THE PLAYERS Championship payout distribution 2024: Prize money, purse

There's good reason that THE PLAYERS Championship is one of the most anticipated events of every PGA Tour season, and it's most certainly been that in 2024. After a thrilling first three rounds, we were set up for a potentially wild Sunday finish at TPC Sawgrass before a new PLAYERS Champion would be crowned, and a ton of prize money would be handed out.

Following the first two rounds, it looked as if reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark was going to run away with it. But on Saturday, he didn't seem to have the same form. He shot a pedestrian 2-under par 70 in the third round, which allowed Xander Schauffele to overtake him for the 54-hole lead and for reigning Champion Golfer of the Year Brian Harman to continue a torrid Friday-Saturday run and be within one stroke of Clark and two strokes of Schauffele's lead.

While those three separated themselves, the wild nature of TPC Sawgrass still allowed for the possibility of a number of other big names a bit farther back, such as Matt Fitzpatrick, Sahith Theegala, Hideki Matsuyama and defending PLAYERS champ Scottie Scheffler, to have a chance at a magical final round run.

You know that they're going to feel the pressure on the island green at No. 17 and the big test of No. 18, especially with the massive prize money on the line in THE PLAYERS Championship purse. How much is the payout for each player, though? We have the full purse distribution broken down.

THE PLAYERS Championship purse 2024: Winner's prize money, total purse

THE PLAYERS Championship winner will receive a gargantuan $4.5 million in prize money this week. The purse at TPC Sawgrass is at a PGA Tour-high $25 million, $5 million more than at signature events throughout the season and, though the majors have yet to announce their purses in 2024, It is the same $25 million purse and winner's payout that we saw at THE PLAYERS last year as well, and has been tops on Tour over the past two years at that total.

THE PLAYERS Championshipn payout distribution by finishing position in 2024

The $4.5 million to the winner is obviously a jarringly large amount of prize money. However, just as impressive is that the Top 5 finishes will all clear $1 million with their payout while the Top 41 will all bring home six figures this week from the purse. Heck, even just making the cut and finishing DFL is still a solid payday at just under $50,000.

While prize money and purse doesn't make THE PLAYERS Championship the great event it is, it does absolutely matter when we're talking this level of money on the PGA Tour.