The Players Championship 2023: How much Scottie Scheffler, others won
The 2023 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass carried a total prize purse of $25m, which was the largest in PGA Tour history.
The 2023 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass was the richest tournament in PGA Tour history.
It carried a total prize purse of $25m, meaning that winner Scottie Scheffler took home the top prize of $4.5m.
Scheffler won by five strokes over England's Tyrrell Hatton.
Hatton was projected to win approximately $150,000 when he made the turn in the final round but went on a blistering run up the leaderboard.
The 31-year-old birdied seven of his final nine holes to card a 7-under 65.
As for Scheffler, he put his foot down on No. 8, carding five consecutive birdies to pull away from the field. He never looked back.
This was Scheffler's sixth PGA Tour win. As ever, his wife Meredith Scudder was greenside to welcome the 2022 Masters champion.
His victory means that to date, Scheffler has now amassed a whopping $32,602,721 in PGA Tour earnings.
GolfMagic has listed below the final scores of each competitor and how much they won at the 2023 Players Championship.
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The Players 2023 payout info
Win: Scottie Scheffler, 271/-17, $4,500,000
2: Tyrrell Hatton, 276/-12, $2,725,000
T-3: Viktor Hovland, 278/-10, $1,475,000
T-3: Tom Hoge, 278/-10, $1,475,000
5: Hideki Matsuyama, 279/-9, $1,025,000
T-6: Max Homa, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: Justin Suh, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: Justin Rose, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: David Lingmerth, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: Sungjae Im, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: Cam Davis, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-6: Min Woo Lee, 280/-8, $736,607.12
T-13: Collin Morikawa, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-13: Adam Svensson, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-13: Adam Hadwin, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-13: Rickie Fowler, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-13: Denny McCarthy, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-13: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 281/-7, $447,916.66
T-19: Xander Schauffele, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Russell Henley, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Tony Finau, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Brandon Wu, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Jason Day, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Patrick Cantley, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Jordan Spieth, 282/-6, $275,000
T-19: Aaron Rai, 282/-6, $275,000
T-27: Eric Cole, 283/-5 $167,656.25
T-27: Brendon Todd, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Danny Willett, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Ryan Fox, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Wyndham Clark, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Si Woo Kim, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Chad Ramey, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-27: Tommy Fleetwood, 283/-5, $167,656.25
T-35: Shane Lowry, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Keith Mitchell, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Austin Smotherman, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Sam Burns, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Mark Hubbard, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Byeong Hun An, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Ben Griffin, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Taylor Moore, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-35: Dylan Wu, 284/-4, $114,166.66
T-44: Chesson Hadley, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Stephan Jaeger, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Sam Ryder, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Brian Harman, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Kramer Hickok, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Garrick Higgo, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-44: Taylor Mongtomgery, 285/-3, $75,035.71
T-51: Tom Kim, 286/-2, $61,416.67
T-51: Lucas Glover, 286/-2, $61,416.67
T-51: Cameron Young, 286/-2, $61,416.67
T-54: Ben Martin, 287/-1, $58,000
T-54: Matthias Schwab, 287/-1, $58,000
T-54: Jerry Kelly, 287/-1, $58,000
T-54: Will Gordon, 287/-1, $58,000
T-54: Gary Woodland, 287/-1, $58,000
T-54: Tyler Duncan, 287/-1, $58,000
T-60: Justin Thomas, 288/E, $55,250
T-60: Joel Dahmen, 288/E, $55,250
T-60: Maverick McNealy, 288/E, $55,250
T-60: Nate Lashley, 288/E, $55,250
T-60: Francesco Molinari, 288/E, $55,250
T-65: Sepp Straka, 289/+1, $53,250
T-65: Patton Kizzire, 289/+1, $53,250
T-65: Alex Smalley, 289/+1, $53,250
68: Davis Thompson, 291/+3, $52,250
T-69: Scott Stallings, 292/+4, $51,500
T-69: Taylor Pendrith, 292/+4, $51,500
71: Adam Scott, 293/+5, $50,750
72: Aaron Baddeley, 295/+7, $50,250
73: Will Zalatoris, 296/+8, $49,750
74: Sahith Theegala, 298/+10, $49,250
75: Kevin Kisner, 299/+11, $48,750
Why were they playing for so much?
Prize purses at The Players have been steadily increasing year on year.
But due to the emergence of the LIV Golf League, the PGA Tour announced a considerable boost to their prize purses for 2023 and beyond.
Last year's winner, Cameron Smith, joined the breakaway tour and was ineligible to play.
Smith took home $3.6m when he won at Sawgrass last year.
See below how much previous winners of The Players have won:
Year: Total purse - first place
1974: $250,000 - Jack Nicklaus, $50,000
1982: $500,000 - Jerry Pate, $90,000
1987: $1m - Sandy Lyle, $180,000
1993: $2.5m - Nick Price, $450,000
2000: $6m - Hal Sutton, $1.08m
2007: $9m - Phil Mickelson, $1.62m
2014: $10m - Martin Kaymer, $1.8m
2018: $11m - Webb Simpson, $1.89m
2019: $12.5m - Rory McIlroy, $2.25m
2021: $15m - Justin Thomas, $2.7m
2022: $20m - Cameron Smith, $3.6m
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