Professional golf week forward: Scottie Scheffler enters FedEx Cup playoffs with one other High 10 bonus

Scottie Scheffler formally completed because the FedEx Cup regular-season chief after the Wyndham Championship.

Meaning Scheffler received the Comcast Enterprise Tour High 10 for the second time in three years, incomes an $8 million bonus earlier than he hits a shot on this week’s playoff opener on the FedEx St. Jude Basic at TPC Southwind in Memphis.

Scheffler’s bonus was double that of final 12 months’s winner, Jon Rahm. Scheffler earned $3 millon for ending second to Rahm and picked up $4 million in 2022. That brings his complete from the Tour High 10 to $10 million.

Xander Schauffele was second and obtained a $6 million bonus. Rory McIlroy ($4.8 million), Collin Morikawa ($4.4 million) and Wyndham Clark ($4 million) rounded out the highest 5.

Scheffler has received Masters inexperienced (jacket) and Olympic gold

Scheffler enters the week with six victories this season, highlighted by the Masters and The Players Championship. Two weeks in the past, he shot 62 within the ultimate spherical to win the Olympic gold medal.

Scheffler has already earned a document $28,148,691 this season, with the potential to earn a share of the mixed purses of $115 million for the St. Jude Basic, subsequent week’s BMW Championship at Fortress Pines Golf Membership in Fortress Rock, Colo., and the Tour Champions at East Lake in Atlanta.

Scheffler already amongst high 10 in profession PGA Tour earnings

The primary-place checks within the first two playoff occasions are $3.6 million. Profitable the FedEx Cup would carry $18 million so the chance exists that if Scheffler sweeps all three, his earnings would surpass $53 million.

For now, the Tour High 10 bonus means he has greater than $36 million in on-course earnings this season. That cash alone would put Scheffler 40^th on the PGA Tour’s profession cash listing – and he’s already seventh and climbing, lower than $1 million behind sixth-place Vijay Singh.

PGA Tour: Meet me in Memphis

Occasion: FedEx St. Jude Basic, Thursday-Sunday, TPC Southwind, Memphis.

What is the purse? $20 million ($3.6 million and a couple of,000 FedEx Cup factors to the winner.

Who received final 12 months? Lucas Glover received for the second week in a row when he parred the primary playoff to beat Patrick Cantlay.

watch on TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m.); NBC (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 2-6 p.m.).

Space gamers entered (FedEx Cup rank): Brian Harman (20), Billy Horschel (23), Davis Thompson (24), J.T. Poston (36), Harris English (51), Ben Griffin (56).

Notable: Glover grew to become the third participant to win in back-to-back weeks after the age of 40, following Kenny Perry (2003) and Vijay Singh (2008). … The primary leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs will whittle the sector from 70 to 50 for subsequent week’s BMW Championship in Fortress Rock, Colo. … The highest ten getting into the week are Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg, Saith Theegala, Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im and Shane Lowry.

LIV Golf League: Bryson DeChambeau went deep

Occasion: LIV Golf Greenbrier, Friday-Sunday, Greenbrier Resort Outdated White Course, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

What is the purse? $20 million ($4 to the winner).

Who received final 12 months? Bryson DeChambeau shot 58 within the third spherical and beat Mito Pereira by seven photographs. It adopted a second-round 61.

watch on TV: CW (Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m.).

Space gamers entered: Cameron Smith.

Notable: DeChambeau’s Crushers have a 15.5-point lead over Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII. Smith’s Rippers are 48.5 again. … The ultimate regular-season occasion will likely be Sept. 13-16 on the Bollingbrook Golf Membership close to Chicago.

LPGA Tour: Gold medalist Lydia Ko leads subject

Occasion: ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open, Thursday-Sunday, Dundonald Hyperlinks, Ayrshire, Scotland.

What is the purse? $2 million ($300,000 to the winner).

Who received final 12 months? Celine Boutier beat Hyo Joo Kim by two photographs, a 12 months after ending second to Ayaka Fure by three.

watch on TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon; Sunday, 8-11 a.m.

Space gamers entered: Auston Kim.

Notable: Boutier has dominated Dundonald, successful and ending among the many high 24 during the last 5 years. She has three top-10s in a row and has a 68.66 scoring common throughout that span. … Ko, who received Olympic Gold in Paris, leads a subject that additionally contains Lilia Vu, Allisen Corpuz and Rose Zhang.

PGA Tour Champions: Ken Duke broke by means of in Canada

Occasion: Rogers Charity Basic, Friday-Sunday, Canyon Meadows Golf and Nation Membership, Calgary, Alberta.

What is the purse? $2.4 million ($324,000 to the winner).

Who received final 12 months? Ken Duke received his first Champions Tour title, posting scores 66 or higher every day to beat Thongchai Jaidee and Tim Petrovic by one shot.

watch on TV: Golf Channel (Friday-Sunday, 5-7 p.m.).

Space gamers entered: David Duval, Fred Funk, Vijay Singh.

Notable: Ernie Els, Padriag Harrington, Okay.J. Choi, Steven Alker and Stephen Ames lead the sector.

Korn Ferry Tour: Space gamers flock to Jersey

Occasion: Magnit Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Metedeconk Nationwide Golf Membership, Jackson Township, N.J.

What is the purse? $1 million ($180,000 to the winner).

Who received final 12 months? Chan Kim shot 64 within the ultimate spherical and topped Taylor Dickson by three photographs.

watch on TV: The match just isn’t being televised.

Space gamers entered: Dawson Armstrong, Chris Baker, Fred Biondi, Chandler Blanchet, Cody Blick, Dillon Board, Jonathan Byrd, Ricky Castillo, Brett Drewitt, Nick Gabrelcik, Joey Garber, Tano Goya, Evan Harmleing, Philip Knowles, Rick Lamb, Trey Mullinax, Doc Redman, Julian Suri, Danny Walker, Thomas Walsh, Jared Wolfe.

Notable: Suri, a Bartram Path graduate, bounced again from two missed cuts in a row with a tie for twenty-four^th final week within the Pinnacle Financial institution Championship. He has shot 71 or decrease in 17 of his final 18 rounds, with 12 scores within the 60s.

What are the (golf) odds?

FedEx St. Jude Basic: Onerous Rock Guess has established Scheffler on the cash line favourite, +375. Schauffele is +800 and McIlroy +900.

LIV Golf Greenbrier: Regardless of dominating the sector final 12 months, DeChambeau just isn’t the betting favourite by Onerous Rock at +650. Jon Rahm is, at +525.

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