Jordan Spieth secured his first green jacket and major championship on Sunday in winning the 2015 Masters by four strokes, tying the tournament scoring record at 18 under par after carding a final-round 70.
The 21-year-old phenom also receives quite a handsome payday for his transcendent efforts at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Spieth's winner's check is $1,800,000, a nice chunk of the total $10 million Masters purse.
Check out the top 10 payouts in the table below and head to Augusta.com for the complete purse information:
PGATour.com's Sean Martin highlighted how stupendous Spieth has been in his young Masters career:
Spieth had perspective and offered some humor to the media after his spellbinding victory, per Golf Central and Golf Digest:
Justin Rose missed a par putt on the 72nd hole to miss out on finishing second alone, which would have netted him $1,080,000 as opposed to $880,000.
Golf Digest's Mike O'Malley recorded what Rose had to say about his own exceptional 72-hole score:
With all the struggles Phil Mickelson has endured over the past season and a little more, he's brought most of his best golf in that span when it counts most. After tying second at last year's PGA Championship, Mickelson followed with another joint runner-up finish.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy would have had a real chance to complete the career Grand Slam with a slightly better start to his Masters. Weekend rounds of 68 and 66 allowed him to soar into fourth place alone, and he certainly has the look of a future green jacket wearer.
CBS Sports' Kyle Porter noted how well Rose, Mickelson and McIlroy held up in relation to previous Masters:
Spieth was just a little bit too much for everyone. ESPN.com's Jason Sobel indicates how consistent Spieth has been of late:
That's led to a lot of hefty paydays.
Another less heralded prodigy among golf's plethora of young talent is Hideki Matsuyama. The 2014 Memorial winner made no bogeys on Sunday and fired a 31 on the last nine to match McIlroy for the low round of the day and finish fifth alone.
Money is hardly the concern for all these huge names in golf. The amount of money that's on the line on a weekly basis for PGA Tour players comes with the territory. That is just one of the many factors weighing on the players, not to mention the immense stakes and pressure they're all under.
Finishing high in events such as the Masters allows the financial side to take care of itself. It takes a ton of work to get into such a position, which is why someone such as Spieth winning at age 21 is so mind-boggling.
Both Mickelson and Tiger Woods are showing signs of form, McIlroy is heating up and Spieth's playing the best golf on the planet right now, so the game of golf is in a great place.
Just think of the next major, the U.S. Open. Mickelson will be hoping to complete the career Grand Slam, and McIlroy will be gunning for his fifth major championship. The 2013 winner in Rose is clicking, and Woods isn't far off.
But Spieth may well be the favorite to beat them all in that tournament and many before and after.
//from Bleacher Report http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bleacherreport/~3/8ugb3n_ZiSU/2428664-masters-prize-money-2015-final-leaderboard-total-purse-and-payouts
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