The RBC Canadian falls on one of the toughest spots on the PGA Tour schedule, sandwiched in between the Open Championship overseas and a WGC event that always draws the top 50 players in the world. For most of the top stars, the Canadian Open and Wyndham Championship are the only weeks off the entire second half of the summer, with two majors, a WGC, the FedExCup, and potentially Ryder Cup jamming up the late schedule.
RBC Canadian Open 2014 purse: Winner earns $1.026 million of total $5.7 million payout
Jim Furyk is trying to end an almost four-year winless streak on Sunday at Royal Montreal. He’ll earn a $1M-plus paycheck if he manages to do so, but for a veteran with his career earnings, that’s secondary at this point.
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But even with that scheduling disadvantage, the Tour’s only stop north of the border still attracts a pretty solid field. RBC backs a loaded stable of golfers, including Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Graeme McDowell, Ernie Els, and Brandt Snedeker. Those guys always show up to play for the title sponsor’s event, just as they do at Harbour Town earlier in the year. In addition to landing those world-class players, the purse also pays out more than $1 million to the winner, which is pretty standard-fare on Tour these days but still impressive given this event’s relatively low profile.
This year’s total purse at the Canadian Open will be $5.7 million, which is on the small side but still competitive. The winner will take home $1.026 million, or the usual 18 percent of the total pot.
Furyk is in line to earn that winner’s check late on Sunday, holding on to his multi-shot lead over Tim Clark. It would be the first winner’s check for Furyk since he won the biggest one in the game, taking the TOUR Championship purse title in 2010 and the $10 million FedExCup grand prize. He’s made a ton of money with top 5 finishes in the biggest events during those intervening four years, so the cash is obviously secondary for the veteran, who has $61,589,864 in career earnings. Furyk has already won this event twice in his career, but he’s also 0 for 6 while holding a 54-hole lead or co-lead since his last win. Squandering this margin at an event where he’s so comfortable would be a shocking reversal.
Clark is the main chaser at the moment, and he too has a decorated resume with plenty of huge checks already banked. He’s just shy of $25 million in career earnings, which he should pass today whether he wins or not. The second-place finisher is in line for $615k. Here are the payout totals for the top 25 at Royal Montreal:
| Place | Percent of Purse | Payout |
| 1 | 18.00% | $1,026,000 |
| 2 | 10.80% | $615,600 |
| 3 | 6.80% | $387,600 |
| 4 | 4.80% | $273,600 |
| 5 | 4.00% | $228,000 |
| 6 | 3.60% | $205,200 |
| 7 | 3.35% | $190,950 |
| 8 | 3.10% | $176,700 |
| 9 | 2.90% | $165,300 |
| 10 | 2.70% | $153,900 |
| 11 | 2.50% | $142,500 |
| 12 | 2.30% | $131,100 |
| 13 | 2.10% | $119,700 |
| 14 | 1.90% | $108,300 |
| 15 | 1.80% | $102,600 |
| 16 | 1.70% | $96,900 |
| 17 | 1.60% | $91,200 |
| 18 | 1.50% | $85,500 |
| 19 | 1.40% | $79,800 |
| 20 | 1.30% | $74,100 |
| 21 | 1.20% | $68,400 |
| 22 | 1.12% | $63,840 |
| 23 | 1.04% | $59,280 |
| 24 | 0.96% | $54,720 |
| 25 | 0.88% | $50,160 |
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