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2026 Players Championship Final Results, Payouts, Prize Money: Cameron Young Wins

Cameron Young shot a final-round 68 to win the PGA Tour's flagship event and take home $4.5 million.
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Cameron Young shot 68 on Sunday including a crucial birdie at the 17th to take the Players Championship.
Cameron Young shot 68 on Sunday including a crucial birdie at the 17th to take the Players Championship. | Doug Engle/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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.

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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

73. Takumi Kunaya, 10 over: $49,750

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Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business’s growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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