The 2026 World Wide Technology Championship winner's share is a lot of money

On Sunday, the Tiger Woods designed El Cardinal course at Diamante Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico. We're going to determine the second of consecutive PGA Tour winners in Mexico, straight across the country. And the winner of that tournament is going to win the exact same amount as the person who won last week at Vidanta Vallarta, Andrew Novak. I'm Ryan Bellinger with Golf News Network. We're looking at the prize money payout and the winner's share of the purse for the Worldwide Technology Championship played once again this year at that Tiger Woods Design El Cardinal course. Ben James has a four-shot lead going into the final round. As he seeks his first PGA Tour win, he is trying to win the winner's share, 18% of a $6 million purse in the fall of the last couple of seasons, the PGA Tour. That's kind of more or less standardized purses, the early portion. Starting with Asheville, you have the $5 million purse, then you get to like a $6 million purse for the predominant portion of the fall events, with the exception of the Bay Current Championship. That's the event in Japan. That's its own thing. It's a separate, no-cut event. But $6 million is kind of the standard purse for most of the fall. The only exception is going to be the fall-ending RSM Classic that has a $7 million purse. So the winner this week is going to get 18%, just like almost every other PGA Tour event is. And that winner is going to get $1,080,000 for their effort. So they're going to get 500 FedExCup fall points for their effort, unless they're already in the top 50. from the regular standard FedEx Cup season then they're not going to get any additional points can't move up from the top 50. they're set they're locked into every signature event to basically get into everything next year shy of the major championships But for the players who are still trying to get either into positions 51 through 60 in the FedExCup fall standings to get the first two signature events of next season, or you're just trying to get in that top 100 to keep your PGA Tour status for 2027, this is an important week for points. Money certainly doesn't hurt things. Money's going to always be a good thing, including for a guy like Blades Brown, who already has a PGA Tour card locked up for next season through the Corn Fairy Tour. He can't earn any FedExCup fall points, but he can earn some money. And if he continues to move up the leaderboard, he'll get a nice payoff. on Sunday. May not win, he's going to be way behind, but for someone like Ben James and perhaps for Brian Gerard or Chris Kirk, the two closest pursuers, one of them is going to walk away with a big old novelty check for $1,080,000.