30: S.Y. Noh, 274/-8, $49,780

    T-30: Hayden Springer, 274/-8, $49,780

    T-35: Joseph Bramlett, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Joel Dahmen, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Mark Hubbard, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Blake McShea, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Taylor Moore, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Andrew Novak, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-35: Carson Young, 275/-7, $37,945.71

    T-42: Jonathan Byrd, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: Doug Ghim, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: S.H. Kim, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: Taylor Montgomery, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: Austin Smotherman, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: Sam Stevens, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-42: Kevin Tway, 276/-6, $26,980

    T-49: Steven Fisk, 277/-5, $20,292

    T-49: Callum Tarren, 277/-5, $20,292

    T-49: Brandon Wu, 277/-5, $20,292

    52: Martin Trainer, 278/-4, $19,076

    T-53: Marcus Byrd, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Kevin Chappell, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Adam Hadwin, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Garrick Higgo, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Adam Schenk, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Adam Svensson, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-53: Matt Wallace, 279/-3, $17,925.14

    T-60: Harris English, 280/-2, $17,024

    T-60: Russell Knox, 280/-2, $17,024

    T-60: William McGirt, 280/-2, $17,024

    T-60: Davis Thompson, 280/-2, $17,024

    64: Christo Lamprecht, 281/-1, $16,644

    65: Philip Knowles, 282/E, $16,492

    T-66: Tyson Alexander, 283/+1, $16,264

    T-66: Patton Kizzire, 283/+1, $16,264

    T-68: Lanto Griffin, 285/+3, $15,960

    T-68: Jake Knapp, 285/+3, $15,960