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How much each player won at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship

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Last week saw the European Tour’s flagship event take place and with it the return to the winner’s circle of 2016 Masters champ Danny Willett. The Englishman’s brilliant display at Wentworth was worth a seven-figure payday for the 31-year-old, while for runner-up Jon Rahm, his impressive performance brought him a check for €704,438.

With plenty of big names in action and a $7 million prize purse up for grabs, here’s how much each player who made the cut won at last week’s BMW PGA Championship.

1 Danny Willett €1,056,662

2 Jon Rahm €704,438

3 Christiaan Bezuidenhout €396,884

T4 Billy Horschel €292,908

T4 Patrick Reed €292,908

T6 Rafael Cabrera Bello €206,050

T6 Richie Ramsay €206,050

8 Justin Rose €158,500

T9 Andrew Johnston €134,408

T9 Rory Mcilroy €134,408

T11 Paul Casey €109,259

T11 Viktor Hovland €109,259

T11 Shane Lowry €109,259

T14 Kurt Kitayama €93,198

T14 Francesco Molinari €93,198

T14 Rooyen Van Rooyen €93,198

T17 Romain Langasque €80,518

T17 Shubhankar Sharma €80,518

T17 Henrik Stenson €80,518

T17 Bernd Wiesberger €80,518

T21 Ashley Chesters €71,642

T21 Andrew Putnam €71,642

T21 Paul Waring €71,642

T24 Joakim Lagergren €66,887

T24 Jordan Smith €66,887

T26 Tapio Pulkkanen €63,083

T26 Aaron Rai €63,083

T28 Robert Macintyre €58,328

T28 Alex Noren €58,328

T28 Matthias Schwab €58,328

T31 Ross Fisher €50,086

T31 Sam Horsfield €50,086

T31 Miguel Angel Jiménez €50,086

T31 Joost Luiten €50,086

T31 Richard Sterne €50,086

T31 Julian Suri €50,086

T37 Benjamin Hebert €43,112

T37 Mikko Korhonen €43,112

T37 Mike Lorenzo-Vera €43,112

T37 Thomas Pieters €43,112

T41 Gonzalo Fdez-Castaño €37,406

T41 Søren Kjeldsen €37,406

T41 Renato Paratore €37,406

T41 Matt Wallace €37,406

T41 Ashun Wu €37,406

T46 Matthew Fitzpatrick €31,066

T46 Padraig Harrington €31,066

T46 Marcus Kinhult €31,066

T46 Russell Knox €31,066

T46 Andrea Pavan €31,066

T51 Kiradech Aphibarnrat €24,092

T51 Alexander Björk €24,092

T51 Tony Finau €24,092

T51 Haotong Li €24,092

T51 Yusaku Miyazato €24,092

T51 Chris Wood €24,092

T57 Nicolas Colsaerts €19,020

T57 Scott Jamieson €19,020

T57 Martin Kaymer €19,020

T60 Tommy Fleetwood €16,801

T60 Branden Grace €16,801

T60 Julien Guerrier €16,801

T60 Ian Poulter €16,801

T64 Steven Brown €13,948

T64 Ernie Els €13,948

T64 Edoardo Molinari €13,948

T64 Alvaro Quiros €13,948

T64 Sebastian Soderberg €13,948

T69 Robert Coles €11,806

T69 Trevor Immelman €11,806

71 George Coetzee €9,510

72 Gavin Green €9,506

72 David Law €9,506

74 Andy Sullivan €9,501

Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at gianni@golfwrx.com.

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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

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An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.

However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.

Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.

Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”

Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.

Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.

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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

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Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.

Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.

Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.

Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.

Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.

“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.  Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”

According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.

“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”

Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.

Check out Young’s winning WITB here.

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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

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Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.

Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.

Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.

The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.

Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”

“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”

Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.

However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.

“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”

Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.

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