The 2026 PGA Tour season rolled into the iconic Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles for Tiger Woods’ tournament, the Genesis Invitational. The second straight signature event of the season put big money on the line for the 50 players who made the cut as the event returned to Riviera following a one-year absence.
Collin Morikawa took home $3.6 million in his triumphant return to the winner’s circle at Pebble Beach last week, snapping a winless drought of nearly three years, and history was made at the Genesis Invitational, too, as Jacob Bridgeman emerged from a star-studded leaderboard to pick up the first win of his career.
There are few better places to pick up a win at this point on the PGA Tour schedule than a signature event, and with eight fewer players in the field this week, most every spot on the leaderboard earned a bit more cash from the $20 million prize pool at the Genesis.
Bridgeman will take home $4 million as the Genesis Invitational marked the 10th straight signature event won by a different player. That’s a significant departure from 2024 when Scottie Scheffler won four of the eight events on the calendar.
Scheffler was the heavy favorite coming into Riviera, as is the case every week on the PGA Tour, but after barely making the cut, he shot 66-65 over the weekend to finish T12. Rory McIlroy entered the final round six shots back of Bridgeman but ultimately finished one stroke shy of the lead in a tie for second with Kurt Kitayama.
Let’s take a look at the full breakdown of how much each finishing spot will take home from the 2026 Genesis Invitational.
2026 Genesis Invitational prize money, purse
Total purse: $20 million
1st: $4,000,000 — Jacob Bridgeman
2nd: $2,200,000 — Rory McIlroy, Kurt Kitayama
3rd: $1,400,000
4th: $1,000,000 — Adam Scott
5th: $840,000 — Aldrich Potgieter
6th: $760,000 — Jake Knapp
7th: $700,000 — Collin Morikawa, Cameron Young, Tommy Fleetwood, Ryan Fox, Xander Schauffele
8th: $646,000
9th: $600,000
10th: $556,000
11th: $514,000
12th: $472,000 — Min Woo Lee, Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, Alex Noren
13th: $430,000
14th: $389,000
15th: $369,000
16th: $349,000 — Sam Stevens, Pierceson Coody, Akshay Bhatia, Marco Penge
17th: $329,000
18th: $309,000
19th: $289,000
20th: $269,000 — Ludvig Åberg, Robert MacIntyre
21st: $250,000
22nd: $233,000 — Harris English, Sahith Theegala
23rd: $216,000
24th: $200,000 — Shane Lowry, Matt McCarthy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Greyserman
25th: $184,000
26th: $168,000
27th: $161,000
28th: $154,000 — Rickie Fowler, Ryan Gerard, Nick Taylor, Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau, Aaron Rai
29th: $147,000
30th: $140,000
31st: $133,000
32nd: $126,000
33rd: $119,000
34th: $114,000 — Si Woo Kim, Patrick Rodgers, Tom Kim
35th: $109,000
36th: $104,000
37th: $99,000 — Sami Valimaki, Corey Conners, Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay
38th: $94,000
39th: $90,000
40th: $86,000
41st: $82,000 — Viktor Hovland, Ben Griffin, Wyndham Clark
42nd: $78,000
43rd: $74,000
44th: $70,000 — Jhonattan Vegas
45th: $66,000 — Ryo Hisatsune, Taylor Pendrith
46th: $62,000
47th: $58,000 — Andrew Novak, Drenny McCarthy
48th: $56,000
49th: $54,000 — Matthias Schmid
50th: $52,000 — Sepp Straka, Brian Harman
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