Brooks Koepka has somehow only won five times on the PGA Tour with three of those wins being major championships. His fifth victory, which came this past weekend at the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges featured a $1.71 million winner’s check.
Ironically, the biggest payday of the young 2018-19 season to date was Koepka’s smallest winning check in his last four wins. The only winner’s paycheck Koepka has cashed that was less than this week’s in Korea was his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
While the CJ Cup didn’t quite offer World Golf Championship money to those at the bottom of the leaderboard, all 78 players who teed it up got a little something for the effort.
Here’s the complete breakdown of the tournament purse.
| 1 | Brooks Koepka | -21 | $1,710,000 |
| 2 | Gary Woodland | -17 | $1,026,000 |
| T3 | Ryan Palmer | -15 | $551,000 |
| T3 | Rafael Cabrera Bello | -15 | $551,000 |
| T5 | Jason Day | -12 | $361,000 |
| T5 | Scott Piercy | -12 | $361,000 |
| T7 | Pat Perez | -11 | $296,083 |
| T7 | Chez Reavie | -11 | $296,083 |
| T7 | Cameron Smith | -11 | $296,083 |
| T10 | Adam Hadwin | -10 | $228,000 |
| T10 | Adam Scott | -10 | $228,000 |
| T10 | J.J. Spaun | -10 | $228,000 |
| T10 | Ian Poulter | -10 | $228,000 |
| T14 | Tyrrell Hatton | -9 | $164,730 |
| T14 | Keith Mitchell | -9 | $164,730 |
| T14 | Brendan Steele | -9 | $164,730 |
| T14 | Ted Potter Jr. | -9 | $164,730 |
| T18 | Marc Leishman | -8 | $121,600 |
| T18 | Beau Hossler | -8 | $121,600 |
| T18 | Alexander Noren | -8 | $121,600 |
| T18 | Hideki Matsuyama | -8 | $121,600 |
| T18 | Paul Casey | -8 | $121,600 |
| T23 | Patton Kizzire | -7 | $79,895 |
| T23 | C.T. Pan | -7 | $79,895 |
| T23 | Danny Willett | -7 | $79,895 |
| T23 | J.B. Holmes | -7 | $79,895 |
| T23 | Si Woo Kim | -7 | $79,895 |
| T23 | Jamie Lovemark | -7 | $79,895 |
| T29 | Joel Dahmen | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Andrew Putnam | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Louis Oosthuizen | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Sung Kang | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Kevin Chappell | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Jimmy Walker | -6 | $56,824 |
| T29 | Ryan Armour | -6 | $56,824 |
| T36 | Joaquin Niemann | -5 | $42,465 |
| T36 | Ernie Els | -5 | $42,465 |
| T36 | Justin Thomas | -5 | $42,465 |
| T36 | Brian Harman | -5 | $42,465 |
| T36 | Brandt Snedeker | -5 | $42,465 |
| T41 | Sung-jae Im | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Dong Seop Maeng | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Brice Garnett | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Rod Pampling | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Graeme McDowell | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Austin Cook | -4 | $30,970 |
| T41 | Byeong Hun An | -4 | $30,970 |
| T48 | Charley Hoffman | -3 | $22,230 |
| T48 | Nick Watney | -3 | $22,230 |
| T48 | Branden Grace | -3 | $22,230 |
| T48 | Xander Schauffele | -3 | $22,230 |
| T52 | Kevin Tway | -2 | $20,140 |
| T52 | Kevin Na | -2 | $20,140 |
| T52 | Brian Stuard | -2 | $20,140 |
| T55 | Emiliano Grillo | -1 | $19,095 |
| T55 | Jason Dufner | -1 | $19,095 |
| T55 | Shubhankar Sharma | -1 | $19,095 |
| T55 | Peter Uihlein | -1 | $19,095 |
| T55 | Tae hee Lee | -1 | $19,095 |
| T55 | James Hahn | -1 | $19,095 |
| T61 | Brian Gay | E | $18,050 |
| T61 | Ryan Moore | E | $18,050 |
| T61 | Kyoung-Hoon Lee | E | $18,050 |
| T61 | Charles Howell III | E | $18,050 |
| T61 | Doyeob Mun | E | $18,050 |
| 66 | Kyle Stanley | 1 | $17,480 |
| T67 | Billy Horschel | 2 | $17,100 |
| T67 | Sanghyun Park | 2 | $17,100 |
| T67 | Jason Kokrak | 2 | $17,100 |
| T70 | Charl Schwartzel | 4 | $16,625 |
| T70 | Stewart Cink | 4 | $16,625 |
| 72 | Whee Kim | 5 | $16,340 |
| T73 | Abraham Ancer | 6 | $15,960 |
| T73 | Chesson Hadley | 6 | $15,960 |
| T73 | Hyungjoon Lee | 6 | $15,960 |
| 76 | Michael Kim | 9 | $15,580 |
| T77 | Hyun-woo Ryu | 13 | $15,295 |
| T77 | Minchel Choi | 13 | $15,295 |
