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.
After a chaos-filled and disappointing PGA Championship for Scheffler, he opened with one of his worst rounds of the season at Colonial, in Fort Worth, not far from his home in Dallas. But as the recently renovated Colonial bit back, Scheffler sprung back into contention with a 66-63 run on Friday and Saturday to earn the final-round pairing with Riley.
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.”
Riley got it done, shooting a final-round 70 to beat Scheffler and Keegan Bradley by five.
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
69. Ryan Moore, $18,837
T70. Vincent Norrman, $18,564
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