LIV Golf Payouts And Prize Money

The LIV Golf Series has seen huge prize payouts so far, but the biggest purse is reserved for the season finale

Brooks Koepka poses with the trophy after winning the LIV Golf Jeddah tournament
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The inaugural season of LIV Golf is drawing to a close with the Team Championship knockout competition at Trump National Doral in Florida. While one of the defining aspects of the seven tournaments played since June is the huge prize money on offer, the season finale has the biggest purse of all - $50m.

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The 12 teams will compete in a knockout format to determine the LIV Golf Invitational Series Team Champion. The winning team will share $16 million equally between its four members, while the team in the runner-up position wins $8 million. Meanwhile, even teams knocked out at the semi-final stage will receive $3 million, with the four teams that fail to make it past the quarter-final rewarded to the tune of $1 million.

That will surely prove a fitting finale for a season that offered staggering purses of $25 million in each of the first seven tournaments. Of that, $20 million was awarded in the individual competitions and a further $5 million shared between the top three finishers in the team competition. In each tournament, the winner of each individual competition won $4 million and the runner-up claimed $2.125 million. A further $3 million was shared between the four winning team members in each tournament, with $1.5 million for the team finishing second and $500,000 for the team in third.

Alongside each tournament, there was a separate LIV Golf Individual Championship with players awarded points based on their finishing position each week. With another $30 million up for grabs, Dustin Johnson was crowned champion with one regular-season event to spare to claim $18 million. Branden Grace finished runner-up to claim a bonus of $8 million, while Peter Uihlein finished third to win $4 million.

With Johnson having won over $30 million in the season so far, he will be confident of his top-seeded 4 Aces GC team claiming another sizeable prize as the season concludes. Below is a full breakdown of the prize money for the season-closing Team Championship and the money paid out in the previous seven regular-season events

LIV Golf Team Championship Prize Money

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PositionPrize Money
1st$16m
2nd$8m
3rd$6m
4th$4m
5th$3m
6th$3m
7th$3m
8th$3m
9th$1m
10th$1m
11th$1m
12th$1m

Individual Prize Money - Regular Season Events

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PositionPrize Money
1st$4,000,000
2nd$2,125,000
3rd$1,500,000
4th$1,050,000
5th$975,000
6th$800,000
7th$675,000
8th$625,000
9th$580,000
10th$560,000
11th$540,000
12th$450,000
13th$360,000
14th$270,000
15th$250,000
16th$240,000
17th$232,000
18th$226,200
19th$220,000
20th$200,000
21st$180,000
22nd$172,000
23rd$170,000
24th$168,000
25th$166,000
26th$164,000
27th$162,000
28th$160,000
29th$158,000
30th$156,000
31st$154,000
32nd$152,000
33rd$150,000
34th$148,000
35th$146,000
36th$144,000
37th$142,000
38th$140,000
39th$138,000
40th$136,000
41st$134,000
42nd$132,000
43rd$130,000
44th$128,000
45th$126,000
46th$124,000
47th$122,000
48th$120,000

Team Prize Money - Regular Season Events

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PositionPrize Money
1st$3,000,000
2nd$1,500,000
3rd$500,000
Mike Hall
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Mike has over 25 years of experience in journalism, including writing on a range of sports throughout that time, such as golf, football and cricket. Now a freelance staff writer for Golf Monthly, he is dedicated to covering the game's most newsworthy stories. 

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