Winning a Signature event – and his first PGA Tour title in nearly three years – put Justin Thomas back in the conversation in chasing Rory McIlroy for the lead on the Tour money list.

Thomas earned $ 3.6 million for his playoff victory over Andrew Novak on April 20 in the RBC Heritage, at the Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, S.C. He jumped from 13^th on the money list to second but is still about halfway to McIlroy’s total of $ 13,257,558. 

McIlroy has won The Players, the Masters and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, worth nearly $ 12.5 million of that total. He will try to add more to his total this week when he and Shane Lowry will team up to defend their title in the Zurich Classic, the Tour’s only regular-season team event, at TPC Louisiana.

Who else moved up on PGA Tour money list? 

Novak made $ 2.16 million for finishing second to Thomas and vaulted 18 spots from 29^th to 11^th, and passed $ 4 million for the season. Novak has easily passed his previous career high in earnings. 

Russell Henley moved from fourth to third with his tie for eighth at Harbour Town and world No. 1-ranked Scottie Scheffler went from seventh to sixth and is on the verge of $ 5 million in earnings this year. 

Who moved up at PGA Tour’s Corales event? 

It was opposite the Signature Event at Harbour Town, but the Corales Puntacana Championship paid winner Garrick Higgo $ 720,000 and he oved up 85 spots to 79^th on the money list with $ 842,945. 

Five players tied for second in the Dominican Republic, and all earned $ 243,000 to move up the ladder. Michael Thorbjornssen made the biggest jump, from 170^th to 132^nd and Jeremy Paul went up 35 spots from 143^rd to 108^th. 

Who are the PGA Tour money leaders? 

(Through RBC Heritage, Corales Puntacana Championship) 

• 1. Rory McIlroy $ 13,257,558 
• 2. Justin Thomas $ 6,920,663 
• 3. Russell Henley $ 6,223,775 
• 4. Collin Morikawa $ 5,939,464 
• 5. Ludvig Åberg $ 5,704,223 
• 6. Scottie Scheffler $ 4,929,197 
• 7. Maverick McNealy $ 4,808,051 
• 8. J.J. Spaun $ 4,698,535 
• 9. Hideki Matsuyama $ 4,674,913 
• 10. Sepp Straka $ 4,559,617 
• 11. Andrew Novak $ 4,258,205 
• 12. Corey Conners $ 4,201,631 
• 13. Justin Rose $ 4,119,619 
• 14. Shane Lowry $ 3,914,666 
• 15. Sungjae Im $ 3,521,500 
• 16. Brian Harman $ 3,413,200 
• 17. Daniel Berger $ 3,268,816 
• 18. Tom Hoge $ 3,240,673 
• 19. Lucas Glover $ 3,075,113 
• 20. Michael Kim $ 2,988,673 
• 21. Thomas Detry $ 2,866,762 
• 22. Tommy Fleetwood $ 2,794,188 
• 23. Nick Taylor $ 2,779,464 
• 24. Min Woo Lee $ 2,754,836 
• 25. Harris English $ 2,673,954 
• 26. Patrick Cantlay $ 2,665,380 
• 27. Akshay Bhatia $ 2,556,137 
• 28. Viktor Hovland $ 2,396,023 
• 29. Jason Day $ 2,376,872 
• 30. Denny McCarthy $ 2,166,130 

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: PGA Tour money leaders: Justin Thomas in second, still behind Rory McIlroy

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