At this point, Bubba Watson isn't really grinding out on the PGA Tour, but the marketable star will take another million-plus payday thanks to his first win since the 2012 Masters. Watson, who reiterates that he's never taken a lesson, didn't exactly have the country club background and pathway that many pro golfers enjoy, but he's now banked more than $21.3 million in his PGA Tour career.
Watson will take home a $1,206,000 winner's check for winning the Northern Trust Open on Sunday. The money is obviously important, but Bubba's back-to-back rounds of 64 on the weekend are some of the best golf ever played at this historic tournament on one the country's classic courses, Riviera. It's a nice rebound from the giveaway in Phoenix two weeks ago, when he airmailed his approach shot on the 72nd hole and then missed a relatively short par putt to hand Kevin Stadler the win. He earned $545,600 that day, but the $1.2 million winner's check, his first in almost two years, makes for a much sweeter Sunday.
Watson will now jet back to Arizona for the first of four extremely lucrative WGC events this year. The WGC-Match Play, like all WGC events, has an $9 million purse, which is larger than the first three majors (the PGA just bumped their purse to $10 million).
Here are the final payouts for the field that made the cut at Riviera:
Place | Player | Score | Earnings |
1 | Bubba Watson | -15 | $1,206,000 |
2 | Dustin Johnson | -13 | $723,600 |
T3 | Jason Allred | -12 | $388,600 |
T3 | Brian Harman | -12 | $388,600 |
5 | Charl Schwartzel | -11 | $268,000 |
T6 | Matt Every | -10 | $216,912 |
T6 | Bryce Molder | -10 | $216,912 |
T6 | William McGirt | -10 | $216,912 |
T6 | George McNeill | -10 | $216,912 |
T10 | Harris English | -9 | $174,200 |
T10 | Brendan Steele | -9 | $174,200 |
T12 | K.J. Choi | -8 | $127,300 |
T12 | Charley Hoffman | -8 | $127,300 |
T12 | Sang-Moon Bae | -8 | $127,300 |
T12 | Cameron Tringale | -8 | $127,300 |
T12 | Jordan Spieth | -8 | $127,300 |
T12 | Charlie Beljan | -8 | $127,300 |
T18 | John Senden | -7 | $97,150 |
T18 | Aaron Baddeley | -7 | $97,150 |
T20 | Keegan Bradley | -6 | $80,847 |
T20 | Lee Westwood | -6 | $80,847 |
T20 | Jimmy Walker | -6 | $80,847 |
T23 | Kevin Chappell | -5 | $57,955 |
T23 | Kevin Stadler | -5 | $57,955 |
T23 | Hideki Matsuyama | -5 | $57,955 |
T23 | Jim Furyk | -5 | $57,955 |
T23 | Robert Garrigus | -5 | $57,955 |
T23 | Bill Haas | -5 | $57,955 |
T29 | Robert Allenby | -4 | $42,601 |
T29 | Geoff Ogilvy | -4 | $42,601 |
T29 | Daniel Summerhays | -4 | $42,601 |
T29 | Blake Adams | -4 | $42,601 |
T29 | David Lingmerth | -4 | $42,601 |
T29 | James Hahn | -4 | $42,601 |
T35 | Brendon Todd | -3 | $33,031 |
T35 | Ernie Els | -3 | $33,031 |
T35 | Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano | -3 | $33,031 |
T35 | Kevin Streelman | -3 | $33,031 |
T35 | John Huh | -3 | $33,031 |
T40 | Victor Dubuisson | -2 | $26,130 |
T40 | J.J. Henry | -2 | $26,130 |
T40 | Jhonattan Vegas | -2 | $26,130 |
T40 | Francesco Molinari | -2 | $26,130 |
T40 | Luke Guthrie | -2 | $26,130 |
T45 | Stuart Appleby | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Justin Rose | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Scott Stallings | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Scott Brown | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Vijay Singh | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Richard Lee | -1 | $18,779 |
T45 | Davis Love III | -1 | $18,779 |
T52 | Angel Cabrera | E | $15,467 |
T52 | Ken Duke | E | $15,467 |
T52 | Justin Leonard | E | $15,467 |
T52 | J.B. Holmes | E | $15,467 |
T52 | Will MacKenzie | E | $15,467 |
T52 | Billy Hurley III | E | $15,467 |
T52 | Hunter Mahan | E | $15,467 |
T59 | David Lynn | 1 | $14,539 |
T59 | Matt Jones | 1 | $14,539 |
T59 | Erik Compton | 1 | $14,539 |
T59 | Ian Poulter | 1 | $14,539 |
T59 | Jason Gore | 1 | $14,539 |
T59 | Marc Leishman | 1 | $14,539 |
T65 | Martin Laird | 2 | $13,869 |
T65 | Retief Goosen | 2 | $13,869 |
T65 | Tim Wilkinson | 2 | $13,869 |
T65 | Jason Dufner | 2 | $13,869 |
69 | Ben Crane | 3 | $13,534 |
T70 | Harold Varner, III | 4 | $13,199 |
T70 | Martin Flores | 4 | $13,199 |
T70 | Webb Simpson | 4 | $13,199 |
T70 | Graham Delaet | 4 | $13,199 |
74 | Michael Putnam | 6 | $12,864 |
75 | Pat Perez | 8 | $12,730 |
76 | Ben Curtis | 11 | $12,596 |
77 | Scott Piercy | 15 | $12,462 |
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