OUR MISSIONGOLF TRIVIA. Your home for fun and interesting golf questions and facts. You simply can enjoy our golf trivia, sign up and become an accredited publisher or subscribe to our newsletter so we can keep you in the loop. It's all for FREE. Show Recent Questions SUBMIT QUESTIONSBecome an Accredited Publisher and get your name in lights on Why We Love Golf. If you’re a passionate writer and researcher join the community, publish your own questions, and be recognised by your golfing peers. Register your interest September 6 - Dustin Johnson is the money leader halfway through the first season of the LIV Golf Series, earning $7.7 million through just four individual events. Tack on the money he's made in team play, and his winnings stand at nearly $10 million, Golfweek reported Tuesday. Johnson won the fourth of LIV's eight 2022 events in a playoff on Sunday, taking the $4 million first prize at the tournament near Boston. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comIn all, 24 players have claimed at least $1 million in individual earnings through the first four events. That doesn't include income from the signing bonuses -- nine figures, in some cases -- given to players by the controversial Saudi-backed tour. Other players joining Johnson with at least $4 million in winnings are South Africans Branden Grace ($6 million) and Charl Schwartzel ($4.5 million), and Henrik Stenson of Sweden ($4 million). Johnson played his first of 307 events on the PGA Tour in 2007. His career tour earnings are just shy of $75 million. LIV play resumes Sept. 16-18 at the LIV Golf Invitational Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. --Field Level Media Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Keep up to date with how much money each LIV golfer has earned since joining the lucrative league Money. Money. Money. It’s all everyone has been talking about since LIV Golf burst onto the scene and started throwing millions of dollars at the world’s best players to try and lure them in from the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.
So with its first seven events now in the history books, each one having dished out a mouth-watering $25 million dollar purse, just how much money – not including the undisclosed signing on fees – has every LIV golfer earned in the Saudi Arabia funded series? Fortunately for you guys, we’ve taken every player, from Phil Mickelson to Ratchanon Chantananuwat, and tallied up just how much prize money they’ve raked in since joining LIV Golf – both in individual and team winnings. Here are how things look… LIV Golf prize money standings1. Dustin Johnson *Johnson was awarded $18,000,000 for being crowned the 2022 LIV Golf Individual Champion 2. Branden Grace *Grace was awarded $8,000,000 for finishing second in the 2022 LIV Golf points list 3. Peter Uihlein *Uihlein was awarded $4,000,000 for finishing third in the 2022 LIV Golf points list 4. Patrick Reed 5. Charl Schwartzel 6. Brooks Koepka 7. Talor Gooch 8. Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra 9. Carlos Ortiz 10. Sergio Garcia 11. Cameron Smith 12. Henrik Stenson 13. Louis
Oosthuizen 14. Joaquin Niemann 15. Pat Perez 16. Matthew Wolff 17. Paul Casey 18. Abraham Ancer 19. Hennis Du Plessis 20. Lee Westwood 21. Anirban Lahiri 22. Chase Koepka 23. Richard Bland 24. Sam Horsfield 25. Bryson DeChambeau 26. Jason Kokrak 27. Ian Poulter 28. Charles Howell III 29. Laurie Canter 30. Sihwan Kim 31. James Piot 32. Kevin Na 33. Martin Kaymer 34. Graeme
McDowell 35. Phachara Khongwatmai 36. Bernd Wiesberger 37. Phil Mickelson 38. Turk Pettit 39. Matt Jones 40. Justin
Harding 41. Scott Vincent 42. Harold Varner III 43. Jinichiro Kozuma 44. Sadom Kaewkanjana 45. Jediah Morgan 46. Wade
Ormsby 47. Adrian Otaegui 48. Shaun Norris 49. Hudson Swafford 50. Marc Leishman 51. Travis Smyth 52. Cameron Tringale 53. Hideto Tanihara 54. Oliver Bekker 55. Ryosuke Kinoshita 56. Yuki Inamori 57. David Puig 58. Ian Snyman 59. Pablo Larrazabal 60. Shergo Al Kurdi 61.
Blake Windred 62. Itthipat Buranatanyarat 63. JC Ritchie 64. Viraj Madappa 65. Kevin Yuan T66. Oliver Fisher T66.
Ratchanon Chantananuwat 68. Andy Ogletree
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How much do Liv golfers get paid?The winning team will split $16m four ways, with the runners-up splitting $10m and the team in third each taking their share of $8m. Even the team which finishes last will take home $1m. Let's look at how much each LIV Golf player has won so far in 2022, along with the individual and team winnings from each event.
How much did each player win at LIV?Johnson, who hadn't won a tournament of any kind since the Saudi Invitational in February 2021, took home the first-place prize money payout of $4 million from the $20 million individual purse. Niemann and Lahiri shared second, each earning $1,812,500.
How much did Cameron Smith get from LIV?Smith, the 2022 Open Championship winner, is the first top-10 player to join the Saudi-backed golf series. LIV also reportedly paid Smith upwards of $100 million as well.
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