Hideki Matsuyama held onto PGA Tour money lead, despite his low finish of the season, a tie for 48th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
But it’s getting tighter, and the number of millionaires on the PGA Tour (through their on-course earnings) nearly doubled after the no-cut, Signature Event won by Rory McIlroy on Sunday.
Matsuyama earned $48,600 and has $3,833,355 for the season. But McIlroy, playing in his first PGA Tour event of 2025, shot to second on the money list with his $3.6 million first-place check and is only $233,000 behind Matsuyama.
Matsuyama has feasted at TPC Scottsdale
Matsuyama can put some distance on McIlroy and the rest of the contenders with a good finish this week in the WM Phoenix Open, which begins on Thursday at the TPC Scottsdale.
For one thing, Matsuyama has a stellar record at Scottsdale. He won back-to-back in 2016 and 2017, has two other top-four finishes and has never missed a cut in 10 starts.
McIlroy, No. 4 Collin Morikawa and No. 5 Shane Lowry are among the players not in the field.
However, No. 3 Sepp Straka, No. 6 Nick Taylor and No. 9 Sam Stevens are playing.
Nine players at Pebble Beach passed $1 million in earnings
The lucrative Signature Event purse at Pebble Beach also resulted in nine new millionaires on the Tour through on-course winnings. McIlroy, runner-up Shane Lowry and Justin Rose, who tied Cam Davis for third, got seven-figure checks in their first Tour starts in the season. Davis, Taylor Pendrith, Lucas Glover, Russell Henley, Jason Day and Andrew Novak joined the club with their Pebble checks.
There are 19 players on the money list with $1 million or more. There were 136 last year but the Tour is five events into the season with 41 to go.
A lot of cash is still on the table, with two Signature Events coming up within the next five weeks, the Genesis Invitational and the Arnold Palmer Invitational, then The Players Championship March 13-16 at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, the largest purse in golf at $25 million overall and $4.5 million to the winner.
That’s three events in six weeks that will pay out $65 million.
PGA Tour money leaders, through Pebble Beach Pro-Am
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Hideki Matsuyama $3,833,355
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Rory McIlroy $3,600,000
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Sepp Straka $2,568,138
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Collin Morikawa $2,432,000
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Shane Lowry $2,160,000
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Nick Taylor $1,891,400
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Sungjae Im $1,877,500
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Harris English $1,734,611
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Sam Stevens $1,326,046
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Cam Davis $1,290,400
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Taylor Pendrith $1,271,632
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Lucas Glover $1,240,088
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Justin Thomas $1,171,133
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Justin Rose $1,160,000
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Nico Echavarria $1,099,050
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Russell Henley $1,087,525
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Jhonattan Vegas $1,075,320
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Jason Day $1,020,780
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Andrew Novak $1,010,200
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Thomas Detry $945,885
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Tom Hoge $904,022
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Harry Hall $867,545
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J.J. Spaun $802,672
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Corey Conners $780,167
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Ludvig Åberg $778,112
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Sam Burns $765,913
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Keegan Bradley $744,569
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Patrick Cantlay $730,900
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Stephan Jaeger $677,425
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Billy Horschel $672,270
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: PGA Tour money list: Pebble Beach Pro-Am leaves a new player at the top
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