Golf Digest<\/a> about how expensive life on Tour can be.<\/p>\nGriffin responded when asked how much money an average week on the PGA Tour costs a player.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say this question kind of ranges very far across all PGA Tour players,\u201c he admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are definitely going to be some base fees that you\u2019re going to have to pay when you get to a tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, obviously, travel costs, all hotel costs are on the players, or Airbnbs, rental homes, those costs, everyone has a caddie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe caddie needs a base, and also a percentage based on performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that can range significantly per tournament, especially depending on how you play.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAdditionally, coaches will come to events, trainers, physios, all of these costs come out of the pocket of the PGA Tour player.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo my average spend is probably very high, because I just had a really good season, and I pay my caddie, my coach, and my trainer based on my performance, as well as base salaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could argue my average spend per week this year was probably $50,000.\u201c<\/p>\n
PGA Tour life isn\u2019t always as glamorous as it\u2019s made out to be<\/p>\n
Those comments from Griffin prove just how hard it is to make a living playing professional golf.<\/p>\n
For the top 100 players in the world, it is obviously a very lucrative business to be involved in.<\/p>\n
However, as you slip down the rankings things can become tricky very quickly.<\/p>\n
If you are not a household name and don\u2019t have sponsors to rely on, it can be very hard to make a decent living.<\/p>\n
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Griffin played in 30 events in 2025, so judging by his estimates, he paid out around $1.5 million to his team \u2013 around 13% of his total on-course earnings.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re finishing around 200th on the money list on the PGA Tour, you\u2019re probably earning somewhere in the region of $100,000 throughout the year.<\/p>\n
With all of the travel and accommodation costs throughout the year, you\u2019d be lucky to break even.<\/p>\n
Professional golf may seem incredibly glamorous on the surface, but dig deeper and there are plenty of players struggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Griffin enjoyed a stellar year on the PGA Tour in 2025. Griffin won three times on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[25853,427,3332,47076,99],"class_list":["post-657949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ben-griffin","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-professional-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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