PGA Championship 2025: Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at Quail Hollow Club

When Jim Barnes claimed the inaugural PGA Championship title in 1916, he earned a prize money payout of $500 from an overall purse of $2,580.

Yes, times have changed.

The PGA of America will announce on Saturday how much the 156 players in the 2025 PGA Championship field at Quail Hollow are playing for. The expectation is that it will likely exceed the $18.5 million that was up for grabs a year ago at Valhalla Golf Club, when Xander Schauffele banked $3.33 million for his victory.

If it indeed does increase once more, it will mean that the payday has jumped every year since the purse was $11 million in 2020.

The likely potential is that the PGA of America will bump up the prize money payout to $20 million. That matches the paydays offered in the PGA Tour’s signature events as well as the purses for the individual competitions on the LIV Golf circuit.

As for the majors, the U.S. Open handed out $21.5 million in 2024 while Masters increased its purse to $21 million in April. The Open Championship paid out $17 million at Royal Troon in 2024.

For perspective, here’s a look at the evolution of the prize money payout in the PGA Championship, offering a revealing glance at the trajectory of golf purses in general over the years:

Year: Winner’s Pay, Total Purse 1916: $500, $2,580 (first year of the event) 1931: $1,000, $7,200 (first year winner’s pay increased) 1953: $5,000, $20,700 (first year winner’s pay was $5K) 1958: $5,500, $39,388 (first year of stroke play, also the winner’s amount actually decreased that year) 1965: $25,000, $149,700 1978: $50,000, $300,240 1983: $100,000, $608,099 1988: $160,000, $1,000,000 (first year with a $1M total purse) 1993: $300,000, $1,702,750 1998: $540,000, $2,886,800 2000: $900,000, $5,031,100 (first year with a $5M total purse) 2003: $1,080,000, $5,938,300 (first year with $1M-plus to the winner) 2009: $1,350,000, $7,484,500 2014: $1,800,000, $9,913,000 2018: $1,980,000, $11,000,000 2021: $2,160,000, $12,000,000 2022: $2,700,000, $15,000,000 2023: $3,150,000, $17,500,000 2024: $3,300,000, $18,500,000

Here is a breakdown of the prize money payouts offered last year at Valhalla when the overall purse was $18.5 million. We’ll update this when the new totals for 2025 are revealed.

Courtesy of PGA of America Private Quail Hollow Club Charlotte, NC 4.2 14 Panelists

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Few golf course projects had more national attention in recent years than Quail Hollow, mainly because its front nine was redesigned just a year before it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship. The par-4 first and par-3 second holes were completely torn up, replaced by a new long dogleg-right par-4 opening hole. Several acres of pines to the left of the fifth tee were removed to make room for a new par-3 fourth. (With its knobby green fronted by three traps, it proved to be the most frustrating hole for pros in the 2017 PGA.) More pines were removed to the left of the par-4 11th, replaced by bunkers, and even more trees chopped down on a hill left of the par-4 18th to make room for money-making hospitality boxes. There’s no question that this latest remodeling, rushed though it was, improved the course. Quail Hollow hosted the 2022 Presidents Cup (the order of the holes were rearranged to ensure the majority of matches would reach the vaunted Green Mile, 16-18) and the 2025 PGA Championship. View Course

Win: $3,330,000

2: $1,998,000

3: $1,258,000

4: $888,000

5: $740,000

6: $660,580

7: $618,300

8: $577,790

9: $539,030

10: $502,040

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11: $466,810

12: $433,340

13: $401,630

14: $371,690

15: $343,500

16: $317,080

17: $292,420

18: $269,520

19: $248,380

20: $229,000

21: $211,390

22: $195,530

23: $181,440

24: $169,990

25: $158,980

26: $148,410

27: $138,280

28: $128,590

29: $119,340

30: $110,540

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31: $103,490

32: $97,330

33: $92,040

34: $87,640

35: $84,110

36: $80,770

37: $77,510

38: $74,340

39: $71,250

40: $68,260

41: $65,350

42: $62,530

43: $59,800

44: $57,160

45: $54,610

46: $52,140

47: $49,760

48: $47,470

49: $45,270

50: $43,160

51: $41,130

52: $39,190

53: $37,340

54: $35,580

55: $33,910

56: $32,320

57: $30,830

58: $29,590

59: $28,540

60: $27,660

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61: $26,950

62: $26,440

63: $26,000

64: $25,590

65: $25,190

66: $24,800

67: $24,430

68: $24,060

69: $23,690

70: $23,340

71: $23,060

72: $22,830

73: $22,650

74: $22,470

75: $22,350

76: $22,230

77: $22,140

78: $22,100

Players missing the cut and turning in a 36-hole score will be paid $4,000 each. Any player making the cut, but failing to submit a 72-hole score, will also be paid $4,000.

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