Just a few years ago, Bud Cauley was a forgotten name.

Now he’s right in the throes of PGA Tour competition.

Cauley was an amateur star, playing college golf at Alabama with Justin Thomas and became the 7th player to earn enough money on the PGA Tour to earn membership without going to Q-School in 2011.

Success didn’t materialize for Cauley as he found himself struggling to maintain his Tour card before a car crash in 2018 derailed his dream. Cauley didn’t play a professional event between September 2020 and January 2024.

But he reearned his card in 2025 and even played his way into the PGA Tour Signature events. This week at the RBC Canadian Open, he entered the final round just one off the lead as he seeks his first PGA Tour win.

“I don’t really want to think about that now. I guess we’ll find out when that day happens. I will say, just since I was injured and playing golf now and having gotten married and starting a family, my life — I think my perspective has changed and my priorities I think are in order,” Cauley said. “So it’s not the most important thing in the world to me, but it is very important. I work really hard at it, so that’s why I come out here and play is to try to win tournaments.”

With that, here is the complete payout breakdown for this week’s RBC Canadian Open, played at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ontario. The total purse is $9.8 million. 

How much every player made at the 2026 RBC Canadian Open

WIN: $1,764,000

2: $1,068,200

3: $676,200

4: $480,200

5: $401,800

6: $355,250

7: $330,750

8: $306,250

9: $286,650

10: $267,050

11: $247,450

12: $227,850

13: $208,250

14: $188,650

15: $178,850

16: $169,050

17: $159,250

18: $149,450

19: $139,650

20: $129,850

21: $120,050

22: $110,250

23: $102,410

24: $94,570

25: $86,730

26: $78,890

27: $75,950

28: $73,010

29: $70,070

30: $67,130

31: $64,190

32: $61,250

33: $58,310

34: $55,860

35: $53,410

36: $50,960

37: $48,510

38: $46,550

39: $44,590

40: $42,630

41: $40,670

42: $38,710

43: $37,750

44: $34,790

45: $32,830

46: $30,870

47: $28,910

48: $27,342

49: $25,970

50: $25,186

51: $24,598

52: $24,010

53: $23,618

54: $23,226

55: $23,030

56: $22,834

57: $22,638

58: $22,442

59: $22,246

60: $22,050

61: $21,854

62: $21,658

63: $21,462

64: $21,266

65: $21,070

66: $29,874

67: $20,678

68: $20,482

69: $20,286

70: $20,090

71: $19,894

72: $19,698

73: $19,502

74: $19,306

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