Last week, the best of golf encountered “gloomy” pin locations. and treacherous greens at the PGA Championship at Aronimink. This week was a little different.
CJ Cup Byron Nelson introduced players to the newly revamped TPC Craig Ranchand the best in the world tore it to pieces at once. Jordan Spieth shot a 62 in the second round and his partner Sungjae Im shot a 61.
“I was hurting my head trying to figure out what our best ball was,” Spieth said after he and I finished Friday. “I think it was 57, which is pretty good.”
That afternoon, Si Woo Kim flirted with a 59 but settled for a (somewhat disappointing) 60 to take a five-stroke lead into the weekend.
“I hit it well and putted great,” Kim said of his second-round 60. “So everything was perfect except for the last hole. I’ll still take it. 60 is tough, but I was kind of thinking about 59 after (I birdied) 17. It was a little bit of an adrenaline rush. … 60 still.”
Scottie Scheffler and Wyndham Clark cut Kim’s lead to two entering Sunday, setting up a final round that promised more drama than Scheffler’s victory in last year’s edition.
It was the last round that Clark took control with a hot shooter.
The 2023 US Open champion shot 4-under 32 to stay within Kim’s reach. Clark then birdied it to six feet on No. 11 and holed a 15-foot eagle putt on 12 to take the lead outright. He made an easy birdie at the short par-4 14th and then rolled in a 45-foot birdie putt at 15 to stay one ahead of Kim. A birdie on the par-3 17th gave him a two-shot lead, and then Clark stuck it in range on the 18th hole to shoot a final-round 60 — including a back-nine 28 — to win his first title since the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am.
Here is the complete pay breakdown for this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson played at TPC Craig Ranch. The bag total is is 10.3 million dollarswith Clark returning home 1.854 million dollars.
How much each player earned in the 2026 Byron Nelson CJ Cup
Win: Wyndham Clark, $1,854,000
2. Si Woo Kim, $1,122,000
3. Scottie Scheffler, $710,700
4. Jackson Suber, $504,700
5. Keith Mitchell, $422,300
T6. Tony Debate, $347,625
Tom Hoge, $347,625
Zach Bauchou, $347,625
T9. Johnny Keefer, $260,075
Jesper Svensson, $260,075
Max Grayserman, $260,075
Sungjae Im, $260,075
Stephan Jaeger, $260,075
T14. Brooks Koepka, $187,975
Blades Brown, $187,975
Taylor Moore, $187,975
17. Ben Silverman, $167,375
18. AND Well, $157,075
T19. Jordan Spieth, $100,593
Erik van Rooyen, $100,593
Steven Fish, $100,593
Kensei Hirata, $100,593
Ryo Hisatsune, $100,593
Rico Hoey, $100,593
Rasmus Neegaard-Petersen, $100,593
Peter Malnati, $100,593
Pierceson Coody, $100,593
AJ Ewart, $100,593
Seamus Power, $100,593
Garrick Higgo, $100,593
T31. Mark Hubbard, $58,930
Chris Kirk, $58,930
Eric Cole, $58,930
Luke Clanton, $58,930
Sam Ryder, $58,930
Doug Ghim, $58,930
Mac Meissner, $58,930
T38. Emiliano Grillo, $47,895
Chan Kim, $47,895
T40. Neal Shipley, $39,655
Adrien Saddier, $39,655
Tyler Duncan, $39,655
Matthieu Pavon, $39,655
Luke’s List, $39,655
Austin Eckroat, $39,655
Camilo Villegas, $39,655
T47. Dan Brown, $26,971
Fabian Gomez, $26,971
Taylor Pendrith, $26,971
John Parry, $26,971
Justin Lower, $26,971
Patrick Fishburn, $26,971
Patrick Rodgers, $26,971
T54. Troy Merritt, $23,999
Tom Kim, $23,999
Adam Svensson, $23,999
Charley Hoffman, $23,999
Jeffrey Kang, $23,999
T59. Chad Ramey, $23,175
Jordan Smith, $23,175
Jonathan Byrd, $23,175
