{"id":155557,"date":"2025-09-23T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:12:08","slug":"ryder-cup-scottie-scheffler-to-put-500000-payment-to-good-use-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup: Scottie Scheffler to put $500,000 payment &#8216;to good use in community&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler says he will use the money he is paid to play at this week&#8217;s Ryder Cup &#8220;to do some good in our local community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All 12 of the American players, plus captain Keegan Bradley, are being given $500,000 (\u00a3370,000), with $300,000 (\u00a3220,000) of that already put aside as a charitable donation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is up to each player to decide what to do with the extra cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 1999, US Ryder Cup players had been given $200,000 to donate to charity, while European players do not receive any money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradley, who said he would be giving all his money to charity, defended the extra payment to players when he said on Monday: &#8220;The charity dollars hadn&#8217;t changed since 1999 and they asked me to shepherd their way into making it into 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We wanted to bring the Ryder Cup into today&#8217;s age and we felt like this was the best way to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The players are going to do a lot of good with this money.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Scottie Scheffler says he will use the money he is paid to play at this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-155557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}