Dustin Johnson needed lone six events to person a $47 cardinal year, and helium inactive has 2 events near with Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
Even though helium failed to decorativeness successful the apical 10 for the archetypal time, Johnson clinched the inaugural LIV Golf Individual Championship.
The two-time large champion already has earned $20,254,966 — $4.76 cardinal of that from 4 squad victories successful the LIV Golf Invitational bid — with 1 idiosyncratic title.
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Winning the play points rubric comes with a $28.5 cardinal bonus.
Johnson has 121 points going into the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah lawsuit this week successful Saudi Arabia. He has a 42-point pb implicit Branden Grace, who had to retreat past week due to the fact that of an injury. The victor of each lawsuit gets 40 points.
Johnson was the astir important subordinate Greg Norman signed for the rival league. He held the No.1 ranking longer than immoderate different subordinate since Tiger Woods and had said successful February helium would instrumentality with the PGA Tour until changing his caput successful June.
The $47 cardinal is successful summation to the signing interest to articulation LIV Golf, which The Daily Telegraph reported to beryllium astir $200 cardinal implicit 4 years.
Johnson won the Boston lawsuit successful a playoff. He tied for 2nd successful the LIV events astatine Trump Bedminster successful New Jersey and extracurricular Chicago.
The LIV Golf events diagnostic $39 cardinal successful full prize wealth — $31.75 cardinal for the idiosyncratic competition, with the victor getting $4.76 million.
Johnson's astir lucrative twelvemonth connected the people connected the PGA Tour was successful 2020, erstwhile helium captured the FedEx Cup and its $23.8 cardinal bonus and earned conscionable implicit $8 cardinal successful regular prize money. He played 14 times that season, which mislaid astir 3 months due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Greg Norman, the CEO and commissioner of LIV Golf, referred to the 38-year-old Johnson arsenic the "cornerstone" of the league.
"He has much than lived up to his billing," Norman said.
After the seventh lawsuit successful Saudi Arabia, LIV Golf wraps up its play with a $80 cardinal bonanza astatine Trump Doral adjacent Miami for squad competition. Each subordinate connected the winning squad gets $4.76 million.
Johnson earned astir $120 million, not including FedEx Cup bonuses, successful his 15 years connected the PGA Tour earlier resigning his rank to articulation LIV Golf.
LIV Golf is funded by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealthiness fund.
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