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2022 Shriners Children’s Open: $8M Prize Money Breakdown and Winner’s Payout

BySaumya Yashawant

Modified Oct 7, 2022 | 11:02 AM EDT

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The Shriners Children’s Open on the PGA tour has been played in Las Vegas for 40 years now. And this time it is returning with a huge bash. The stars from the Presidents Cup 2022 will be the center of attention. They will perfectly coincide with the star-struck vibration of the big city.

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The first Shriners Children’s Open tournament was held in 1983. Fuzzy Zoeller won the five-day tournament before the format changed to four rounds in 2004. The series was also called the Las Vegas Invitational and pro golfer. Tiger Woods won it in 1996, which was his first PGA Tour event. For the last five years, from 2008 to 2012, Justin Timberlake has been the celebrity host of the series. Let’s see what the 2022 series has in store.

Details of Shriners Children’s Open 2022

This year the tournament will be held at TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada. Top golfers are competing this year to earn FedExCup points. They play this tournament for charity, which will benefit the namesake. This tournament is the third event on the list of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup.

Tom Kim, the star golfer of the Presidents Cup, is playing in the tournament along with Sungjae Im. The two proficient golfers from the US team, Max Homa and Patrick Cantlay, will also play at TPC Summerlin. The host course has a par 71 playing to 7,255 yards for golfers to play. It has enough birdies, as according to history, 16 winners out of the last 18 were able to hit under 20 or even better.

After the first 36 holes, only the top 65 golfers will move to the final round of the tournament. The prize money will be received by the golfers, who will compete in all four rounds of the tournament.

Purse and payout of the winners

According to the PGA Tour’s prize money distribution chart, the total prize money of the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open purse is $8 million. The winner of the tournament will receive $1.44 million, which is the standard 18% of the total payout.

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The Shriners Children’s Open field tournament has 144 golfers playing for the charity. Currently, people are betting on the World No. 4, Patrick Cantlay, for the win.

Here is the prize money breakdown of the top 65 players of the tournament according to position and the prize money amount.

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1	$1,440,000
2	$872,000
3	$552,000
4	$392,000
5	$328,000
6	$290,000
7	$270,000
8	$250,000
9	$234,000
10	$218,000
11	$202,000
12	$186,000
13	$170,000
14	$154,000
15	$146,000
16	$138,000
17	$130,000
18	$122,000
19	$114,000
20	$106,000
21	$98,000
22	$90,000
23	$83,600
24	$77,200
25	$70,800
26	$64,400
27	$62,000
28	$59,600
29	$57,200
30	$54,800
31	$52,400
32	$50,000
33	$47,600
34	$45,600
35	$43,600
36	$41,600
37	$39,600
38	$38,000
39	$36,400
40	$34,800
41	$33,200
42	$31,600
43	$30,000
44	$28,400
45	$26,800
46	$25,200
47	$23,600
48	$22,320
49	$21,200
50	$20,560
51	$20,080
52	$19,600
53	$19,280
54	$18,960
55	$18,800
56	$18,640
57	$18,480
58	$18,320
59	$18,160
60	$18,000
61	$17,840
62	$17,680
63	$17,520
64	$17,360
65	$17,200

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