Korn Ferry Tour Championship Prize Money Payout 2026

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It's not quite now or never for those in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, but a year might feel like forever if they're not able to earn promotion to the PGA Tour on Sunday.

The 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season is about to conclude at The Federal Club in Glen Allen, Virginia with 59 players having completed three quarters of their battle for the title.

Blades Brown led the way through 54 holes and appears set to earn enough points to fulfil his PGA Tour dream on a permanent basis.

For everyone else, it's a case of finishing as high up the leaderboard as possible to ensure they clinch one of the few remaining PGA Tour cards on the table - an achievement which could dramatically change their annual earnings.

Strangely, this is one of the few weeks of the season where the prize money is not the golfers' primary focus.

They each want to secure as many Korn Ferry Tour points as possible to finish inside the season's top-20. Should that happen, they will be PGA Tour bound and able to compete at the highest level in 2026.

Nevertheless, taking away as much of the $1.5 million total prize purse as possible will undoubtedly be something of a driving factor.

The winner will receive $270,000 while the remainder of the pot will be shared out among the other 58 players.

Below is an approximate prize money total for each position based on the 2025 purse. This will be updated once the event has concluded.

Korn Ferry Tour Championship Prize Money Breakdown

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Position	Prize Money
1st	$270,000
2nd	$135,000
3rd	$90,000
4th	$66,525
5th	$55,500
6th	$50,250
7th	$46,500
8th	$42.750
9th	$39,750
10th	$37,125
11th	$34,500
12th	$32,250
13th	$30,000
14th	$27,750
15th	$26,175
16th	$24,675
17th	$23,175
18th	$21,675
19th	$20,175
20th	$18,675
21st	$17,475
22nd	$16,275
23rd	$15,075
24th	$13,950
25th	$12,840
26th	$12,135
27th	$11,460
28th	$10,860
29th	$10,410
30th	$9,960
31st	$9,585
32nd	$9,285
33rd	$8,985
34th	$8,685
35th	$8,385
36th	$8,085
37th	$7,785
38th	$7,485
39th	$7,200
40th	$7,050
41st	$6,900
42nd	$6,750
43rd	$6,600
44th	$6,450
45th	$6,300
46th	$6,150
47th	$6,090
48th	$6,030
49th	$5,970
50th	$5,910
51st	$5,850
52nd	$5,790
53rd	$5,760
54th	$5,730
55th	$5,700
56th	$5,670
57th	$5,640
58th	$5,610
59th	$5,580

Jonny Leighfield is our Staff News Writer who joined Golf Monthly just in time for the 2023 Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup. He graduated from the University of Brighton with a degree in Sport Journalism in 2017 and spent almost five years as the sole sports reporter at his local newspaper. During his time with Golf Monthly, Jonny has interviewed several stars of the game, including Robert MacIntyre, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, and Joaquin Niemann. An improving golfer himself, Jonny enjoys learning as much about the game as he can and recently reached his Handicap goal of 18 for the first time.