Winning experience on the PGA Tour at the top of the third-round leaderboard at the 2024 Mexico Open was scarce.
After last year’s final-round duel between heavyweights Jon Rahm and Tony Finau, this year’s final grouping will have exactly zero wins between them.
In fact, the final pairing of Jake Knapp and Sami Valimaki were both searching for their first PGA Tour wins Sunday.
The same goes for the other three players in the top 5 on the leaderboard. Defending champ Tony Finau started the final round as an afterthought, 11 shots back in a tie for 20th.
But what leader Jake Knapp lacks in winning experience, he believes he makes up for it with his experience as the bouncer for a Costa Mesa, California club ironically called The Country Club.
“I think standing there at 1:00 in the morning every Friday and Saturday night, you kind of realize how good you have it when you get to travel and play golf for a living,” Knapp said Saturday night. “I think that, and then also like a bit of grittiness, the fact that I don’t want to necessarily want to have to go back to that. Yeah, I think it was a lot of different things, but I think it just kind of gave me some thicker skin and allowed me to get to where I am now.”
Of course, not only is Knapp motivated by the better hours and better lifestyle of playing professional golf, but also the money. And there’s a good bit to be paid out to Knapp and the rest of the field this week in Nuevo Vallarta.
With that, here is a complete list of the 2024 Mexico Open at Vidanta payouts for all 65 players who made the cut. The total purse is $8.1 million.
How much every player made at the 2024 Mexico Open
1. Jake Knapp $1.458 million
2. Sami Valimaki $882,900
T3. Stephan Jaeger $429,300
C.T. Pan
Justin Lower
T6. Patrick Rodgers $283,500
Robert MacIntyre
T8. Carson Young $220,725
Doug Ghim
Andrew Novak
Erik van Rooyen
Chan Kim
T13. Maverick McNealy $145,125
Tony Finau
Alvaro Ortiz
Brandon Wu
Ben Silverman
Henrik Norlander
T19. Aaron Rai $99,549
Greyson Sigg
Martin Trainer
Jorge Campillo
Keith Mitchell
T24. Dylan Wu $61,695
Nico Echavarria
Aaron Baddeley
Chandler Phillips
Parker Coody
Stuart Macdonald
Chesson Hadley
Cameron Champ
Davis Thompson
T33. Harry Hall $44,145
James Hahn
Chad Ramey
Emiliano Grillo
Matt Wallace
T38. Rafael Campos $32,805
Austin Eckroat
Hayden Springer
Ryan McCormick
Jimmy Stanger
Kevin Dougherty
Wilson Furr
Joseph Bramlett
T46. Santiago De la Fuente (a) (N/A)
Thorbjørn Olesen $25,515
T48. Ryo Hisatsune $22,194
Cristobal Del Solar
Lanto Griffin
Mark Hubbard
T52. Nicolai Højgaard $19,467
Austin Smotherman
Padraig Harrington
Victor Perez
Carl Yuan
Ryan Palmer
T58. Erik Barnes $18,630
Troy Merritt
T60. Trace Crowe $18,063
Ryan Moore
Jhonattan Vegas
Garrick Higgo
Robby Shelton
65. MJ Daffue $17,577
