RORY McILROY and Shane Lowry both pocketed seven-figures from the Tour Championship in Georgia.
Both men finished in a tie for ninth with McIlroy’s final round of 66 being his best of the weekend and seeing him end on -16.
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Lowry, meanwhile, carded a -3 round of 68 to finish on the same score at East Lake Golf Club.
Their efforts saw the Irishmen earn €1,453,098 each for the weekend which, combined with the rest of Lowry and McIlroy’s prize money from 2024, means they are considerably richer.
McIlroy took home a mouth-watering sum of €11,294,417 from his involvement on the PGA Tour, including the FedEx Cup bonus.
And his best pal from Offaly is €6,959,515 richer for this efforts on the Tour.
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McIlroy himself admitted to having “hit a wall” after his dramatic collapse at the US Open.
And the 34-year-old revealed he will consider playing fewer tournaments per year going forward.
He said: “It’s been a long season, and I’m going to just have to think about trying to build in a few extra breaks here and there next year and going forward because I felt like I hit a bit of a wall sort of post-US Open, and still feel a little bit of that hangover.
“I’m usually sort of like a 22 sort of person. But again, that was when I was sort of in my 20s and didn’t have the responsibilities that I do now.
“I’m going to try to cut it back to like 18 or 20 a year going forward, I think.”
The Tour Championship was won by Scottie Scheffler, taking the his season earnings to a jaw-dropping €56,222,145.
Paying tribute to the world number one, McIlroy added: “He makes more birdies than I do and he makes less bogeys.
“That sort of adds up to him being a little bit better right now.
“I think the one thing I’ve always admired about Scottie is the amount of bogey-free rounds he shoots.
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“If you just go back over the last two, three years and you look at how many rounds he shoots that he’ll shoot like four-under par, no bogeys, doesn’t look spectacular at all, but it’s just so solid, doesn’t really put himself out of position.
“When you don’t make a ton of bogeys, the field has got to do something really special to keep up.”