Scottie Scheffler final week on the Olympics.
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Scottie Scheffler is off this week. He may be at dwelling. He may be readying for subsequent week’s PGA Tour cease, the FedEx St. Jude Championship. What precisely he’s doing as a substitute of taking part in is unclear. However this apparently isn’t:
He’ll earn $8 million on the finish of the Tour’s Wyndham Championship, his greatest examine of the 12 months (thus far). Notably, that’s $6,578,000 greater than the Wyndham winner will make ($1,422,000). And $100,000 greater than all the purse ($7.9 million). All of which raises a query:
How?
By taking part in extraordinarily properly when he has performed.
With one week left within the Tour’s common season, Scheffler has constructed an insurmountable lead within the Tour’s season-long factors standings, giving him the $8 million prime prize by means of this system that rewards the standings’ prime 10 (the aptly named Comcast Enterprise High 10). The Wyndham awards 500 factors to the winner — and Scheffler has a 1,936-point benefit over the professional in second, Xander Schauffele, who’s additionally not taking part in this week.
How Scheffler received there’s spectacular. He missed no cuts in 16 begins. He completed within the prime 10 14 occasions. He gained six occasions (the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Gamers Championship, the Masters, the RBC Heritage, the Memorial and the Vacationers Championship). All of that has additionally netted him $28,148,691 in earnings — which can soar with the $8 million examine, and will develop much more. The subsequent two occasions have two of the most important purses of the 12 months (each the FedEx St. Jude subsequent week and the BMW Championship the next week award $20 million in complete), and the Tour Championship arms out the 12 months’s greatest prize. (It hasn’t been formally introduced, however final 12 months’s purse was $75 million.)
Beneath is a have a look at the highest 25 within the season-long standings heading into the Wyndham. These taking part in this week are marked with an asterisk.
1, Scottie Scheffler, 5,993
2, Xander Schauffele, 4,057
3, Rory McIlroy, 2,545
4, Collin Morikawa, 2,456
5, Wyndham Clark, 2,154
6, Ludvig Aberg, 2,092
7, Sahith Theegala, 2,037
8, Hideki Matsuyama, 1,899
*9, Sungjae Im, 1,883
*10, Shane Lowry, 1,867
11, Patrick Cantlay, 1,780
12, Byeong Hun An, 1,755
13, Russell Henley, 1,671
14, Tony Finau, 1,635
*15, Akshay Bhatia, 1,610
16, Matthieu Pavon, 1,569
*17, Robert MacIntyre, 1,535
18, Sepp Straka, 1,498
19, Justin Thomas, 1,445
20, Tom Hoge, 1,441
*21, Brian Harman, 1,409
*22, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 1,370
23, Jason Day, 1,345
*24, Davis Thompson, 1,333
25, Taylor Pendrith, 1,324
