Xander Schauffele finished well ahead of the leaders Sunday.
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When Xander Schauffele needed to make a six-footer on the 71st hole of the Players Championship last week, he faltered.
Schauffele barely scared the hole after a nearly perfect tee shot on island green par-3 17th when he was trailing Scottie Scheffler by one stroke.
Scheffler started the final day five back of Schauffele and ended up finishing nearly an hour before him while hanging on for the win.
Fast forward a week and Schauffele is in Scheffler’s position at the Valspar Championship, having gone out more than two hours before the leaders and posting eight under in the clubhouse at Innisbrook.
“Kind of an awkward holding pattern,” Schaffuele said after finishing his round. “I’m going to sit and creep the leaderboard, maybe catch some basketball as well, just to distract myself a bit, but for the most part just hang around.”
When Schauffele finished, he trailed just two golfers, overnight leader Keith Mitchell and Mackenzie Hughes, who were both at nine under on the front nine.
“I’m not expecting too much to happen,” Schauffele said. “Everyone’s pretty darn good at this game. I’ll keep an eye on it and hope for the best, but overall just happy with where I stand.”
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If Schauffele has anything going for him, it’s Copperhead’s difficult finishing stretch, the “Snake Pit.” Mitchell became the first player to play the “Snake Pit” in four under on Saturday when he holed his second at the 18th.
But Schaffuele is sitting back and watching the final nine with an open mind.
“You just never know,” he said. “I don’t know where the wind’s supposed to sit and how much it’s supposed to blow. 16 is a fun hole, you know, into left-to-right. Then you have 17 into, kind of into right-to-left. Then 18 was kind of straight across. So if the wind switches and, you know, all those holes can kind of play awkwardly, very across, which is not the most favorable wind.”
The different between Schauffele holding onto his clubhouse lead or not could be hundreds of thousands of dollars, like every week on the PGA Tour.
With that, here is a complete list of the 2024 Valspar Championship payouts for all 77 players who made the cut. The total purse is $8.3 million.
How much every player made at the 2024 Valspar Championship
(Final payouts will be updated at the conclusion of the tournament.)
Win: $1,512,000
2: $915,600
3: $579,600
4: $411,600
5: $344,400
6: $304,500
7: $283,500
8: $262,500
9: $245,700
10: $228,900
11: $212,100
12: $195,300
13: $178,500
14: $161,700
15: $153,300
16: $144,900
17: $136,500
18: $128,100
19: $119,700
20: $111,300
21: $102,900
22: $94,500
23: $87,780
24: $81,060
25: $74,340
26: $67,620
27: $65,100
28: $62,580
29: $60,060
30: $57,540
31: $55,020
32: $52,500
33: $49,980
34: $47,880
35: $45,780
36: $43,680
37: $41,580
38: $39,900
39: $38,220
40: $36,540
41: $34,860
42: $33,180
43: $31,500
44: $29,820
45: $28,140
46: $26,460
47: $24,780
48: $23,436
49: $22,260
50: $21,588
51: $21,084
52: $20,580
53: $20,244
54: $19,908
55: $19,740
56: $19,572
57: $19,404
58: $19,236
59: $19,068
60: $18,900
61: $18,732
62: $18,564
63: $18,396
64: $18,228
65: $18,060
66: $17,892
67: $17,724
68: $17,556
69: $17,388
70: $17,220
71: $17,052
72: $16,884
73: $16,716
74: $16,548
75: $16,380
76: $16,212
77: $16,044
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