A record prize money of 20 million dollars was paid out in total at the Players Championship. The PGA Tour had increased the prize money for its flagship event by 5 million dollars for this year. Winner Cameron Smith alone gets 3.6 million dollars from the prize money pool. In his time on the PGA Tour, Smith has so far earned 22,726,511 dollars.
Even 4th place at the Players Championship still receives almost one million dollars.
What he wants to do with the money, Smith does not know yet, he said in the press conference after his victory. When talking about a possible FedExCup win with it’s 15 million dollar bonus, he didn’t seem so eager for the money. “I don’t know, I’m pretty set, to be honest. I’m good. I’m good with what I’ve got. I don’t know what I’d do, to be honest. Maybe some more fishing equipment.” For 3,6 million dollar you get a lot of fishing equipment. In addition, Smith takes over second place in the FedExCup rankings.
Players Championship: Who gets how much prize money?
1st Cameron Smith, $3,600,000
2nd Anirban Lahiri, $2,180,000
3rd Paul Casey, $1,380,000
4th Kevin Kisner, $980,000
5th Keegan Bradley, $820,000
T6. Russell Knox, Harold Varner III, Doug Ghim, $675,000
T9. Dustin Johnson, Adam Hadwin, Viktor Hovland, Sepp Straka, $525,000.
T13. Russell Henley, Taylor Pendrith, Brendan Steele, Shane Lowry, Tyrrell Hatton, Keith Mitchell, Max Homa, Erik van Rooyen, Daniel Berger, $327,000.
T22. Kevin Streelman, Tommy Fleetwood, Patton Kizzire, Joquin Niemann, $201,000.
T26 Sergio Garcia, Alex Noren, Patrick Reed, Corey Conners, Will Zalatoris, Sam Burns, Doc Redman, $143,000
T33. Abraham Ancer, Ian Poulter, Pat Perez, Rory McIlroy, Seamus Power, Justin Thomas, Joel Dahmen, Tom Hoge, Sebastián Muñoz, $100,111.
T42. Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Scott Stallings, Kramer Hickok, $73,000.
T46. Troy Merritt, Peter Malnati, Adam Long, Maverick McNealy, $57,000
T50. Brice Garnett, Dylan Frittelli, Aaron Wise, $50,200
T53. Branden Grace, Jason Kokrak, $47,800
T55. Jimmy Walker, K.H. Lee, Sungjae Im, Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, $46,200.
T60. Michael Thompson, Sam Ryder, Denny McCarthy, $44,600
T63. Brian Harman, Chesson Hadley, Hank Lebioda, $43,400
T66. Nick Watney, Hayden Buckley, $42,400
T68. Bubba Watson, Lucas Herbert, $41,600
- Lee Hodges, $41,000