US Tour pays 132 pros $4,000 each for

a tournament that never took place!

Now here's a new twist. What about getting paid for a tournament that never took place?
Well, it's happened in America.
The US PGA Tour is making a $4,000 payment in lieu of travel expenses to each of the 132 players who entered the Viking Classic, which was cancelled because of recurring wet conditions.
The total pay-out of $528,000 had been funded by the US Tour out of the scheduled $3.6 million purse.
“That was a Tour decision and I think it’s a good thing to do, a generous good-faith gesture,” said tournament director Randy Watkins said. “Guys spent a lot of money to go to work and couldn’t get to do their work.”
Watkins said the Viking’s Century Club Charities will have its portion of the purse returned. He said the event’s five sponsors would receive a credit toward next year and that the tournament would incur a small net loss as a result of the cancellation.