The golf’s been good. The views, too. Scenes from the Bahamas in December always warm the late fall soul. 

But if we’re to really rank favorites from this week’s Hero World Challenge, Scottie Scheffler may just be at the top, though not for his play, which has been great, too. 

No, no, this salute is for his dry joke on Wednesday. 

It’s a gem. Notably, his crack centered around money, so it also fits this article. It came in response to this question, asked Wednesday during his pre-tournament press conference:

“I saw Tiger joined you for a little bit during the pro-am. What do you guys talk about when he’s out there and is it a little bit surreal that here you are just kind of shooting it with Tiger Woods especially after the season you’ve had, how you just elevated your career?”

To which Scheffler responded:

“Yeah, I think most of the time we just talk about money and how the purses need to be bigger. Today we really grinded on the Ryder Cup and how it’s just such BS that we’ve never gotten paid. Tiger was really frustrated. He feels like he hasn’t made enough money in his career. I feel the same way. I feel like last year I didn’t get paid enough for what I did. Mostly that, just a bunch of griping.”

Then he laughed. We did too. 

With that, here are the money payouts for the Hero World Challenge. The total purse is $5 million. 

Hero World Challenge purse, winner’s share 

1. $1 million

2. $450,000

3. $300,000

4. $250,000

5. $225,000

6. $220,000

7. $215,000

8. $210,000

9. $205,000

10. $200,000

11. $195,000

12. $190,000

13. $185,000

14. $180,000

15. $175,000

16. $170,000

17. $165,000

18. $160,000

19. $155,000

20. $150,000

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