PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The purse for this week’s Players Championship is – to borrow a phrase from Phil Mickelson – obnoxiously large. The winner receives $3.6 million; solo 39th will bank $91,000 or a grand more than Jerry Pate earned for winning the first Players at TPC Sawgrass in 1982. And finish DFL and you’ll still take home $43,000. Not a bad week for surviving the cut and stinking up the joint over the weekend.
But it ain’t all about the Benjamins, if you believe Viktor Hovland and Joel Dahmen.
Hovland is a man of simple means. Give him a side of guacamole and extra meat at Chipotle and he’s a happy man. At the Genesis Invitational last month, the 24-year-old Norwegian spoke about the difference in having a bulging bank account all of a sudden.
