{"id":7554,"date":"2013-11-06T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/10-million-purses-for-pga-players-championships\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:43:00","slug":"10-million-purses-for-pga-players-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/10-million-purses-for-pga-players-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"$10 million purses for PGA, Players Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Island, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The purses for the PGA Championship and Players Championship will reach $10 million next year, making them the richest tournaments in golf.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Championship&#8217;s purse will be increased by $2 million and the Players Championship&#8217;s by $500,000 to reach the benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>The purse hikes were announced in a press conference Wednesday ahead of the The McGladrey Classic by PGA of America president Ted Bishop and PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop and Finchem heralded an era of increased cooperation between the two organizations, with Finchem saying the dual announcement showed what regular communication between them can accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA of America oversees the PGA Championship. Without a major to call its own, the PGA Tour&#8217;s biggest event has been the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Island, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The purses for the PGA Championship and Players Championship will reach $10 million next year, making them the richest tournaments in golf. The PGA Championship&#8217;s purse will be increased by $2 million and the Players Championship&#8217;s by $500,000 to reach the benchmark. The purse hikes were announced in a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}