What is the payout for the PGA Professional Championship?

What is the payout for the PGA Professional Championship?

The PGA Professional Championship and 41 PGA Section Championships feature a total purse of more than $1.5 million. The PGA Professional Championship purse is $550,000, distributed among those who make the cut in the 312-player field. Golf Channel will televise all four rounds of the national Championship.

How is the purse divided in golf?

The PGA Tour allocates 18 percent of a standard tournament’s purse to the winner. The remainder of the top 10 finishers receives, in order, the following percentages of the purse: 10.8, 6.8, 4.8, 4, 3.6, 3.35, 3.1, 2.9 and 2.7.

What do you get if you win a PGA Tour event?

Winning a PGA Tour event provides a tour card for a minimum of two years, with an extra year added for each additional win with a maximum of five years. Winning a World Golf Championships event, The Tour Championship, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, or the Memorial Tournament provides a three-year exemption.

How do you make the PGA Professional Championship?

To earn entry into the PGA Professional Championship, players must have PGA membership, be certified as Class A PGA Professionals, and cannot have more than ten combined starts on professional tours (including various developmental tours, senior tours, and mini-tours) during a preceding twelve-month period, not …

Do golfers keep their trophies?

If a PGA Championship winner successfully defends their title, then they’re able to keep the trophy for another year, from the date of that next PGA Championship win to the start of the next PGA Championship tournament. That is a rare achievement.

What happens if a club pro wins the PGA Championship?

Traditionally the winner also receives automatic invites into all three of the other majors and the Players Championship for the next five years, PGA Tour membership for the next five years and DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour) membership for the next seven years.

Did any club pros make the cut at the PGA?

PGA Professional Champion Jesse Mueller, who was making his maiden PGA Championship appearance, opened with an eagle on Thursday. Though no PGA Club Professionals made the cut this year, Matt Borchert will be receiving a crystal bowl, in honor of his finish, on Saturday morning at Southern Hills Country Club.

Do golfers get paid if they miss the cut?

Golfers who don’t make the cut do not get paid. When you see those players who are right on the edge of making the cut struggling to make that one last putt, it has everything to do with the fact that they want a chance to make it to the weekend.

How much does a golfer make for making the cut?

Simply making the weekend cut means a payday of no less than $19,600.

Do you get to keep the Masters green jacket?

Masters champions get to keep the green jacket for a year. Specifically, they get to keep the green jacket away from the club for as long as they’re the reigning Masters champion. From the day they win the Masters green jacket, winners can take the green jacket wherever they wish.