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This Florida city is hoping to lure a major in 2031 or soon after. What’s the plan?

Since the PGA Championship moved from August to May, the state of Florida has become much more palatablen.

The PGA of America has the majority of its PGA Championships scheduled out through the next decade, but there are still empty holes in the docket. And since the major tournament moved from August to May, the state of Florida has become much more palatable as a destination.

As the sites for 2031, 2032 and 2033 are still to be determined, a group from the Sarasota, Florida, area is hoping to put together an attractive bid that could persuade the powers that be to give the Sunshine State just its third PGA Championship in history. Jack Nicklaus won at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens during the 1971 season while Larry Nelson won on the same course in 1987.

Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, is on deck. In 2024, it will host its fourth PGA Championship. The Nicklaus design opened in 1986.

According to a story produced by the Community News Collaborative, a non-profit that works with news organizations in the area, local politicians are trying to line up funding for the event.

Sarasota County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to direct county staffers to return on Sept. 26 with funding options for a $3 million sponsorship of The PGA Championship. If the location were to be selected, the event would be played at The Concession Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch in May of 2031 or 2033.

In two weeks, commissioners would likely be briefed on where the money could be found through the Tourist Development Tax fund, which draws revenue from short-term rentals and hotel rooms in Sarasota County. A vote to move ahead could follow.

County Administrator Jonathan Lewis told commissioners on Tuesday that Manatee County is proceeding with a primary sponsorship package of $6 million, if the location is chosen. According to a letter to commissioners from Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota County, the PGA of America’s board is expected to make a decision on the tournament location in November.

“This is a massive opportunity,’’ Commissioner Mike Moran said. “It cannot be ignored the economic driver and stimulus it can create for a community. I hope we’re sending a strong, hard message that we’re in full support of this.’’

Haley wrote that 2023 PGA Championship, played in Rochester, N.Y., was responsible for a $190 million economic impact. Greater Rochester Enterprise estimated 225,000 spectators attended, with about 39% arriving from more than 100 miles away.

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Collin Morikawa celebrates with the Gene Sarazen Cup during the trophy ceremony after winning the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession on February 28, 2021, in Bradenton, Florida. (Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

Concession hosted the WGC-Workday Championship in 2021. Normally held in Mexico and named the WGC-Mexico Championship, that year’s event had a new title and location due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Concession, designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin, was aptly named for Nicklaus’ famous concession of the final putt that Jacklin faced in their singles match in the 1969 Ryder Cup.

More: PGA Championship future sites through 2034

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Lanny Wadkins Q&A: Phil Mickelson would be ‘gambling in a ditch somewhere’ without golf

While talking with Golfweek about the Ryder Cup, Wadkins doubled down on his statements about Mickelson.

Lanny Wadkins knows plenty about what it takes to succeed at the Ryder Cup. The 1977 PGA Championship winner has been a part of nine of them in his storied career, eight as a player and one as a captain.

The Wake Forest product has amassed as many Ryder Cup points as any living American — he’s tied with Phil Mickelson at 21½ — and his 18 total overall match victories are the most by any living player on the U.S. side.

And although he’s 73, Wadkins is showing no signs of slowing down. He still dabbles in PGA Tour Champions TV commentary and his Lanny Wadkins Design firm continues to help with new designs (his BlackJack’s Crossing at Lajitas Golf Club in Texas is Golfweek’s Best Course you can play in the state) as well as redesigns. In fact, on Wednesday, he was in Austin, Texas, to unveil a massive club rebranding at the former Lost Creek Golf Club. Wadkins’ group helped with a complete redesign of the property at what will now be referred to as Westlake Country Club.

As part of the proceedings, Wadkins gave Golfweek some exclusive time to talk Ryder Cup strategy, discuss his loss as U.S. captain at the 1995 event at Oak Hill, and his recent comments about Mickelson.

These are the 16 signature events on the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule

Find the dates, course and defending champion of each event here.

On Thursday, Golfweek released an exclusive unveiling of the 2024 PGA Tour schedule. It includes 16 “signature” events including the four major championships.

Many of the signature events will not have a 36-hole cut, but the Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Players Championship and the Memorial will feature a Friday afternoon slim down.

While the high-level events are evenly spread throughout the schedule, there is a point where players will have an opportunity to play three in a row: the Memorial, U.S. Open and Travelers Championship. Of course, the three playoff events will be played three weeks in a row, as well.

Here are the 16 signature events on the 2024 Tour schedule, including their dates, host venue and defending champion.

Lynch: Brooks Koepka’s major victory is being hijacked by hangers-on

For all that has changed in golf, one thing has remained constant whenever Brooks Koepka wins a major.

For all that has changed in golf, one thing has remained constant whenever Brooks Koepka wins a major championship: his ornery refusal to submit to the customary show and tell tour of television talk shows. A few hours after winning the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday, he headed home to Florida, where he spent Monday celebrating with his buddies on a boat before taking the silverware to a Panthers game. Meanwhile, a man who tied 15th appeared on the Today show, Good Morning America and CNN.

If Koepka was uninterested in using his PGA Championship victory as a platform for point scoring, there was no shortage of scavengers eager to do so in his stead.

His swing instructor, Claude Harmon III, was first out of the blocks, exploiting the moment to air his grievances about those in media (chiefly Brandel Chamblee, with a drive-by caress of yours truly) whose criticisms of LIV Golf are at odds with his avaricious burrowing into the Saudi trough. Harmon has been an occasional friend for 20 years, but even his pals know he’s peerless in marketing himself on the accomplishments of others, a skill honed from the cradle. His attack featured all the whataboutery you’d expect from one more apt to flatter royalty than to inquire after those they torture. (In CH3’s defense, no one should be subjected to a Chamblee reply that is ungoverned by Twitter character limits).

Alert to any opportunity to remind his Saudi overlords that he’s a loyal supplicant, Phil Mickelson leapt on the Brooks bandwagon and sought to portray the win not as proof of Koepka’s brilliance but as evidence of the superiority of the circuit he helped engineer. “Love LIV or hate it, it’s the best way/Tour to be your best in the majors,” he tweeted. “Enough events to keep you sharp, fresh and ready, yet not be worn down from too many tournaments or obligations. 14 LIV events, 34 weeks left open to prepare for the 4 majors. Fact.”

That Mickelson cannot distinguish between statements of fact and opinion comes as no shock since he has long since blurred the line between fact and fiction too.

Greg Norman cheered the victory as one for LIV and organized a welcoming party for the champ at Trump National in Washington, D.C., that had all the spontaneity and genuine warmth of a Pyongyang parade honoring Dear Leader. No such theater greeted Jon Rahm when he arrived at the RBC Heritage fresh off his Masters win, but then no one was desperate to leverage the Spaniard’s success for their own interests.

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Even Bryson DeChambeau has been drafting on his former nemesis. “It validates everything we’ve said from the beginning. That we’re competing at the highest level, and we have the ability to win major championships,” he said, making two points, only one of which is demonstrably true, and even then only for a handful of his colleagues.

Koepka’s fifth major no more belongs to Norman or LIV than his previous four did to Jay Monahan or the PGA Tour, and in the immediate afterglow Koepka bristled at what he knew was coming. Have you heard from Norman? he was asked. “I called my wife, and that’s it,” he replied. “That’s the only person I’m really interested in talking to.”

“I definitely think it helps LIV, but I’m more interested in my own self right now,” he went on. “It’s a huge thing for LIV, but at the same time I’m out here competing as an individual at the PGA Championship.”

Koepka makes a poor patsy for LIV’s lickspittles. He was openly dismissive of regular PGA Tour events so the notion that he’s invested in 54-hole shotgun starts against the Andy Ogletrees of the world is fanciful. He was not a plaintiff in the Saudi-funded litigation, has chosen not to badmouth the tour he left, and has not been a particularly enthusiastic propagandist for the tour he joined. He gives the impression of a man checking the boxes required of him, nothing more.

But while Koepka goes about his business, his triumph is used as a smokescreen by charlatans. Criticisms about Saudi sportswashing, or about the viability of the LIV product, are not nullified because he can still deliver in majors. Sunday reminded us that Koepka is a formidable predator who chooses to swim in a shallow pond, but the days since have revealed the extent to which he is surrounded by pilot fish trying to subsist on his success.

Michael Block wasn’t the only one who had his biggest payday at the 2023 PGA Championship. His caddie did too

Caddie John Jackson did some math on the calculator app on his phone after Block finished T-15.

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Club pro Michael Block wasn’t the only one who cashed the biggest check of his life at the 105th PGA Championship on Sunday.

His caddie, John Jackson, did the math on the calculator app of his phone  Sunday evening after Block finished T-15, the best result by a club pro since 1986, and earned $288,333. Jackson’s take home: $20,183.31.

In a video that was posted on social media, Block looks at the figure (7 percent of Block’s winnings) on Jackson’s phone, smiles widely, slaps him five and gives him knuckles.

“It’s been unreal, surreal, literally a dream, a movie, whatever,” Jackson said Sunday as Block was honored at the 18th green for being the low finisher among the club pros. “Mike and I were pinching ourselves going down the fairways. It was weird. The whole thing is crazy.”

Jackson’s regular job is caddying for resort guests at Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach, California, where he’s looped full-time since 2017. In college, Jackson played for the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters and was part of the NCAA Division II National Championship team in 2011.

Block was one of 20 PGA professionals to qualify for the PGA Championship. He is a 10-time Southern California PGA Player of the Year and the reigning PGA Professional of the Year. Jackson and Block met as competitors at a California State Open around 10 years ago. Block played at the TaylorMade Pebble Beach Invitational one year and Jackson got on his bag and they almost won.

Jackson had previously worked a few majors, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am – but only for amateurs – and the PGA Tour Champions Pure Insurance Open for the last 15 years. Jackson caddied for Block at the PGA at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last year during the practice rounds but got promoted to full status at Oak Hill.

“He called me and said, ‘Do you want to do the whole week this year?’ And we made it the whole week,” Jackson said.

Of Block’s hole-in-one, Jackson noted that he hadn’t made a putt all day. “I said, ‘Just hit it closer,’ ” Jackson recalled.

He did, flying a 7-iron at 15 directly into the cup.

“I wasn’t helping much because I was pumping him up,” Jackson said.

Initially, Jackson planned to decompress on Monday and Tuesday and get back to reality. He said he had some vacationers who had requested work. That all changed when Block was offered a sponsor exemption into the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, which got underway Thursday. Jackson is back on the bag for another Tour start and a chance for another gigantic payday.

“I’d do it again right now if I could,” Jackson said Sunday.

It turns out he didn’t have to wait that long.

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D’Angelo: It would be un-American to leave Brooks Koepka off Ryder Cup team

Anyone who cares about the Ryder Cup should not be happy if Brooks Koepka is not a part of the team.

What is Zach Johnson going to say now:

“It’s two weeks?”

The U.S. Ryder Cup captain had a very uncomfortable week at the PGA Championship answering questions about LIV golfers — particularly Brooks Koepka — making his team.

And when asked before the tournament, Johnson downplayed Koepka’s runner-up finish at the Masters by saying, “It’s one week.”

Then, Koepka proved he’s more than a one-week wonder and won his fifth major Sunday at Oak Hill Country Club outside of Rochester.

Although LIV golfers have been suspended by the PGA Tour, they remain members of the PGA of America, which makes them eligible to play for the U.S. in the Ryder Cup, which this year will be in September outside of Rome. The PGA of America runs the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.

And by winning, Koepka actually is doing Johnson a big favor. Having vaulted to No. 2 in the Ryder Cup rankings, Koepka could take that sticky decision out of Johnson’s hands. The top six in the rankings are automatically on the team. It’s the next six, selected by the captain, that will be dissected and put Johnson on the spot.

More: Brooks Koepka’s coach blasts media, bashes Brandel Chamblee for treatment of LIV Golf players

But not when it comes to Koepka if he maintains that spot in the top six. The only events remaining that will earn him Ryder Cup points are the U.S. Open and British Open.

Koepka second, first in Masters, PGA Championship

Koepka, who joined LIV 11 months ago, has played in two majors this year, the only PGA Tour events he’s eligible for, and finished second and first. Perhaps he was onto something when asked prior to the tournament what would it take to pressure Johnson to add a LIV golfer to the team.

“Go second, first, first, first,” he said about the majors. “It would be kind of tough not to pick, right?”

Not really. In fact, it would be very easy. Koepka, who held the No. 1 spot for 47 weeks, most recently in 2020, once again is the best golfer in the world. Forget what the world rankings say. Given what we’ve seen in the only two events he’s played that matter, nobody believes he’s No. 13, his current world ranking.

Koepka has two more chances to impress Johnson in majors. But even Johnson recognizes that when healthy Koepka has been the best golfer in the world over the last seven years when lights shine brightest.

Starting with his fourth-place finish at the 2016 PGA Championship, Koepka has played in 23 majors with five wins, four times as runner-up and 11 times in the top five. He finished in the top 10 more than 60 percent (14 of 23). And his worst stretch — last year when he was 55th twice and missed the cut twice — came when he wondered if he’d ever be elite again after a long recovery from major knee surgery.

“What I appreciate about Brooks is just how he goes about his work in massive tournaments,” Johnson said. “He’s a rare breed mentally where he just is able to bring out his best in the most difficult and trying of circumstances.”

Johnson understands how much chemistry matters on a team like this. The most documented example occurred in 2004 when Hal Sutton paired Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson when their relationship was frosty. They lost both their matches on opening day to kick start Europe’s easy victory.

“Chemistry is important on any team,” Johnson said. “It’s important with anything you’re trying to construct if you want to go out and win. My No. 1 goal as the leader is to go put these guys in a position to win, whatever that looks like.”

Check that one off, too. Nobody on the Tour would have an issue with Koepka, or even Dustin Johnson, being a part of the Ryder Cup team. Zach Johnson’s bigger issue may be deciding on Dustin Johnson.

After all, we’re not talking about Patrick Reed or Bryson DeChambeau, two LIV golfers who did not endear themselves to their peers during their time on the PGA Tour and certainly are not missed.

“When you talk about the LIV golfers that left the PGA Tour to go play over there, you never hear a bad word from those players about Brooks Koepka.” Golf Channel analyst Brad Faxon said on air Sunday following the PGA Championship.

“I think Brooks would be a fantastic addition to the team, particularly inside the locker room. Zach would be foolish not to consider him.”

Chamblee says including Koepka ‘slap in the face’ to those who stayed

Faxon’s fellow analyst, Brandel Chamblee, said including Koepka would be “a slap in the face to the players that didn’t go, that didn’t take the money and go to LIV, that somebody who took the money could now have their cake and eat it too?”

Koepka made his decision about a year ago to leave the PGA Tour for LIV, which is financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, when his head was in a much different place. Now, he clearly has questioned that move.

Following the Masters, Koepka was asked if the decision to join LIV would have been more challenging had he felt this good, and were playing this good, at that time.

“Honestly, yeah, probably, if I’m being completely honest,” Koepka said. “I think it would have been. But I’m happy with the decision I made.”

Koepka cannot be happy that he is relevant four times a year and in between goes back to playing on LIV.

The debate will rage — and follow Zach Johnson — throughout the summer. But anyone who cares about the Ryder Cup should not be happy if Brooks Koepka is not a part of the team.

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How many LIV Golf players should we expect at the 2024 PGA Championship?

As it currently stands, five players are in the field for the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Of the 156 golfers in the field for the 2023 PGA Championship last week, 18 played for the LIV Golf League. Eleven players made the weekend cut – including winner Brooks Koepka – and five went on to finish inside the top 20.

With Rochester, New York’s Oak Hill Country Club in the rearview and Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, faintly on the horizon, how many LIV players should we expect to see at the 2024 PGA Championship? As it stands now, not many.

Major championships can change their qualification criteria at their discretion, which golf fans recently witnessed with the USGA-Talor Gooch debacle. For the sake of this exercise, we’re going to assume the PGA of America will use the same 13 qualification criteria (and special invitations) for 2024 as it did for 2023.

Here’s how it shakes out:

Former PGA champions

Phil Mickelson and Koepka have lifetime exemptions, so get used to seeing them.

Winners of the last five U.S. Opens

Bryson DeChambeau won the 2020 U.S Open, making him exempt to the PGA until 2025.

Winners of the last five Masters

Dustin Johnson also won in 2020, so he’s also exempt in the PGA until 2025.

Winners of the last five Open Championships

Cameron Smith is in until the 2027 PGA after his performance last summer at St. Andrews in the Open.

Winners of the last three Players Championships

Smith is also double-dipping with his Players win last spring.

Top 3 on the Official World Golf Ranking International Federation Ranking List

Sihwan Kim, perennially at the bottom of the LIV leaderboards, is currently third on this list via his Asian Tour status. LIV has invested $300 million in the Asian Tour and created its International Series, where a certain number of LIV players are required to compete. Don’t expect more than one player to qualify this way.

The current Senior PGA Champion

Richard Bland, Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood are LIV’s only members of the 50-and-over club, and none will be in the field for this week’s KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, May 24-28, at PGA Frisco in Texas.

The low 15 scorers and ties in the previous PGA Championship

Players could have qualified via this exemption, like club pro Michael Block, but the three who qualified inside the top 15 (Koepka, DeChambeau, Smith), are already qualified for 2024. Just missing out were Patrick Reed (T-18), Mito Pereira (T-18) and Harold Varner III (T-29)

The 20 low scorers in the last PGA Professional Championship

LIV players won’t compete in this event. Next.

The 70 leaders in PGA Championship points list

The list is based off official money earned on the PGA Tour since the previous PGA Championship. If you haven’t been following closely, a few lawsuits are ongoing that will keep this from happening.

Members of the most recent U.S. and European Ryder Cup Teams who are inside the top 100 of the OWGR one week before the PGA Championship

Because of the struggle to earn qualification points, LIV players are almost assuredly going to have to be captain’s picks if they have any shot at making the U.S. or European teams for the upcoming Ryder Cup later this fall in Italy. Future sure-fire captains such as Westwood, Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter recently resigned their DP World Tour memberships, removing them from consideration to represent Team Europe.

Any tournament winner co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the previous PGA Championship

LIV’s antitrust lawsuit against the Tour and the Tour’s countersuit almost assuredly won’t be decided by next spring, so this criteria is also a wash.

Special invitations

That means using last year’s criteria and this year’s event, just five players – Koepka, DeChambeau, Smith, Johnson and Mickelson – are currently slated to make an appearance at Valhalla in 2024. The PGA Championship could create a category for LIV Golf players to qualify, but as it stands now, the only chance other players have to qualify is with a special invitation, by winning one of the next three majors or the Players, making a 2023 Ryder Cup team or via the International Federation Ranking List.

A player like who qualifies for next year’s PGA could take his talents from one of the tours to LIV Golf between now and next spring, similar to Thomas Pieters this year. That said, the rumor mill for defections to the Saudi Arabia-backed league has gone silent this season.

For now, we wait and see.

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Club pro Michael Block receives PGA Tour exemption after dazzling fans at 2023 PGA Championship

The Block Party is raging on for at least another week.

If you want a little more Michael Block in your life, fear not, he’s not going back to his club pro day job just yet.

After dazzling fans on the weekend – including an ace during Sunday’s final round – and finishing as the low professional at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, Block is taking his talents to the PGA Tour.

The 46-year-old who teaches at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, California, received a sponsor exemption into next week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, May 25-28, at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

Block shot a 1-over 71 in the final round to finish T-15 at 1 over for the tournament and punch his ticket to next year’s PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Block Party is raging on for at least another week.

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Prize money payouts for each player at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill

It pays to play well in major championships.

It pays to play well at major championships, folks. Just ask the latest winner, Brooks Koepka.

The 33-year-old formerly on the PGA Tour who now plays for the LIV Golf League claimed his fifth major title Sunday at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, earning a cool $3.15 million for his two-shot victory over runners-up Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland, who will each take home $1.54 million.

Cam Davis, Kurt Kitayama and Bryson DeChambeau each finished T-4 at 3 under to claim $720,000 a piece.

Check out the prize money payouts for each player below at the 2023 PGA Championship.

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2023 PGA Championship money

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Brooks Koepka -9 $3,150,000
2 Scottie Scheffler -7 $1,540,000
3 Viktor Hovland -7 $1,540,000
T4 Cam Davis -3 $720,000
T4 Kurt Kitayama -3 $720,000
T4 Bryson DeChambeau -3 $720,000
T7 Sepp Straka -2 $555,000
T7 Rory McIlroy -2 $555,000
T9 Cameron Smith -1 $465,000
T9 Patrick Cantlay -1 $465,000
T9 Justin Rose -1 $465,000
T12 Shane Lowry E $365,000
T12 Victor Perez E $365,000
T12 Corey Conners E $365,000
T15 Tyrrell Hatton 1 $288,333
T15 Eric Cole 1 $288,333
T15 Michael Block 1 $288,333
T18 Mito Pereira 2 $214,400
T18 Xander Schauffele 2 $214,400
T18 Min Woo Lee 2 $214,400
T18 Patrick Reed 2 $214,400
T18 Tommy Fleetwood 2 $214,400
T23 Alex Smalley 3 $165,000
T23 Matt NeSmith 3 $165,000
T23 Ryan Fox 3 $165,000
T26 Collin Morikawa 4 $135,000
T26 Hayden Buckley 4 $135,000
T26 Justin Suh 4 $135,000
T29 Callum Tarren 5 $90,136
T29 Patrick Rodgers 5 $90,136
T29 Denny McCarthy 5 $90,136
T29 K.H. Lee 5 $90,136
T29 Adam Scott 5 $90,136
T29 Jordan Spieth 5 $90,136
T29 Harold Varner III 5 $90,136
T29 Keegan Bradley 5 $90,136
T29 Chris Kirk 5 $90,136
T29 Taylor Pendrith 5 $90,136
T29 Hideki Matsuyama 5 $90,136
T40 Adrian Meronk 6 $46,900
T40 Thomas Detry 6 $46,900
T40 J.T. Poston 6 $46,900
T40 Adam Hadwin 6 $46,900
T40 Lucas Herbert 6 $46,900
T40 Beau Hossler 6 $46,900
T40 Chez Reavie 6 $46,900
T40 Thomas Pieters 6 $46,900
T40 Adam Svensson 6 $46,900
T40 Sahith Theegala 6 $46,900
T50 Padraig Harrington 7 $37,625
T50 Nicolai Hojgaard 7 $37,625
T50 Jon Rahm 7 $37,625
T50 Stephan Jaeger 7 $37,625
54 Dean Burmester 8 $36,000
T55 Lee Hodges 9 $35,000
T55 Max Homa 9 $35,000
T55 Dustin Johnson 9 $35,000
T58 Phil Mickelson 10 $33,250
T58 Zach Johnson 10 $33,250
T58 Tom Hoge 10 $33,250
T58 Keith Mitchell 10 $33,250
T62 Rikuya Hoshino 11 $31,250
T62 Sihwan Kim 11 $31,250
T62 Thriston Lawrence 11 $31,250
T65 Taylor Montgomery 12 $31,250
T65 Justin Thomas 12 $29,500
T65 Matt Wallace 12 $29,500
T65 Pablo Larrazabal 12 $29,500
T69 Ben Taylor 13 $28,000
T69 Joel Dahmen 13 $28,000
T69 Yannik Paul 13 $28,000
T72 Taylor Moore 15 $26,500
T72 Tony Finau 15 $26,500
T72 Sam Stevens 15 $26,500
75 Mark Hubbard 18 $25,500
76 Kazuki Higa 20 $25,000

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How each LIV Golf player fared at the 2023 PGA Championship

Of the 16 players to tee it up, 11 made the weekend cut.

One of the big questions facing the players who took their talents to LIV Golf was how would the different schedule and competition level impact their preparation for major champions.

So far, so good.

Three LIV players finished in the top six at the Masters, and of the 16 players who competed at the 2023 PGA Championship, 11 made the weekend cut at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Brooks Koepka even went on to win the thing, and he was joined by four other LIV players inside the top 20 on the leaderboard.

Check out how each of the LIV Golf League players fared this week at the 2023 PGA Championship.

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