At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the final event of 2024 on the PGA Tour schedule isn’t about the money, but rather about the points. FedEx Cup points are the currency of choice being played for at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga., as players have their last chance at earning enough of those points to be inside the top 125 on the FedEx Cup standings and claim full status on tour for 2025.

A week ago at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, three players moved inside the top 125: winner Rafael Campos (147 to 80), Sam Ryder (T-5, 135 to 122) and Wesley Bryan (T-17, 128 to 125). Those that fell were Henrik Norlander (T-57, 122 to 126), Daniel Berger (T-62, 124 to 127) and Hayden Springer (T-37, 125 to 128). Suffice it to say, everyone around the No. 125 bubble has plenty of incentive to perform well in this season finale.

There’s a game within the game, too, as anybody who finishes between 51st and 60th on the FedEx Cup points list after Sea Island has played their way into two early big-money signature events for 2025 (the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational). That incentive has seven of the players sitting in those 10 spots entering the week here at Sea Island, with another seven sitting Nos. 61 to 70 also in the field.

And while we’re saying that money isn’t on top of everybody’s minds, there is a lot of scratch to be won this week. The overall purse at Sea Island is $7.6 million with the winner claiming a $1.368 million prize money payout.

Here’s the breakdown of the prize money payouts for everybody who makes the cut this week in Georgia. Come back on Sunday shortly after the tournament and we’ll update this list with individual names and paydays.

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Sea Island’s golf courses have a long and rather convoluted history covering nearly 100 years of expansion, reconfiguration and renovations. Through it all, the historic Seaside has been the one that people schedule their visits around, full of holes that skirt Saint Simons Sound, the intracoastal marshes and sandy dunes refurbished by Tom Fazio in the late 1990s. The Plantation course, which started as a combination of one nine designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s and another from Dick Wilson in 1960, and synthesized together by Rees Jones in the 1990s, has typically played second fiddle. Not so much now. Keying on the original forms and concepts laid out by Travis, the Sea Island-based team of Mark and Davis Love III, along with lead architect Scot Sherman, stripped Plantation in 2019 and rebuilt it as a homage to early Golden Age design with deep coffin bunkers and squared-off plateau greens. The staggered bunkers eat into the broad fairways at intervals to set up zig-zag angles and others have been introduced as dastardly centerline hazards, like the Principals Nose feature on the short, drivable 10th that replaces a long bending par 4 in order to make room for a massive putting course near the resort clubhouse. Other holes were broken up and recombined to better fit the property’s small footprint and create more sporting half-par holes. There’s even a touch of Pete Dye in the design in the use of bulkheading, small pot bunkers and S-shaped tee-to-green strategies. Guests will still instinctively gravitate toward Seaside and the long water views, but if they skip over Plantation they’ll miss a course jazzing it up on the opposite side of the architectural spectrum, and one of the more interesting designs in the southeast. View Course

Win: $1,368,000

2: $828,400

3: $524,400

4: $372,400

5: $311,600

6: $275,500

7: $256,500

8: $237,500

9: $222,300

10: $207,100

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The Sea Island resort continues to credit famed British golf architect H.S. Colt for its Seaside design, but in truth it was never purely Colt’s design. It was the work of Colt’s partner, Charles Alison, who traveled to the U.S. and beyond in the 1920s and 30s while Colt remained in England. But the Seaside Course isn’t even Alison’s anymore–it is purely Tom Fazio, who incorporated Alison’s original Seaside nine (today’s 10-18) along with a nine (the Marshland Nine) designed in 1974 by Joe Lee, to create a totally new 18- hole course. But in keeping with the resort’s heritage, Fazio styled his new course in the design fashion of Alison, with big clamshell bunkers, smallish putting surfaces and exposed sand dunes off most of the windswept fairways. The Seaside Course has hosted numerous USGA championships and has been a mainstay of the PGA Tour’s early season roster. View Course

11: $191,900

12: $176,700

13: $161,500

14: $146,300

15: $138,700

16: $131,100

17: $123,500

18: $115,900

19: $108,300

20: $100,700

21: $93,100

22: $85,500

23: $79,420

24: $73,340

25: $67,260

26: $61,180

27: $58,900

28: $56,620

29: $54,340

30: $52,060

31: $49,780

32: $47,500

33: $45,220

34: $43,320

35: $41,420

36: $39,520

37: $37,620

38: $36,100

39: $34,580

40: $33,060

41: $31,540

42: $30,020

43: $28,500

44: $26,980

45: $25,460

46: $23,940

47: $22,420

48: $21,204

49: $20,140

50: $19,532

51: $19,076

52: $18,620

53: $18,316

54: $18,012

55: $17,860

56: $17,708

57: $17,556

58: $17,404

59: $17,252

60: $17,100

61: $16,948

62: $16,796

63: $16,644

64: $16,492

65: $16,340

66: $16,188

67: $16,036

68: $15,884

69: $15,732

70: $15,580

71: $15,428

72: $15,276

73: $15,124

74: $14,972

75: $14,820

76: $14,668

77: $14,516

78: $14,364

79: $14,212

80: $14,060

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com