Prizes for wallets, prize money at the 2022 Players Championship: Prize money per golfer in addition to a record $20 million total
The purse size for the 2022 Players Championship cannot be overstated. At $20 million, that’s a $5 million increase over last year’s edition and easily the largest individual event wallet. in the history of golf. It’s nearly double any of the four major championships, meaning there’s plenty to play for this week in Jacksonville, Florida, even for golfers not hunting for TPC Sawgrass wins.
As a backdrop for the substantial amount of this prize, the $3.6 million winner’s share went to Cameron Smith more than the career earnings of Lee Trevino (who won 29 events) , Frank Nobilo, Sandy Lyle and Johnny Miller (who won 25 times). The lowest finishers after the cut all made $43,000, roughly the same as Jack Nicklaus earned. win First Players Championship in 1974.
Everyone who made it into the top 36 this year has at least six numbers. The first 11 finishers all earned more than $500,000. If that sounds epic, well, that’s exactly the way to describe it.
Let’s see how the payments for the 2022 Players’ Championship will be split.
Prize money for the 2022 Players Championship
| Day 1 | 3,600,000 USD – Cameron Smith |
| 2nd | $2,180,000 – Anirban Lahiri |
| 3rd | $1,380,000 – Paul Casey |
| 4th | $980,000 – Kevin Kisner |
| day 5 | 820,000 USD – Keegan Bradley |
| 6th | $725,000 – Harold Vaner III, Russell Knox, Doug Pins ($675K each) |
| Saturday | $675,000 |
| 8th | $625,000 |
| 9th | $585,000 – Sepp Straka, Adam Hadwin, Viktor Hovland, Dustin Johnson ($525K each) |
| 10th | $545,000 |
| Day 11 | $505,000 |
| 12nd | $465,000 |
| 13th | $425,000 – Keith Mitchell, Erik van Rooyen, Daniel Berger, Max Homa, Tyrell Hatton, Brendan Steele, Shane Lowry ($421,000 each) |
| Day 14 | $385,000 |
| 15th | $365,000 |
| The 16th | $345,000 |
| Day 17 | $325,000 |
| 18th | $305,000 |
| Day 19 | $285,000 |
| Day 20 | $265,000 |
| Day 21 | $245,000 |
| 22th | $225,000 – Joaquin Niemann, Patton Kizzire, Tommy Fleetwood, Kevin Streelman ($199K each) |
| Day 23 | $209,000 |
| 24th | $193,000 |
| 25th | $177,000 |
| 26th | $161,000 – Corey Conners, Doc Redman, Sergio Garcia, Alex Noren, Patrick Reed, Will Zalatoris, Sam Burns (143K each) |
| 27th | $155,000 |
| 28th | $149,000 |
| 29th | $143,000 |
| 30th | $137,000 |
| Day 31 | $131,000 |
| 32nd | $125,000 |
| 33rd | $119,000 – Abraham Ancer, Ian Poulter, Justin Thomas, Seamus Power, Joel Dahmen, Pat Perez, Tom Hoge, Rory McIlroy, Sebastian Munoz ($100k each) |
| 34th | $114,000 |
| 35th | $109,000 |
| 36th | $104,000 |
| 37th | $99,000 |
| 38th | $95,000 |
| 39th | $91,000 |
| 40th | $87,000 |
| 41 | $83,000 |
| 42nd | $79,000 – Kramer Hickok, Scott Stallings, Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen ($73,000 each) |
| 43rd | $75,000 |
| 44th | $71,000 |
| 45th | $67,000 |
| 46th | $63,000 – Troy Merritt, Maverick McNealy, Adam Long, Peter Malnati ($58k each) |
| 47th | $59,000 |
| 48 | $55,800 |
| 49th | $53,000 |
| 50th | $51,400 – Brice Garnett, Dylan Fritteli, Aaron Wise ($50,000 each) |
| 51 | $50,200 |
| 52nd | $49,000 |
| 53rd | $48,200 – Jason Kokrak, Branden Grace ($48,000 each) |
| 54th | $47,400 |
| 55th | $47,000 – Jimmy Walker, Sungjae Im, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Kyoung-Hoon Lee ($46,000 each) |
| 56th | $46,600 |
| 57th | $46,200 |
| 58th | $45,800 |
| 59th | $45,400 |
| 60th | $45,000 – Sam Ryder, Michael Thompson, Denny McCarthy ($45,000 each) |
| 61 | $44,600 |
| 62nd | $44,200 |
| 63 | $43,800 – Hank Lebioda, Chesson Hadley, Brian Harman ($43,000 each) |
| 64th | $43,400 |
| 65th | $43,000 |
| T66 | $43,000 – Hayden Buckley, Nick Watney |
| T68 | $43,000 – Lucas Herbert, Bubba Watson |
| 70th | $43,000 – Lee Hodges |
