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Does the prize money at The Ally Challenge reflect the true value of senior golfers' contributions to the sport?

The PGA Tour Champions headed to the Michigan greens this week for the 19th event, The Ally Challenge, of the senior tour. Over the three days, 78 players tackled each other at the Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club but only one will come out victorious. What will the winner get from the Ally Challenge?

According to the PGA Tour Champions, the one who will come out victorious from Warwick will get a check of $330,000, which is a standard winner’s cut of 15% from the $2.2 million total prize money. In comparison, the Ally Challenge offers the lowest prize purse in the men’s golf event played this week.

The PGA Tour’s BMW Championship has a purse of $20 million, whereas DP World Tour’s Danish Golf Challenge has $2.5 million money at the stake. Regardless, the field is filled with the best veteran pros from the golf world, with players like John Daly, Padraig Harrington, Stewart Cink, and more taking on the Warwick G&CC for a victory.

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Here’s the entire prize money breakdown as per positions:

1$330,000
2$193,600
3$158,400
4$132,000
5$105,600
6$88,000
7$79,200
8$70,400
9$61,600
10$57,200
11$52,800
12$48,400
13$44,000
14$41,800
15$39,600
16$37,400
17$35,200
18$33,000
19$31,020
20$29,040
21$27,280
22$25,520
23$24,200
24$23,100
25$22,000
26$20,900
27$20,020
28$19,140
29$18,260
30$17,380
31$16,500
32$15,840
33$15,180
34$14,520
35$13,860
36$13,200
37$12,540
38$12,100
39$11,660
40$11,220
41$10,780
42$10,340
43$9,900
44$9,460
45$9,020
46$8,580
47$8,140
48$7,700
49$7,260
50$6,820
51$6,380
52$5,940
53$5,500
54$5,280
55$5,060
56$4,840
57$4,620
58$4,400
59$4,180
60$3,960
61$3,740
62$3,520
63$3,300
64$3,080
65$2,860
66$2,640
67$2,420
68$2,200
69$2,068
70$1,936
71$1,804
72$1,672
73$1,540
74$1,452
75$1,364
76$1,276
77$1,188
78$1,100

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Interestingly, The Ally Challenge is very different from regular PGA Tour Champions events. There are certain things that the Ally Challenge does not provide the field which a traditional event always does.

The Ally Challenge has a limited field

What’s your perspective on:

Does the prize money at The Ally Challenge reflect the true value of senior golfers' contributions to the sport?

Have an interesting take?

If you have noticed, the Ally Challenge has a limited field with only 78 players, and even after the 36 holes, the field was not cut short. From time to time, the PGA Tour Champions hold 54-hole events, just like the LIV Golf. And because of that, no cut is observed, assuring that all the players take home some amount of money from the Warwick Golf and Country Club.

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Now because of this, the Official World Golf Ranking will not offer any ranking points for the winner. However, he will surely, gain some other points which will help him gain an entry into the three-event long season-ending playoffs of the PGA Tour Championship. The winner will receive 330,000 points reflecting the prize money to stand better on the Charles Schwab Cup Standings, a similarity to the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Standings.

But unlike the TOUR Championship, the Charles Schwab Cup awards two winners in the end, one from the standings and one who will win the event. There are still two months for the playoffs and the Ally Challenge gives the perfect opportunity without much risk to bag some precious points and lead in the standings. As the event will go down in less than two hours, make your predictions for the winner and share them in the comments.