Michael Thorbjornsen won the Rocket Classic on Aug. 2 at the Detroit Golf Club.
The tournament was appropriately named in his case. He rocketed up the money list with a $1.8 million first-place check, the second-largest for a non-major or non-Signature event on the PGA Tour after the CJ Cup Byron Nelson ($1.854 million for winner Wyndham Clark).
Thorbjornsen was 67th on the money list entering the week and is now 38th, with nearly $3.7 million. He became the 45th player to win $3 million or more on the PGA Tour this season, and 109 players have earned $1 million or more, just short of the 112 millionaires from the 2025 season.
Scottie Scheffler will take the lead on the money list into the FedEx Cup Playoffs Aug. 13-16 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic,
at TPC Southwind. He has just under $17 million and No. 2 Cameron Young ($13.9 million) can't catch him if he defends his title this week at the Wyndham Championship at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., and wins the $1,476,000 first-place check.
PGA Tour money leaders
Through Rocket Classic
- 1. Scottie Scheffler $16,911,274
- 2. Cameron Young $14,197,952
- 3. Matt Fitzpatrick $13,749,495
- 4. Wyndham Clark $9,876,186
- 5. Collin Morikawa $8,554,511
- 6. Rory McIlroy $8,465,006
- 7. Chris Gotterup $7,755,218
- 8. Sam Burns $7,583,539
- 9. Jacob Bridgeman $7,551,364
- 10. Akshay Bhatia $7,473,998
- 11. Si Woo Kim $7,450,943
- 12. Xander Schauffele $6,693,225
- 13. Tommy Fleetwood $6,402,604
- 14. Ludvig Åberg $6,253,271
- 15. Kristoffer Reitan $6,183,339
- 16. Viktor Hovland $6,128,926
- 17. Russell Henley $5,892,834
- 18. Ryan Gerard $5,825,898
- 19. Min Woo Lee $5,647,652
- 20. J.T. Poston $5,590,029
- 21. Ryan Fox $5,424,258
- 22. Aaron Rai $5,001,154
- 23. Justin Rose $4,853,355
- 24. J.J. Spaun $4,775,708
- 25. Rickie Fowler $4,767,536
- 26. Nicolai Højgaard $4,719,668
- 27. Alex Smalley $4,707,432
- 28. Hideki Matsuyama $4,694,981
- 29. Kurt Kitayama $4,678,586
- 30. Alex Fitzpatrick $4,528,683
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Michael Thorbjornsen rockets up PGA Tour money list with big check
