Digging into the LIV Singapore Cash
So, LIV Golf was in Singapore, right? Heard all the buzz about the massive amounts of money they throw around. It really got me curious. I mean, you hear these huge numbers, but what does it actually mean for the players, especially at that specific event?
I decided I wanted to figure out the real deal with the prize money for the Singapore tournament. My first step, like usual, was just hitting up the internet. Fired up my browser and typed in something simple, like “LIV Golf Singapore prize money breakdown”.
Right away, I saw the big headline numbers everywhere. Stuff like:
- $25 million total prize fund
- $20 million for the individual players
- $5 million for the team competition
Okay, cool. $25 million is a boatload of cash. But that’s the total pot. I wanted specifics. Like, how much did the guy who won actually pocket? What about someone finishing, say, 20th? And how did that team money get split?
Finding that took a bit more digging. The headlines give you the flashy total, but the detailed split isn’t always front and center. I had to sift through a few sports news articles and golf sites. Some just repeated the total purse, which wasn’t what I needed.
Eventually, I found a couple of sources that laid it out pretty clearly. It went something like this:
- The individual winner got a massive chunk, like $4 million. Just for one weekend’s work!
- Even the guy finishing last in the individual part still got paid, something around $120,000 I think. That’s pretty different from older tours where you miss the cut, you get nothing.
- Then there was the team part. The winning team split $3 million (so $750k each for the four players). Second place team got $1.5 million, and third got $500k.
Seeing the actual breakdown really put it into perspective. The winner’s check is huge, obviously. But the guaranteed money for everyone and the extra cash for the team part really shows how different LIV is trying to be. You compare that $4 million win to some other big tournaments, and it’s right up there, maybe even higher.
So yeah, took a little bit of searching past the headlines, but I managed to get a clearer picture of where all that money went for the Singapore event. It’s definitely a lot, no matter how you slice it.
