Nick Dimengo
The Rocket Mortgage Traditional’s purse elevated from $8.8 million to $9.2 million this 12 months. Who’s going to assert the highest payout?
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What a wild third spherical it was on the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic! Resulting from some unfortunate weather, golf followers needed to watch for the gamers to tee off after a slight rain delay — however relaxation assured, as soon as the motion received began, it was as entertaining as could possibly be.
The low spherical on Saturday went to an beginner, Luke Clanton, who shot a 65 to push himself into the top-7 on the leaderboard. And with different gamers going almost simply as low — with seven taking pictures 66 on the day — there at the moment are a whopping 13 gamers inside 4 photographs of the lead as Sunday’s Spherical 4 will get going.
As we enter Sunday’s closing spherical from Detroit Golf Membership, everybody’s nonetheless trying up at Akshay Bhatia and Aaron Rai, who’re each at 17-under and have shared the highest spot on the leaderboard since after Spherical 2.
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Bhatia’s on the hunt for his third profession PGA Tour victory, whereas Rai is in search of is first. The previous briefly spoke about what it’s going to take to rise above the pack and end the job on Sunday.
“I like the sensation of simply all of the adrenaline and fan assist, so I’m excited for [Sunday],” mentioned Bhatia. “That is what I would like, I wish to win. It’s simply going to be enjoyable whether or not or not it occurs and simply being on this place, it’s superior.”
In the meantime, Rai appears to be soaking within the second and making an attempt to benefit from the run he’s been on the previous few rounds this week. He additionally appears excited to, as soon as once more, be paired with Bhatia for Sunday’s closing spherical on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional.
“Yeah, it’s all the time enjoyable enjoying with Akshay. We all know one another fairly effectively, and it was good [Saturday] that we each performed effectively and type of stored the rounds going and type of fed off one another at sure occasions,” mentioned Rai. “Akshay’s been enjoying some nice golf as effectively over the previous couple of months actually, so I’m certain it’ll be enjoyable tomorrow and I stay up for it.”
Whereas we’ll all need to tune in to see how the match unfolds, one factor we do know is the payout quantity at this 12 months’s Rocket Mortgage Traditional, with the sector competing for a fairly candy payday: $1.656 million of a $9.2 million purse (which is a rise from final 12 months’s $8.8 million).
You’ll be able to try all the purse breakdown for the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Traditional beneath.
2024 Rocket Mortgage Traditional purse
Winner: $1.656 million
2: $1.002 million
3: $634,800
4: $450,800
5: $377,200
6: $333,500
7: $310,500
8: $287,500
9: $269,100
10: $250,700
11: $232,300
12: $213,900
13: $195,500
14: $177,100
15: $167,900
16: $158,700
17: $149,500
18: $140,300
19: $131,100
20: $121,900
21: $112,700
22: $103,500
23: $96,140
24: $88,780
25: $81,420
26: $74,060
27: $71,300
28: $68,540
29: $65,780
30: $63,020
31: $60,260
32: $57,500
33: $54,740
34: $52,440
35: $50,140
36: $47,840
37: $45,540
38: $43,700
39: $41,860
40: $40,020
41: $38,180
42: $36,340
43: $34,500
44: $32,660
45: $30,820
46: $28,980
47: $27,140
48: $25,668
49: $24,380
50: $23,644
51: $23,092
52: $22,540
53: $22,172
54: $21,804
55: $21,620
56: $21,436
57: $21,252
58: $21,068
59: $20,884
60: $20,700
61: $20,516
62: $20,332
63: $20,148
64: $19,964
65: $19,780
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Nick Dimengo
Golf.com Editor