There’s a reason why everyone on the LPGA Tour wants to play in the CME Group Tour Championship. Competing in the no-cut, limited-field finale to the tour year is a symbol of a season well played, even if the season was interrupted by a pandemic.
There is also a financial reward that comes from playing in the season finale. For World No.1 Jin Young Ko, the winner on Sunday at Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida, a come-from-behind five-stroke runaway with a closing 66 earned her $US1.1 million, the largest first-place payday on tour in 2020.
Ko, 25, played in just four events on the LPGA Tour this season, choosing to stay in her native South Korea and wait out the pandemic. Yet she earned $1.66 million in those starts to jump to No.1 on the money list for the year. And she also topped the $5 million in career earnings, becoming the 71st player in LPGA history to reach that mark
Ko passed third-round leader Sei Young Kim on Sunday, but Kim didn’t walk away without a reward of her own. With a share of second, the 27-year-old earned enough points to claim the Rolex Player of the Year award for the first time in her career.
Here’s the prizemoney payout for each player in the field this week. We’ll update this list shortly after the finish on Sunday to list the names of those who played and how much they earned.
Win: Jin Young Ko, -18, $1,100,000
T-2: Sei Young Ko, -13, $209,555
T-2: Hannah Green, -13, $209,555
4: Mina Harigae, -12, $117,279
5: $91,058
6: $73,579
7: $60,469
8: $50,855
9: $44,738
10: $40,368
11: $36,871
12: $34,248
13: $32,063
14: $30,141
15: $28,393
16: $26,820
17: $25,421
18: $24,199
19: $23,149
20: $22,276
21: $21,576
22: $20,878
23: $20,178
24: $19,479
25: $18,779
26: $18,168
27: $17,557
28: $16,943
29: $16,332
30: $15,721
31: $15,196
32: $14,671
33: $14,147
34: $13,622
35: $13,098
36: $12,662
37: $12,224
38: $11,788
39: $11,350
40: $10,913
41: $10,564
42: $10,215
43: $9,865
44: $9,515
45: $9,165
46: $8,903
47: $8,641
48: $8,379
49: $8,116
50: $7,854
51: $7,592
52: $7,418
53: $7,243
54: $7,067
55: $6,894
56: $6,718
57: $6,543
58: $6,369
59: $6,194
60: $6,020
61: $5,844
62: $5,758
63: $5,669
64: $5,582
65: $5,495
66: $5,407
67: $5,320
68: $5,233
69: $5,144
70: $5,058
71: $4,971
72: $4,927
