Golf has always prided itself on history: the Masters’ green jacket, the Claret Jug, Augusta’s hush at sunrise. Tradition was the currency. Reverence, the language. Not anymore.

Today, golf is living in the FedExCup era, where the commas on the paycheck can rattle your imagination almost as much as the putts that decide them. And in 2025, it was Tommy Fleetwood who cashed in.

The 34-year-old “almost man” of majors finally rewrote his story at East Lake. After 164 starts and years of sympathy, he collected something better: the biggest single payday the PGA Tour has ever dared to offer. Fleetwood walked away with $10 million from a $40 million TOUR Championship purse, alongside the FedExCup title—a season-long prize pool worth $100 million. For a career already worth $33.4 million in earn

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