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
T20. Matthieu Pavon $96,856.67
Erik van Rooyen
Alex Fitzpatrick
Emiliano Grillo
Keita Nakajima
Max Homa
William Mouw
David Skinns
Sam Burns
T29. Kevin Yu $58,854.44
Ben Kohles
Keith Mitchell
Taylor Pendrith
A.J. Ewart
Takumi Kanaya
Collin Morikawa
Justin Matthews (a)
Patrick Fishburn
Shane Lowry
39. Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen $46,550
T40. Tony Finau $40,670
Harry Hall
Adam Hadwin
Alejandro Tosti
Taylor Moore
T45. Beau Hossler $30,118.67
Davis Thompson
Sam Ryder
Dylan Wu
Sahith Theegala
Ricky Castillo
T51. Max McGreevy $24,598
Neal Shipley
Johnny Keefer
T54. Ben Silverman $23,069.20
Michael Thorbjornsen
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Luke Clanton
Ben James
59. Calen Sanderson $22,442
T60. Denny McCarthy $21,854
Kristoffer Reitan
Adam Svensson
Haotong Li
Lanto Griffin
T65. Vince Whaley $21,168
Nick Taylor
T67. Joey Savoie
Paul Peterson
Chandler Blanchet
70. Joe Highsmith $20,286
T71. Kevin Roy $19,992
Kensei Hirata
73. Austin Eckroat $19,698
74. Jeremy Paul $19,502
