The 2026 Austin Championship winner's share is a lot of money

One Sunday, the Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas. The PGA Tour is going to crown its latest FedEx Cup Fall winner. And the winner of the debuting Austin Championship is going to get what has become a pretty standard amount of money here in the FedEx Cup Fall. I'm Ryan Balinty with Golf News Net. We're looking at the purse and the prize money pile for the winner of the Austin Championship, which is a debuting event at the Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas. This was originally the Good Good Championship. Then some stuff happened. And now it is the Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions, which is a sponsor on the Korn Ferry Tour's final series of events. This is a $6 million tournament, pretty much a standardized number after the first event of the FedEx Cup Fall and the Austin Championship. The winner gets 18% of the purse, which is pretty much standard business on the PGA Tour, which means $1,080,000 to the champion. They're also going to get 500 FedEx Cup Fall points if they are not already into the top 50. From the FedExCup final standings from the regular FedExCup season. And they're going to get somewhere probably about 27, 28 official World Golf ranking points. You're going to get not only a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour, but more importantly, by winning in the fall, you're going to get yourself into the 2024 PGA Tour Championship Series, which is reserved currently for the top 90 players in the standings at the end of next season on the PGA Tour. So Blades Brown winning last week, he gets into the 2028 Championship Series already. That is a huge opportunity for anyone who wins in the fall to be able to do that. That's a great motivator to play this week. And of course, next week, the RSM Classic, which has a $7 million purse to round out the FedEx Cup fall. So even if you're trying to get into that top 51 through 60 range to get into the first two signature events of next year, if you can manage to win this week, not only will you probably find yourself in that position going into next season. You are also going to find yourself in the championship series playing all $20 million events in 2020.