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“Who does it benefit to inflate those numbers? LIV, obviously, because they’re trying to generate buzz and recruit more players. “You have to take that with a grain of salt,” Agent B says. “There hasn’t been a lot of talk about the money because that’s personal.” Some of the numbers that have been floated in media reports have been fantastical: $200 million for Phil Mickelson, $150 million for Dustin Johnson, $100 million for Bryson DeChambeau. “Every deal is different,” Ian Poulter says. That’s why guys are taking this seriously.”Īs with team sports, the guaranteed money on LIV varies from player to player, based on age, starpower, current form and projected performance. “The prize fund is the prize fund,” says Pat Perez, who is making his LIV debut this week.

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The more established players who jumped to LIV from the PGA and European tours have received guaranteed money that, contrary to Chamblee’s tweet, is in addition to whatever the player claims from the tournament purses, which this week is $20 million plus an additional $5 million for the concurrent team competition. The lower-wattage players in the field at Pumpkin Ridge have to kill what they eat, guaranteed nothing beyond the last-place money of $120,000 in the 48-man field. Touched off by a recent Brandel Chamblee tweet in which he said prize money is being applied to signing bonuses, there has been discussion this week about how the money is distributed on the LIV tour. “What you have to understand about professional golfers is that they are all whores,” Agent A says. In an effort to get more granular, the Fire Pit Collective spoke with four agents who represent LIV golfers they were granted anonymity to facilitate candor. As with many other issues surrounding this upstart tour, the details around all the money are shadowy. But more than anything, it’s about cold, hard cash.

LIV Golf is about many things: disruption, sportswashing, vengeance (in the case of frontman Greg Norman) and, uh, golf.

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