Four-time main winner Rory McIlroy will forfeit $3 million from his Player Impact Performance (PIP) earnings given his choice to skip this week’s RBC Heritage, a PGA Tour supply confirmed on Friday.

That whole represents 25% of the $12 million bonus he was awarded for ending second behind Tiger Woods on final 12 months’s PIP checklist which rewards the golfers who've the largest constructive influence on the PGA Tour.

Golfers can skip one designated occasion and nonetheless accumulate their full bonus however McIlroy has now missed two of them, which the PGA Tour created to get the highest gamers competing towards one another extra usually amid a risk posed by LIV Golf.

To miss a second designated occasion with out penalty, gamers want an excused absence, like an damage, or danger dropping a part of their PIP payout from the earlier 12 months.

World quantity three McIlroy introduced his choice to withdraw from the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head Island in South Carolina on the heels of his missed reduce on the Masters, which was his sixth PGA Tour begin in 9 weeks.