Stephan Jaeger will earn the biggest check of his PGA Tour career.
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Overnight Friday Stephan Jaeger was an inexperienced leader ahead of a pack of inexperienced winners.
Of the top nine players heading into the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open, none of them had won on the PGA Tour before, including Jaeger, who birded the 18th Friday to take the lead by one.
However, winning isn’t exactly a foreign concept to Jaeger. The 34-year-old has six wins on the Korn Ferry Tour, tied for the second most of all-time after Jason Gore.
But that’s not something he leaned on Sunday as he chased down his inaugural victory on the PGA Tour. He expected to feel the pressure for the final round.
“It’s great to have some past success, but you really— that doesn’t really get you anything,” he said Friday night. “I’m going to feel it tomorrow, I’m going to be nervous.
“I think [winning is] a learned skill. I don’t think you wake up and you’re automatically a winner or champion. I think anybody that says differently’s wrong, but I think you can definitely learn it. Some of those guys, you see some of the all-time greats, it’s definitely a skill.
“It’s definitely something I’ve done before, but I’m going to lean on stuff I’ve been really working on the last six months or a year.”
But while Jaeger has experience winning on the Korn Ferry Tour, he wasn’t playing for the same $1.62 million first-place prize he did at Torrey Pines.
Here is a complete list of the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open payouts for all 79 players who made the cut. The total purse is $9 million.
How much every player made at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open
1. Matthieu Pavon – $1,620,000
2. Nicolai Højgaard – $981,000
T3. Stephan Jaeger – $477,000 Nate Lashley Jake Knapp
T6. Kevin Yu – $303,750 Beau Hossler Tony Finau
T9. Patrick Rodgers – $236,250 Xander Schauffele Ludvig Aberg Taylor Pendrith
T13. Tom Whitney – $156,535.72 Hideki Matsuyama Max Homa Doug Ghim Akshay Bhatia Will Zalatoris Taylor Montgomery
T20. Mark Hubbard – $102,330 Rafael Campos Ryan Brehm Emiliano Grillo Thomas Detry
T25. Shane Lowry – $66,262.50 Scott Stallings Chesson Hadley Adam Schenk Joseph Bramlett Robby Shelton Parker Coody Trace Crowe
T33. Aaron Rai – $50,175 Hayden Springer Ryo Hisatsune Joe Highsmith
T37. Ben Martin – $40,050 Michael Kim Austin Eckroat Nick Hardy Aaron Baddeley Maverick McNealy
T43. Min Woo Lee – $28,530 Keegan Bradley Justin Lower Sam Stevens Alejandro Tosti Erik Barnes Sami Valimaki
T50. Luke List – $21,990 Bronson Burgoon Chris Gotterup S.H. Kim Dylan Wu Kevin Dougherty
T56. Patrick Cantlay – $20,340 Justin Rose Carson Young Vincent Norrman Tyson Alexander Ben Silverman Tom Hoge Charley Hoffman
T64. Lanto Griffin – $19,080 Sahith Theegala Harris English Mackenzie Hughes Ben Taylor Taiga Semikawa
T70. Taylor Moore – $18,270 Jacob Bridgeman Alexander Bjork
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