The 2020 Farmers Insurance Open will certainly attract above-average attention for a non-major tournament. For one, this would be Tiger Woods’ first start of the year, which means he can break the all-time record for PGA Tour wins by topping the rest of the field at Torrey Pines Golf Course this coming weekend. The Farmers Insurance Open seems just right for Woods to be his first event of 2020. After all, he has had plenty of great memories – and success – in the tournament, winning it seven times before. His latest win in this tournament was in 2013, when he took home $1.098 million. This year, the winner will pocket $1.35 million – up from last year’s $1.278 million.
The total purse in the Farmers Insurance Open has gradually increased since 2014, when Scott Stallings won the tournament to claim the $1.098 million top prize. The total purse back then was at $6.1 million. The following year, the purse was up to $6.3 million, and Jason Day got the biggest piece of the pie with a $1.134 million pay. In 2016, the purse went up again to $6.5 million, with Brandt Snedeker winning the $1.17 million top prize. John Rahm won in 2017 to receive the $1.206 million prize out of the $6.7-million purse. In 2018, Jason Day won again and got $1.242 million from the $6.9 million total purse. Last year, the total purse at the Farmers Insurance open hit the $7-million mark for the first time, with Justin Rose getting the $1.278 million winner’s prize.
The Complete Breakdown
Finish
Payout Amount
1st
$1.35 million
As mentioned earlier, the winner of the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open will get $1.35 million, but that’s the only thing officially certain, as of this writing. The PGA TOUR committee has an established set of percentages with regards to how the purse will be distributed, though, they are yet to release the official break down of purses outside of the top prize. For the meantime, here’s how the purse distribution looked like in 2019.
