“Everything. I don’t know,” Lower said, choking up. “Yeah, I mean, there’s 18 holes tomorrow on a very scorable golf course. I think the wind’s going to stay down again, so I have to go out and basically shoot probably somewhere between five- and nine-under again. I mean, it’s just the way the scores are out here. If the wind’s down, scores are going to be low. Yeah, a win would mean everything. I still have a job to do.”
Why did he get emotional over the question?
“I have no idea, honestly,” Lowe said. “I told myself I’m going to stop doing this in interviews.
“But just I work really hard in this game, I work really hard at it. Sometimes I think I never would have gotten this far, and I’ve been through a lot in my life and it’s just, I don’t know, it’s just a lot of fun. It’s nothing sad that I’m crying. I don’t know, it’s just joyful. I love being out here.
“I hate all the changes they’re making. That’s a whole ’nother subject I could rant about for like an hour. Seems like anytime I do something good, they make a change.
“Yeah, it just means a lot to me. I just want to see — I just want to see how good I can do and prove to myself that I can actually do something in this game.”
With that, below is the complete payout breakdown for this week’s World Wide Technology Championship. The total purse is $7.2 million.
How much every player made at the 2024 World Wide Technology Championship
1. Austin Eckroat $1.296 million
T2. Justin Lower $640,800 Carson Young $640,800
4. Max Greyserman $352,800
5. Joe Highsmith $295,200
T6. Garrick Higgo $219,600 Sam Stevens $219,600 Wesley Bryan $219,600 Maverick McNealy $219,600 David Lipsky $219,600 Nico Echavarria $219,600
T12. Kevin Chappell $160,200 Patrick Fishburn $160,200
T14. Harry Hall $120,600 Harris English $120,600 Dylan Wu $120,600 Ryan Gerard $120,600 Jacob Bridgeman $120,600 Joel Dahmen $120,600
T24. Kevin Streelman $58,680 Kelly Kraft $58,680 Lucas Glover $58,680 Patrick Rodgers $58,680 Ryan McCormick $58,680 Ben Griffin $58,680
T30. Sam Ryder $41,320 Michael Kim $41,320 Harry Higgs $41,320 Brandon Wu $41,320 Nick Hardy $41,320 Henrik Norlander $41,320 J.J. Spaun $41,320 Charley Hoffman $41,320 Matt Kuchar $41,320
T39. Alex Smalley $31,320 Adam Svensson $31,320 Chesson Hadley$31,320
T42. Tom Whitney $27,000 Danny Willett $27,000 Martin Laird $27,000
T45. Josh Teter $19,864 Justin Suh $19,864 Tyson Alexander $19,864 Rico Hoey $19,864 Blaine Hale Jr. $19,864 S.Y. Noh $19,864 Tom Hoge $19,864 Zac Blair $19,864 Hayden Springer $19,864
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