2024 Wells Fargo Championship purse, prize money: Payout for golfers from $20 million pool for signature event

Rory McIlroy continued his smoking play entering the second major of the season pulling off a dominant performance Sunday at Quail Hollow to win the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. It McIlroy's second victory in as many starts after teaming with Shane Lowry to win the 2024 Zurich Classic a couple weeks ago, and Sunday's win comes at an opportune time as Rory seeks to end his extended drought at major championships.

Big stakes and big money this week with 69 players visiting Charlotte for four days of pristine golf. While the trophy may not have been one of the four big ones -- one of those will be handed out next week when Valhalla hosts the 2024 PGA Championship -- the purse was in the same ballpark. A total of $20 million was be up for grabs this week falling in line with the total from the Masters last month and other signature events like the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Genesis Invitational.

Unlike the those two tournaments, however, "only" $3,600,000 was earned by McIlroy for winning. This represents the third-highest payday a winner could receive so far in 2024 as the top prize gets boosted to a nice, round $4 million for the three player invitationals while the Players Championship awarded Scottie Scheffler $4.5 million for his victory.

Wyndham Clark entered as the reigning champion but was unable to defend his crown. That said, he remains atop of McIlroy in the FedEx Cup standings as Rory shot up to fourth by winning his 26th career PGA Tour event.

No one who fell short of winning will leave empty-handed. Every golfer in the no-cut field earned at least $40,000 this week. Meanwhile, the top three all cleared seven figures, the top 11 were set to receive at least half a million, and the top 36 were all looking at six figures for their four days of work in the Queen City.

2024 Wells Fargo Championship prize money, purse

Total purse: $20 million

1st: $3,600,000 -- Rory McIlroy2nd: $2,160,000 -- Xander Schauffele3rd: $1,360,000 -- Byeong Hun An4th: $960,000 -- Jason Day, Sungjae Im5th: $800,0006th: $720,000 -- Mackenzie Hughes, Denny McCarthy7th: $670,0008th: $620,000 -- Max Homa, Sepp Straka9th: $580,00010th: $540,000 -- Russell Henley, Grayson Murray, Taylor Pendrith11th: $500,00012th: $460,00013th: $420,000 -- Corey Conners, Tommy Fleetwood, Sam Burns14th: $380,00015th: $360,00016th: $340,000 -- Lucas Glover, Si Woo Kim, Seamus Power, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Collin Morikawa17th: $320,00018th: $300,00019th: $280,00020th: $260,00021st: $240,000 -- Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley, Stephan Jaeger22nd: $224,00023rd: $208,00024th: $192,000 -- Viktor Hovland, Webb Simpson, Nick Dunlap, Alex Noren, Lee Hodges25th: $176,00026th: $160,00027th: $154,00028th: $148,00029th: $142,000 -- Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Patrick Rodgers, Andrew Putnam30th: $136,00031st: $130,00032nd: $124,00033rd: $118,00034th: $113,000 -- Matt Kuchar, Harris English, Kurt Kitayama, Cameron Young35th: $108,00036th: $103,00037th: $98,00038th: $94,000 -- Gary Woodland, Tom Hoge, Tylor Moore, Cam Davis39th: $90,00040th: $86,00041st: $82,00042nd: $78,000 -- Akshay Bhatia43rd: $74,000 -- Chris Kirk, Rickie Fowler, Kevin Tway, Nick Taylor44th: $70,00045th: $66,00046th: $62,00047th: $58,000 -- Brian Harman, Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark, Tom Kim, Adam Svensson48th: $54,80049th: $52,00050th: $50,40051st: $49,20052nd: $48,000 -- Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose, Adam Hadwin, Sahith Theegala, Billy Horschel, Tony Finau53rd: $47,20054th: $46,40055th: $46,00056th: $45,60057th: $45,20058th: $44,800 -- Jake Knapp, Ben Kohles59th: $44,40060th: $44,000 -- J.T. Poston, Brendon Todd, Will Zalatoris61st: $43,60062nd: $43,20063rd: $42,800 -- Austin Eckroat64th: $42,400 -- Emiliano Grillo, Adam Schenk65th: $42,00066th: $41,600 -- Peter Malntai67th: $41,200 -- Matthieu Pavon68th: $40,800 -- Eric Cole69th: $40,400WD: Hideki Matsuyama