Americans will be getting paid to play in the Ryder Cup for the first time. The PGA of America is announcing a new plan that gives each of the 12 players a $200,000 stipend. They also are awarded $300,000 to give to a charity of their choice. The $500,000 allocation is up from $200,000 that was designated only to their charities.
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“While no players asked to be compensated, the PGA of America Board of Directors has voted to increase the allocation to the members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team from $200,000 to be directed to charities — a figure unchanged since 1999 — to $500,000, with $300,000 of that to be directed to the charity or charities of the players’ choice. The balance is a stipend.
“I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup,” Rory McIlroy said in an interview with BBC Sport last month. “The two purest forms of competition in our game right now are the Ryder Cup and the Olympics, and it’s partly because of ... the purity of no money being involved.” The PGA of America operates the event in America. It pays 20% of the broadcast revenue to the PGA Tour — effectively serving as a release fee for using tour players — and that money goes into the tour’s general operating budget.
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