The verdict is expected later this week, though official prize money could be even more than the $35 million boost Commissioner Jay Monahan projected at the Tour Championship. The tour’s policy board met Monday in Houston to approve prize money and other forms of compensation for the season.
Golf doesn’t pay players like team sports because it isn’t one. That figure is expected to increase, either in the money or number of players who cash in, probably both.īut the notion of guaranteed money - the likely appeal for whatever Greg Norman and his Saudi-backed LIV Golf Investments have in mind - is a dangerous path. The PGA Tour took its first step with the secretive “Player Impact Program” that offered $40 million this year to the leading 10 players who are deemed to have moved the needle, a list the tour said it will not make public. Then again, the PGA Tour has never had to contend with Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich sovereign wealth fund. Golf has a long history of rewarding its stars more for what they do than what they have done.
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