Davis Riley, sleeping on a 54-hole lead for just the second time in his PGA Tour career captured the situation he was in perfectly Saturday night.
“When you got Scottie [Scheffler] breathing down your neck, you can’t really let up any, so I know it’s going to be tough and it’s going to be a fun day,” Riley said after shooting a third-round 66 at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Scheffler posted a 63, the best round of the day by three, to vault up the leaderboard in second place at Colonial.
Riley has one prior PGA Tour win, but it was when he teamed with Nick Hardy to win the Zurich Classic team event. This time he’s on his own and his closest chaser has done this a time, or two, or 10.
However, playing with the best player on the planet isn’t one unfamiliar to the 27-year-old Riley. Scheffler beat Riley in the finals of the 2013 U.S. Junior Amateur.
“I’ve known Scottie for a long time and played a lot of junior golf with him, college golf, and he obviously is playing some really good golf right now,” Riley said. “So he’s going to come out swinging, but I’m looking forward to the challenge and it will be a fun day competing out there.”
With that, below you can check out the complete payout breakdown for this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, played at Colonial Country Club. The total purse is $9.1 million.
How much every player made at the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
(Final payouts will be updated upon conclusion of the final round)
1. Davis Riley, $1,638,000
T2. Keegan Bradley, $809,900 Scottie Scheffler
4. Collin Morikawa, $445,900
T5. Mac Meissner, $323,618 Sepp Straka Pierceson Coody Hayden Buckley
T9. David Lipsky, $247,975 Sungjae Im Robby Shelton
T12. Lucas Glover, $180,635 Chandler Phillips Lee Hodges J.T. Poston Adam Scott
T17. Maverick McNealy, $120,835 Tom Hoge Matt Kuchar Christiaan Bezuidenhout Davis Thompson Alejandro Tosti Tony Finau
T24. Matt NeSmith, $70,866.25 Adam Svensson Brian Harman Billy Horschel Denny McCarthy Min Woo Lee Tom Kim Kevin Tway
T32. K.H. Lee, $51,961 Aaron Rai Ben Silverman Justin Rose Ryan Fox
T37. Peter Malnati, $38,675 Joseph Bramlett Jordan Spieth Martin Laird Ben Martin C.T. Pan Rickie Fowler Keith Mitchell
T45. Troy Merritt, $27,099.80 Daniel Berger Zach Johnson Patrick Rodgers Gary Woodland
T50. Kevin Streelman, $22,234.33 Charley Hoffman Victor Perez Webb Simpson Doug Ghim Brendon Todd
T56. Tyler Duncan, $20,839 Thomas Detry Si Woo Kim Cam Davis Joel Dahmen
T61. Parker Coody, $20,111 Kevin Yu S.H. Kim
64. Emiliano Grillo, $19,747
T65. Austin Smotherman, $19,292 Mark Hubbard Nick Hardy Kevin Kisner
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