Patrick Cantlay cashed in $15mn bonus for his FedExCup win last month
Golf is a truly global game with some 50 million registered golfers playing in virtually every country on the planet. Recently a major sports publication announced that three of the top 5 highest earning sports persons in history are golfers – Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. With footballer Christiano Ronaldo and basketball legend Michael Jordan making up the other two !!
Lately the major men’s tours have been in the news for a variety of reasons. The Asian Tour just announced a US$200 million tie up with a Saudi Investment group. The US and European Tours have announced an alliance to ward off threats from a lucrative F1 style 18 event team golf series.
To get a better perspective of how much prize money was available in the past season we thought it would be interesting to do a comparison between tour strengths.
PGA Tour (not counting the 4 Majors & World Championships which are listed as common on both PGA & European Tours) –
No. of events – 39 in 2022
Total Prize Fund – US$ 318 million
European Tour (not counting the 4 Majors & World Championships) –
No. of events – 32 in 2021
Total Prize Fund – US$ 90.5 million
The Men’s majors –
No of events – 4
Total Prize Fund – US$ 47.5 million
Masters Tournament – US$ 11.5mn
PGA Championship – US$ 12mn
U.S. Open – US$ 12.5mn
The Open Championship – US$ 11.5mn
Women’s Tours
US Ladies PGA (except Majors) – In 2021
No. of events – 25
Total Prize Fund – US$ 49 million
Ladies European Tour (except Majors) – In 2021
No. of Events – 21
Total Prize Fund – US$ 13 million
Women’s Majors-
No. of Events – 5
Total Prize Fund – US$25.3 million
ANA Inspiration – US$ 5mn
U.S. Women’s Open – US$ 5.5mn
Women’s PGA Championship – US$ 4.5mn
The Evian Championship – US$ 4.5mn
Women’s British Open – US$ 5.8mn
Credits:-
Photo – PGA Tour