Nate Lashley has the receipts and he didn’t waste any time sharing them with everybody.
The PGA professional revealed the Participant Influence Program (PIP) payouts from the tour from this previous yr, which is $US100 million distributed to twenty gamers.
The PGA Tour emailed gamers the data on Wednesday.
The payouts reward gamers for enhancing engagement and publicity for the tour.
Lashley was not happy with how the cash was distributed.
“What number of golf followers really know what the PIP on the PGA Tour is?” Lashley wrote. “Would love to listen to from golf/PGA followers in the event that they assume this $100 million was spent effectively?
“There’s 150-200 members of the PGA Tour and so they simply spent $100 million on 20 gamers. Appears slightly ridiculous. Time for brand new management on the PGA Tour. That is an absolute kick within the face to the remainder of the PGA Tour gamers.”
Rory McIlroy topped the checklist and earned $US15 million, Tiger Woods — who missed a lot of the season after needing ankle surgical procedure after The Masters — earned $US12 million and Jon Rahm acquired $US9 million.
The frustration over the disparity between what the highest gamers earn versus the common ones has turn out to be a rising subject within the sport.
The disparity will solely develop in 2024 with eight signature occasions that may have fields between 70 and 80 gamers, leaving out a few of the extra marginal gamers on tour.
Every of these occasions has a $20 million purse with $4 million of that going to the winner.
The change in format is seemingly in response to LIV Golf because the PGA Tour is attempting to maintain its greatest stars from defecting to the insurgent league for large paydays.
The PIP payouts are based mostly on a variety of components, in accordance with Golf Digest:
*Web searches
* Normal consciousness rating among the many US inhabitants
*Social media attain
* Engagement metrics
Lashley, 40, is the One hundred and seventieth-ranked golfer on the planet.The Nebraska native, who has been on the PGA Tour since 2018, has practically $7 million in profession earnings, in accordance with Spotrac.