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USA Today via Reuters

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USA Today via Reuters

Saudi-backed golf league is trying to recruit the best male golfers from the world to play for them. PGA Tour has taken the initiative ‘PIP’ to reward the most engaging golfer on social media. Phil Mickelson is complaining that the PGA keeps the media rights and does not distribute them among its players. Meanwhile, LPGA Tour players struggle to meet the ends!

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A new Twitter post from Lisa Cornwell put light on how different the life of the PGA and LPGA players are. Cornwell tweeted:

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Lisa Cornwell is a former Golf Channel anchor. At 14, she became the youngest to become the state women’s golf champion.

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She received the first-ever golf scholarship in the inaugural University of Arkansas women’s program. Recently, she got inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.

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The struggles of the LPGA Tour players!

ABC News had conducted a confidential LPGA player survey in which the golfers shared their worries. The pay gap between the PGA Tour and LPGA was one of the biggest problems most golfers had pointed out.

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 The female counterparts don’t receive the retirement compensation and medical cover that the PGA Tour players enjoy. To understand, a comparison between the career earnings of male and female golfers is more than enough.

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 Annika Sorenstam is the first on the list of career earnings as an LPGA player. She has earned $22,577,025 from 304 events. While this is what the most an LPGA player has earned, it is nothing compared to the PGA players. 

Carl Pettersson has earned $22,688,674 so far in his PGA career. Pettersson is the 75th in order of the PGA Tour career earnings list. 

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How much has Phil Mickelson earned from the Tour? 

Mickelson has earned over 13 million in the last five years from PGA. Notably, this includes nothing but the tournament earnings of the male golfer. Since he was the winner of the PIP by the Tour, he also received another $8 million last year. 

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Both PGA and LPGA players play the same sport, Golf. All of them work hard equally, and their expenses to become a golfer are the same. However, the difference both the Tour players treats its players is huge. 

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