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.”
Cauley got it done Sunday with a final-round 65 to win by two for his first PGA Tour victory in 283 starts.
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
(a) = Amateur, does not collect winnings
1. Bud Cauley $1,764,000
2. Matt Fitzpatrick $1,068,200
3. Viktor Hovland $676,200
T4. Jimmy Stanger $392,000
Brice Garnett
Jesper Svensson
Jackson Suber
T8. Aldrich Potgieter $286,650
Ryan Fox
Sudarshan Yellamaraju
T11. Matthew Anderson $218,050
Jacob Bridgeman
Tommy Fleetwood
Wyndham Clark
T15. Chandler Phillips $159,250
Tom Kim
Doug Ghim
Robert MacIntyre
Billy Horschel
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
