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PGA Tour Payouts Soar as Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Rains Down Riches

A $20 million purse is on the line in Arizona this week — matching, for about a month, a PGA Tour regular-season record.

Rory McIlroy on Wednesday at the Phoenix Open, where golfers will be competing for part of a $20 million purse.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — After all of these years — and given the ritualized rowdiness, it is impossible to say for certain — the money at the Phoenix Open might be flowing as freely as the drinks and the jeers around the 16th hole.