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Money Matters

Here are the single biggest paydays for each of the PGA Tour's winningest golfers

To golf fans of a certain age, the sight of an oversize first-place check carries a certain hint of nostalgia. For years, the marketing gimmick was a ubiquitous symbol of pro golf success, even if it was literally worthless. There’s never been an actual winner’s circle that a newly crowned PGA Tour champ steps into upon victory in a tour event, but there was a four-foot long piece of cardboard they handed to you that showed you’d made it.

Of course, times change. So too has the amount of money that golfers are playing for on the PGA Tour. If those oversize checks hadn’t gone the way of the persimmon driver and balata golf ball, they’d need to be seven-feet long in order to have room for all the zeros.

When Justin Thomas won the Players Championship in March, he earned $2,700,000, the biggest payday any golfer has ever claimed for a single tournament finish in an official PGA Tour event. The winner of every full-status PGA Tour event makes more than a million bucks for his effort, which exceeds the career earnings of San Snead, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen and dozens of other legends who have spots in the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The contrast is striking, as we noticed vividly when we went through the exercise of researching what was the largest payday for the PGA Tour’s most prolific all-time winners.

We looked at the top 50 on the career victory list (53 players with ties) and, using the PGA Tour’s Media Guide and ShotLink database, uncovered the biggest prizes earned for each golfer.

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A couple things to note: For those players who competed before the 1960s, many of the PGA Tour’s records regarding earnings are incomplete; we're only listing what the PGA Tour records show. For instance, Walter Hagen’s winnings from his five PGA Championship titles weren’t accounted for, although cross referencing them with the PGA of America’s records indicated that they still didn’t exceed the $1,250 "The Haig" made finishing third at the 1931 St. Paul Open.

And that’s not a typo … Hagen’s biggest payday in the PGA Tour records came from a third-place finish. As it turns out, the largest checks many players earned came not from their most famous victories but from lesser showings in events that were played later in their careers, the overall purses having risen enough to make finishing second or third more lucrative than earlier wins. Tom Watson’s earnings for his playoff loss at the 2009 Open Championship exceeded the first-place prizes in all 39 of his PGA Tour victories. And Greg Norman’s third-place finish at the 2008 Open Championship ($509,618) was bigger than anything in a PGA Tour event that Norman had ever earned.

With that, here is the complete list ( Editor's Note—this story has been updated since when it first published in April 2021) :

Sam Snead (82 career wins) $24,000, 1968 Milwaukee Open (finished second)

Tiger Woods (82) $2,070,000, 2019 Masters

Jack Nicklaus (73) $144,000, 1986 Masters

Ben Hogan (64) $12,500, 1951 World Championship of Golf

Arnold Palmer (62) $50,000, 1971 Westchester Classic

Byron Nelson (52) $13,600, 1945 Tam O’Shanter Open

Billy Casper (51) $40,000, 1973 Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open

Walter Hagen (45) $1,250, 1931 St. Paul Open (finished 3rd)

Phil Mickelson (45) $2,160,000, 2021 PGA Championship

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Cary Middlecoff (39) $12,500, 1952 World Championship of Golf (finished second)

Tom Watson (39) $732,603, 2009 Open Championship (finished second)

Gene Sarazen (38) $10,000, 1930 Agua Caliente Open

Lloyd Mangrum (36) $6,000, 1956 Los Angeles Open

Vijay Singh (34) $1,350,000, 2008 WGC-Bridgestone

Jimmy Demaret (31) $7,000, 1949 World Championship of Golf (finished second)

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Horton Smith (30) $5,000, 1929 La Gorce Open

Harry Cooper (29) $3,500, 1926 Los Angeles Open

Gene Littler (29) $50,000, 1975 Westchester Classic

Lee Trevino (29) $125,000, 1984 PGA Championship

David Cannon

Leo Diegel (28) $1,500, 1925 Florida Open

Paul Runyan (28) $1,500, 1933 Agua Caliente Open

Henry Picard (26) $2,000, 3 times

Tommy Armour (25) $2,500, 1930 St. Louis Open

Johnny Miller (25) $225,000 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Macdonald Smith (25) $3,000, 1928 Los Angeles Open, 1929 Los Angeles Open

Dustin Johnson (24) $2,070,000, 2020 Masters

Gary Player (24) $62,500, 1984 PGA Championship (finished second)

James Barnes (22) Records incomplete

Johnny Farrell (22) $5,000, 1928 La Gorce Open

Raymond Floyd (22) $252,000, 1992 Doral-Ryder Open

Davis Love III (21) $1,170,000, 2003 Players Championship

Willie MacFarlane (21) $2,500, 1933 Miami Biltmore Open

Lanny Wadkins (21) $198,000, 1991 United Hawaiian Open

Craig Wood (21) $3,325, 1944 Philadelphia Inquirer (finished second)

Hale Irwin (20) $225,000, 1994 MCI Heritage

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Greg Norman (20) $509,618, 2008 Open Championship (finished third)

Johnny Revolta (20) $2,500, 1937 Miami Biltmore Open

Doug Sanders (20) $35,000, 1972 Kemper Open

Ben Crenshaw (19) $396,000, 1995 Masters

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Ernie Els (19) $1,405,890, 2012 Open Championship

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Doug Ford (19) $9,000, 1961 500 Festival Invitational, 1963 Canadian Open

Hubert Green (19) $125,000, 1985 PGA Championship

Tom Kite (19) $450,000, 1989 Nabisco Championship

Bill Behlhorn (19) $5,000, 1930 La Gorce Open

Rory McIlroy (19) $2,250,000, 2019 Players Championship

Julius Boros (18) $50,000, 1955 World Championship of Golf, 1968 Westchester Classic

Jim Ferrier (18) $5,500, 1960 PGA Championship (finished second)

Ernest “Dutch” Harrison (18) $3,950, 1960 U.S. Open (finished third)

Nick Price (18) $604,800, 2003 EDS Byron Nelson (finished second)

Bobby Cruickshank (17) $3,500, 1927 Los Angeles Open

Jim Furyk (17) $1,350,000, 2019 Players Championship (finished second)

Harold McSpaden (17) $4,375, 1944 Los Angeles Open

Curtis Strange (17) $360,000, 1988 Nabisco Championship

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The golfer who finishes a PGA Tour season with the highest tournament earnings is called the tour's "money leader" or "leading money winner." And that golfer receives the Arnold Palmer Award. The award is a trophy the features a golden likeness of Arnold Palmer atop a wooden base. (The Arnold Palmer Award is also given to the Champions Tour's money leader .)

(Note: If you're looking for the current standings for this year, see the current season's money list on PGATour.com .)

Annual money leaders on the PGA Tour are recognized going back to 1934, when records first started being kept. Here is the list money list leaders annually in PGA Tour history (and below that are a couple money list records):

Annual Money List Leaders on the PGA Tour

2019 - Brooks Koepka, $9,684,006 2018 - Justin Thomas, $8,694,821 2017 - Justin Thomas, $9,921,560 2016 - Dustin Johnson, $9,365,185 2015 - Jordan Spieth, $12,030,465 2014 - Rory McIlroy, $8,280,096 2013 - Tiger Woods, $8,553,439 2012 - Rory McIlroy, $8,047,952 2011 - Luke Donald, $6,683,214 2010 - Matt Kuchar, $4,910,477 2009 - Tiger Woods, $10,508,163 2008 - Vijay Singh, $6,601,094 2007 - Tiger Woods, $10,867,052 2006 - Tiger Woods, $9,941,563 2005 - Tiger Woods, $10,628,024 2004 - Vijay Singh, $10,905,166 2003 - Vijay Singh, $7,573,907 2002 - Tiger Woods, $6,912,625 2001 - Tiger Woods, $5,687,777 2000 - Tiger Woods, $9,188,321 1999 - Tiger Woods, $6,616,585 1998 - David Duval, $2,591,031 1997 - Tiger Woods, $2,066,833 1996 - Tom Lehman, $1,780,159 1995 - Greg Norman, $1,654,959 1994 - Nick Price, $1,499,927 1993 - Nick Price, $1,478,557 1992 - Fred Couples, $1,344,188 1991 - Corey Pavin, $979,430 1990 - Greg Norman, $1,165,477 1989 - Tom Kite, $1,395,278 1988 - Curtis Strange, $1,147,644 1987 - Curtis Strange, $925,941 1986 - Greg Norman, $653,296 1985 - Curtis Strange, $542,321 1984 - Tom Watson, $476,260 1983 - Hal Sutton, $426,668 1982 - Craig Stadler, $446,462 1981 - Tom Kite, $375,698.84 1980 - Tom Watson, $530,808.33 1979 - Tom Watson, $462,636 1978 - Tom Watson, $362,428.93 1977 - Tom Watson, $310,653.16 1976 - Jack Nicklaus, $266,498.57 1975 - Jack Nicklaus, $298,149.17 1974 - Johnny Miller, $353,021.59 1973 - Jack Nicklaus, $308,362.10 1972 - Jack Nicklaus, $320,542.26 1971 - Jack Nicklaus, $244,490.50 1970 - Lee Trevino, $157,037.63 1969 - Frank Beard, $164,707.11 1968 - Billy Casper , $205,168.67 1967 - Jack Nicklaus, $188,998.08 1966 - Billy Casper, $121,944.92 1965 - Jack Nicklaus, $140,752.14 1964 - Jack Nicklaus, $113,284.50 1963 - Arnold Palmer, $128,230 1962 - Arnold Palmer, $81,448.33 1961 - Gary Player, $64,540.45 1960 - Arnold Palmer, $75,262.85 1959 - Art Wall, $58,167.60 1958 - Arnold Palmer, $42,607.50 1957 - Dick Mayer, $65,835 1956 - Ted Kroll, $72,835.83 1955 - Julius Boros, $63,121.55 1954 - Bob Toski, $65,819.81 1953 - Lew Worsham, $34,002 1952 - Julius Boros, $37,032.97 1951 - Lloyd Mangrum, $26,068.83 1950 - Sam Snead, $35,758.83 1949 - Sam Snead, $31,598.83 1948 - Ben Hogan, $32,112 1947 - Jimmy Demaret, $27,936.83 1946 - Ben Hogan, $42,556.16 1945 - Byron Nelson, $63,335.66 (war bonds) 1944 - Byron Nelson, $37,967.69 (war bonds) 1943 - No stats compiled 1942 - Ben Hogan, $13,143 1941 - Ben Hogan, $18,358 1940 - Ben Hogan, $10,655 1939 - Henry Picard, $10,303 1938 - Sam Snead, $19,534.49 1937 - Harry Cooper, $14,138.69 1936 - Horton Smith, $7,682 1935 - Johnny Revolta, $9,543 1934 - Paul Runyan, $6,767

PGA Tour Money List Records

We promised a couple records relating to the PGA Tour money list. Which golfer has led the money list the most times? Who has led the money list the most consecutive seasons?

• Most Times Leading the Money List : This record belongs to Tiger Woods. Woods was the tour's leading money-winner 10 times, in 1997, 1999-2002, 2005-07, 2009 and 2013. Jack Nicklaus topped the money list eight times, and Ben Hogan and Tom Watson did it five times each.
• Most Consecutive Seasons Leading the Money List : This record is shared by Woods and Watson. Watson was the leading money winner each year from 1977 through 1980, four years in a row. And Woods led four consecutive years from 1999 through 2002.
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32 Best Golfers Of The 80s

We recall a decade that saw many of the game's iconic names dazzle at their brilliant best and the Ryder Cup come to life

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In the space of 40 Majors in the 80s, 29 of them would go to the Americans but it would represent a changing of the ways as the Europeans began to take over at Augusta. This was something that was also mirrored in the Ryder Cup as Europe's big guns began to dominate things. 

In the women's game the Americans would still rule things, this was before the Solheim Cup had even begun, while we would have to wait until 1998 for the Korean breakthrough. 

The 80s would see the first Ballesteros' Major and Nicklaus' last – the latter, at the age of 46, remains one of the greatest Sundays in the history of the game. 

FUZZY ZOELLER

Frank Urban 'Fuzzy' Zoeller produced one of the iconic moments of the decade when he would wave a white towel after watching Greg Norman hole a long putt at the 72nd hole of the 1984 US Open. The putt was actually for a par, the American thought it was for a three, and he would beat Norman by eight shots in a play-off on the Monday. The win was his second Major triumph. 

LAURA DAVIES

Davies only turned pro in 1985 but she would land both the Rookie of the Year and Order of Merit the same year. The following year she would prevail at Birkdale in the days before the Women's British Open was a Major but Davies would then land the big one, the US Women's Open, in 1987. In 1988 she would make history by winning on all three major Tours.

JAN STEPHENSON

Stephenson was very much an outlier given that she was a non-American who was winning Majors. Indeed the Aussie would pick up one in three consecutive years, peaking with the 1983 US Women's Open. In oppressive heat she would have a winning score of +6. She would soon become known worldwide for posing in a bathtub covered only by golf balls . By 1987 she had recorded her final victory on the LPGA Tour.

LEE TREVINO

Trevino won 29 times on the PGA Tour and, while only five of them would come in the 80s, he did manage to add a sixth Major 10 years on from his previous one. At the '84 PGA the 44-year-old would break 70 every day at Shoal Creek to win by four shots from Lanny Wadkins and a 49-year-old Gary Player. A year later he would finish second behind Hubert Green.

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JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL

Much of Olazabal's best work came in the following decade but this was when he made two stunning Ryder Cup appearances, kicking off the greatest partnership in golf, having finished second on the money list in his debut season in 1986. In the first half of the 80s he made a small slice of history by winning the Boys Amateur, Amateur Championship and British Youths Open Amateur Championship.

It's far too easy to obsess about a player's number of wins on the PGA and European Tours – Aoki won 51 times in his homeland of Japan and 23 of them came in the 80s. He would famously win the European Open at Sunningdale in 1983. The Japanese star, with the trademark toe up putting stroke, was a household name in this decade and was ranked as the 16th best player when the first world rankings were published in 1986.

MANUEL PINERO

The Spaniard might not have lit up the Majors but his contribution to one of the seismic victories of the decade cannot be underestimated. In 1985 Pinero won on back-to-back weeks to qualify for the Ryder Cup team and later that year he would finish as the leading scorer, with four out of five points, as Europe finally won back the trophy. Pinero would beat the US talisman Lanny Wadkins in the key opening singles. 

JULI INKSTER

Inkster was always going to be a force in the game. The American became the first woman since 1934 to win three straight US Amateurs and, by 1984, she had landed a pair of Majors. At her first Dinah Shore (now Chevron Championship) she would beat Pat Bradley in a play-off, later that year she had added the du Maurier Classic. Bizarrely she never topped the LPGA money list though there were four Ws in 1986.

Mize's chip in at the 11th in a play-off for the '87 Masters was the shot of the decade as he sunk a distraught Greg Norman from nowhere – he was around 140 feet away. What is sometimes forgotten is that Ballesteros was also part of the play-off, also Mize's woeful approach shot came from the middle of the fairway. The Augusta native would also finish 4th at the US Open two months later.

LANNY WADKINS

Jerry Lanston 'Lanny' Wadkins Jr 'only' won one Major, the '77 PGA Championship, but some players deserved more for their skills and the American was certainly in this bracket. In the 80s he posted 10 top 10s, three of them second places, and he ranked in the top 10 of the world rankings for 86 weeks from the ranking's debut in 1986 to 1988. He was renowned as a gritty match player.

King barely missed a step after capturing her first win on Tour in 1984 and the Hall of Famer would capture at least one victory for the next 10 seasons. King's stand-out season came in 1989 when she not only prevailed a staggering six times but she also won the first of back-to-back US Women's Opens. That season her worst finish in a Major was a tie for 8th.

TOMMY NAKAJIMA

Nakajima won 48 times on his home Tour and 29 of those came in the 80s. The Japanese star was famous for making a mess of the Road Hole at the '78 Open but he threatened on several occasions to make the Major Asian breakthrough – at the '86 Open at Turnberry he would start the final day one off Greg Norman's lead but he then missed a short putt at the 1st, made a double and slipped to a 77.

Kite was an absolute money-making machine and his record at The Masters was something else – the Texan would kick off the 80s at Augusta with these finishes 6-5-5-2-6-MC-2. He would also not miss a Ryder Cup in the decade and his big moment came at the '89 Players when he would edge out Chip Beck. Kite, a brilliant short-iron player, would finally land his Major at the '92 US Open.

FRED COUPLES

It might surprise a few that Couples actually turned pro as far back as 1980. Boom Boom, as he was known for his long, easy hitting, peppered the top 10s in the Majors, particularly at Augusta and The Open, but he would have to wait until 1989 to make his Ryder Cup debut. His big moment down Magnolia Lane would follow but he did land The Players in 1984, by a shot from Lee Trevino, at the age of just 24.

Sigel is one of the most decorated amateur golfers who would turn pro at the age of 50 to play on the Champions Tour. He would play on nine straight Walker Cup teams, winning eight of them and twice as the winning captain, and there would also be three Eisenhower Trophy victories in '78, 80 and 82. In 1983 he became the only golfer ever to win the US Amateur and US Mid-Amateur in the same year.

CRAIG STADLER

Stadler was a dominant force in the first half of the decade. The Walrus, as he was affectionately known for his stout physique and moustache, would capture The Masters in 1982 after opening with a 75. He had built a six-shot lead after 65 holes but four bogeys coming home meant he would face a play-off with Dan Pohl. Stadler made a par at the 10th and Pohl would miss a six-footer.

BEN CRENSHAW

Crenshaw will always be regarded as one of the greatest putters of all time and his record at Augusta during the 80s is a thing of beauty – 6-8-24-2-W-57-16-4-4-3. His big moment came a year after his second place behind Seve in '83 when he opened with a 67 and a 68 gave him a two-shot win over Tom Watson. There would be a hat-trick of birdies from the 8th which culminated in an iconic putt across the 10th green.

PAT BRADLEY

Bradley would win each of the four Majors (at the time) during the 80s with 1986 one of the greatest displays in the history of the game. Bradley, then 35, would win the Kraft Nabisco, LPGA Championship and du Maurier Classic and she would tie for 5th at the US Women's Open. She would end her career with 31 LPGA victories and six Majors. Psychologist Bob Rotella wrote that Bradley was the most mentally tough athlete that he knew. 

PATTY SHEEHAN

Sheehan joined the LPGA Tour, played on it for 26 years and finished her career with 35 wins on Tour. A leading amateur she would become the Rookie of the Year in her inaugural season and she landed the first of her six Majors in 1983 at the LPGA Championship. The following year she would defend her title when she blitzed the field by 10 strokes which was the biggest winning margin at the time. 

MARIE-LAURE DE LORENZI 

De Lorenzi's record is an incredible one. The Frenchwoman joined the Ladies European Tour in 1987 before topping the money list the following two seasons. Over the two years she would finish in the top two 17 times, with seven wins in the latter season. She now sits in a tie for third for all-time wins (19), alongside Trish Johnson, with Laura Davies leading the way with 45 victories. In 1990 she was part of Europe's first Solheim Cup side.

LARRY NELSON

Nelson was a late starter at 21 but he would sign off with three Majors and a US Open win at Oakmont. There, in 1983, he dropped seven shots in his first four holes on the Saturday before turning it around by playing the rest of the round in seven under. He and Tom Watson were tied when a storm came through and Nelson then holed a 60-footer on 16, before three-putting the last, but sneaked home by a shot.

Floyd was already a two-time Major champ coming into the 80s, having won The Masters by a ridiculous eight shots, and he would then add two more. He captured the US Open in '86 with a final round of 66 and he became the then oldest winner at the age of 43 – it is now held by Hale Irwin who won at 45. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.

JACK NICKLAUS

Nicklaus had 15 Majors in the bag and he would then tick off two more with a fourth US Open and fifth PGA in 1980. Roll the clock forward six years and we got the big send-off. Written off by some the Golden Bear would come into the Sunday four back before reaching the turn in 35. Then came a back nine of 30 and some of the most iconic shots in the history of the game.

Alexander Walter Barr Lyle has one of the most curious Major records. The Scot had one top 10 at Augusta, the win in 1988, and he rarely threatened in The Open other than his victory in 1985, the first British success since Tony Jacklin in 1969. He would only play in one PGA throughout the whole decade. According to Seve there was nobody better – "If everyone in the world was playing their best, Sandy would win and I'd come second.”

CURTIS STRANGE

If ever a player was defined by a decade it would be Strange. Sixteen of his 17 PGA Tour wins came in the 80s, including his back-to-back US Open victories. Only Ben Hogan, Strange and Brooks Koepka have defended the USGA showpiece since World War II and, oddly, the win at Oak Hill in '89 would be his last. He nearly won The Masters in '85, after a first-round 80, and four of his five Ryder Cup appearances came in this decade.

IAN WOOSNAM

In 1981 Woosnam couldn't break into the top 100 on the European Tour money list, then his career really took off with a win in Switzerland the following year and he was never out of the top 10. The Welshman was unstoppable in 1987, when he topped the money list with four wins, along with a World Cup with David Llewellyn and the World Match Play at Wentworth. That Masters win would then follow in 1991.

Faldo had already enjoyed plenty of success by the time of his famous swing rebuild in the mid 80s. In 1987 he landed The Open at Muirfield – he was only once outside the top 11 throughout the decade  – and two years later came  that Masters triumph over Scott Hoch. Come the end of the 80s he was fast closing in on the World No. 1 spot. He also featured on 11 straight Ryder Cup matches from 1977 onwards.

BERNHARD LANGER

Langer's first European Tour win came at the end of 1980 and he would win at least once every year thereafter. The German certainly should have won an Open, there were four top 3s in the space of six years from '81 but his big moment came at Augusta. In 1985 Langer won the first of two Green Jackets when a back-nine charge saw him overhaul Curtis Strange. Interestingly Langer won six straight German National Open titles from 1984-89.

Alcott played in 37 Majors in the 80s, finished in the top 10 in 18 of them and she wouldn't miss a single cut. The 1980 US Women's Open was a masterclass in oppressive heat in Nashville as she finished on four-under to win by nine. In its first year as a Major Alcott captured the Nabisco Dinah Shore (now Chevron Championship) and followed it up in '88 when she began the tradition of jumping into Poppie's Pond.

GREG NORMAN

In 1986 the Aussie would hold the lead in all four of the Majors going into the final round - they would term it the Saturday Slam - but only prevailed at The Open at Turnberry. The PGA was the biggest collapse as he saw a four-shot lead overturned by Bob Tway which climaxed in that holed bunker shot at 18. Eight months later Larry Mize would chip in at Augusta in the play-off.

From 1980-83 Watson was the stand-out golfer on the planet. In 16 Majors he would win five of them, with three Claret Jugs in just four years. If there was a single iconic Watson shot it would be his chip-in at Pebble Beach's 17th hole – "Get it close? Hell, I'm going to sink it" – as he got the better of Jack Nicklaus once again. The PGA would continue to elude Watson as he closed out his career with eight Majors.

SEVE BALLESTEROS

Seve won 32 times throughout the 80s on the European Tour and he would have no fewer than seven top 5s at Augusta. There would be the pair of Green Jackets but the Open victory at St Andrews in '84 is generally regarded as the most memorable of his five Majors. His ability to will in that final putt, and the sheer joy on his face, remains one of the most uplifting moments that the game has ever witnessed.  

Mark has worked in golf for over 20 years having started off his journalistic life at the Press Association and BBC Sport before moving to Sky Sports where he became their golf editor on skysports.com. He then worked at National Club Golfer and Lady Golfer where he was the deputy editor and he has interviewed many of the leading names in the game, both male and female, ghosted columns for the likes of Robert Rock, Charley Hull and Dame Laura Davies, as well as playing the vast majority of our Top 100 GB&I courses. He loves links golf with a particular love of Royal Dornoch and Kingsbarns. He is now a freelance, also working for the PGA and Robert Rock. Loves tour golf, both men and women and he remains the long-standing owner of an horrific short game. He plays at Moortown with a handicap of 6.

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Regular PGA Tour: $2,130,239 Senior PGA Tour: $2,277,972 Foreign/International/Non-Tour U.S. Earnings: $2,516,108 

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Inaugurated in 1937 at Augusta National Golf Club, the Senior PGA Championship was organized by none other than Bobby Jones. In the first competition, Jock Hutchison came away with the winner’s share of the $2,000 purse (about $30,000 in today’s money).

The PGA Senior Championship moved from Georgia to Florida in 1940, hoping for better weather. Sarasota hosted two years, and Ft. Myers another before World War II interrupted play. Following the war, the Championship was moved to Dunedin, Florida. The PGA eventually would move its offices there.

From 1945 to 2000, PGA National in Dunedin and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida was the event’s semi-permanent home. Since 2001, however, the event has been on the road: Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ (2001); Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio (2002); Aronimink Golf Club, Philadelphia (2003); Valhalla, Louisville, KY (2004); Laurel Valley GC, Ligonier, Pa (2005); Oak Tree GC, Edmond, OK (2006); The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island (2007); Oak Hill CC, Rochester, NY (2008); Canterbury GC, Beachwood, OH (2009) and Colorado GC, Parker, Colo. (2010). The tournament returned to Valhalla in 2011. I

To qualify, players must be at least 50 years old. Other Eligibility requirements follow:

• Any past winner of the Senior PGA Championship
• Any past winner of a regular major championship
• Any past member of the United States Ryder Cup team
• The top 15 finishers in the previous year’s Senior PGA Championship
• The top 50 on the Champions Tour money list (previous year and current year)
• Any winner of a Champions Tour event since the last Senior PGA Championship
• The top 35 finishers from the Callaway Golf Senior PGA Professional National Championship
• Any winner of the previous five U.S. Senior Opens
• The winner of the last Senior British Open
• The top eight players from the previous year’s European Seniors Tour Order of Merit
• The top four players from the previous year’s Japanese Seniors Tour Order of Merit
• A one-time exemption for those who have just turned 50 and have won a PGA Tour, Japan Golf Tour, or European Tour event in the last 5 years
• The top 30 on the career money list, both Champions Tour and combined Champions Tour and PGA Tour
• A one-time exemption for former PGA Professional National Champions turning 50
• Invitations for those not meeting criteria above also are made

A list of Senior PGA Championship winners follows:

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The 1985 PGA Tour season was played from January 10 to October 27. The season consisted of 43 official money events. Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins won the most tournaments, three, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.

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The following table shows all the official money events for the 1985 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold .

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The Zurich Classic of New Classic may be a team event, but that doesn’t mean a win this week isn’t life-changing.

While stars like the Irish duo of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry have their futures secure, teams like Zac Blair/Patrick Fishburn, Chad Ramey/Martin Trainer and Ryan Brehm/Mark Hubbard stand to gain a lot more.

There are no world-ranking points available this week, but each member of the winning team still receives a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour, even if they aren’t currently a member, and 400 FedEx Cup points. They’d also gain entrance into this season’s three remaining Signature Events, the next coming in two weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship.

“Yeah, it’s kind of why you’re out here playing is to have opportunities like this,” Blair said Saturday night. “I’ve been out here a handful of years now, so I know that they don’t come that often, and so we’ll do our best to go take advantage of it.”

Each player of the winning team also comes away with $1.286 million for their troubles. The total purse is $8.9 million .

How much every player made at the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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Win: $1.286 million (per player)

2: $525,100

3: $343,762

4: $289,250

5: $251,425

6: $215,825

7: $180,225

8: $157,975

9: $140,175

10: $122,375

11: $104,575

12: $89,222

13: $74,849

14: $67,195

15: $61,855

16: $56,515

17: $51,397

18: $46,947

19: $42,720

20: $39,160

21: $35,600

22: $32,040

23: $28,489

24: $25,098

25: $22,784

26: $21,627

27: $20,826

28: $20,381

29: $20,025

30: $19,669

31: $19,313

32: $18,957

33: $18,601

34: $18,245

35: $17,889

36: $17,533

37: $17,177

38: $16,821

39: $16,465

40: $16,109

41: $15,753

42: $15,397

43: $15,041

44: $14,685

45: $14,329

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PGA Tour players learn how much loyalty is worth in new equity program

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Players who stayed loyal to the PGA Tour amid lucrative recruitment by Saudi-funded LIV Golf are starting to find out how much that loyalty could be worth.

The PGA Tour on Wednesday began contacting the 193 players eligible for the $930 million from a “Player Equity Program” under the new PGA Tour Enterprises .

The bulk of that money — $750 million — went to 36 players based on their career performance, the last five years and how they fared in a recent program that measured their star power.

How much they received was not immediately known. Emails were going out Wednesday afternoon and Thursday informing players of what they would get. One person who saw a list of how the equity shares were doled out said the names had been redacted. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because many details of the program were not made public.

The Telegraph reported Tiger Woods was to receive $100 million in equity and Rory McIlroy could get $50 million, without saying how it came up with those numbers.

Commissioner Jay Monahan outlined the first-of-its-kind equity ownership program in a Feb. 7 memo to players, a week after Strategic Sports Group became a minority investor in the new commercial PGA Tour Enterprises.

The private equity group, a consortium of professional sports owners led by the Fenway Sports Group, made an initial investment of $1.5 billion that could be worth $3 billion. The tour is still negotiating with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — the financial muscle behind the rival LIV Golf league — as an investor.

Any deal with PIF would most certainly increase the value of the equity shares.

Another person with knowledge of the Player Equity Program, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the dealings, said the equity money is not part of the SSG investment. That money was geared toward growth capital.

Golf.com received a series of informational videos on the Player Equity Program that was sent to players and reported only 50% of the equity would vest after four years, 25% more after six years and the rest of it after eight years.

It also reported how the 36 players from the top tier were judged on “career points,” such as how long they were full members, victories, how often they reached the Tour Championship and extra points for significant victories.

Jason Gore, the tour’s chief player officer, said in one of the videos, “It’s really about making sure that our players know the PGA Tour is the best place to compete and showing them how much the Tour appreciates them being loyal.”

Emails also were sent to 64 players who would share $75 million in aggregate equity based on the past three years, and $30 million to 57 players who are PGA Tour members. Also, $75 million in equity shares was set aside for 36 past players instrumental in building the tour.

The program has an additional $600 million in equity grants that are recurring for future PGA Tour players. Those would be awarded in amounts of $100 million annually started in 2025.

Players only get equity shares from one of the four tiers now, although everyone would be eligible for the recurring grants.

Even with equity ownership geared toward making the PGA Tour better, the concern was players questioning who got how much and whether they received their fair share.

LIV Golf lured away seven major champions dating to 2018 since it launched in 2022, all with guaranteed contracts and most of them believed to have topped $100 million.

McIlroy, playing this week in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, was asked how much would make players feel validated for their decision to stay with the PGA Tour.

“I think the one thing we’ve learned in golf over the last two years is there’s never enough,” McIlroy replied.

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The pluck of the Irish!

Sometimes a seemingly disappointing par is all it takes because, well, golf. That’s what happened on the only hole required in a sudden-death playoff at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans from which Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Shane Lowry of Ireland emerged with the victory.

In the penultimate grouping of the final round at TPC Louisiana, the duo was the second to conclude regulation in 25-under 263. The first consisted of the team of Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer. They went out in the sixth of 20 groups for alternate shot and promptly hung up a 9-under 63, best of the day. Alas, Trainer would miss a short-range par attempt in the playoff on the par-5 18th hole to extend the playoff.

While both Ramey and Trainer remain positioned with one PGA TOUR title apiece, this goes into the books as the 25th in McIlroy’s career. It’s Lowry’s third. McIlroy was a tournament debutant, but he’s still in the peak of his career, and Lowry has struggled with his putting, but it’s not surprising that the collaboration of the two major champions was second-shortest to win pre-tournament at BetMGM with odds of +750. The Ramey/Trainer tandem was +12500.

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry news conference after winning Zurich Classic

Tournament favorites and 2022 champions Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele (+450) finished seven strokes outside the playoff and in a share of 23rd place. Defending champions Nick Hardy and Davis Riley (+5500) were another stroke back in an eight-way tie for 28th.

NOTE: Points and Payouts cites pre-tournament odds to win at BetMGM for all golfers who made the cut. For live odds, visit BetMGM .

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Rob Bolton is a Golfbet columnist for the PGA TOUR. The Chicagoland native has been playing fantasy golf since 1994, so he was just waiting for the Internet to catch up with him. Follow Rob Bolton on Twitter .