Sami Valikmaki won his first PGA Tour event at the season finale, the RSM Classic.<\/p>\n
Valimaki earned $1.26 million from the $7 million purse, along with a two-year Tour exemption.<\/p>\n
Max McGreevy birdied his final hole to finish solo second and claim $763,000. Here\u2019s the purse breakdown on St. Simmons Island, Georgia:<\/p>\n
FINISHPLAYEREARNINGS1Sami Valimaki$1,260,0002Max McGreevy$763,0003Ricky Castillo$483,000T4Nico Echavarria$294,583T4Si Woo Kim$294,583T4Lee Hodges$294,583T7Sam Stevens$166,886T7Rico Hoey$166,886T7Doug Ghim$166,886T7J.T. Poston$166,886T7John Pak$166,886T7Seeamus Power$166,886T7Zac Blair$166,886T7Johnny Keefer$166,886T7Andrew Novak$166,886T7Patrick Rodgers$166,886T7Michael Thorbjornsen$166,886T18Keith Mitchell$99,750T18Doc Redman$99,750T18Mac Meissner$99,750T21Ben Martin$76,300T21Ryan Palmer$76,300T21William Mouw$76,300T21Eric Cole$76,300T25Trey Mullinax$50,438T25Henrik Norlander$50,438T25Byeong Hun An$50,438T25Webb Simpson$50,438T25Hayden Buckley$50,438T25Greyson Sigg$50,438T25Davis Thompson$50,438T25Antoine Rozner$50,438T25Andrew Putnam$50,438T34Kris Ventura$34,950T34Patrick Fishburn$34,950T34Vince Whaley$34,950T34Ben Kohles$34,950T34Harrison Endycott$34,950T34Patton Kizzire$34,950T34Mark Hubbard$34,950T41Brice Garnett$25,550T41Austin Eckroat$25,550T41Chan Kim$25,550T41Chris Kirk$25,550T41Niklas Norgaard$25,550T41Jonathan Byrd$25,550T47Ben Silverman$19,180T47Matthew Riedel$19,180T47Harris English$19,180T47Sam Ryder$19,180T51Jesper Svensson$16,399T51Daniel Berger$16,399T51Pierceson Coody$16,399T51Matt Wallace$16,399T51Mackenzie Hughes$16,399T51Karl Vilips$16,399T51Michael Brennan$16,399T51Jackson Suber$16,399T51Denny McCarthy$16,399T51Quade Cummins$16,399T51Troy Merritt$16,399T62Chad Ramey$15,400T62Alex Smalley$15,400T64Beau Hossler$15,050T64Brandt Snedeker$15,050T64Thomas Rosenmueller$15,050T67Davis Riley$14,630T67Matthieu Pavon$14,630T67Matt Kuchar$14,63070Adam Hadwin$14,35071Chez Reavie$14,210T72Brendan Valdes$14,000T72James Hahn$14,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sami Valikmaki won his first PGA Tour event at the season finale, the RSM Classic. Valimaki earned $1.26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-310430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}