He has accomplished sixteen of the seventeen goals he had set for this season, and curiously, among them did not include winning the FedExCup. Justin Thomas has had a year of vertigo in which almost everything has gone well for him and which he has crowned with the ten million dollar prize of the FedExCup thanks to his second place in the last tournament of the FedExCup Playoffs, The Tour Championship. Never has a second place finish tasted so sweet to the American.
The victory in The Tour Championship was won, for the first time in the thirty years of this tournament, by a rookie, a rookie, Xander Schauffele, a 23-year-old native of San Diego who only three months earlier was worried about keeping the PGA Tour card for next season. Schauffele beat Thomas by one stroke and took home $1.75 million in first prize, plus $2 million in FedExCup bonus money for finishing third in the ranking.
As for the two Spaniards in the tournament, Jon Rahm finished seventh, five strokes behind the winner, and Sergio Garcia, tenth with one stroke more than his compatriot. The Basque finished fifth in the FedExCup ranking, which earned him a bonus of one million dollars, and the Spaniard, twenty-first, with a bonus of 220,000 dollars. In total, the FedExCup is endowed with 35 million dollars to be distributed among the top 30 finishers, while the four Playoff tournaments of the last phase of the FedExCup distribute 32 million dollars in prizes.
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