Nominal vs present value
Local display: $104.3m · Rebased to 2024 USD via US CPI-U
How the total breaks down
Prize money & Tour bonuses. Included a $25m FedEx Cup bonus and an $8m Comcast Business Tour Top 10 bonus — a PGA Tour record.
Endorsements. A rapidly growing portfolio built on nine wins, a Masters title and an Olympic gold medal.
Impact 95
- Posted the highest single-season on-course earnings in PGA Tour history
- Became only the second golfer after Woods to clear $100m in a year
- Showed the PGA Tour's own bonus pools could outpace LIV's signing fees
Scheffler's $76.3 million in prize money and bonuses — nearly double the next-highest Tour player's total — proved the PGA Tour's post-LIV bonus structure could produce Woods-scale numbers from playing golf alone, without a signing fee attached. It reframed the LIV-versus-PGA money argument: staying and winning at Scheffler's level was now worth as much as defecting.
Scheffler's 2024 season was the best-documented big payday in PGA Tour history: nine wins, a Masters title, Olympic gold, and $76.3 million in prize money and bonuses alone — a figure the Tour's own reporting broke down bonus by bonus. Add an endorsement portfolio still catching up to his results and the total reached $104.3 million, only the second time (after Woods) a golfer had cleared nine figures with the leaderboard doing most of the work.