{"id":800259,"date":"2026-08-03T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800259\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:09:13","slug":"rocket-classic-2026-prize-money-how-much-does-michael-thorbjornsen-get-from-10m-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800259\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Classic 2026 prize money: How much does Michael Thorbjornsen get from $10M purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Thorbjornsen <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/michael-thorbjornsen-first-career-pga-tour-win-2026-rocket-classic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the Rocket Classic<\/a> behind a bogey-free, final-round 63 in Motown. <\/p>\n<p>In his first career PGA Tour win, the 24-year-old Thorbjornsen nets $1,800,000 and some much-coveted FedExCup points. Runner-up Xander Schauffele also is walking out of the Motor City with a seven-figure check.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a full list of the payouts for every player who made the cut at Detroit Golf Club:<\/p>\n<p>2026 Rocket Classic full purse breakdownFINISHPLAYEREARNINGS1Michael Thorbjornsen$1,800,0002Xander Schauffele$1,090,0003Davis Riley$690,0004Rasmus Hojgaard$490,000T5Hideki Matsuyama$370,000T5Matt Wallace$370,000T5Kristoffer Ventura$370,000T8Davis Thompson$252,500T8Ryan Gerard$252,500T8Patrick Cantlay$252,500T8Michael Kim$252,500T8Chris Kirk$252,500T8Rickie Fowler$252,500T8Cameron Young$252,500T15Sungjae Im$162,500T15Keegan Bradley$162,500T15Doug Ghim$162,500T15Rico Hoey$162,500T15Michael Brennan$162,500T20Chandler Blanchet$109,500T20Corey Conners$109,500T20Keita Nakajima$109,500T20Ricky Castillo$109,500T20Russell Henley$109,500T20Luke Clanton$109,500T26Ben Kohles$74,500T26Jacob Bridgeman$74,500T26Mac Meissner$74,500T26Kevin Roy$74,500T26Stephan Jaeger$74,500T31Jordan Spieth$57,214T31Jackson Koivun$57,214T31Jordan Smith$57,214T31Brandt Snedeker$57,214T31Emiliano Grillo$57,214T31Kevin Yu$57,214T31David Lipsky$57,214T38Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen$44,500T38Austin Eckroat$44,500T38Ben James$44,500T38Justin Lower$44,500T42Hank Lebioda$37,500T42Joe Highsmith$37,500T42Si Woo Kim$37,500T45Beau Hossler$29,780T45Christiaan Bezuidenhout$29,780T45Gordon Sargent$29,780T45Marco Penge$29,780T45Adrien Saddier$29,780T50Ryo Hisatsune$23,860T50Matt McCarty$23,860T50Jackson Suber$23,860T50Matt Kuchar$23,860T50Zac Blair$23,860T50Neal Shipley$23,860T50Max Greyserman$23,860T50Adam Schenk$23,860T50J.J. Spaun$23,860T50Patrick Fishburn$23,86060Johnny Keefer$22,500T61Mark Hubbard$22,000T61Brian Campbell$22,000T61Nick Taylor$22,000T61Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard$22,000T65Dylan Wu$21,300T65Karl Vilips$21,300T65Zecheng Dou$21,300T68William Mouw$20,800T68Peter Malnati$20,80070Adam Svensson$20,500T71Harris English$20,200T71Tony Finau$20,20073Marcelo Rozo$19,900<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Thorbjornsen won the Rocket Classic behind a bogey-free, final-round 63 in Motown. In his first career PGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-800259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800259","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=800259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}