For five straight years, the winner of the Barracuda Championship has made the victory his first on the PGA Tour. That’s a trend Adam Schenk should be happy to hear as he leads heading into Sunday's final round at Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee, Calif.
Searching for his first title in his fourth season on tour, Schenk, 29, holds a four-point lead at +39 over Erik van Rooyen and Andrew Putnam in the PGA Tour stop where a high score is a good thing. The tournament uses a Modified Stableford scoring format that rewards aggressive play (an albatross is worth 8 points, eagle is 5, birdie is 2, par is 0, bogey is -1 and double bogey or worse is -3) and makes for some interesting theater over the final few holes.
Schenk’s best finish in 113 previous tour starts came last month at the John Deere Classic when tied for fourth behind winner Lucas Glover. That was Schenk’s his first career top-five finish.
A victory would give Schenk the biggest payday of his tour career. The Barracuda winner earns a prize money payout of $630,000 from a purse of $3.5 million. Schenk made $248,000 off his John Deere finish.
If this all sounds good for Schenk, there are two things that might worry him: Van Rooyen, a 31-year-old from South Africa, would also be a first-time PGA Tour winner if he pulled out the victory. And Putnam is actually a past champion of the tournament (2018) who is looking to become 13th player in tour history to have his first two wins on tour come in the same event.
Here are the prize money payouts for all the players who made the cut at the Barracuda. Come back shortly after the tournament and we'll update this with individual names and specific prize-money amounts.
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Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2021 Barracuda Championship - Golf Digest
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