The Olympics are the one time every four years that the best athletes in the world are in the same city battling it out for gold medals and ultimate bragging rights.
And for the golfers, instead of competing for large sums of money like most do every single week, the main prize is a gold medal.
The winner of this week’s Paris Olympics men’s golf competition at Le Golf National will receive the following: exemptions into all major championships during the 2025 season, exemption into the 2025 Players, the 2025 Sentry, given the gold medalist is a PGA Tour member, and Official World Golf Ranking points.
Oh, and the gold medal.
The Olympics does not award prize money, instead just gold, silver and bronze medals to its competing athletes. However, there’s still a way for athletes to make money at the games.
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For Team USA, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee pays its winning athletes $37,500 for gold medals, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze medals. Similarly to the U.S., the Canadian Olympic Committee says it will pay $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze.
Although there are no golfers from Hong Kong, if one of the country’s athletes wins gold in Paris, it’s a $6,000,000 HK payday or equivalent to $768,232 US dollars.
And this year, for the first time, all of the track and field athletes will receive $50,000 for gold from the governing body World Athletics.
But for golf, there is no prize money from the Olympics or the International Golf Federation, only from individual countries’ Olympic committees.