2006 Sanderson Farms Championship prize money
D.J. Trahan won the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship on 1 October 2006 and took $540,000. Below is every one of the 35 cheques paid that week, in finishing order, down to the $5,400 Carlos Franco collected for finishing 80.
D.J. Trahan won it in a playoff, so the card shows the same 72-hole total at the top of the ladder twice.
Every cheque at the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship
1 October 2006
| PLACE | PLAYER | COUNTRY | TO PAR | TOTAL | PRIZE MONEY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.J. Trahan | USA | -13 | 275 | $540,000 |
| T5 | Bo Van Pelt | USA | -10 | 278 | $109,500 |
| T5 | Ted Purdy | USA | -10 | 278 | $109,500 |
| T8 | Fred Funk | USA | -9 | 279 | $78,000 |
| T8 | Jason Gore | USA | -9 | 279 | $78,000 |
| T8 | Nick Watney | USA | -9 | 279 | $78,000 |
| T8 | Olin Browne | USA | -9 | 279 | $78,000 |
| T8 | Troy Matteson | USA | -9 | 279 | $78,000 |
| T14 | Shaun Micheel | USA | -8 | 280 | $55,500 |
| T16 | Daniel Chopra | SWE | -7 | 281 | $39,400 |
| T16 | Jonathan Kaye | USA | -7 | 281 | $39,400 |
| T16 | Robert Garrigus | USA | -7 | 281 | $39,400 |
| T16 | Tim Petrovic | USA | -7 | 281 | $39,400 |
| T25 | Bernhard Langer | GER | -6 | 282 | $21,467 |
| T25 | Cameron Beckman | USA | -6 | 282 | $21,467 |
| T25 | Chris Couch | USA | -6 | 282 | $21,467 |
| T25 | Eric Axley | USA | -6 | 282 | $21,467 |
| T34 | Chris Smith | USA | -5 | 283 | $15,480 |
| T34 | Jerry Smith | USA | -5 | 283 | $15,480 |
| T34 | Mark Wilson | USA | -5 | 283 | $15,480 |
| T39 | Dicky Pride | USA | -4 | 284 | $12,600 |
| T39 | John Senden | AUS | -4 | 284 | $12,600 |
| T43 | Ryuji Imada | JPN | -3 | 285 | $9,360 |
| T50 | Jason Bohn | USA | -2 | 286 | $7,131 |
| T50 | Neal Lancaster | USA | -2 | 286 | $7,131 |
| T57 | Brian Davis | ENG | -1 | 287 | $6,690 |
| T57 | John Daly | USA | -1 | 287 | $6,690 |
| T61 | Charley Hoffman | USA | 0 | 288 | $6,390 |
| T61 | Jerry Kelly | USA | 0 | 288 | $6,390 |
| T61 | Nicholas Thompson | USA | 0 | 288 | $6,390 |
| T67 | Alex Cejka | GER | 1 | 289 | $6,090 |
| T67 | Arjun Atwal | IND | 1 | 289 | $6,090 |
| T76 | Tag Ridings | USA | 6 | 294 | $5,610 |
| 78 | Steven Bowditch | AUS | 7 | 295 | $5,520 |
| 80 | Carlos Franco | PAR | 12 | 300 | $5,400 |
The top of the ladder
The fifteen biggest cheques of the week took $1,405,034 between them, against $199,456 shared by the other twenty players paid.
The 35 cheques above come to $1,604,490 between them. We hold 45 players for the week in all, so ten of them took no money: a missed cut, a withdrawal or an amateur place. A place written as T4 is a tie, and everyone tied for it was paid the same.
The other Sanderson Farms Championship years
24 editions, 2001 to 2025
The 2005 ladder is the edition before this one, won by Heath Slocum. The 2007 ladder is the one after, won by Chad Campbell. The Sanderson Farms Championship roll of honour carries every champion and what each win paid.
The rest of the 2006 golf year
47 other tournaments we hold a 2006 prize list for, in the order they were played.
The biggest cheque of 2006 was the $1,338,480 paid at the Open Championship, won by Tiger Woods.
Frequently asked questions
Who won the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship?
D.J. Trahan, on 1 October 2006, in a playoff. The win paid $540,000.
How much did the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship pay out?
The 35 cheques on this page come to $1,604,490 between them, from $540,000 at the top down to $5,400.
What was the smallest cheque at the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship?
$5,400, which Carlos Franco collected for finishing 80.
How many players were paid at the 2006 Sanderson Farms Championship?
35. We hold 45 players for that week in all, so ten of them took no money: a missed cut, a withdrawal or an amateur place.
Where to next
The rest of the golf money
Golf tournament prize money carries the roll of honour for every event we hold, and golf earnings ranks the players by what they have won across their careers. Where a field is paid for every round it survives rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, and for a single event that pays a whole field on one night, World Championship darts prize money.