US Open prize money was insane today
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I didn't realize that players who do not make the cut still make $10,000.00. Unlike a regular tour event where you get nothing if you miss the cut. Evansville's Dylan Meyer made a nice check in what I believe was his first professional outing.
I don't know the workings of a PGA Tour Event but I thought I remembered hearing there was an entrance or registration fee the golfers pay when they register to play an event; is that right? Doesn't seem so with all the prize money and the tournament directors trying to get the best field, but I swore I heard that somewhere.
This is what I found.
http://golftips.golfweek.com/much-professional-golfer-pay-play-tournament-20685.html
http://golftips.golfweek.com/much-professional-golfer-pay-play-tournament-20685.html
Columbus North grad Tyler Duncan made around $26,000.00 in the US Open. I know Tyler, but I am really good friends with his father and his two grandfathers. Despite being a Purdue graduate, Tyler is a great kid.
I wish I could make $26,000.00 in four days' time.
Interesting and cool info... thanks! And my Mom said I couldn't learn anything on here. Took 15 years, but...
Poor Tony Finau:
U.S. Open 2018: How Tony Finau cost himself $200K at No. 18 on Sunday
June 18, 2018 8:54am EDT
Tony Finau's double-bogey to close Sunday dropped him from a tie for third at the U.S. Open (worth some $691,000) to fifth ($474,659).
Tony Finau (Getty Images)
Bob Hille Omnisport @bobhille
Published on Jun. 18, 2018
A bogey here, a double-bogey there and pretty soon you're talking real money.
In fact, Tony Finau’s double-bogey Sunday on the 72nd hole of the U.S. Open cost him more than $200,000.
Here's how: Finau, 28, started the 18th hole Sunday at Shinnecock Hills tied for third with Dustin Johnson. That tie would've meant Finau and Johnson would split the third- and fourth-place money, each getting some $691,000. Instead, Finau found trouble off the tee, carded a bruising 6 on the par-4 and fell to fifth place alone.
Fifth-place payout (per GolfDigest.com): $474,659.
Finau's only PGA Tour win came at the 2016 Puerto Rican Open, where he pocketed $540,000.
Still, Sunday's finish marked his first top-five finish in a major, and that's priceless, right? Right?
U.S. Open 2018: How Tony Finau cost himself $200K at No. 18 on Sunday
June 18, 2018 8:54am EDT
Tony Finau's double-bogey to close Sunday dropped him from a tie for third at the U.S. Open (worth some $691,000) to fifth ($474,659).
Tony Finau (Getty Images)
Bob Hille Omnisport @bobhille
Published on Jun. 18, 2018
A bogey here, a double-bogey there and pretty soon you're talking real money.
In fact, Tony Finau’s double-bogey Sunday on the 72nd hole of the U.S. Open cost him more than $200,000.
Here's how: Finau, 28, started the 18th hole Sunday at Shinnecock Hills tied for third with Dustin Johnson. That tie would've meant Finau and Johnson would split the third- and fourth-place money, each getting some $691,000. Instead, Finau found trouble off the tee, carded a bruising 6 on the par-4 and fell to fifth place alone.
Fifth-place payout (per GolfDigest.com): $474,659.
Finau's only PGA Tour win came at the 2016 Puerto Rican Open, where he pocketed $540,000.
Still, Sunday's finish marked his first top-five finish in a major, and that's priceless, right? Right?
