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Christian D'Andrea

LIV Golf’s top 20 biggest money winners, from Dustin Johnson to Paul Casey

The LIV Tour will wrap up its 2023 season, then change dramatically.

1.5 years of tradition will be swept aside as the Saudi-backed golf league merges with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour to end our long, global nightmare of fractured professional golf and lend some extra legitimacy to upstart teams like the Cleeks and Majesticks ™. What this means for the as-yet-unnamed merged league and it’s formats and payouts has yet to be determined.

While LIV reeled in big names with gaudy contracts, the pay structure of those deals remains shrouded in a bit of mystery. The since-abandoned legal battle between the two sides revealed that money won in tournaments is “recouped against the LIV contracts,” which makes it difficult to decipher just how much each player makes. But thanks to the league’s payout structure, we do know how much they’ve earned through tournament play — both as an individual and through their respective team winnings.

50 LIV members made at least $2 million over the last season-and-a-half in prize money, ranging from Dustin Johnson (nearly $44 million) to Martin Kaymer ($2.4 million). Here’s how the top 20 shook out pre-merger. Totals are tour winnings only and do not account for any signing bonuses or other compensation. All data comes from Spotrac.

1
Dustin Johnson: $43,988,000

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Individual earnings: $16,925,500

Team earnings: $9,062,500

Includes $18 million bonus as 2022 season champion.

2
Talor Gooch: $25,830,815

Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports

Individual earnings: $16,643,315

Team earnings: $9,187,500

3
Branden Grace: $24,826,583

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

Individual earnings: $13,451,583

Team earnings: $3,375,000

Includes $8 million as 2022 season runner-up.

4
Peter Uihlein: $20,060,165

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Individual earnings: $11,060,165

Team earnings: $5,000,000

Includes $4 million for 2022 season third place finish.

5
Patrick Reed: $18,230,714

AP Photo/John Minchillo

Individual earnings: $9,168,214

Team earnings: $9,062,500

6
Brooks Koepka: $17,351,833

John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports

Individual earnings: $14,351,833

Team earnings: $3,000,000

7
Sergio Garcia: $13,771,999

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Individual earnings: $10,146,999

Team earnings: $3,625,000

8
Cameron Smith: $13,195,667

Andy Lyons/Getty Images

Individual earnings: $11,133,167

Team earnings: $2,062,500

9
Pat Perez: $12,844,567

Stanley Chou/Getty Images

Individual earnings: $3,782,067

Team earnings: $9,062,500

10
Carlos Ortiz: $11,549,480

Mike Watters-USA TODAY Sports

Individual earnings: $7,924,480

Team earnings: $3,625,000

11
Charl Schwartzel: $11,062,166

ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images

Individual earnings: $7,687,166

Team earnings: $3,375,000

12
Charles Howell III: $10,810,166

Seth Harrison / The Journal News

Individual earnings: $8,247,666

Team earnings: $2,562,500

13
Harold Varner III: $10,366,499

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Individual earnings: $7,991,499

Team earnings: $2,375,000

14
Louis Oosthuizen: $10,195,880

GETTY

Individual earnings: $6,820,880

Team earnings: $3,375,000

15
Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra: $9,951,250

Rob Schumacher-Arizona Republic

Individual earnings: $6,326,250

Team earnings: $3,625,000

16
Anirban Lahiri: $8,678,500

(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Individual earnings: $6,116,000

Team earnings: $2,562,500

17
Joaquin Niemann: $8,594,284

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

Individual earnings: $6,719,284

Team earnings: $1,875,000

18
Henrik Stenson: $8,049,000

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

Individual earnings: $6,924,000

Team earnings: $1,125,000

19
Abraham Ancer: $7,560,964

Scott Taetsch/LIV Golf via AP

Individual earnings: $3,935,964

Team earnings: $3,625,000

20
Paul Casey: $7,536,367

EPA

Individual earnings: $4,973,867

Team earnings: $2,562,500

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