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The size of the purse for the 2022 Players Championship can't be overstated. At $20 million, it was a $5 million bump from last year's edition and easily the biggest individual event purse in the history of golf. It's nearly double any of the four major championship purses, which means there was a lot to play for this week in Jacksonville, Florida, even for golfers who were not in the hunt for the victory at TPC Sawgrass.

To contextualize the significant amount of this prize money, the $3.6 million winner's share that went to Cameron Smith is more than the career earnings of Lee Trevino (who won 29 events), Frank Nobilo, Sandy Lyle and Johnny Miller (who won 25 times). The lowest finishers after the cut all earned $43,000, which is nearly equivalent to what Jack Nicklaus earned for winning the first Players Championship back in 1974.

Everyone who finished in the top 36 this year made at least six figures. The top 11 finishers all earned over $500,000. If that sounds monumental, well, that's precisely the way to describe it.

Let's take a look at how the payouts for the 2022 Players Championship will be divided up.

2022 Players Championship purse, prize money

PlaceMoney
1st$3,600,000 - Cameron Smith
2nd$2,180,000 - Anirban Lahiri
3rd$1,380,000 - Paul Casey
4th$980,000 - Kevin Kisner
5th$820,000 - Keegan Bradley
6th$725,000 - Harold Vaner III, Russell Knox, Doug Ghim ($675K each)
7th$675,000 
8th$625,000
9th$585,000 - Sepp Straka, Adam Hadwin, Viktor Hovland, Dustin Johnson ($525K each)
10th$545,000
11th$505,000
12th$465,000
13th$425,000 - Keith Mitchell, Erik van Rooyen, Daniel Berger, Max Homa, Tyrell Hatton, Brendan Steele, Shane Lowry ($421K each)
14th$385,000
15th$365,000
16th$345,000
17th$325,000
18th$305,000
19th$285,000
20th$265,000
21st$245,000
22nd$225,000 - Joaquin Niemann, Patton Kizzire, Tommy Fleetwood, Kevin Streelman ($199K each)
23rd$209,000
24th$193,000
25th$177,000
26th$161,000 - Corey Conners, Doc Redman, Sergio Garcia, Alex Noren, Patrick Reed, Will Zalatoris, Sam Burns ($143K each)
27th$155,000
28th$149,000
29th$143,000
30th$137,000
31st$131,000
32nd$125,000
33rd$119,000 - Abraham Ancer, Ian Poulter, Justin Thomas, Seamus Power, Joel Dahmen, Pat Perez, Tom Hoge, Rory McIlroy, Sebastian Munoz ($100K each)
34th$114,000
35th$109,000
36th$104,000
37th$99,000
38th$95,000
39th$91,000
40th$87,000
41st$83,000
42nd$79,000 - Kramer Hickok, Scott Stallings, Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen ($73K each)
43rd$75,000
44th$71,000
45th$67,000
46th$63,000 - Troy Merritt, Maverick McNealy, Adam Long, Peter Malnati ($58K each)
47th$59,000
48th$55,800
49th$53,000
50th$51,400 - Brice Garnett, Dylan Frittelli, Aaron Wise ($50K each)
51st$50,200
52nd$49,000
53rd$48,200 - Jason Kokrak, Branden Grace ($48K each)
54th$47,400
55th$47,000 - Jimmy Walker, Sungjae Im, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Kyoung-Hoon Lee ($46K each)
56th$46,600
57th$46,200
58th$45,800
59th$45,400
60th$45,000 - Sam Ryder, Michael Thompson, Denny McCarthy ($45K each)
61st$44,600
62nd$44,200
63rd$43,800 - Hank Lebioda, Chesson Hadley, Brian Harman ($43K each)
64th$43,400
65th$43,000
T66$43,000 - Hayden Buckley, Nick Watney
T68$43,000 - Lucas Herbert, Bubba Watson
70th$43,000 - Lee Hodges