The PGA Championship 2024 purse and winner's share are huge

the winner of the 2024 PGA Championship is going to take home the WM maker trophy one of the best trophies in golf and with it they're going to take home a whole lot of money I'm Ryan baling with golf news DEET here to talk about the 2024 PGA Championship purse prize money payout and the winner share for this year's tournament at balal golf club in Louisville Kentucky the Tournament purse is up $1 million from last year was $7.5 million in 2023 at oakill it is $18.5 million this year at Valhalla they pay 18% of the purse to the winner in this tournament so the winner is going to get 3,330 th000 for the win in this year's second men's major championship the second place finisher will earn just short of $2 million 1,998 th000 and the third place finisher will be the other millionaire made this week and they will earn $1,258 th000 all told 78 players made the 36hole cut in this tournament that was completed on Saturday morning and all those players have an opportunity to move up in the third and fourth rounds there is no third round cut there is no additional cut based on the number of players who make the cut so all 78 of those players will get a chance to get through and improve in the leaderboard in the final two rounds and even if you finish in dead last you're going to earn $22,100 just for making the cut for all the players who missed the cut they also received receive an honorarium for competing this week this is an all professional Championship amateurs cannot play in it as a result everybody gets paid and the PGA of America make sure that everyone who gets into the tournament does get a Payday even if you miss the cut you get paid $4,000 this week for your two rounds of play so no matter what you're trying to recover your cost as best you can for this week uh the PJ of America like the other Majors goes out of their way to make sure you get paid just for qualifying for this great tournament