The PGA Tour heads to Japan for the Zozo Championship this week.
In its first three years, the Zozo has produced big-name tournament champs.
Hideki Matsuyama is back to defend his title. He banked $1.791 million after winning on home soil a year ago. In 2020, Patrick Cantlay earned $1.44 million after the event was moved to Southern California and played at Sherwood Country Club due to COVID restrictions in Japan. In 2019, in the inaugural playing of the first Tour event in Japan, Tiger Woods won his 82nd title while also pocketing $1.755 million. October 27 will mark three years since his last Tour title.
The 2022 version of the event, played again at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Chiba, will feature its largest first-place prize yet. It’s also one of the largest checks on the PGA Tour. Of course, there are plenty of qualifiers in the pecking order and the Zozo is a 78-man, limited field event with no cut, but it’s still a bigger payday than most events on the schedule.
FedEx Cup Playoffs
| Tournament | First-place money |
| Tour Championship | $18 million |
| BMW Championship | $2.7 million |
| FedEx St. Jude Championship | $2.7 million |
Players
| Tournament | First-place money |
| The Players Championship | $3.6 million |
Major championships
| Tournament | First-place money |
| U.S. Open | $3.15 million |
| Masters Tournament | $2.7 million |
| PGA Championship | $2.7 million |
| The Open Championship | $2.5 million |
WGCs
| Tournament | First-place money |
| World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play | $2.1 million |
Invitationals
| Tournament | First-place money |
| Arnold Palmer Invitational | $2.16 million |
| Genesis Invitational | $2.16 million |
| The Memorial | $2.16 million |
Best of the rest
| Tournament | First-place money |
| Zozo Championship | $1.98 million |
| CJ Cup in South Carolina | $1.89 million |
| AT&T Byron Nelson | $1.638 million |
| Wells Fargo Championship | $1.62 million |
