Tiger Woods has gained the PGA Tour’s Participant Influence Programme (PIP) for 2022 regardless of having performed simply 9 occasions through the season.
Woods gained $15m for topping the record, which is designed to reward gamers who boosted engagement and publicity for the PGA Tour.
First launched in 2021 as a way of providing additional money to the sport’s most influential gamers, 5 of the gamers who appeared within the high 10 of the PIP final 12 months – Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson – have left to hitch LIV Golf.
Whereas final 12 months’s PIP bonus pool provided $40 million to the highest 10 gamers, the 2022 PIP pool has elevated to $100m and has doubled its attain from 10 gamers to twenty.
The tour used 5 measurements for placing collectively the record: web searches, the variety of distinctive information articles that embrace a participant’s identify, length {that a} participant’s sponsor logos appeared on display throughout Saturday and Sunday PGA Tour TV broadcasts, a participant’s normal consciousness rating among the many US inhabitants, and social media rating that considers a participant’s attain, dialog and engagement metrics.
Rory McIlroy, who gained the FedExCup, took second place, which comes with a $12m pay out, whereas Jordan Spieth took third, which comes with a $9m bonus. Victor Hovland completed in twentieth spot and earned himself an additional $2m on high of the $4.68m he earned in prize cash for the 2021-22 season.
Rickie Fowler, who positioned sixteenth within the PIP record, had simply three top-25 finishes within the 2021-22 season and completed 133rd within the cash record with simply over $1m in prize cash, however he trebled his earnings with a $2m PIP pay out due to his reputation on social media. His Twitter account boasts over 1.6m followers.
Reigning US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick boosted his season’s earnings of $7.5m with a $5m bonus for ending in eighth place, whereas 2019 Open Championship winner Shane Lowry completed twelfth within the PIP record and nearly doubled his season’s earnings from the PGA Tour with a $3m bonus on high of the $3.6m he collected in prize cash.
Making the highest 20 on this 12 months’s PIP record can have main ramifications for these gamers in 2023, because the PGA Tour’s new schedule of 12 elevated occasions would require top-20 PIP gamers to compete in not less than 20 tournaments throughout the season.
PGA TOUR 2022 PIP winners
- Tiger Woods $15m
- Rory McIlroy $12m
- Jordan Spieth $9m
- Justin Thomas $7.5m
- Jon Rahm $6m
- Scottie Scheffler $5.5m
- Xander Schauffele $5m
- Matt Fitzpatrick $5m
- Will Zalatoris $5m
- Tony Finau $5m
- Collin Morikawa $3m
- Shane Lowry $3m
- Kevin Kisner $3m
- Max Homa $3m
- Billy Horschel $3m
- Rickie Fowler $2m
- Adam Scott $2m
- Jason Day $2m
- Patrick Cantlay $2m
- Viktor Hovland $2m
Though exterior the highest 20, Hideki Matsuyama, Cameron Younger and Sam Burns will even will obtain a $2 million fee and be eligible for PIP occasions in 2023.
