Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are set to be handsomely rewarded by the PGA Tour for staying loyal.
Tiger Woods is set to bank $100m for staying loyal to the PGA Tour – around double of Rory McIlroy’s prize and dwarfing every other golfer on the circuit.
Woods, along with McIlroy, has been one of the most vocal critics of the breakaway LIV Tour and has stayed put while the likes of Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and most prominently Jon Rahm have made the jump. His recent performances have fallen by the wayside and he finished The Masters with a career-worst +16, but as one of the most decorated golfers ever, he is still a highly valuable asset to the PGA Tour.
And that's set to be reflected when the equity payments go out this month. According to The Telegraph, Woods is set to bank $100m, owing largely to his career points – a metric designed to reward players for career achievements on the tour. Woods has won 15 PGA Majors, second only in the all-time rankings to Jack Nicklaus.
The equity payments see around $1bn split between 193 PGA golfers but $750m is shared among the 36 superstars deemed most worthy of financial reward, on a sliding scale system. McIlroy is set to be the second most handsomely rewarded with around $50m and that comes after vehemently denying reports he was set to make the switch to LIV. It's believed Mickelson would have been second had he not defected to LIV.
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