Scottie Scheffler got his hands on his first FedEx Cup title at the Tour Championship on Sunday, and in doing so capped off his seasonal earnings with a $25 million payout
Scottie Scheffler

LIV Golf may be best known for its endless riches, but it is PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler who is by far and away the sport’s biggest earner on the golf course this campaign.

Scheffler capped off a remarkable 2024 season in style on Sunday, winning the FedEx Cup bonus for the very first time after prevailing at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Having started the staggered strokes event at 10-under-par, Scheffler finished the week at 30-under, four shots clear of runner-up Collin Morikawa.

It was the world No. 1’s seventh PGA Tour victory of the season, and along with the silverware of course came a number of huge payouts, none bigger than Sunday, where Scheffler was handed a check for $25 million.

In total, this took the 28-year-old Texan’s season-long earnings to a whopping $62,228,357, a figure way clear of the rest of his PGA Tour rivals. He has also left those on the LIV Golf setup in their wake too, with Scheffler’s 2024 tally £46 million more than the breakaway league’s current top earner Jon Rahm.

Rahm – who currently has $16 million in earnings to his name with two LIV events left to play – is just ahead of second-place Joaquin Niemann, who has made just over $14 million in 14 starts on the breakaway league. There is time for Rahm and Co. to add to their 2024 payout total though.

The Saudi-backed league has one remaining event left in its regular season, before the campaign-ending Team Championship in Dallas later this month. Following the end of the regular term, either Rahm or Niemann will get the chance to bank an extra $18 million for topping the league’s season-long standings.

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For Scheffler however, his feet will now be up until the Presidents Cup, with the curtain coming down on the PGA Tour season at East Lake. As well as his seven PGA Tour triumphs, Scheffler has an Olympic gold medal to his name too, after prevailing in Paris last month ahead of Tommy Fleetwood.
Asked to sum up the last eight months, the world No. 1 commented post-tournament: “If you can describe it in words, more power to you because I don’t think I can. It’s been a long year. It’s been a very fun year. I think emotionally right now I’m pretty drained.

“So I’m looking forward to going home and getting rest for a week or so before I start prepping for the Presidents Cup because that’s a tournament that I really want us to go out there and win. I really don’t know how to put it into words. It’s been a very eventful year but it’s been really fun. You had the one weird spot there at Valhalla, which — I just don’t really know what to say about it, but everything else has been pretty special.”