The World Golf Championships WGC Match Play has a standard formula for payout percentages and distribution its purse and prize money. For the 64-player field, there's standard table of payout percentages and distribution in the no-cut event.
The winner of a World Golf Championships event gets 17 percent of the purse. Typically, the second place player gets 10.72 percent of the total purse. Then it goes on like that, all the way down to 64th place, which gets 0.49 percent of the total purse.
For the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, any player who tees it up in the first match, regardless of outcome in the other matches, is paid.
WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play purse payout percentages and distribution
Sample purses shown
| PLACE | PERCENT | $10 million |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17.00% | $1,700,000 |
| 2 | 10.72% | $1,072,000 |
| 3 | 6.95% | $695,000 |
| 4 | 5.59% | $559,000 |
| 5 | 3.06% | $306,000 |
| 6 | 3.06% | $306,000 |
| 7 | 3.06% | $306,000 |
| 8 | 3.06% | $306,000 |
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| 9 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 10 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 11 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 12 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 13 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 14 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 15 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
| 16 | 1.63% | $163,000 |
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| 17 | 1.21% | $121,000 |
| 18 | 1.13% | $113,000 |
| 19 | 1.07% | $107,000 |
| 20 | 1.03% | $103,000 |
| 21 | 1.00% | $100,000 |
| 22 | 0.97% | $97,000 |
| 23 | 0.94% | $94,000 |
| 24 | 0.92% | $92,000 |
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| 25 | 0.90% | $90,000 |
| 26 | 0.88% | $88,000 |
| 27 | 0.86% | $86,000 |
| 28 | 0.84% | $84,000 |
| 29 | 0.82% | $82,000 |
| 30 | 0.80% | $80,000 |
| 31 | 0.78% | $78,000 |
| 32 | 0.77% | $77,000 |
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| 33 | 0.76% | $76,000 |
| 34 | 0.75% | $75,000 |
| 35 | 0.74% | $74,000 |
| 36 | 0.73% | $73,000 |
| 37 | 0.72% | $72,000 |
| 38 | 0.71% | $71,000 |
| 39 | 0.70% | $70,000 |
| 40 | 0.69% | $69,000 |
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| 41 | 0.68% | $68,000 |
| 42 | 0.67% | $67,000 |
| 43 | 0.66% | $66,000 |
| 44 | 0.65% | $65,000 |
| 45 | 0.64% | $64,000 |
| 46 | 0.63% | $63,000 |
| 47 | 0.62% | $62,000 |
| 48 | 0.61% | $61,000 |
| 49 | 0.60% | $60,000 |
| 50 | 0.59% | $59,000 |
| 51 | 0.58% | $58,000 |
| 52 | 0.57% | $57,000 |
| 53 | 0.56% | $56,000 |
| 54 | 0.55% | $55,000 |
| 55 | 0.54% | $54,000 |
| 56 | 0.53% | $53,000 |
| 57 | 0.53% | $52,500 |
| 58 | 0.52% | $52,000 |
| 59 | 0.52% | $51,500 |
| 60 | 0.51% | $51,000 |
| 61 | 0.51% | $50,500 |
| 62 | 0.50% | $50,000 |
| 63 | 0.50% | $49,500 |
| 64 | 0.49% | $49,000 |
