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
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.
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