Dustin Johnson had won $75m (£67.8m) in prize money on the PGA Tour before his switch to LIV Golf
Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson has received $18m (£16.2m) after being announced as the winner of the inaugural LIV Golf championship.
The individual competition concludes in Jeddah from 14-16 October.
Johnson’s 16th place finish in Bangkok at the weekend left him with an insurmountable 42-point lead.
South Africa’s Branden Grace sits behind the former world number one in the individual standings going into the final event of the Saudi-backed competition.
“Locking up the individual competition is big,” said Johnson.
“It’s an honour to be LIV’s first individual season champion.”
LIV Golf chief Greg Norman said: “The first chapter of LIV Golf’s history could not be written without Dustin Johnson’s name.
“By any measure, Dustin Johnson is among the elite players in the world. From the start,…
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