The LIV Tour will wrap up its 2023 season, then change dramatically.
1.5 years of tradition will be swept aside as the Saudi-backed golf league merges with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour to end our long, global nightmare of fractured professional golf and lend some extra legitimacy to upstart teams like the Cleeks and Majesticks ™. What this means for the as-yet-unnamed merged league and it’s formats and payouts has yet to be determined.
While LIV reeled in big names with gaudy contracts, the pay structure of those deals remains shrouded in a bit of mystery. The since-abandoned legal battle between the two sides revealed that money won in tournaments is “recouped against the LIV contracts,” which makes it difficult to decipher just how much each player makes. But thanks to the league’s payout structure, we do know how much they’ve earned through tournament play — both as an individual and through their respective team winnings.
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50 LIV members made at least $2 million over the last season-and-a-half in prize money, ranging from Dustin Johnson (nearly $44 million) to Martin Kaymer ($2.4 million). Here’s how the top 20 shook out pre-merger. Totals are tour winnings only and do not account for any signing bonuses or other compensation. All data comes from Spotrac.