Korn Ferry Tour purse payout percentages and distribution
Korn Ferry Tour

Korn Ferry Tour purse payout percentages and distribution

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The Korn Ferry Tour has a standard formula for payout percentages and distribution its purse and prize money for almost every event. If there's a cut where 65 or more players make the final round or rounds of the tournament, there's standard table of payout percentages and distribution.

The winner of a Korn Ferry Tour event gets 18 percent of the purse. Typically, the second place player gets 9 percent of the total purse (it was formerly 10.8 percent before a 2020 change to flatten the pay scale). Then it goes on like that, all the way down to 65th place, which gets 0.40 percent of the total purse.

There are a few situations where the Korn Ferry Tour doesn't follow its standard purse payout and distribution formula.

Korn Ferry Tour purse payout percentages and distribution

Sample purses shown

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PLACE PERCENT $650,000
1 18.000% $117,000
2 9.000% $58,500
3 6.000% $39,000
4 4.500% $29,250
5 3.800% $24,700
6 3.450% $22,425
7 3.200% $20,800
8 2.950% $19,175
9 2.750% $17,875
10 2.550% $16,575
11 2.365% $15,373
12 2.200% $14,300
13 2.050% $13,325
14 1.900% $12,350
15 1.800% $11,700
16 1.700% $11,050
17 1.600% $10,400
18 1.500% $9,750
19 1.400% $9,100
20 1.300% $8,450
21 1.215% $7,898
22 1.135% $7,378
23 1.055% $6,858
24 0.975% $6,338
25 0.900% $5,850
26 0.853% $5,545
27 0.810% $5,265
28 0.770% $5,005
29 0.740% $4,810
30 0.710% $4,615
31 0.685% $4,453
32 0.665% $4,323
33 0.645% $4,193
34 0.625% $4,063
35 0.605% $3,933
36 0.585% $3,803
37 0.565% $3,673
38 0.545% $3,543
39 0.525% $3,413
40 0.515% $3,348
41 0.505% $3,283
42 0.495% $3,218
43 0.485% $3,153
44 0.475% $3,088
45 0.465% $3,023
46 0.455% $2,958
47 0.450% $2,925
48 0.445% $2,893
49 0.440% $2,860
50 0.435% $2,828
51 0.430% $2,795
52 0.426% $2,769
53 0.424% $2,756
54 0.422% $2,743
55 0.420% $2,730
56 0.418% $2,717
57 0.416% $2,704
58 0.414% $2,691
59 0.412% $2,678
60 0.410% $2,665
61 0.408% $2,652
62 0.406% $2,639
63 0.404% $2,626
64 0.402% $2,613
65 0.400% $2,600

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