Prize Money on the PGA TourPlotted is the value of the winner's cheque in every PGA Tour event since 1960. Prize moneyis inflation-adjusted to 2012 USD. Hover over the ? and data points for further context.
Notes: The dollars values cited in the pop-up notes (for the main graph) are nominal values. Data on PGA Tour purses was obtained from Wikipedia; data for tennis majors was obtained here; US price data was obtained from FRED; historical exchange rate data (to convert the tennis purses to US currency) was obtained here.