The penultimate event on the 2026 PGA Tour schedule brought the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings to Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis for the BMW Championship. As was the case at last week’s St. Jude Championship, another $20 million purse was on the line.
With just 50 players in the field this week, everyone was guaranteed at least $66,000 with the top 40 all earning at least a six-figure payday. The winner, Wyndham Clark, will take home a $3.6 million paycheck, as the playoff events boast the same purse structure as the non-cut signature events on the PGA Tour schedule. Clark won for the thir time this season and sixth time in his PGA Tour career, putting himself in legitimate contention for Player of the Year honors — especially if he can close the season strong at next week’s Tour Championship.
Players were not only jockeying for payouts from the BMW Championship purse this week. They were angling for spots in the FedEx Cup standings, which will determine their share of the massive bonus pool that is paid out before next week’s Tour Championship. That alone boasts a $40 million purse and pays $10 million to the winner
Last week’s winner, Scottie Scheffler, locked himself into the top spot in the standings, guaranteeing a $23 million bonus no matter where he finishes Sunday at the BMW Championship. Clark moved into the No. 3 spot after the BMW Championship.
Check out the complete payout breakdown for the $20 million purse at the BMW Championship below.
2026 BMW Championship prize money, payouts
Purse: $20 million
1st: $3,600,000 — Wyndham Clark
2nd: $2,160,000 — Patrick Cantlay
3rd: $1,360,000 — Rory McIlroy
4th: $990,000 — Gary Woodland, Collin Morikawa, Chris Gotterup ($857,000 each)
5th: $830,000
6th: $750,000
7th: $695,000 — Robert MacIntyre, Maverick McNealy ($667,500 each)
8th: $640,000
9th: $600,000 — Jacob Bridgeman
10th: $560,000 — Michael Brennan, Sungjae Im ($540,000 each)
11th: $520,000
12th: $480,000 — Akshay Bhatia, Scottie Scheffler, Russell Henley, Ryo Hisatsune ($426,250 each)
13th: $441,000
14th: $402,000
15th: $382,000
16th: $362,000 — Adam Scott, Alex Smalley, Aaron Rai, Justin Thomas, Ludvig Åberg, Ryan Gerard ($312,000 each)
17th: $342,000
18th: $322,000
19th: $302,000
20th: $282,000
21st: $262,000
22nd: $245,000 — Justin Rose, J.T. Poston, Kristoffer Reitan, J.J. Spaun ($221,000 each)
23rd: $229,000
24th: $213,000
25th: $197,000
26th: $181,000 — Kurt Kitayama, Xander Schauffele ($177,500 each)
27th: $174,000
28th: $167,000 — Hideki Matsuyama, Tom Kim, Sam Burns, Matt Fitzpatrick, Eric Cole ($153,000 each)
29th: $160,000
30th: $153,000
31st: $146,000
32nd: $139,000
33rd: $132,000 — Si Woo Kim, Matt McCarty, Viktor Hovland, Sepp Straka ($124,500 each)
34th: $127,000
35th: $122,000
36th: $117,000
37th: $112,000 — Rickie Fowler, Michael Thorbjornsen, Cameron Young, Alex Noren ($106,000 each)
38th: $108,000
39th: $104,000
40th: $100,000
41st: $96,000 — Jake Knapp, Sahith Theegala, Nicolai Hojgaard ($92,000 each)
42nd: $92,000
43rd: $88,000
44th: $84,000 — Bud Cauley, Alex Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin ($80,000 each)
45th: $80,000
46th: $76,000
47th: $72,000 — Ryan Fox, Tommy Fleetwood, Min Woo Lee ($70,000 each)
48th: $70,000
49th: $68,000
50th: $66,000 — Nico Echavarria