NEWSLETTER
John Deere Classic Purse – The PGA Tour travels southwest from Detroit to the banks of the Rock River near the Illinois and Iowa border for the John Deere Classic, which is played at TPC Deere Run. The event began in 1971 as the Quad Cities Open and moved to its current location, TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, in 2000. Since then, the tournament has been a consistent fixture on the Tour schedule.
This week’s tournament is expected to be similar to the previous two, with a focus on achieving low scores. TPC Deere Run features wide fairways, welcoming greens, and relatively uncomplicated putting surfaces. Players who excel at strategic course management rather than trying to overpower it tend to do well here. It’s not surprising that the last 14 tournament winners have all scored 18-under or better, with last year’s champion, Sepp Straka, posting a 21-under score.
While all playing styles can succeed at TPC Deere Run, the course tends to favor players who consistently find the fairway and have strong wedge play, particularly those who can get hot with their putter. Past winners such as J.T. Poston, Steve Stricker, Jordan Spieth, and Brian Harman embody these characteristics.
The field at the John Deere Classic is usually not as strong as other Tour events due to its place on the schedule. This year, the tournament falls two weeks before the Open Championship, and most top players have chosen to rest for a second consecutive week before heading to the Scottish Open next week. There are no players from the top 20 in the world rankings in attendance. Notable players include last year’s winner, Sepp Straka, Jordan Spieth, Sungjae Im, Denny McCarthy, Jason Day, Cam Davis, and Aaron Rai. Past champions and top 50 players J.T. Poston and Lucas Glover are also in the field.
TPC Deere Run is a public par-71 golf course located in the “Quad Cities” region of Silvis, Illinois, measuring 7,289 yards. The 385 acres of land it comprises is rich in American history, having been a former Arabian horse farm. The land has a diverse past, including Native American settlements, coal mining, cattle breeding, and farming. Despite being in a rural setting, the course is full of natural beauty, featuring rolling terrain along the Rock River, elevation changes, oak trees, ponds, and ravines.
Despite receiving high praise, TPC Deere Run is surprisingly underrated as an annual tour course. It hasn’t gained national top-100 public rankings and is not located in a prime area. However, the course has fantastic routing with movements around the property, featuring changes in directions. Like all TPC courses, it is meticulously maintained, with bentgrass fairways, Kentucky bluegrass rough, and bentgrass greens.
Although not extremely challenging, TPC Deere Run requires players to utilize their full bag of clubs due to sloping fairways, elevation changes, and tight dogleg holes. Over the past five events, the course has averaged 1.39 shots under par, making it the ninth easiest course in the Tour’s annual rotation.
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The John Deere Classic features an $8 million total purse, with $1.44 million going to the winner. For a breakdown of the purse, click here to see who is teeing it up at TPC Deere Run.
2024 John Deere Classic Purse
Payout Breakdown
| Pos. | Amount |
| 1 | $1,440,000.00 |
| 2 | $872,000.00 |
| 3 | $552,000.00 |
| 4 | $392,000.00 |
| 5 | $328,000.00 |
| 6 | $290,000.00 |
| 7 | $270,000.00 |
| 8 | $250,000.00 |
| 9 | $234,000.00 |
| 10 | $218,000.00 |
| 11 | $202,000.00 |
| 12 | $186,000.00 |
| 13 | $170,000.00 |
| 14 | $154,000.00 |
| 15 | $146,000.00 |
| 16 | $138,000.00 |
| 17 | $130,000.00 |
| 18 | $122,000.00 |
| 19 | $114,000.00 |
| 20 | $106,000.00 |
| 21 | $98,000.00 |
| 22 | $90,000.00 |
| 23 | $83,600.00 |
| 24 | $77,200.00 |
| 25 | $70,800.00 |
| 26 | $64,400.00 |
| 27 | $62,000.00 |
| 28 | $59,600.00 |
| 29 | $57,200.00 |
| 30 | $54,800.00 |
| 31 | $52,400.00 |
| 32 | $50,000.00 |
| 33 | $47,600.00 |
| 34 | $45,600.00 |
| 35 | $43,600.00 |
| 36 | $41,600.00 |
| 37 | $39,600.00 |
| 38 | $38,000.00 |
| 39 | $36,400.00 |
| 40 | $34,800.00 |
| 41 | $33,200.00 |
| 42 | $31,600.00 |
| 43 | $30,000.00 |
| 44 | $28,400.00 |
| 45 | $26,800.00 |
| 46 | $25,200.00 |
| 47 | $23,600.00 |
| 48 | $22,320.00 |
| 49 | $21,200.00 |
| 50 | $20,560.00 |
| 51 | $20,080.00 |
| 52 | $19,600.00 |
| 53 | $19,280.00 |
| 54 | $18,960.00 |
| 55 | $18,800.00 |
| 56 | $18,640.00 |
| 57 | $18,480.00 |
| 58 | $18,320.00 |
| 59 | $18,160.00 |
| 60 | $18,000.00 |
| 61 | $17,840.00 |
| 62 | $17,680.00 |
| 63 | $17,520.00 |
| 64 | $17,360.00 |
| 65 | $17,200.00 |
| Total | $8,000,000.00 |
