How much PGA Championship stars earn after missing the 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 is next up in T5 on five-under and is joined by Max Horna. At the other end of the leaderboard, defending champion and Masters victor sit at T62, nine shots off the lead.

Both scraped through the right side of the cut line on Friday, with the field reduced from 156 to 74.

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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 , legend , and two-time champion . Recent Masters runner-up 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

Winner: $3,330,000

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