LIV Golf prize money

Masters champ pockets $6.7m in historic rebel tour win as golf's mega villain defects.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said the “same fate holds true” for any players who compete in future LIV events, with Reed and Bryson DeChambeau set to contest the second event in Oregon at the end of the month. “I made a bad mistake on 12 which put me on the back foot but I needed to just stay calm and get this thing in the house,” said the 2011 Masters champion. Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural event in the Saudi-backed rebel LIV Golf series on Saturday as Patrick Reed became the latest big-name player to sign up.

We take a look at the purse and winners share for the LIV Golf Invitational, taking place in Hertfordshire, London, England in 2022.

- $1,500,000 - $2,125,000 - $4,000,000 For Bland, he’d be getting paid merely for showing up and having Uihlein make a poor draft choice by selecting him. No matter your opinion of LIV Golf, the one thing they are doing is disrupting the modern professional golf with riches that the game has never seen before. Also there’s a handicap system giving the top-earning players in points a head start when everyone tees off.

The South African took home an eye-watering £3.2m prize at the controversial Saudi-backed event.

“We’re going to supercharge the game of golf and go round the world showing golf is a force for good,” he said with typical unawareness. “I had to stay calm, I made a bad mistake on 12 but I’m proud of how I hung in and it’s a great feeling,” Schwartzel said. If we know the players can be easily bought by LIV Golf’s seemingly bottomless resources, there are still aspects to the breakaway that require more than a little fine-tuning. They are the vast, life-changing sums with which the PGA Tour cannot compete and make no mistake, it is only a matter of time before the group of ageing rebels lured here are transformed into a highly competitive field. The eye-watering prize money on offer was a greater subject of fascination than any sporting merit and its pull on the golfing world only grows stronger as Patrick Reed and Pat Perez were announced as the latest established PGA Tour names to jump ship. Golf’s renegade circus came to an underwhelming end on Saturday at Centurion as Charl Schwartzel hoisted aloft a gaudy trophy that carried no great significance.