PGA Championship purse 2016: $1.8 million in prize money awaits winner

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There"s a lot more than glory to play for this week at Baltusrol.

The winner of this week"s PGA Championship at Baltusrol will earn $ 1.8 million out of a total purse of $ 10 million.

The PGA Championship bumped its purse to $ 10 million in 2014 to quell any notion that it was somehow lesser than the sport"s three other major tournaments. The move was made in conjunction with the PGA Tour in a showy press conference touting both the PGA and The Players. It tied it with The Players Championship for a short time, before that tournament"s purse jumped to $ 10.5 million this year. The three other majors -- The Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship -- have all moved their purse up to the same $ 10 million as the PGA"s in the intervening year. So the arms race has momentarily slowed down this year, as the sport"s governing bodies compete for status and prestige over whose tournament doles out the most cash.

Returns diminish quickly at the top of the leaderboard -- even a difference of one or two places can mean tens of thousands of dollars. After the winner"s $ 1.8 million, second place gets $ 1.08 million, third place gets $ 680,000, fourth place $ 480,000 and fifth place $ 400,000. Finishing 10th on the board is worth $ 253,000. Finishing 20th is worth $ 116,000, and finishing 30th is worth $ 65,000. The drops are most pronounced at the top.

The top earner on the PGA Tour so far this season is Dustin Johnson, the U.S. Open and Bridgestone winner, whose earnings heading into the PGA Championship were better than $ 7.2 million. Next is world No. 1 Jason Day at $ 6.5 million, then Adam Scott at $ 5 million, Jordan Spieth at $ 4.6 million and Phil Mickelson at $ 3.6 million. Some of the tournament"s top contenders to this point are far lower on the list, including Jimmy Walker at $ 1.5 million and Robert Streb at $ 666,000. For those players, they could roughly (or more than) double their earnings with a win. You can see a full season money list here, on the tour"s official website.

Here"s the complete purse breakdown, from the highest finishers through the last player to make the cut. The payout for players who missed the cut is $ 3,000 apiece, and the payout for cut-makers who finish worse than 70th comes in diminishing intervals of $ 100, starting at $ 17,900. These amounts can change with ties, but there"s a lot of money to be made, no matter who finishes where.

1st -- $ 1,800,000
2nd -- $ 1,080,000
3rd -- $ 680,000
4th -- $ 480,000
5th -- $ 400,000
6th -- $ 335,000
7th -- $ 313,000
8th -- $ 293,000
9th -- $ 273,000
10th -- $ 253,000
11th -- $ 233,000
12th -- $ 213,000
13th -- $ 198,000
14th -- $ 184,000
15th -- $ 172,000
16th -- $ 160,000
17th -- $ 148,000
18th -- $ 136,000
19th -- $ 126,000
20th -- $ 116,000
21st -- $ 106,000
22nd -- $ 96,000
23rd -- $ 91,000
24th -- $ 86,000
25th -- $ 82,000
26th -- $ 78,000
27th -- $ 74,000
28th -- $ 71,000
29th -- $ 68,000
30th -- $ 65,000
31st -- $ 62,000
32nd -- $ 59,000
33rd -- $ 56,000
34th -- $ 53,000
35th -- $ 50,000
36th -- $ 47,400
37th -- $ 44,800
38th -- $ 42,400
39th -- $ 40,000
40th -- $ 38,000
41st -- $ 36,000
42nd -- $ 34,000
43rd -- $ 32,000
44th -- $ 31,000
45th -- $ 30,000
46th -- $ 29,000
47th -- $ 28,000
48th -- $ 27,000
49th -- $ 26,500
50th -- $ 26,000
51st -- $ 25,500
52nd -- $ 25,000
53rd -- $ 24,500
54th -- $ 24,000
55th -- $ 23,500
56th -- $ 23,000
57th -- $ 22,500
58th -- $ 22,000
59th -- $ 21,500
60th -- $ 21,000
61st -- $ 20,600
62nd -- $ 20,200
63rd -- $ 19,800
64th -- $ 19,400
65th -- $ 19,000
66th -- $ 18,800
67th -- $ 18,600
68th -- $ 18,400
69th -- $ 18,200
70th -- $ 18,000
71st -- $ 17,900
72nd -- $ 17,800
73rd -- $ 17,700
74th -- $ 17,600
75th -- $ 17,500
76th -- $ 17,400
77th -- $ 17,300
78th -- $ 17,200
79th -- $ 17,100
80th -- $ 17,000
81st -- $ 16,900
82nd -- $ 16,800
83rd -- $ 16,700
84th -- $ 16,600
85th -- $ 16,500
86th -- $ 16,400

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