*Wells Fargo Championship: $15,326 (73rd) *Zurich Classic of New Orleans: $34,310 (T37) Waste Management Phoenix Open: $15,549 (66th) Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: $13,510 (76th) Sanderson Farms Championship: $13,794 (68th) So, with all that in mind, here’s the breakdown for our hypothetical player:Ī Military Tribute at the Greenbrier: $15,825 (67th) Cutlines often include many players tied on the number, which is why last place varies widely, from 66th to T80.
For the purposes of this story, I’ll use the amounts from 2018-19 tournament season finishes to fill the canceled tournament voids.Īlso worth noting: PGA Tour tournament purses vary, generally ranging from the low $6-millions to the high $7-millions, depending on the event (the Bermuda Championship and Puerto Rico Open are exceptions here - they’re held opposite WGCs - with total purses of only $3 million). There were a total of 23 regular, full-field PGA Tour tournaments played during the 2019-2020 season (five were canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, and others, like the Masters, were postponed into the 2020-21 season). With the new PGA Tour season already upon us, it raises an interesting question: What would a fully exempt player have made during the 2019-20 season if he made the cut at every single regular-season Tour event (not including majors, WGCs, limited-field events or the FedEx Cup playoffs), but finished at the bottom of the leaderboard every single time? Meanwhile, carrying the bag for fringe PGA Tour players might result in a yearly salary that doesn’t enter six figures.Travel Big-time bucks: Here’s how much money is made (and paid) by the average Tour pro By: That gives you a good idea why caddies are also very happy when a putt to win a PGA Tour event drops.Įxtrapolate it out over the course of a season, and caddies for the best players in the world can do very well. So how a golfer performs greatly impacts a caddie’s weekly salary. They can go anywhere from just earning their base rate if the player misses the cut to between an additional $1,000 for an average last-place finish and $164,000 for a win (even more for higher-profile events). That means a caddie’s weekly pay can fluctuate quite a bit. The expected average rates include seven percent for a top-ten finish and five percent for any other finish. Outside of a victory, there’s a little more variance in what a caddie earns. That’s a pretty good chunk of change, as the average value of a win on the PGA Tour during the 2021-22 season was just over $1.64 million. While these figures can be different based on negotiations, the most standard figure is that the caddie of a tournament’s winner earns ten percent of what the golfer wins. Of course, missing the cut means the player and the caddie do not make another dollar in prize money that week. The higher a player finishes, the more prize money he can make and the more significant portion of that amount a caddie earns. The next portion – and the most lucrative – comprises of a percentage of the player’s winnings. The caddie is making financial investments in each tournament played, just the like the player. This is important because most PGA Tour caddies pay their travel expenses, including lodging, food, etc. First, the caddie receives a regular base salary to work for a player, usually between $1,500 to $3,000 per tournament. A PGA Tour caddie’s salary consists of two parts.
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