The PGA Tour’s Florida Swing moves north to Orlando for another signature event, the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Nine of the top 10 players in the world are in action, including 2024 Arnold Palmer champion Scottie Scheffler and World No. 3, Xander Schauffele, who is returning from a rib injury that he was battling since the start of the year. They’ll all be playing for the customary $20 million purse with the winner taking home $4 million. There will be a cut.
Rory McIlroy (2), Ludvig Aberg (4), Collin Morikawa (5), Hideki Matsuyama (6), Wyndham Clark (7), Justin Thomas (8) and Tommy Fleetwood (10) are the others inside the top 10.
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Scheffler hasn’t won this year but has collected two top-10 finishes and aside from winning here last year, he also won three years ago. Aberg is playing in his first tour event since winning the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines. McIlroy, the 2018 Bay Hill winner who won at Pebble Beach last month, is playing here for the 11th time.
Headlines last week showed that both Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth were not given sponsor exemptions at Bay Hill. Instead they went to Justin Rose and Rafael Campos, who usually plays in the opposite-field event in his native Puerto Rico.
Up next: the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass at PGA Tour headquarters.
Here’s the rundown of what each player who makes the cut will earn this week. Check back here Sunday after play is complete for updates.
WIN: $4 million
2: $2.2 million
3: $1.4 million
4: $1 million
5: $840,000
6: $760,000
7: $700,000
8: $646,000
9: $600,000
10: $556,000
11: $514,000
12: $472,000
13: $430,000
14: $389,000
15: $369,000
16: $349,000
17: $329,000
18: $309,000
19: $289,000
20: $269,000
21: $250,000
22: $233,000
23: $216,000
24: $200,000
25: $184,000
26: $168,000
27: $161,000
28: $154,000
29: $147,000
30: $140,000
31: $133,000
32: $126,000
33: $119,000
34: $114,000
35: $109,000
36: $104,000
37: $99,000
38: $94,000
39: $90,000
40: $86,000
41: $82,000
42: $78,000
43: $74,000
44: $70,000
45: $66,000
46: $62,000
47: $58,000
48: $56,000
49: $54,000
50: $52,000
51: $51,000
52: $50,000
53: $49,000
54: $48,000
55: $47,000
56: $46,000
57: $45,000
58: $44,000
59: $43,000
60: $42,000
61: $41,000
62: $40,000
63: $39,000
64: $38,000
65: $37,000
66: $36,000
67: $35,000
68: $34,000
69: $33,000
70: $32,000
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
