LPGA Career Earnings (2024)

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According to the most recent LPGA money list, the median income for all players is $141,428. The top 10 percent of players earned a median of $1,320,900 and played in at least 20 tournaments. The lowest 10 percent only brought in $5,924 and may have only played in 10 to 15 tournaments.

Career Earnings

Lexi Thompson made her PGA debut as a rookie in 2012 and has since earned an estimated $14,481,678 in total.

The estimated total pay range for a Golf Caddie at LPGA is $71K–$124K per year, which includes base salary and additional pay. The average Golf Caddie base salary at LPGA is $69K per year. The average additional pay is $25K per year, which could include cash bonus, stock, commission, profit sharing or tips.

Nelly Korda earned her sixth LPGA title of the season, capturing the Mizuho Americas Open. With a first-place prize of $450,000, Korda added to her season haul. She has now pocketed $2,943,708 in 2024.

The bump raises total prize money for the 2024 season to $125 million, a record-breaking amount on the LPGA Tour.

No longer does Amy Yang need to doubt whether she'd ever become a major champion, sealing a three-shot victory in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship before the "grateful" 34-year-old reflected on the long-awaited win. Amy Yang won her first LPGA major and the $1.56 million first-place prize that came with it.

Thompson has the word "Faith" inked on her right arm. Not many professional golfers have tattoos, but there are some outliers.

Annika Sorenstam leads the way. Sorenstam, Karrie Webb and Cristie Kerr are the three golfers who have surpassed $20 million.

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Do caddies on the LPGA Tour hook up with players? ›

Do caddies on the LPGA Tour hook up with players? I get this question a lot, and if it's not a close friend, I'll usually ignore it because if I say “yes,'' salacious questions always follow. The truth is that it happens, and there's nothing salacious about it.

Prior to her deal with American Sportswear, Forbes announced Nelly Korda's endorsem*nt earnings to be $6.5 million in 2023.

His earning this year are already over $24 million for the 2024 season on the PGA Tour. His recent outings have brought his career earnings total to nearly $90 million, with almost $60 million coming from official tournaments, according to Spotrac.

Min Woo Lee's Salary

Lee turned professional in 2019, and during his four-year professional career, he has earned around $568,946 annually on average. Lee's earnings from the tournaments he played covered a major part of his $5 million net worth and contributed to his success on the PGA Tour.

Pga Tour Player Salary

While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $35,500 and as low as $11,000, the majority of Pga Tour Player salaries currently range between $35,000 (25th percentile) to $35,000 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $35,000 annually across the United States.

The USGA announced on Thursday that the U.S. Women's Open purse for 2024 will be $12 million. This is up $1 million from the purse awarded last summer at Pebble Beach, and more than double than the prize fund just three years ago ($5.5 million). The purse is now the biggest in all of women's golf.