sport news PGA Tour to pay out NEARLY $500 million in prize money for the next season plus ... trends now
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As the PGA Tour faces its biggest competitive challenge ever, the world's most popular golfing series has upped the ante on the cash prizes it will hand out.
PGA Tour officials announced a schedule of 44 tournaments - including the four golf majors - for its upcoming 2022-23 golf season.
The total prize money handed out for the non-majors is set to be a record $428.6 million dollars, with an additional $61.5m given out at the Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, and the Open Championship.
In total, excluding two Challenge series events, the purses for next season will fetch $490.1m in a season running from September 2022 to August 2023.
The 44 events on the PGA Tour calendar all build up to the FedEx Cup playoffs
In addition to the 44 tournaments, there will be three FedEx Cup events, with the FedEx St. Jude Championship in