How much does the winner of The Players Championship make?

The winner of the 2018 edition of The Players Championship will take home the largest payday in tournament history.

The Players Championship may not officially be a major but the payday certainly makes it feel like one.

For the first time in tournament history, the total purse for The Players will be $11 million, half a million more than was handed out in each of the last two years. The PGA Tour’s biggest event is the richest non-major in the golf world and the $10.5 million purse used to be the biggest payout in the sport until the U.S. Open bumped their purse to $12 million and The Masters bumped theirs to $11 million. The Players still has a bigger payout than both The Open Championship and the PGA Championship.

With a bigger purse also comes a bigger payout for the winner. This week’s winner at TPC Sawgrass will take home a whopping $1.98 million (18 percent of the total purse…because it’s golf…18 holes…get it?), which is the exact same amount that was taken home from Augusta National Golf Club by Patrick Reed when he won The Masters last month. Second place has to settle for a mere $1.18 million.

In fact, with the exact same purse as The Masters, the payouts at The Players will be the exact same as they were in Augusta. Here are the individual payouts for the top 50 finishers.

$1.98 million
$1.188 million
$748,000
$528,000
$440,000
$396,000
$368,500
$341,000
$319,000
$297,000
$275,000
$253,000
$231,000
$209,000
$198,000
$187,000
$176,000
$165,000
$154,000
$143,000
$132,000
$123,200
$114,400
$105,600
$96,800
$88,000
$84,700
$81,400
$78,100
$74,800
$71,500
$68,200
$64,900
$62,150
$59,400
$56,650
$53,900
$51,700
$49,500
$47,300
$45,100
$42,900
$40,700
$38,500
$36,300
$34,100
$31,900
$30,140
$28,600
$27,720

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