PGA Tour Champions purse payout percentages and distribution
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PGA Tour Champions purse payout percentages and distribution



The PGA Tour Champions has a standard formula for payout percentages and distribution its purse and prize money for almost every event. Most weeks, there are 78 players in the field, and there's no cut. It follows that there's a standard table of payout percentages and distribution.

The winner of a PGA Tour Champions event gets 15 percent of the purse. Typically, the second place player gets 8.8 percent of the total purse. Then it goes on like that, all the way down to 78th place, which gets 0.05 percent of the total purse.

There are a few situations where the PGA Tour Champions doesn't follow its standard purse payout and distribution formula:

  1. If the field has a cut, then the percentage changes
  2. If the field has more than 78 players, which typically implies a cut

PGA Tour Champions purse payout percentages and distribution

Sample purses shown

FOLLOW: iHEART | TUNEIN
PLACE PERCENT $2 million
1 15.00% $300,000
2 8.80% $176,000
3 7.20% $144,000
4 6.00% $120,000
5 4.80% $96,000
6 4.00% $80,000
7 3.60% $72,000
8 3.20% $64,000
9 2.80% $56,000
10 2.60% $52,000
11 2.40% $48,000
12 2.20% $44,000
13 2.00% $40,000
14 1.90% $38,000
15 1.80% $36,000
16 1.70% $34,000
17 1.60% $32,000
18 1.50% $30,000
19 1.41% $28,200
20 1.32% $26,400
21 1.24% $24,800
22 1.16% $23,200
23 1.10% $22,000
24 1.05% $21,000
25 1.00% $20,000
26 0.95% $19,000
27 0.91% $18,200
28 0.87% $17,400
29 0.83% $16,600
30 0.79% $15,800
31 0.75% $15,000
32 0.72% $14,400
33 0.69% $13,800
34 0.66% $13,200
35 0.63% $12,600
36 0.60% $12,000
37 0.57% $11,400
38 0.55% $11,000
39 0.53% $10,600
40 0.51% $10,200
41 0.49% $9,800
42 0.47% $9,400
43 0.45% $9,000
44 0.43% $8,600
45 0.41% $8,200
46 0.39% $7,800
47 0.37% $7,400
48 0.35% $7,000
49 0.33% $6,600
50 0.31% $6,200
51 0.29% $5,800
52 0.27% $5,400
53 0.25% $5,000
54 0.24% $4,800
55 0.23% $4,600
56 0.22% $4,400
57 0.21% $4,200
58 0.20% $4,000
59 0.19% $3,800
60 0.18% $3,600
61 0.17% $3,400
62 0.16% $3,200
63 0.15% $3,000
64 0.14% $2,800
65 0.13% $2,600
66 0.12% $2,400
67 0.11% $2,200
68 0.10% $2,000
69 0.09% $1,880
70 0.09% $1,760
71 0.08% $1,640
72 0.08% $1,520
73 0.07% $1,400
74 0.07% $1,320
75 0.06% $1,240
76 0.06% $1,160
77 0.05% $1,080
78 0.05% $1,000

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