Presidents Cup captains and gamers are now not mandated to make charitable donations with the cash they obtain for collaborating, in accordance with a Golfweek report.
As a substitute, the report signifies, the 24 gamers, captains and assistant captains from this 12 months’s matches at Royal Montreal and the 2022 Presidents Cup at Quail Hole had been every awarded $250,000 stipends, which might be used for any goal. This can be a shift from the earlier mannequin, which allowed gamers to earmark their portion of income, beforehand $150,000, to charities of their selection.
“As a part of the Tour’s general complete compensation program, distributions for the Presidents Cup have been adjusted to replicate the altering panorama of charitable giving, permitting gamers and captains the flexibleness to help their respective foundations or private charitable priorities,” the Tour stated in a press release to Golfweek.
As Golfweek additional explains:
Previous to 2022, every participant, captain and captain’s assistant obtained $150,000 to provide to a charity/charities of their selection. Beginning in 2022, gamers and captains obtain $250,000 of which they can use as they see match and are usually not required to reveal how or the place they direct the funds. In response to a number of members of Crew USA, this determination was made to unburden the Tour from having to coordinate and reimburse all the journey bills for the help groups – coaches, trainers, household, and many others. – and put the onus again on the participant to make the preparations out of their stipend.
Finally 12 months’s Ryder Cup in Rome, every participant obtained $200,000 that they might donate to charity. That quantity, Golfweek says, is anticipated to extend, both matching or exceeding the $250,000 mark, whereas additionally turning into a stipend for the 2025 matches at Bethpage Black.