The PGA Tour’s flagship event offered a cash prize worthy of its status: a $25 million purse, with $4.5 million to the winner.
The back nine at the Players Championship rarely disappoints, and it minted a new champion Sunday as Cameron Young shot 33 to close out a 68 and win his biggest PGA Tour title. Young birdied the famous 17th hole and piped a drive 375 yards on the 18th (the longest in the 23-year ShotLink era) to set up a winning par. Matt Fitzpatrick missed an 8-foot par putt that would have forced a playoff.
Ludvig Aberg, the 54-hole leader, melted down with a back-nine 40 and ended tied for fifth, four shots behind Young.
Here are the final payouts for the 2026 Players Championship.
2026 Players Championship final payouts
WIN: Cameron Young, 13 under: $4.5 million
2. Matt Fitzpatrick, 12 under: $2,725,000
3. Xander Schauffele, 11 under: $1,725,000
4. Robert MacIntyre, 10 under: $1,225,000
T5. Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Jacob Bridgeman, Ludvig Aberg; 9 under: $925,000
T8. Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Justin Thomas; 8 under: $731,250
T11. Patrick Rodgers, Brian Harman; 7 under: $606,250
T13. Sam Burns, Akshay Bhatia, Brooks Koepka, Ryo Hisatsune, Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Austin Smotherman, Corey Conners, Viktor Hovland; 6 under: $409,027.78
T22. Scottie Scheffler, Michael Thorbjornsen; 5 under: $271,250
T24. Alex Smalley, J.J. Spaun, William Mouw; 4 under: $221,250
T27. Hideki Matsuyama, Nicolai Hojgaard, Chris Kirk, Ryan Gerard, Chad Ramey; 3 under: $178,750
T32. Jordan Spieth, Eric Cole, Bud Cauley, Patrick Cantlay, Andrew Putnam, Alex Noren, Max Homa, Min Woo Lee, Maverick McNealy, Sahith Theegala; 2 under: $128,250
T42. Rickie Fowler, Wyndham Clark, Nick Taylor, Joe Highsmith; 1 under: $91,250
T47. Rory McIlroy, Taylor Pendrith, Matti Schmid, Keith Mitchell; Even: $68,500
T50. J.T. Poston, Taylor Moore, Zach Bauchou, Max McGreevy, Si Woo Kim, Keegan Bradley; 1 over: $61,083.33
T56. Adam Scott, Chris Gotterup; 2 over: $58,000
58. Sam Stevens, 3 over: $57,250
T59. Kevin Roy, Lee Hodges, Jason Day; 4 over: $56,250
T62. Danny Walker, Steven Fisk, Rico Hoey, Stephan Jaeger; 5 over: $54,500
T66. Kristoffer Reitan, Daniel Berger, Nico Echavarria; 6 over: $52,750
69. Michael Brennan, 7 over: $51,750
T70. Ricky Castillo, Tony Finau, Seamus Power; 8 over: $50,750
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