The PGA Tour’s annual visit to California’s Monterey Peninsula for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am appeals to the entire spectrum of golf fans. Traditionalists love hearing stories about the early days of the old Crosby Clambake, when celebrities were more popular than the tour pros. Architecture aficionados are captivated once again by the magnificent beauty of Pebble Beach Golf Links—and the underrated splendor of Spyglass Hill. Purists will be excited by the fact this signature event has 45 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the 80-player field, including major winners Scott Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth making their 2025 tour debuts.
With history and style going for it, there is also a lot of money on the line this week. The overall purse is $20 million in the no cut event with the winner taking home a $3.6 million first-place prize money payout. It’s a tidy sum considering that only 25 years ago, when Tiger Woods memorably won the event, he made only $720,000 and the overall purse was just $4 million. Indeed, how times have changed.
Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer this week playing Pebble Beach and Spyglass. Come back after the final round and we’ll update this with individual names and paydays.
Sherman Chu false Public Pebble Beach Golf Links Pebble Beach, CA 4.7 43 Panelists
- 100 Greatest
- 100 Greatest Public
- Best In State
Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, too, with nine holes perched immediately above the crashing Pacific surf—the fourth through 10th plus the 17th and 18th. Pebble’s sixth through eighth are golf’s real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over an ocean cove on the eighth from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Pebble hosted a successful U.S. Amateur in 2018 and a sixth U.S. Open in 2019. Recent improvements include the redesign of the once-treacherous 14th green, and reshaping of the par-3 17th green, both planned by Arnold Palmer’s Design Company a few years back—and the current changes to the iconic eighth hole. Pebble Beach hosted the Women’s U.S. Open for the first time in 2023. View Course
Win: $3,600,000
2: $2,160,000
3: $1,360,000
4: $960,000
5: $795,000
6: $715,000
7: $665,000
8: $615,000
9: $575,000
10: $535,000
11: $495,000
12: $455,000
13: $415,000
14: $375,000
15: $352,000
16: $332,000
17: $312,000
18: $292,000
19: $272,000
20: $252,000
21: $232,000
22: $217,000
23: $202,000
24: $187,000
25: $172,000
26: $158,000
27: $150,000
28: $143,000
29: $137,000
30: $131,000
31: $125,000
32: $119,000
33: $114,000
34: $109,000
35: $104,000
36: $99,000
37: $94,000
38: $89,000
39: $84,000
40: $80,000
Evan Schiller false Public Spyglass Hill Golf Course Pebble Beach, CA 4.4 38 Panelists
- 100 Greatest
- 100 Greatest Public
- Best In State
Given the task of designing a course just up the 17 Mile Drive from Pebble Beach and Cypress Point, Robert Trent Jones responded with a combination of Pine Valley and Augusta National. The five opening holes, in Pine Valley-like sand dunes, are an all-too-brief encounter with the Pacific seacoast. The remaining holes are a stern hike through hills covered with majestic Monterey pines (which, sad to say, may someday disappear to pitch canker, but are being replaced in some areas with cypress trees). Add several water hazards that hearken back to the 16th at Augusta (a hole which Trent Jones designed, by the way) and you have what some panelists consider to be Trent’s finest work. Others say it’s the best course never to have hosted a major event. After all, even Pine Valley and Cypress Point have hosted Walker Cups. View Course
41: $76,000
42: $72,000
43: $68,000
44: $64,000
45: $60,000
46: $57,000
47: $54,000
48: $52,000
49: $50,000
50: $48,000
51: $47,000
52: $46,000
53: $45,000
54: $44,000
55: $43,000
56: $42,000
57: $41,000
58: $40,000
59: $39,500
60: $39,000
61: $38,500
62: $38,000
63: $37,500
64: $37,000
65: $36,500
66: $36,000
67: $35,500
68: $35,000
69: $34,750
70: $34,500
71: $34,250
72: $34,000
73: $33,750
74: $33,500
75: $33,250
76: $33,000
77: $32,750
78: $32,500
79: $32,250
80: $32,000
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com