LIV Golf Portland Prize Money And Purse Breakdown

There's another huge purse on offer at Pumpkin Ridge for the second event of the Saudi-backed Series

Charl Schwartzel poses with the winner's trophy after the first LIV Golf Invitational Series event
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The LIV Golf Invitational Series continues with the second tournament at Pumpkin Ridge in Portland, Oregon.

The event will benefit from the arrival of some high-profile new signings with the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed and Abraham Ancer adding to some big names from the first tournament. However, while the fields are becoming stronger, the most eye-catching element of the Series remains the enormous prize money on offer at each event. The video below explains how the LIV Golf Series works.

Last week, the PGA Tour announced huge prize money increases amid the LIV Golf threat. However, even with those proposals, commissioner Jay Monahan admitted the PGA Tour can’t compete financially with the Saudi-backed Series. Indeed, the maximum on offer under the new proposals will only equal the $25m purse available in every regular LIV Golf Series tournament, including this week’s event.

Like the first tournament at London’s Centurion Club, there is an individual stroke play competition alongside a team event. The winner of the individual event will earn $4m, and with no cut in the 54-hole tournament, even the player finishing 48th and last is guaranteed $120,000. 

Also like the first tournament, $5m will be distributed among the top three four-man teams. At the Centurion Club, that honour fell to Louis Oosthuizen’s Stinger GC team. The team (which included individual winner Charl Schwartzel) won $3m. The second-placed team at Pumpkin Ridge will win $1.5m while the team finishing third earns $500,000.

Below is a full breakdown of the prize money for the second event in the Series.

LIV Golf Series Portland Individual Prize Money

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PositionPrize Money
1st$4,000,000
2nd$2,125,000
3rd$1,500,000
4th$1,050,000
5th$975,000
6th$800,000
7th$675,000
8th$625,000
9th$580,000
10th$560,000
11th$540,000
12th$450,000
13th$360,000
14th$270,000
15th$250,000
16th$240,000
17th$232,000
18th$226,200
19th$220,000
20th$200,000
21st$180,000
22nd$172,000
23rd$170,000
24th$168,000
25th$166,000
26th$164,000
27th$162,000
28th$160,000
29th$158,000
30th$156,000
31st$154,000
32nd$152,000
33rd$150,000
34th$148,000
35th$146,000
36th$144,000
37th$142,000
38th$140,000
39th$138,000
40th$136,000
41st$134,000
42nd$132,000
43rd$130,000
44th$128,000
45th$126,000
46th$124,000
47th$122,000
48th$120,000

LIV Golf Series Portland Team Prize Money

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PositionPrize Money
1st$3,000,000
2nd$1,500,000
3rd$500,000

Why Is It Called LIV Golf?

LIV  is the roman numeral for 54, which is the number of holes played in each regular event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman has explained that the name was also chosen as 54 would be the score if a player were to birdie each hole of a par 72 course. 

Did Brooks Koepka Join LIV?

Yes, the American signed up for the second event of the Series along with eight other new arrivals. They include Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Abraham Ancer and Matthew Wolff. 

Mike Hall
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Mike has over 25 years of experience in journalism, including writing on a range of sports throughout that time, such as golf, football and cricket. Now a freelance staff writer for Golf Monthly, he is dedicated to covering the game's most newsworthy stories. 

He has written hundreds of articles on the game, from features offering insights into how members of the public can play some of the world's most revered courses, to breaking news stories affecting everything from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to developmental Tours and the amateur game. 

Mike grew up in East Yorkshire and began his career in journalism in 1997. He then moved to London in 2003 as his career flourished, and nowadays resides in New Brunswick, Canada, where he and his wife raise their young family less than a mile from his local course. 

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