McIlroy s bonus huge bonuses makes the felt village boil

The two biggest bonuses of Mcilroy from the beginning of 2025 to now are 4.2 million at The Masters this month and 4.5 million at the players Championship last month. Particularly, these two titles brought Mcilroy the bonus of nearly 9.8 million USD that tennis player Carlos Alcaraz earned for the year 2024.

The felt ball village recently boiled because of the bonus issue. Top 20 men and women last month sent letters to four Grand Slam tournaments to request to increase bonuses. This move takes place after the Association of Professional Rackets (PTPA) - the organization founded by Novak Djokovic, filed a lawsuit against ATP, WTA and ITF for monopoly and corruption.

"Obviously there will be comparisons ," Tennis Legend John John Mcenroe told ESPN about the problem of bonus in tennis. "The players have reason to demand more benefits when the numbers are increasingly public and transparent." They then paid the men's champion Jannik Sinner and the single female Aryna Sabalenka each person $ 3.6 million bonuses. However, this figure is only nearly half of the world's number one golfer Scottie Scheffler. After the brilliant success last year, Golf Scotland pocketed 29.3 million USD bonuses. Behind him is Xander Schauffele with 18.4 million.

Thus, the bonus of the 2024 golf season is twice as much as the players. Statistics show that the current Grand Slam Tennis Slam is less than a third of revenue for rewards, while this ratio in golf, basketball and baseball is 40-50%.

In the petition last month, PTPA requires tennis organizations to pay more money for players, while allowing them to be more free when attending performances. Saudi Arabia paid the highest reward of all time to 6 players attending the Six Kings Slam performance last year, with $ 1.5 million for attending and an additional 6 million for the champion. At that time, Daniil Medvedev earned more than $ 2 million even played only one match. The former Masters champion, Jon Rahm pocketed $ 34.7 million last year, and Sergio Garcia earned 17 million.