The 2021-22 PGA TOUR is moving on to its next stop, which happens to be the most lucrative of them all. That would be the 2022 PGA The PLAYERS Championship. This tournament carries the biggest purse and the largest prize for the winner among all tournaments on the TOUR, and that’s even with this event not being a major. Read more about how the prizes will be broken down in this event below.
Last year, Justin Thomas took home the $2.7 million top prize for topping the 2021 The PLAYERS Championship. That’s from the total purse of $15 million that gets a massive boost of $5 million this year to push the sum to a dizzying amount of $20 million. The winner this weekend will take home a total of $3.6 million – the biggest ever in the history of the tournament.
The Complete Breakdown
Based on the standardized formula that the PGA Tour is using in dividing the purse for each major event, here’s what the top-50 finishers in the tournament will receive.
