Nobody has earned more PGA Tour prize money than Texas alum Scottie Scheffler.
Former Texas Longhorns golfer and current world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler ended his season with yet another victory, officially stamping himself as one of the sport's most successful players.
Scheffler owned the final round of the FedEx Championship to take the title by three strokes this weekend, edging out runner-up Viktor Hovland with a 4-under 66 Sunday at East Lake Golf Club.
The win earns Scheffler the PGA TOUR Championship, and the $10 million prize money puts him ahead of golf icon Tiger Woods as the highest-career earner in PGA TOUR history.
Scheffler, who starred on the links for the Longhorns from 2015 to 2018, has won 22 PGA TOUR titles and earned upwards of $130 million in his professional career.
The Dallas native has the most TOUR victories of any ex-Longhorn, with Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite (19) trailing him. Jordan Spieth remains active on the tour with 13 career wins.
Scheffler finished the week at 16 under, and his Sunday charge started almost immediately.
At the 211-yard par-3 second, he stuffed a 5-iron to within inches of the hole for an easy birdie. Two holes later, he rolled in a 25-foot birdie putt to pull even with Hovland.
By the back nine, Scheffler had flipped the tournament.
He moved ahead for good at No. 13 and never gave Hovland the opening he needed down the stretch. Hovland, who began the final round with the lead, ultimately finished three shots behind Scheffler.
The win also reshaped a season that had been unusual by Scheffler’s absurdly high standards.
It was his third PGA TOUR victory of 2026, with two of those coming during the FedExCup Playoffs.
He had already won the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight shots earlier in August and now finishes the postseason with the biggest prize of all.
Scheffler also had five runner-up finishes during the season, including a playoff loss to Hovland at the Travelers Championship.
Then there’s the money milestone.
The TOUR Championship’s $40 million purse now counts as official PGA TOUR money, and the $10 million Scheffler collected helped tremendously in setting the new earnings record he would have eventually reached anyway.
Scheffler reached above Woods’ long-standing mark of $120,999,166.
That record requires context, of course. Woods built his total in an era with dramatically smaller purses and spent roughly 26 years atop the list.
Scheffler himself acknowledged before the tournament that comparing earnings across generations is essentially comparing different economic eras of professional golf.
Still, the number is another marker of Scheffler’s remarkable run.
He’s now a two-time FedExCup champion, remains the world’s top-ranked golfer and has another strong case for the Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA TOUR Player of the Year.
Scheffler has won that award four straight times. After what happened Sunday at East Lake, making it five would hardly be surprising.
