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.
But among the group tied for 10th were some of the PGA Tour’s blue bloods. Xander Schauffele, Tony Finau, Will Zalatoris and Ludvig Aberg were all in the group at seven under to start the final round.
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.
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“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
T73. Francesco Molinari – $17,820
Zac Blair
75. Adrien Dumont de Chassart – $17,550
76. Chandler Phillips – $17,370
77. Justin Suh – $17,190
T78. Chad Ramey – $16,830
Brandt Snedeker
