How quaint to think that million-dollar purses in golf were once something remarkable to behold.

In 1984 in Las Vegas, PGA Tour players battled for a million-dollar purse for the first time, with Denis Watson winning the Panasonic Las Vegas Invitational and $162,000 from a purse of more than $1.2 million. 

Forty years later, the Tour is back in Las Vegas and a purse of $7 million is one of the lowest all season.

Still, the winner will take home $1,260,000 and at this time of year there’s plenty more on the line besides money. In the fourth tournament of the eight-event “FedEx Cup Fall,” most players in the field are chasing status for 2025.

Tom Kim isn’t one of those players, as the two-time defending champion is set for next year. He’ll go off as the betting favorite chasing a third straight title in the desert. There also isn’t a buzzworthy name like Lexi Thompson; the LPGA star played a year ago on a sponsor’s exemption and missed the cut by three shots. Just a lot of guys playing for jobs.

They’ll play the 7,255-yard par-71 TPC Summerlin, where birdies come in bunches. The last six winners have all finished at least 20 under par.

2024 Shriners Children’s Open Full Field

132 players

Alexander, Tyson

Baddeley, Aaron

Barjon, Paul

Berger, Daniel

Björk, Alexander

Blair, Zac

Bramlett, Joseph

Brehm, Ryan

Bridgeman, Jacob

Buckley, Hayden

Campos, Rafael

Cauley, Bud

Champ, Cameron

Cole, Eric

Coody, Pierceson

Crowe, Trace

Dahmen, Joel

Davis, Cam

Dougherty, Kevin

Dumont de Chassart, Adrien

Duncan, Tyler

Echavarria, Nico

Eckroat, Austin

English, Harris

Fioroni, Caden
+

Fishburn, Patrick

Fowler, Rickie

Fox, Ryan

Garnett, Brice

Ghim, Doug

Gilligan, Ian
+

Gordon, Will

Gotterup, Chris

Greyserman, Max

Griffin, Ben

Grillo, Emiliano

Hadley, Chesson

Hadwin, Adam

Hall, Harry

Hardy, Nick

Higgo, Garrick

Highsmith, Joe

Hodges, Lee

Hoey, Rico

Hoffman, Charley

Hoge, Tom

Hossler, Beau

Hubbard, Mark

Jaeger, Stephan

Kim, Chan

Kim, Michael

Kim, S.H.

Kim, Tom

Kisner, Kevin

Kitayama, Kurt

Kizzire, Patton

Kohles, Ben

Kuchar, Matt

Laird, Martin

Lamprecht, Christo
+
Lashley, Nate

Lee, K.H.

Lipsky, David

List, Luke

Lower, Justin

Malnati, Peter

Matthewson, Erik
#

McCarthy, Dan
+

McCormick, Ryan

McNealy, Maverick

Merritt, Troy

Mitchell, Keith

Molinari, Francesco

Montgomery, Taylor

Moore, Ryan

Moore, Taylor

Mullinax, Trey

NeSmith, Matt

Novak, Andrew

Palmer, Ryan
+

Pan, C.T.

Pendrith, Taylor

Phillips, Chandler

Piercy, Scott
+

Poston, J.T.

Power, Seamus

Putnam, Andrew

Ramey, Chad

Reavie, Chez

Riley, Davis

Ryder, Sam

Schenk, Adam

Schmid, Matti

Shelton, Robby

Sigg, Greyson

Silverman, Ben

Simpson, Webb

Skinns, David

Sloan, Roger

Smalley, Alex

Spaun, J.J.

Springer, Hayden

Stevens, Sam

Streelman, Kevin

Suh, Justin

Svensson, Adam

Tarren, Callum

Taylor, Ben

Taylor, Nick

Thompson, Davis

Thorbjornsen, Michael

Todd, Brendon

Tosti, Alejandro

Valimaki, Sami

van Rooyen, Erik

Vegas, Jhonattan

Villegas, Camilo

Whaley, Vince

Whitney, Tom

Willett, Danny
Woodland, Gary

Wu, Brandon

Wu, Dylan

Young, Carson

Yu, Kevin

Yuan, Carl

+ sponsor exemption

# section champion