The APGA Tour will decide its Lexus Cup Champion and Player of the Year Monday and Tuesday, August 8-9, with the regular season finale at TPC San Antonio, Texas. The 36-hole tournament on the 7,106-yard, par-72 PGA TOUR-owned property is the seventh APGA Tour event at a TPC facility this year.
The players will be competing for $150,000 in tournament prize money. It is the largest purse in APGA Tour history.
The Mastercard APGA Tour Championship is the 12th event of the circuit’s expanded 18-event tournament schedule which is awarding over $800,000 in purse and bonus money. It is the 10th and final event of the APGA Tour’s Lexus Cup season.
Willie Mack III, who made two cuts in PGA TOUR events last summer, is the defending champion.
At stake on Monday and Tuesday is the tournament prize money plus the Lexus Cup Bonus Pool monies to be awarded in accordance with the season-long point standings:
- Tournament Prize money $150,000 – This is the largest purse in APGA Tour history
- Winner’s Purse $50,000
- Lexus Cup Bonus Pool Purse $40,000
- First Place – $20,000
Additional Bonus Money, Exemptions/Qualifying.
The following purses, exemptions and qualifying slots are also on the line:
- The top six players in the final Lexus Cup Point Standings qualify for the APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Invitational in January 2023, at Torrey Pines. The tournament is contested in tandem with the PGA TOUR’s annual Farmers Insurance Open.
- The top five players in the point standings are exempted into Monday qualifying for the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba in November.
- The World Wide Technology APGA Player Development Bonus Program will award a total of $20,000 to the top five eligible players in the point standings with the top player receiving $7,500.
- The top APGA Player Development Program player in the season-end Lexus Cup Point Standings will be exempted into PGA TOUR Latinoamerica series early-stage events with an opportunity to retain status based on performance.
Lexus Cup Point Standings
With 1000 Lexus Cup points (regular tournament point value is 600) to the winner, the tour’s top 10 players are in the standings are in the hunt for the season-long title and the prize money bonuses for which they are eligible.
Lexus Cup Point Standings leader Tim O’Neal clinches the title with a win. See the Lexus Cup Point Standings top 10 below.
STANDING
NAME
POINTS
1st
Tim O’Neal
1734
2nd
Michael Herrera
1566
3rd
Willie Mack III
1339
4th
Kamaiu Johnson
1290
5th
Brad Adamonis
1270
6th
Marcus Byrd
1056
7th
Joe Hooks
964
8th
Daniel Augustus
953
9th
Tommy Schaff
850
10th
Andrew Walker
848
