PGA Tour pro Jason Day. (Getty)
The Players Championship isn’t one of golf’s four majors, though it is usually referred to as the fifth.
Judging by the total purse and prize money for the 2016 tournament, you’ll see why it’s such a prestigious event.
The total purse for this year’s Players is $10.5 million, with the winner, Jason Day, taking home roughly $1.89 million. Runner-up Kevin Chappell earned a cool $1.13 million.
Those numbers are up from the 2015 tournament. The purse was $10 million last year and winner Rickie Fowler won $1.8M of it.
In fact, the Players purse is even bigger than the Masters in 2016. April’s first major had a total purse of $10 million, with a $1.8M winner’s share. It’s the richest payout on the Tour this season.
Fowler won’t be collecting that big check this year as the 27-year-old missed the -2 cut by a stroke. Also missing out on the Players weekend are Jordan Spieth (-1), 2007 champion Phil Mickelson (-1) and 2009 winner Henrik Stenson (+6).
Here are the complete player payouts, per CBS Sports:
Winner — $1.89 million
Runner-up — $1.13 million
3rd — $714,000
4th — $504,000
5th — $420,000
6th — $378,000
7th — $351,750
8th — $325,500
9th — $304,500
10th — $283,500
11th — $262,500
12th — $241,500
13th — $220,500
14th — $199,500
15th — $189,000
16th — $178,500
17th — $168,000
18th — $157,500
19th — $147,000
20th — $136,500
21st — $126,000
22nd — $117,600
23rd — $109,200
24th — $100,800
25th — $92,400
26th — $84,000
27th — $80,850
28th — $77,700
29th — $74,550
30th — $71,400
31st — $68,250
32nd — $65,100
33rd — $61,950
34th — $59,325
35th — $56,700
36th — $54,075
37th — $51,450
38th — $49,350
39th — $47,250
40th — $45,150
41st — $43,050
42nd — $40,950
43rd — $38,850
44th — $36,750
45th — $34,650
46th — $32,550
47th — $30,450
48th — $28,770
49th — $27,300
50th — $26,460
51st — $25,830
52nd — $25,200
53rd — $24,780
54th — $24,360
55th — $24,150
56th — $23,940
57th — $23,730
58th — $23,520
59th — $23,310
60th — $23,100
61st — $22,890
62nd — $22,680
63rd — $22,470
64th — $22,260
65th — $22,050
66th — $21,840
67th — $21,630
68th — $21,420
69th — $21,210
70th — $21,000
71st — $20,790
72nd — $20,580
73rd — $20,370
74th — $20,160
