What PGA Championship stars earn after missing cut in full purse breakdown
The PGA Championship is well underway and golf's top stars are vying for the grand prize at Quail Hollow. At the halfway point, Jhonattan Vegas is the unlikely leader on eight-under-par ahead of Day 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Venezuelan holds a two-shot lead over the trio of Matt Fitzpatrick, Kim Si-woo, and Matthieu Pavon in T2. World number one Scottie Scheffler is next up in T5 on five-under and is joined by Max Horna. At the other end of the leaderboard, defending champion Xander Schauffele and Masters victor Rory McIlroy sit at T62, nine shots off the lead.
Both scraped through the right side of the cut line on Friday, with the PGA Championship field reduced from 156 to 74.
Plenty of high-profile names missed out on the opportunity to compete for the rest of the weekend. The most notable players included three-time PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, golf legend Phil Mickelson, and two-time champion Justin Thomas. Recent Masters runner-up Justin Rose also fell well short of the mark, finishing on nine-over.
Jordan Spieth and Shane Lowry came closer to securing their place for Day 3. However, all those who missed the cut do not leave Quail Hollow empty-handed.
The players who finished below the cut line last year each received $4,000 (£3,000). The prize money breakdown for the 2025 PGA Championship will be revealed later this weekend, but the total is expected to improve from $18.5m (£13.9m) and move closer to $20m (£15m).
Schauffele was rewarded with a $3.3m (£2.48m) payday when he triumphed at the PGA Championship last year, almost double the $1.8m (£1.36m) that McIlroy received for winning the same tournament a decade earlier.
Meanwhile, last year's runner-up Bryson DeChambeau earned just shy of $2m (£1.5m) for his efforts. It is a far cry from the $500 that inaugural winner Jim Barnes was given in 1916.
The recent prize money figures reflect the trend of the PGA striving to match the lucrative payouts offered by LIV Golf. The Masters boasted a $21m (£15.8m) prize pot last month, just shy of the $21.5m (16.1m) shared out at last year's US Open. The Open Championship also paid out $17m (£12.8m) in 2024. Here's a full breakdown of the PGA Championship prize money from last year.
2024 PGA Championship prize money payouts
2: $1,998,000
3: $1,258,000
4: $888,000
5: $740,000
6: $660,580
7: $618,300
8: $577,790
9: $539,030
10: $502,040
11: $466,810
12: $433,340
13: $401,630
14: $371,690
15: $343,500
16: $317,080
17: $292,420
18: $269,520
19: $248,380
20: $229,000
21: $211,390
22: $195,530
23: $181,440
24: $169,990
25: $158,980
26: $148,410
27: $138,280
28: $128,590
29: $119,340
30: $110,540
31: $103,490
32: $97,330
33: $92,040
34: $87,640
35: $84,110
36: $80,770
37: $77,510
38: $74,340
39: $71,250
40: $68,260
41: $65,350
42: $62,530
43: $59,800
44: $57,160
45: $54,610
46: $52,140
47: $49,760
48: $47,470
49: $45,270
50: $43,160
51: $41,130
52: $39,190
53: $37,340
54: $35,580
55: $33,910
56: $32,320
57: $30,830
58: $29,590
59: $28,540
60: $27,660
61: $26,950
62: $26,440
63: $26,000
64: $25,590
65: $25,190
66: $24,800
67: $24,430
68: $24,060
69: $23,690
70: $23,340
71: $23,060
72: $22,830
73: $22,650
74: $22,470
75: $22,350
76: $22,230
77: $22,140
78: $22,100
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