{"id":535684,"date":"2026-03-12T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:18:12","slug":"rory-mcilroys-career-earnings-at-the-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535684\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy’s Career Earnings At The Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one of only three men to have surpassed the $100 million mark in terms of Official Money on the PGA Tour, alongside Tiger Woods<\/a> and Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, Rory McIlroy has banked a fair amount of cash from a whole host of different events.<\/p>\n

McIlroy’s most successful events are the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow and the Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates Golf Club as a result of four wins at each tournament.<\/p>\n

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The Northern Irishman’s record at TPC Sawgrass’ Stadium Course<\/a> isn’t too bad, either, with multiple wins helping him sit in great company alongside Fred Couples, Steve Elkington, Hal Sutton, Davis Love III, Woods and Scheffler.<\/p>\n

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There is also another player with at least two wins at The Players – Jack Nicklaus<\/a>. Except, the Golden Bear has three triumphs here and is the only man to have clinched the title more than twice so far.<\/p>\n

Yet, for his relative domination in the early runnings of this great championship, Nicklaus won only $229,670 from his 18 starts – $170,000 of which were garnered from his wins in 1974, 1976 and 1978.<\/p>\n

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Jack Nicklaus at the 1978 Players Championship<\/p>\n

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In contrast, McIlroy has claimed almost $8 million more than that via two wins and three top-10s. The obvious reasons for this include ever-inflating prize money pools in modern pro golf and natural inflation, but the contrast is impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n

However, despite the five-time Major winner’s obvious class, McIlroy’s relationship with The Players is a seemingly complicated one given that, while he has two wins, the World No.2 has also missed the cut at TPC Sawgrass on six occasions.<\/p>\n

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The fact that McIlroy has earned a total of just under $8.2 million from only nine completed tournaments makes his achievement all the more remarkable.<\/p>\n

Aside from the wins, missed cuts and top-10 finishes, the former World No.1 has results of T12th, T19th, T33rd and T35th on his resume, with the total prize money adding up to $8,219,433 before 2026.<\/p>\n

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Remarkably, McIlroy isn’t the leading earner at TPC Sawgrass<\/a>, though, thanks to a certain Scheffler. The American led the way by more than $1 million at the last count despite only playing in five Players Championships and completing all four rounds in four of them.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the modern power duo are well out in front in the all-time list ahead of Sergio Garcia in third, Woods in fourth and Jim Furyk in fifth.<\/p>\n

Below is a breakdown of McIlroy’s career finishes at TPC Sawgrass as well as the details of the top-five all-time earners at The Players Championship.<\/p>\n

RORY MCILROY CAREER EARNINGS AT THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPSwipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n

Year<\/p>\n

Result<\/p>\n

Prize Money<\/p>\n

2009<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2010<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2012<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2013<\/p>\n

T8th<\/p>\n

$237,500<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

T6th<\/p>\n

$313,000<\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

T8th<\/p>\n

$270,000<\/p>\n

2016<\/p>\n

T12th<\/p>\n

$212,625<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

T35th<\/p>\n

$50,662<\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2019<\/p>\n

Won<\/p>\n

$2,250,000<\/p>\n

2021<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

T33rd<\/p>\n

$100,111<\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

MC<\/p>\n

$0<\/p>\n

2024<\/p>\n

T19th<\/p>\n

$285,535<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

Won<\/p>\n

$4,500,000<\/p>\n

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TOTAL<\/p>\n

$8,219,433<\/p>\n

THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP ALL-TIME MONEY LEADERSSwipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n

Rank<\/p>\n

Player<\/p>\n

Starts<\/p>\n

Prize Money Total<\/p>\n

1st<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

$9,286,450<\/p>\n

2nd<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n

15<\/p>\n

$8,219,433<\/p>\n

3rd<\/p>\n

Sergio Garcia<\/p>\n

22<\/p>\n

$5,948,528<\/p>\n

4th<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods<\/p>\n

18<\/p>\n

$4,724,367<\/p>\n

5th<\/p>\n

Jim Furyk<\/p>\n

23<\/p>\n

$4,081,763<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As one of only three men to have surpassed the $100 million mark in terms of Official Money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-535684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}