In an additional signal that golf’s prize-money conflict is spiralling uncontrolled, this 12 months’s Masters winner will pocket an eye-watering $US3.6 million ($A5.5 million).
And that’s nonetheless not whilst a lot as final week’s LIV Golf Miami winner Dean Burmester acquired.
Burmester, who did not qualify for the 12 months’s first main championship at Augusta National, took dwelling $6.1 million.
Tournament officers on Saturday stated gamers who made the weekend lower would share a handbag of $US20 million ($A30.8 million) – the identical because the US PGA Tour’s eight “Signature” occasions launched this season in response to the insane prize cash being provided to the LIV Golf defectors.
The Masters runner-up on Sunday will gather $US2.16 million ($A3.3 million) and fiftieth placegetter will financial institution $US50,400 ($A78,000).
To put the inflationary prize swimming pools in perspective, this 12 months’s victor will obtain greater than the complete purse that was provided when Tiger Woods gained his first inexperienced jacket in 1997.
Masters prize cash:
1. $US3.6 million ($A5.5 million)
2. $US2.16 million ($A3.3 million)
3. $US1.36 million ($A2.1 million)
4. $US960,000 ($A1.5 million)
5. $US800,000 ($A1.2 million)
6. $US720,000 ($A1.1 million)
7. $US670,000 ($1 million)
8. $US620,000 ($US955,000)
9. $US580,000 ($A890,000)
10. $US540,000 ($A832,000)
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