Cameron Smith’s PLAYERS Win Payout Was More Than Lee Trevino’s Career Earnings

As we reported last week, the 2022 PLAYERS Championship purse was $20 million this year with winner Cameron Smith bringing home $3.6 million for winning.

Let’s just say that the TOUR purses have changed quite a bit over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Smith took home more with one win than one of the greatest players to play golf took home in his entire career. That is just absolutely insane to think about!

Lee Trevino grinded out on TOUR for many, many, years and Smith wins one tournament and just like that has won more money than Trevino ever did.

Granted, Smith did win the TOUR’s flagship event but still…

I know the times have changed and everything but this statistic is still undeniably wild.  The purses are just going to keep going up and up too…

What do you think the highest purse will be 10 years from now?

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