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Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 ISCO Championship
Andy Lyons
The ISCO Championship went into a playoff for the second consecutive year, but this time, it was a super-sized affair as five men were tied at the end of regulation at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Ky.
Ultimately, England's Harry Hall won with a dramatic chip-in from 45 feet on the third playoff hole to capture his first PGA Tour victory, just a few days before his wife Jordan is set to give birth to their first child, a daughter.
But it took quite a while to reach the final conclusion.
Matt NeSmith was the first in, shooting a 64 early Sunday to post 22-under total and sit for more than two hours while the others finished well behind him. He even made bogey on his 72nd hole. Hall, Zac Blair, Rico Hoey and Pierceson Coody all followed. Blair and Coody both made birdie on the last hole, Hall made par and Hoey neede par to win outright but faltered with bogey.
So the fivesome headed back to 18 to decide the championship, each looking for a maiden PGA Tour victory.
NeSmith had the best look for birdie the first time around but missed from outside eight feet. Hoey and Blair were eliminated by making bogey. Hall, Coody and NeSmith each had birdie attempts the second time, again on the 18th hole, but all three failed to convert.
Back to the third playoff hole, this time mixing it up by going to the par-3 ninth hole.
All three men missed the green, Coody and NeSmith long, Hall right. Going first, Hall chipped in from 45 feet for birdie and when the other two could not match his effort an emotional Hall doffed his cap and had finally done enough. (For his efforts he earned the $720,000 first-place prize from the $4 million overall purse.)
"It's massive," Hall, 26, said. "I can take a week off now. It was a bit dicey there, my position with the FedEx Cup. I probably needed to play every single week. So I'm glad that I might not have to now. I'm super happy."
Each of the other four men had chances to win at some point in the later stages. Hoey, of all, only needed par on the 72nd hole but blew his approach shot well right into the water and got up and down just to make bogey and back into the playoff.
"Regardless, it was a great week," Hoey said. "If someone said I was going to have a chance to win, I probably would have laughed at their face because this whole season really hasn't been the turnout I expected. I'm going to keep rolling, I'm going to keep fighting and hopefully next week I can come out and keep fighting and give myself a chance again."
Amateur Luke Clanton was looking to make history and become the first amateur in history to finish inside the top-10 in three straight PGA Tour events. He tied for 10th place two weeks ago and tied for second place last week at the John Deere Classic. Here in Kentucky, he shot 70-65-69-71 to finish in a tie for 37th place, nine shots out of the playoff. —Jay Coffin
Here’s the breakdown of what each player earned who made the cut.
WIN: Harry Hall, -22/266, $720,000
T-2: Pierceson Coody, -22/266, $268,000
T-2: Matt NeSmith, -22/266, $268,000
T-2: Rico Hoey, -22/266, $268,000
T-2: Zac Blair, -22/266, $268,000
T-6: S.Y. Noh, -20/268, $130,500
T-6: Ben Taylor, -20/268, $130,500
T-6: Neal Shipley, -20/268, $130,500
T-6: Sam Bairstow, -20/268, $130,500
T-10: Chan Kim, -19/269, $93,000
T-10: Brandon Wu, -19/269, $93,000
T-10: Lanto Griffin, -19/269, $93,000
T-10: Chez Reavie, -19/269, $93,000
T-10: Johannes Veerman, -19/269, $93,000
15: Patrick Fishburn, -18/270, $73,000
T-16: Max Rottluff, -17/271, $61,000
T-16: Mac Meissner, -17/271, $61,000
T-16: Adrien Saddier, -17/271, $61,000
T-16: Angel Hidalgo Portillo, -17/271, $61,000
T-16: Andy Sullivan, -17/271, $61,000
T-21: Callum Tarren, -16/272, $43,600
T-21: Ryan Moore, -16/272, $43,600
T-21: Austin Smotherman, -16/272, $43,600
T-21: Cody Gribble, -16/272, $43,600
T-25: Henrik Norlander, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-25: Sam Ryder, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-25: Spencer Cross, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-25: William McGirt, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-25: Matthis Besard, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-25: Kevin Chappell, -15/273, $30,733.33
T-31: Andrea Pavon, -14/274, $23,400
T-31: Cooper Musselman, -14/274, $23,400
T-31: Ryan McCormick, -14/274, $23,400
T-31: Dylan Wu, -14/274, $23,400
T-31: Ben Silverman, -14/274, $23,400
T-31: Jacques Kruyswijk, -14/274, $23,400
T-37: Tom Vaillant, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: Hayden Springer, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: Luke Clanton, -13/275, $0 (amateur)
T-37: Russell Knox, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: Fabrizio Zanotti, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: David Lipsky, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: Ricardo Gouveia, -13/275, $17,400
T-37: Alex Smalley, -13/275, $17,400
T-45: MJ Daffue, -12/276, $12,632
T-45: J.J. Spaun, -12/276, $12,632
T-45: Chad Ramey, -12/276, $12,632
T-45: Lukas Nemecz, -12/276, $12,632
T-45: Kevin Tway, -12/276, $12,632
T-50: Jonathan Byrd, -11/277, $10,306.67
T-50: Patton Kizzire, -11/277, $10,306.67
T-50: Francesco Laporta, -11/277, $10,306.67
T-53: Roger Sloan, -10/278, $9,720
T-53: Brandt Snedeker, -10/278, $9,720
T-55: Andrew Wilson, -9/279, $9,360
T-55: Sebastian Fredrichsen, -9/279, $9,360
T-55: S.H. Kim, -9/279, $9,360
T-55: Marcus Kinhult, -9/279, $9,360
T-59: Nick Hardy, -8/280, $9,040
T-59: Hayden Buckley, -8/280, $9,040
T-59: Aaron Baddeley, -8/280, $9,040
T-59: Troy Merritt, -8/280, $9,040
63: Garrick Higgo, -7/281, $8,840
T-64: Kevin Kisner, -6/282, $8,680
T-64: Bill Haas, -6/282, $8,680
T-64: James Hahn, -6/282, $8,680
67: Paul Barjon, -4/284, $8,520