all right fans and golfers alike are in Atlanta this week as the 2023 PGA TOUR Championship makes its way to East Lake Golf Club let me tell you the best of the best in pro golf are slated to compete and there's a lot of prize money that's on the line right now Atlanta news first Don Shipman is live at East Lake Don you look like you might be ready to be out there with those golfers yeah probably not you do not want to see me out there you know what though we're talking about safety and this heat for example I've noticed a lot of water stations here and a lot of sunscreen as well because it is warm right now we are right between hole number 10 and 11 over there though you can see is hole number 18 and there's a number of people over there right now I also want to talk about the purse size because it's a record purse payout on this 18 million for the winner I went around Atlanta and I asked what would you do with that type of cash probably go on vacation the top prize is staggering the winner of the 2023 PGA TOUR Championship is set to receive 18 million dollars buy myself a new bag something like that first of all I'd make sure my four kids had their college paid for by a nice size house in the city because I'm from New York this year the PGA Tour dramatically increased purse earnings amid the widely publicized live rivalry it's about how do you reward players for their play All Season the season included a record 415 million dollars in prize money not to mention Millions more in bonuses a nearly 50 percent increase from last year's winnings here at East Lake Golf Club 30 players qualified to play here all of them guaranteed a huge payout to really bring the the extra juice that that certainly having a large purse doesn't uh doesn't hurt that so yeah you better believe those three Footers will have their attention I don't know anything about golf so it's not in the cards for me while the majority of us have no chance of getting our hands on that kind of life-changing cash unless we win the lottery we sure can dream you win that you can really start a whole new life or continue yours and just enhancing a whole new life we are back here live you can see over there it's a driving range you can see the fans are out as well this is the first time that the fans can make their way here to East Lake and kind of interact with those pro golfers those pro golfers are getting acquainted with the course and also acquainted with the Georgia Heat the Georgia Sun guys back to you down for all of that money I think you might want to go find yourself a golf club I'm just saying they got Putt-Putt no thanks now we appreciate that