9. Tour Championship, Sep. 20-23

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East Lake GC, Atlanta, Georgia

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

Bill Haas won the tournament last year in a sudden-death playoff over Hunter Mahan. The win also catapulted him to the top of the FedEx Cup point standings, meaning he walked away with not only the $1.44 million tournament check, but the extra $10 million check for winning the playoffs. Haas is, of course, the son of former PGA Tour player, Jay. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

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16. Wells Fargo ... Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Total purse: $6.5 million

Winner’s take: $1.2 million

The relatively young tournament was born in 2003 as the Wachovia Championship. For two years (2009, 2010) it had the image-conscious moniker of the “Quail Hollow Championship” after Wells Fargo bought the troubled Wachovia Bank and received TARP money. Wells Fargo’s sponsorship runs through 2014. The course is believed to be challenging enough to one day host a major. Rickie Fowler won his first PGA Tour event there. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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15. AT&T Nationa... Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland

Total purse: $6.5 million

Winner’s take: $1.2 million

Tiger’s tournament, which benefits his foundation, was won last year by Nick Watney. In 2012, it will be held at Congressional, site of Rory McIlroy’s US Open win. Tiger won it once, in 2009, but he missed it last year while recovering from his leg injuries. (AP Photo/Barbara Johnston)

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14. Northern Tru... Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California

Total purse: $6.6 million

Winner’s take: $1.2 million

Bill Hass made a 43-foot birdie putt to beat Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley in a playoff in 2012. Riveria, one of the Tour’s grand old dames, is nicknamed “Hogan’s Alley” after the famed golfer, and is the old playing grounds of Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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13. WGC-HSBC Cha... Mission Hills GC – Olazabal, Guangdong, China

Total purse: $7 million

Winner’s take: $1.2 million

Smart move by the PGA Tour to have this big-money tourney in the middle of the Fall Series, aka the “Silly Season,” and to have the event in China, a serious growing golf market. Martin Kaymer won last year. Phil Mickelson won in 2009. The event started in 2005. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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12. The Barclays... Bethpage State Park, Farmingdale, New York

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

The Black Course is the most famous—and formidable—of the five located in Long Island’s Bethpage State Park. The A.W. Tillinghast design has hosted two U.S. Opens, and should present a stiff test to lead off the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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11. Deutsche Ban... TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

The second leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs has had some impressive winners, including Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh. The course was recently redesigned by Gil Hanse, the architect who won the right to design the Olympic course for the 2016 Gamesin Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

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10. BMW Champion... Crooked Stick GC, Carmel, Indiana

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

The third leg of the FedExCup Playoffs is held on another Pete Dye-designed course, which many believe to be his finest work. Crooked Stick hosted the 1991 PGA Championship, won by none other than John Daly. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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9. Tour Champion... East Lake GC, Atlanta, Georgia

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

Bill Haas won the tournament last year in a sudden-death playoff over Hunter Mahan. The win also catapulted him to the top of the FedEx Cup point standings, meaning he walked away with not only the $1.44 million tournament check, but the extra $10 million check for winning the playoffs. Haas is, of course, the son of former PGA Tour player, Jay. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

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8. The Masters, ... Augusta National GC, Augusta, Georgia

Total purse: $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

Bubba Watson made his curling shot for the ages to beat Louis Oosthuizen in a thrilling playoff and win the green jacket. The Masters has the smallest total field (of around 90) of the four majors. But, like Wimbledon in tennis, it is arguably the most hallowed title in golf. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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7. US Open, June... Olympic Club, San Francisco, California

Total purse: Around $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.44 million

Rory McIlroy pretty much lapped the field last year at Congressional. This year’s course—Olympic—is shorter and tighter and should bring many more players into contention. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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6. The Open Cham... Royal Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, England

Total purse: Around $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.45 million

Veteran Darren Clarke won a feel-good Open last year. In 2001, the last time the event was played on the sandy links course at Royal Lytham St. Annes, which averages 11 bunkers per hole, David Duval was the winner. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

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5. The PGA Champ... The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Total purse: Around $8 million

Winner’s take: $1.45 million

One of architect Pete Dye’s diabolical designs. As its name implies, the course is on the Atlantic. There is no prevailing wind on the course, which can wreak havoc on golf games. The course was opened for the 1991 Ryder Cup, known as “the War on the Shore,” which was won in dramatic fashion by the U.S. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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4. WGC—Accenture... Ritz-Carlton GC, Dove Mountain, Marana, Arizona

Total purse: $8.5 million

Winner’s take: $1.4 million

American Hunter Mahan knocked off eventual world number one, Rory McIlroy in the final. The Accenture is only significant professional match-play format tournament outside of the Ryder Cup.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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3. WGC—Cadillac ... TPC Blue Monster at Doral, Miami, Florida

Total purse: $8.5 million

Winner’s take: $1.4 million

Justin Rose came from three strokes behind Bubba Watson to win with a bogey on the final hole. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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2. WGC—Bridgesto... Firestone CC (South Course), Akron, Ohio

Total purse: 8.5 million

Winner’s take: $1.4 million

The venerable course first hosted a tournament called the Rubber City Open. It’s also hosted three PGA Championships, the last won by Jack Nicklaus in 1975. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

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1.The Players Ch... TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Total purse: North of $9.5

million Winner’s take: North of $1.7 million

The granddaddy of them all, at least in terms of money. Pete Dye’s most iconic course—most famous for its island green on the Par 3 17th—is both loved and loathed by Tour players. J.C. Snead once famously remarked that Dye had “ruined a perfectly good swamp.” The players don’t seem to mind the paycheck, however. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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