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2026 The American Express Purse Breakdown, Payouts

2026 The American Express Purse Breakdown, Payouts

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By: Zach Thompson

The second event of the PGA TOUR season will wrap up on Sunday, January 25. After a cut following the third round, the top 73 golfers will play the Final Round at the Pete Dye Stadium Course. While it isn’t a Signature Event, there’s still a big purse on the line.

Si Woo Kim starts the day at -22 with a one-shot lead atop the leaderboard over World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and 18-year-old Blades Brown. Eric Cole and Wyndham Clark start the day one stroke further back at -20. The American Express awards a $9.2 million total purse, with $1.656 million going to the winner.

Here’s how the top-25 finishers will be paid at the conclusion of the tournament in La Quinta, California. Ties will evenly divide the total purse among the included positions. For example, a four-way tie for fourth would result in the total purse for fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh evenly divided between the four players.

WIN: $1.656 million

2: $1.0028 million

3: $634,800

4: $450,800

5: $377,200

6: $333,500

7: $310,500

8: $287,500

9: $269,100

10: $250,700

11: $232,300

12: $213,900

13: $195,500

14: $177,100

15: $167,900

16: $158,700

17: $149,500

18: $140,300

19: $131,100

20: $121,900

21: $112,700

22: $103,500

23: $96,140

24: $88,780

25: $81,420


Zach has been part of the DraftKings team since 2017 and covers baseball, basketball, golf, football and any other sport that offers DFS fun. He has been playing fantasy sports since box scores were only available in the newspaper the following day. Even though he grew up almost 8,000 miles away in Guam, he is a diehard Boston sports fan but will take a fantasy value play wherever he can get it, even if it’s from the Yankees.
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