As things stand, Rory McIlroy is second on the career money list on the PGA Tour.
Tiger Woods’ winnings exceed $120m, with McIlroy edging towards $108m and Scottie Scheffler now closing on the $96m following his victory in the BMW Championship.
For some sort of context of how much the prize money has rocketed in recent years, Vijay Singh won 34 times on the PGA Tour, the last of which was in 2008, and his career earnings number $71m.
The strange one is the season-ending Tour Championship, where all the talk is about the money, and McIlroy has won this three times. This week it will offer a record individual prize fund with $10m to the winner from a total pot of $40m.
Previously, the bonus pool was counted as unofficial money, but now, with the elimination of the starting strokes, there will be a huge kitty up for grabs.
The runner-up at East Lake will receive $5m, and third place will get you $3.7m. Even if you finish in 30th and the bottom spot, it will still pay out $355,000.
Rory McIlroy’s biggest paydays on the PGA Tour
1. $4.5m – The Players Championship, 2025
You might think that McIlroy’s win at Augusta would give him his biggest payday, but it was at Sawgrass the previous month where he picked up this whopping first prize.
For the past three seasons, The Players has offered a purse of $25m, and so far Scottie Scheffler has picked up the winner’s share.
But this time around, after a Monday morning play-off, the Northern Irishman got the better of JJ Spaun – the American would collect $2.72m for his efforts.
2. $4.2m – The Masters, 2025
When McIlroy blew the 2011 Masters, he would have picked up $1.44m. This time around, he won nearly three times that amount.
Since 2021, the winner’s purse has actually doubled, which is some response to LIV Golf as well as all the other add-ons in the game, and McIlroy edged out Justin Rose in another play-off to take his season’s earnings to over $13million before we had said goodbye to April.
And he’s still not even close to Scheffler.
3. $3.6m – AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, 2025
We’ve almost forgotten about this one. At the start of February, McIlroy landed his biggest career payout when he took down Shane Lowry in California.
At the last, he would take an iron off the iconic 18th tee, and afterwards he would admit that what Scheffler was doing was having an impact on his game.
“When one of your peers has the year he had last year, and honestly, the year like he had in ‘23 as well, you start to take notice of what he is doing and what has helped him separate himself from the rest of the field.
“There are impulses that I have on the golf course that it looks like Scottie doesn’t have,” explained McIlroy.
3. $3.6m – Wells Fargo Championship, 2024
Remember this one? McIlroy would go back-to-back after capturing the pairs win with Lowry in New Orleans, and this one would be very straightforward as he won by five at his favourite stomping ground, Quail Hollow.
The following month, McIlroy might have landed the first prize of $4.3million at Pinehurst, but, as we all know, Bryson DeChambeau would pick up that winner’s cheque.
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