{"id":431830,"date":"2026-01-27T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:30:11","slug":"american-express-2026-prize-money-full-payout-from-9-2-million-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431830\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express 2026 prize money: Full payout from $9.2 million purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler is the<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/news\/scottie-schefflers-career-pga-tour-wins-a-list-of-every-event-scheffler-has-won-on-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> second-youngest player to reach 20 PGA Tour wins<\/a>, and in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/scottie-scheffler-romps-in-desert-wins-american-express-by-four\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claiming the 2026 American Express championship<\/a> he will take home $1,656,000 to make him just the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/scottie-scheffler-becomes-pga-tours-newest-100-000-000-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">third man to earn more than a $100,000,000 in his career.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scheffler, who finished 27 under on the tournament, was dominant Sunday. He bested 54-hole leader Si Woo Kim and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/with-no-fear-endless-energy-and-infectious-joy-blades-brown-on-doorstep-of-pga-tour-breakthrough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">18-year-old Blades Brown<\/a> who he was grouped with during his final round. <\/p>\n<p>Americans Ryan Gerard, Andrew Putnam, and Matt McCarty shared a tie for second place with Aussie Jason Day \u2014 all of whom finished four strokes off Scheffler. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the full payout from the $9.2-million purse in La Quinta, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>2026 American Express prize moneyPos.PlayerEarnings1Scottie Scheffler$1,656,000T2Jason Day$489,100T2Ryan Gerard$489,100T2Andrew Putnam$489,100T2Matt McCarty$489,100T6Sam Stevens$255,500T6Tom Hoge$255,500T6Si Woo Kim$255,500T9Sahith Theegala$191,625T9Russell Henley$191,625T9Haotong Li$191,625T9Austin Smotherman$191,625T13David Ford$134,685T13Zach Bauchou$134,685T13Patrick Cantlay$134,685T13Jacob Bridgeman$134,685T13Wyndham Clark$134,685T18Blades Brown$93,318T18Will Zalatoris$93,318T18S.H. Kim$93,318T18Karl Vilips$93,318T18Pierceson Coody$93,318T18Rickie Fowler$93,318T24Harry Hall$64,605T24Adam Scott$64,605T24Ben Griffin$64,605T27Billy Horschel$46,039T27Max McGreevy$46,039T27Max Homa$46,039T27Jordan Smith$46,039T27Matthieu Pavon$46,039T27Sam Ryder$46,039T27Johnny Keefer$46,039T27Harris English$46,039T27Nick Taylor$46,039T27Sam Burns$46,039T27Eric Cole$46,039T38Tom Kim$31,755T38Christiaan Bezuidenhout$31,755T38Robert MacIntyre$31,755T38Joel Dahmen$31,755T38Min Woo Lee$31,755T38J.T. Poston$31,755T44Ricky Castillo$20,800T44Carson Young$20,800T44Patrick Rodgers$20,800T44Rafael Campos$20,800T44Matt Kuchar$20,800T44Alex Smalley$20,800T44Keith Mitchell$20,800T44Dylan Wu$20,800T44A.J. Ewart$20,800T44Rasmus Hojgaard$20,800T44David Lipsky$20,800T44Ryo Hisatsune$20,800T56Denny McCarthy$16,571T56Michael Brennan$16,571T56Taylor Moore$16,571T56John Parry$16,571T56Daniel Berger$16,571T56Davis Riley$16,571T56Max Greyserman$16,571T63Mac Meissner$15,622T63Davis Chatfield$15,622T63Chandler Phillips$15,622T63Chad Ramey$15,622T63Se\u0301amus Power$15,622T63Matt Fitzpatrick$15,62269Adrien Dumont de Chassart$15,111T70Zach Johnson$14,892T70Adrien Saddier$14,89272Gary Woodland$14,67373Zecheng Dou$14,527<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler is the second-youngest player to reach 20 PGA Tour wins, and in claiming the 2026 American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-431830","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\/431830","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=431830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}