The final signature event of the 2026 season wrapped up Monday as 72 of the PGA Tour’s best — well, the top two, actually — were unable to complete the tournament before nightfall Sunday at the 2026 Travelers Championship. With TPC River Highlands hosting the final signature event of the season, the Travelers stood as the last chance before the FedEx Cup Playoffs for players to grab their share of a $20 million purse.
Due to inclement weather late Sunday and the need for a playoff after Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler played the first 72 holes to matching 21-under scores, everyone reconvened Monday morning for playoff holes. It only took one additional attempt at the 18th to decide a champion, however, as Hovland made his putt from inside 7 feet while Scheffler’s effort from inside 3 feet skirted past the hole, costing the world No. 1 a cool $1.44 million (the difference in prize money between first and second place in Cromwell, Connecticut).
Hovland takes home $3.6 million for his efforts with Scheffler adding a $2.2 million check — certainly nothing to sneeze at. More frustrating for Scheffler is that he now has four runner-up finishes and eight top 5s since his last win at the first tournament of the season, The American Express.
Everyone who finished in the top 11 this week is taking home at least $500,000, while the top 36 were all guaranteed a six-figure payday.
Check out the complete breakdown of how the $20 million purse at the 2026 Travelers Championship is being split up among the 72 players, as everyone was guaranteed a paycheck at the end of the week with no cut in the final signature event of the season. Payouts for ties are the average of the sum of every place encompassing those at that line.
2026 Travelers Championship purse, prize money
Total purse: $20 million
1st: $3,600,000 — Viktor Hovland
2nd: $2,160,000 — Scottie Scheffler
3rd: $1,360,000 — Collin Morikawa
4th: $960,000 — Matt Fitzpatrick
5th: $800,000 — Wyndham Clark, Akshay Bhatia
6th: $720,000
7th: $670,000 — Corey Conners, J.J. Spaun, Alex Fitzpatrick
8th: $620,000
9th: $580,000
10th: $540,000 — Robert MacIntyre, Ben Griffin
11th: $500,000
12th: $460,000 — Russell Henley, Sam Burns
13th: $420,000
14th: $380,000 — Nicolai Hogaard, Keegan Bradley, Tommy Fleetwood, Denny McCarthy, Bud Cauley, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay
15th: $360,000
16th: $340,000
17th: $320,000
18th: $300,000
19th: $280,000
20th: $260,000
21st: $240,000
22nd: $223,000 — Kristoffer Reitan, Keith Mitchell, Shane Lowry
23rd: $207,500
24th: $190,000
25th: $175,000 — Nick Taylor, Daniel Berger, Kurt Kitayama, Justin Rose, Brian Harman
26th: $159,000
27th: $152,500
28th: $146,000
29th: $140,000
30th: $134,000 — Andrew Novak, Michael Kim, Matt McCarty, Nico Echavarria, Sungjae Im, Aaron Rai, Jackson Suber, Chris Gotterup
31st: $128,500
32nd: $122,500
33rd: $116,500
34th: $111,000
35th: $106,500
36th: $101,500
37th: $96,500
38th: $92,500 — Brandt Snedeker, Rickie Fowler, Harris English, Tom Hoge, Ryo Hisatsune, Eric Cole
39th: $88,500
40th: $84,000
41st: $80,000
42nd: $76,000
43rd: $72,000
44th: $68,000 — Ryan Gerard, Mac Meissner, Si Woo Kim
45th: $64,000
46th: $60,000
47th: $56,000 — Cameron Young, Alex Smalley, Jacob Bridgeman, Brian Campbell
48th: $53,000
49th: $50,000
50th: $49,000
51st: $48,000 — Sahith Theegala, Jhonattan Vegas, Harry Hall, Xander Schauffele
52nd: $47,000
53rd: $46,000
54th: $46,000
55th: $45,500 — Ludvig Åberg, Alex Noren, Jason Day, Jake Knapp, Tony Finau, Maverick McNealy
56th: $45,000
57th: $44,500
58th: $44,000
59th: $43,500
60th: $43,000
61st: $42,500 — Taylor Pendrith
62nd: $42,000 — Min Woo Lee, Sam Stevens, Benjamin James
63rd: $41,500
64th: $41,000
65th: $40,500 — Adam Scott
66th: $40,000 — Ryan Fox, Jordan Spieth, Lucas Glover
67th: $39,500
68th: $39,000
69th: $38,000 — J.T. Poston
70th: $37,500 — Mark Hubbard
71st: $37,000 — Gary Woodland
72nd: $36,000 — Sepp Straka
