Scott Stallings’ phone is blowing up with texts this week. He’s loving it.
With one round to play at the Sanderson Farms Championship, he’s already cashed.
But we’ll let him explain. It’s good.
“I had a super busy week last week with all the junior golf stuff I do at the Tennessee Golf Foundation there in Nashville,” Stallings said after the Sanderson’s third round, “and sort of made the tour of the middle of the state across the board.
“I actually played a decent bit of golf, which is a little bit abnormal for me during that week. I do a thing we call the Tennessee Junior Cup. We split Tennessee down the middle, 10 boys and four girls, and just watch these high school kids just grind all weekend and just see how much they love it.
“It was really rejuvenating even though I didn’t hit a single shot, just to see how much they love the game. It was super encouraging to be there with them this past weekend and sort of be able to carry it over into this week. Got a lot of texts from some of the kids, and it was cool to see, ‘Hey, you actually can do this a little bit.’”
Here, a reporter and Stallings then had this exchange:
“That’s pretty cool to get that inspiration and bring it to a tournament and put it into practice.”
“Yeah, it’s very cool,” Stallings said. “We’ve been doing it for this is our 12th year, and knowing a lot of different kids and kind of seeing it throughout, it’s really neat to sort of carry that on. A lot of times after that week I feel sort of — man, sort of glad it was over, but every year it just gets more and more enjoyable, and the kids just love it.
“Now like Sunday afternoon, it’s like man, I can’t believe it’s over until next year. It’s definitely a passion and probably one of my favorite weeks of the year, even though it is super busy.”
With that, here are the money payouts for the Sanderson. The total purse is $8.2 million. Golf Channel coverage of the final round starts at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
2023 Sanderson Farms Championship payout info, winner’s share
1. $1.476 million
2. $893,800
3. $565,800
4. $401,800
5. $336,200
6. $297,250
7. $276,750
8. $256,250
9. $239,850
10. $223,450
11. $207,050
12. $190,650
13. $174,250
14. $157,850
15. $149,650
16. $141,450
17. $133,250
18. $125,050
19. $116,850
20. $108,650
21. $100,450
22. $92,250
23. $85,690
24. $79,130
25. $72,570
26. $66,010
27. $63,550
28. $61,090
29. $58,630
30. $56,170
31. $53,710
32. $51,250
33. $48,790
34. $46,740
35. $44,690
36. $42,640
37. $40,590
38. $38,950
39. $37,310
40. $35,670
41. $34,030
42. $32,390
43. $30,750
44. $29,110
45. $27,470
46. $25,830
47. $24,190
48. $22,878
49. $21,730
50. $21,074
51. $20,582
52. $20,090
53. $19,762
54. $19,340
55. $19,270
56. $19,106
57. $18,942
58. $18,778
59. $18,614
60. $18,450
61. $18,286
62. $18,122
63. $17,958
64. $17,794
65. $17,630
66. $17,466
67. $17,302
68. $17,138
69. $16,974
70. $16,810
71. $16,646
72. $16,482
73. $16,318
74. $16,154
75. $15,990
76. $15,826
77. $15,662
78. $15,498
