Rory McIlroy Prize Money Bonanza

Post by **Charnwood** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:31 pm

Rory McIlroy is in the midst of one of the best stretches of golf you'll ever see with his latest victory coming at the PGA Championship. That makes two majors in a row and three straight wins. The victory adds to his growing resume of accomplishments and comes with another very large prize. By winning at Valhalla, McIlroy claimed the $1.8 million first-place purse.

He has now won at least $1.5 million in each of his last three events. McIlroy banked $1,665,788 for winning the Open Championship at Hoylake, and added another $1.53 million payout with his win last week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. His take yesterday was the biggest yet and gives him $4,995,788 in on-course winnings in the last four weeks.

Winning three straight events is hard enough on the PGA Tour, but beating major-caliber fields three times in less than a month is on an entirely different level.

Not a bad months work.