The payday is modest when you compare it to the amounts on the line at the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship. But winning the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship on Sunday in the Dominican Republic comes with some handsome rewards.
Victory locks up a PGA Tour card through the 2025 season. More specifically it guarantees the winner has a spot into the upcoming RBC Heritage and the Memorial, both designated events this season, and the PGA Championship at Oak Hill. It also ensures the player is in the field for the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the Players Championship in 2024, both designated events in the new PGA Tour system.
And there’s also the first-place prize money payout of $684,000 from an overall purse of $3.8 million. That’s no small thing for Sam Stevens, who shares the lead entering the final round with Nicolai Hojgaard at Puntacana Resort and Club at 14-under 202. Stevens is a 26-year-old tour rookie who has earned all of $384,003 in his career to date with his biggest tournament payday ($160,515) coming with a T-13 at the Farmers Insurance Open.
Hojgaard, a 22-year-old from Denmark, is a two-time winner on the DP World Tour playing in his eighth PGA Tour event. Just once in those previous seven appearances has had he made a cut—T-53 at the 2022 Open Championship, earning him $35,656.
A foursome of players—Thomas Detry, Wyndham Clark, Tyler Duncan and Matt Wallace—is just one stroke off the leading entering Sunday’s play. All but Duncan are seeking their first PGA Tour wins.
Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer who made the cut in the Dominican. We’ll update this shortly after the conclusion of the tournament with names and individual paydays.