Atlanta Drive has been crowned champion of the first edition of the TGL, but how much money does each player of the champion team take home? And what about the rest?
The total prize pool distributed among all the TGL teams this season amounts to 21 million dollars. To that, you must add what each player has signed for joining each of the teams. Those figures have not been disclosed.
Regarding the prize pool, the winning team has secured a bounty of nine million dollars in prizes. Divided among the four members, Billy Horschel, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Lucas Glover, have earned 2.25 million dollars each. By way of comparison, TGL co-founder Rory McIlroy took home 4.5 million dollars for winning The Players Championship on 17 March, and Hovland’s victory at the Valspar Championship earned him 1.566 million dollars.
The finalists from New York, Xander Schaufflele, Cameron Young, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Fitzpatrick have received an individual cheque of 1.125 million dollars. The total for the team is 4.5 million.
Precisely Tiger and Rory, the league’s promoters, have finished at the bottom of the tournament and will earn the least through this route. Tiger has taken home $437,000 for finishing fifth, and the Northern Irishman $375,000 for closing the table with Boston Common.
What is the breakdown according to the position of each TGL team?
- Atlanta Drive (Billy Horschel, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Lucas Glover): 9 million dollars – 2.25 million each.
- New York (Xander Schaufflele, Cameron Young, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Fitzpatrick): 4.5 million dollars – 1.125 million each.
- LAGC (Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose): 2.25 million dollars – 562,500 each.
- The Bay (Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Shane Lowry): 2 million dollars – 500,000 each.
- Jupiter Links (Tiger Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim, Kevin Kisner): 1.75 million dollars – 435,000 each.
- Boston Common (Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott): 1.5 million dollars – 375,000 each.
