We looked at the top 50 on the career victory list (53 players with ties) and, using the PGA Tour’s Media Guide and ShotLink database, uncovered the biggest prizes earned for each golfer.
If the recent PGA Tour of Australasia season taught us anything, it’s that there may never have been a more challenging time to make that leap of faith into the pro ranks.
Tour pros – despite obviously being gifted with incredible hand-eye co-ordination – fail to connect properly when performing the simple celebration of a high-five way more often than you might think.
Google is your friend, as the saying goes. Marc Leishman must have heard that one before, because the well-known search engine came up clutch for the Big Aussie this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
A program of this kind had been in discussion for multiple years, and the tour’s Player Advisory Council always understood the value in rewarding the tour’s highest-profile players.
Zack Sucher will replace Power in the field at TPC Louisiana and as the teammate of David Hearn, who was originally scheduled to play with the 34-year-old Irishman.
According to the tour’s driving distance metric, both Finau and Champ are lagging behind Bryson DeChambeau, but what most players will tell you is that both Finau and Champ are not hitting it as long as they actually could.
Called the “Player Impact Program”, the pool appears to be a response to some of the incentives of the Premier Golf League, a proposed tour that would compete with the PGA Tour for top players.
Australian Golf Digest
