{"id":1184656,"date":"2020-06-11T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1184656"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:32:01","slug":"how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do Golfers Make for Winning a Tournament on the PGA Tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Golfers face a much different pay scale than all other athletes. Whereas NFL and NBA players are paid a set amount every year, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tiger-woods-has-made-more-in-pga-tour-earnings-than-any-player-in-history-and-its-not-even-close\/\">golfers earn money<\/a> based specifically on how well they play. If you don't win a tournament or place inside the top-20 a few times every season, you won't be making a ton of dough on the PGA Tour. However, winning just a few times in a single season can set you up financially for life. It's a unique and sometimes cutthroat system, but how much do golfers earn for winning a tournament on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/pga\/\">PGA Tour<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PGA Tour purses range from $3 million to $15 million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PGA TOUR MONEY LIST | 1980 - 2020 | Golf Tales by Savio Almeida\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tqoUlr4kGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/where-is-tiger-woods-ranked-going-into-the-pga-tours-return\/\"><strong>Where is Tiger Woods Ranked Going Into the PGA Tour's Return?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every PGA Tour event is wildly different than the last. Each of them is held at a different golf course around the world. The field of players, the final score, and even the scoring system can change from tournament to tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also true for the purses. Every <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/is-jordan-spieth-still-a-top-pga-tour-player-or-a-washed-up-has-been-this-weekend-will-give-us-the-answer\/\">PGA Tour<\/a> event has a different amount of prize money available to distribute to the highest finishers. The purses in 2019-20 range from $3 million all the way up to $15 million per tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a large majority of PGA Tour events, the winner will receive over $1 million. Only five tournaments award the winner under $1 million. Most winners on Tour will receive between $1 and $2 million, but a few of the larger tournaments award the winner over $2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the largest purse on Tour and how much does the winner get?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Combined total for all PGA Tour purses in the 1982 season, the year The Players moved to TPC Sawgrass: $15M<br><br>Purse this week at TPC Sawgrass: $15M<\/p>&mdash; Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinRayGolf\/status\/1237482992609746944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most golf fans would think the four majors would feature the highest purses on the PGA Tour, but that actually isn't the case. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/the-17th-hole-at-the-players-why-the-short-par-3-is-one-of-the-most-intimidating-holes-on-tour\/\">The Players at TPC Sawgrass<\/a> has the highest purse on the PGA Tour at $15 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of The Players receives $2.7 million. Not too shabby for four days of work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Open follows behind The Players with a $12.5 million purse, with the winner taking home $2.25 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/augusta-nationals-26-million-purchase-could-mean-big-things-for-the-masters\/\">The Masters<\/a>, PGA Championship, and Open Championship round out the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purses on the PGA Tour have increased dramatically over the years. Back in 1982, the combined total of all PGA Tour events was $15 million. Now, there's a single tournament with a purse just as large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The winner of the Tour Championship gets $15 million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfdf Next event on the PGA schedule:<br><br>\ud83d\uddd3 June 11-14<br><br>\ud83c\udfcc\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Charles Schwab Challenge<br><br>\u26f3\ufe0f Colonial Golf Course<br><br>\ud83d\udccd Fort Worth, Texas<br><br>\ud83c\udfc6 Reigning Champion - Kevin Na<br><br>\ud83d\udcb0 $7.5 million purse<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PGATour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PGATour<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Golfing with Ralph (@GolfingRalph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfingRalph\/status\/1269959896855961601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tour Championship wasn't included above because it's not a typical golf tournament. Only 25 players get to compete in the final event of the PGA Tour season, so there's less competition and most players on Tour can't even make it that far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you do make it to East Lake at the end of the golf season, you can cash in the biggest payday available on the PGA Tour. The Tour Championship has a massive purse of $46 million. The eventual winner will cash in $15 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rory McIlroy is the reigning champion at East Lake, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tiger-woods-100-million-divorce-barely-dented-his-net-worth\/\">Tiger Woods<\/a> took home the title a year before him. McIlroy, Woods, and Phil Mickelson are the only current golfers to win multiple Tour Championships during their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golf returns this weekend at Colonial CC for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/rory-mcilroy-headlines-a-stacked-field-at-the-charles-schwab-challenge-when-the-pga-tour-returns\/\">Charles Schwab Challenge<\/a>. McIlroy, Justin Thomas, and Brooks Koepka highlight the stacked field. The winner of the event will take home $1.35 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All financial stats courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegolfnewsnet.com\/golfnewsnetteam\/2020\/01\/25\/ranking-pga-tour-tournament-purses-from-biggest-to-smallest-for-2019-2020-118036\/\"><em>The Golf News Net<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top PGA Tour players in the world make way more money than you might think, but how much do they earn for winning a tournament?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":1184659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95787],"tags":[87013,13907,13244],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Much Do Golfers Make for Winning a Tournament on the PGA Tour? - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The top PGA Tour players in the world make way more money than you might think, but how much do they earn for winning a tournament?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Much Do Golfers Make for Winning a Tournament on the PGA Tour?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The top PGA Tour players in the world make way more money than you might think, but how much do they earn for winning a tournament?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T16:28:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T16:32:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GettyImages-175579707.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"691\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jackdoc13\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-much-do-golfers-make-for-winning-a-tournament-on-the-pga-tour\/\",\"name\":\"How Much Do Golfers Make for Winning a Tournament on the PGA Tour? 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