2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am money: Here’s how much every player made
Wyndham Clark hits his second shot on Saturday on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.
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Let’s talk money. Fitting, right? Look at the headline above. Seems to be a hot topic, too.
Remember how this Pebble Beach Pro-Am week started? The PGA Tour and a gang named the Strategic Sports Group shook hands over a funding deal, and suddenly the Tour could clean everyone’s golf clubs with hundreds if they so chose. Over a billion bucks was in play.
That’s a lot of money. It’s a lot to think about. Players were asked about it. But maybe no one more interestingly than Collin Morikawa.
It started when he was asked what he’d think if the money in golf never budged over the next 10 years. And whether that would concern him.
“From the purses now or the purses that we had,” he asked.
“The purses now.”
“I mean, yeah,” he said, “if inflation goes up really high, I’ll be worried.”
“Say we see a two percent like the Fed wants.”
“Never happens.”
Then he went deep.
“I mean, look, we’re playing for a lot of money this week. I don’t know what the final purse is or what the winner makes, but there’s a lot of money up for grabs and you can make a very great living. I think so many — there’s a bunch of guys that made over $10 million on the course last year and a lot of guys that made over 5 million on the course. Like that’s a lot of money. The way sports are going right now, they’re on the uphill, they’re on the climb, right? Football’s obviously the biggest.
“I think at the end of the day if we keep getting more eyeballs on golf — and that’s the biggest hurdle that we have to accomplish: how do we get more eyeballs on golf — I would hope to expect that more money’s pushed into this. But at this point right now where we’re at, it’s a lot of money that we’re playing for and I’m very thankful to be doing that, but I also see that we need more people to be interested in golf. We need to make golf more intriguing to the viewers. How do we make broadcasting more approachable, how do we see more golf shots at the end of the day, right? I turn on golf on a Thursday if I play early, I turn it on and I see three golf shots and I question why. The reason why other sports are — people pay attention is because people see more, you can probably bet more.
“People like betting when you can watch it live, not watch it on ShotTracer.”
At the least, it’s something to snack on in the days and weeks ahead.
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