Joaquin Niemanns insane LIV earnings compared to | Golf News

Rory McIlroy is having an distinctive season, reaching a profession Grand Slam with a victory at Augusta and rocketing to the highest of the PGA Tour’s earnings listing.

However, when it comes to this season’s largest earners in golf, LIV Golf’s Chilean sensation Joaquin Niemann is remodeling much less prestigious tournaments into huge paydays.

Despite McIlroy’s victories on the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Players Championship, and most notably, the Masters, he is solely simply out-earning Niemann. Through six begins this season, Niemann has amassed $12,604,738 throughout LIV occasions in Mexico City, Singapore, and Adelaide, together with a T29 end on the Masters.

To offer you an thought, that is roughly $2,100,789 per event. Break it down even additional, and the Torque GC star is pocketing round $10,222 each time he swings his PING G440 LST driver.

McIlroy is at the moment reigning supreme within the early PGA Tour season, incomes $13,326,650 during the identical period. He’s the one participant with a number of wins in 2025, outperforming heavyweights like Justin Thomas, Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, and Russell Henley.

To put issues into perspective, McIlroy has already surpassed his whole earnings from 2024, when two victories helped him win $10,893,790. Scottie Scheffler raked in a whopping $29,228,357 throughout seven wins.

On the LIV entrance, each regular-season LIV occasion ensures a whole purse of $25 million, no exceptions. $20 million is allotted for particular person competitors, and $5 million for workforce success. Every particular person winner walks away with a assured $4 million payday. Niemann has amassed $48,675,315 in LIV earnings since departing the PGA Tour in 2021.

This determine considerably overshadows the $15,501,248 he earned over 4 years competing within the PGA Tour’s conventional occasions. Add $1,296,634 from majors, and the Chilean prodigy boasts profession earnings exceeding $65 million.

However, if he needs to surpass McIlroy, who ranks second solely to Tiger Woods in all-time PGA prize money, he’ll have his work cut out for him. McIlroy has gathered over $104 million in his profession, not counting endorsements. Woods’ file stands at an spectacular $120 million solely from PGA Tour occasions, indicating that a prolonged profession on the PGA Tour can certainly be fairly profitable.

Sergio Garcia of LIV has additionally raked in $6,496,000 this season with a single victory in Hong Kong. On the PGA entrance, Thomas bagged $3.6 million together with his triumph on the RBC Heritage. McIlroy’s most profitable win stays his $4.5 million haul from the Players Championship, demonstrating that matching LIV’s prize money is no straightforward feat, even on the pinnacle of the game.

As golf grapples with a energy battle in the direction of consolidation, McIlroy’s yr will go down in historical past as one of monumental success. Regardless of Niemann’s victories this season, 2025 can be remembered because the yr of the payday.