The Memorial Tournament winner will make $4 million, as you can see at the bottom of this story. And the event will pay out $20 million total. And Jack Nicklaus says money is part of what makes a tournament attractive to players.
But, in hosting the Memorial for 50 years, Nicklaus said there’s more.
“I mean, first of all, the course, the date,” Nicklaus said earlier this week. “I think the purse to some degree, not a major degree. If you have a really good golf course and you really have it in great condition, the players, by their comments of what it is, sort of help advance that. I think most of the players that have come here have really liked the golf course and really liked the condition.
“But also, you know, one thing I tried to do is I knew how I would like to be treated as a player and where I went and what I did. And, you know, there’s some tournaments that did it pretty well. Some did it fair. I think we do it pretty well here. And I think the whole idea of making sure that the players are taken care of from a practice facility — to be able to get from the practice facility to the putting green and the first tee, to be able to — you know, I think autographs are great for the kids and so forth, but there’s a certain time and place for ’em, and to me, it’s not on the golf course. The practice area and that area is fine.
“So that was one of the things we did. Augusta does the same thing with that. I think that we saw all those things that people — that I liked to have done as a player. You have your courtesy cars. You have — you try to just — I’m forgetting 90 percent of it, but, you know, I always sort of liked the way things — so we try to do that here. The way I would like to be treated, the way that I thought a player should be treated, that’s what we wanted to do here. So that’s part of help building what you’re doing.
“I think that the support you get from the golfing community and the press, obviously. You know, you guys have given us great press. You’ve given us great respect as far as what we do and what we try to do. That’s very important to what we do.”
With that, here are the money payouts for the Memorial, played at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.
1. $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
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