Payday at Tiburon
Here's the record prize money payout for each golfer at the 2023 CME Group Tour Championship
Michael Reaves
There was something extra intriguing about Wednesday’s announcement that the CME Group had signed a new two-year deal with the LPGA that lets it continue as the title sponsor of the season-ending Tour Championship. In returning for 2024 and 2025, CME will also be infusing a tournament that already boasted the richest first-place prize money payout in women’s golf with an even greater payday.
Starting next year, the field at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., will be playing for $11 million overall, with the champion earning $4 million—the biggest winner’s payday in all of women’s sports. (Yes, not just golf, but all sports.) Suffice it to say. if players didn’t already have an incentive to be among the top 60 in the Race to the CME points list and qualify to play in the CME before …
While the plans for the future are truly exciting, don’t forget they’re playing for a whole lot of loot this week, too. With an overall purse of $7 million, and $2 million going to the last woman standing come Sunday, the LPGA’s season finale will be a lucrative four days for the eventual champion.
And if you need a reminder of consider where this tournament was a few years ago. During its first year at the CME Group Titleholders in 2011, the overall purse was $1.5 million with the winner claiming $500,000. And here’s how it has evolved over time:
2013: $2 million/$700,000
2017: $2.5 million/$500,000
2019: $5 million/$1.5 million
2022: $7 million/$2 million
Here’s the prize money payout for every golfer in the field in this no-cut event. Come back shortly after the end of the tournament and we’ll update this with individual names and prize money money.
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Win: $2,000,000
2: $550,000
3: $340,000
4: $250,000
5: $195,000
6: $150,000
7: $120,000
8: $105,000
9: $92,000
10: $87,500
11: $83,000
12: $80,000
13: $77,000
14: $75,000
15: $73,000
16: $71,000
17: $69,500
18: $68,000
19: $66,500
20: $65,000
21: $64,000
22: $63,000
23: $62,000
24: $61,000
25: $60,000
26: $59,000
27: $58,000
28: $57,000
29: $56,000
30: $55,000
31: $54,250
32: $53,500
33: $52,750
34: $52,000
35: $51,250
36: $50,500
37: $49,750
38: $49,000
39: $48,250
40: $47,500
41: $47,000
42: $46,500
43: $46,000
44: $45,500
45: $45,000
46: $44,500
47: $44,000
48: $43,500
49: $43,000
50: $42,500
51: $42,250
52: $42,000
53: $41,750
54: $41,500
55: $41,250
56: $41,000
57: $40,750
58: $40,500
59: $40,250
60: $40,000