Hong Kong Golf Club is one of the most famous golf clubs in Asia and one of the most prestigious venues on the LIV Golf roster.
Countless golf legends like Watson, Langer, Thomson, Norman and Montgomerie have won there, as well as current stars like Cameron Smith, Patrick Reed, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose.
But apart from Abraham Ancer who won the LIV Golf Hong Kong 2024 event, none of these players picked up anything like what the Saudi-funded circuit has got on offer at their 2025 event.
Ancer pocketed $4 million for winning this event last season and the same was won by Sergio Garcia this season. The total purse was $25 million. The extra $5 million was given to the top three teams, but team winnings are invested back in again and supposedly don’t go into the players’ pockets.
Garcia carded a final round of seven-under to win the tournament by three shots from Dean Burmester, climbing to the top of the LIV Golf individual standings.
Each member of the Fireballs received $750,000, the second-place team Stinger GC received $375,000 each and the tied third-placed teams Ripper GC and Hy Flyers received $250,000 each. As for the individual leaderboard, the bottom player Dustin Johnson received $50,000, nothing to be sniffed at for a minimum figure you earn at an event with no cut.
Before the Hong Kong event, Adrian Meronk and Joaquin Niemann won the winner’s cheques in Saudi Arabia and Adelaide and Fireballs GC and Legion XIII GC have won the team formats.
In the same week as LIV Golf Hong Kong 2025, there was also the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour which was one of eight Signature events on the US circuit’s schedule.
As the Arnold Palmer Invitational is a player-hosted tournament, it had a cut and the winner Russell Henley received $4 million, which was 20% of the total purse of $20 million. The LIV Golf League and the PGA Tour are certainly locking horns with regard to prize money in the opening week of March.
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Given those grossly inflated figures, they absolutely dwarf anything else in the golf world. Not that a $2.5 million purse is buttons, but that is what the LPGA Tour is paying out at the Blue Bay event.
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LIV Golf Hong Kong payouts
Let’s take a look at the LIV Golf Hong Kong prize money breakdown in 2025, plus the purses of the events on the corresponding tours in the same week: PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA and the Ladies European Tour.
LIV Golf Hong Kong
Winner: Sergio Garcia – $4,000,000
2: Dean Burmester – $2,250,000
3: Phil Mickelson – $1,500,000
4: Lucas Herbert – $1,000,000
5: Paul Casey – $800,000
Last place: Dustin Johnson – $50,000
PGA Tour
Arnold Palmer Invitational: $20,000,000
DP World Tour
Joburg Open: 20,500,000 South African Rand (approximately $1.1 million)
LPGA Tour
Blue Bay LPGA: $2.5 million
Ladies European Tour
Australain WPGA Championship: €450,000
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