He won the Masters, the United States Open and a record $80,738 in prize money.

Throughout the 17th through 19th centuries, boxing bouts were motivated by money, as the fighters competed for prize money, promoters controlled the gate, and spectators bet on the result.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

At this time, he worked up dance routines with his younger brother Fred in order to earn prize money in local talent contests, and they also performed in local nightclubs.

You send us the prize money and we'll tell you the answer.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.

Polgár won two, drew one and lost one and won $ 12, 000 in prize money.

Polgár finished clear first with 6½ – 2½, winning the $ 20, 000 first place prize money.

The total prize money for the 2011 race was A $ 6, 175, 000, plus trophies valued at $ 125, 000.

The 1985 Melbourne Cup, won by " What a Nuisance ", was the first race run in Australia with prize money of $ 1 million.

The proposals of the other commission, on amateurism, were more contentious, but this commission also set important precedents for the Olympic Games, specifically the use of heats to narrow participants and the banning of prize money in most contests.

In Leonard's own faltering words, the prize money ($ 50, 000 ) meant nothing to him.

Junior tournaments do not offer prize money except for the Grand Slam tournaments, which are the most prestigious junior events.

Whilst chefs in such restaurants may need to tweak traditional recipes to suit contemporary tastebuds, emphasis of natural foods is still extant. The annual Indigenous Peoples Healthy Cuisine and Innovative Beverage Competition, partly sponsored by the Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Tourism Bureau provides prize money to contestants who creatively use traditional indigenous ingredients in healthy ways.

The winner of the game takes home all of the money accumulated in the prize pool for the game, and the loser leaves with nothing, like all previous eliminated players.

A few months later, the contestants were cut down to seven, as well as the time from 45 minutes to 30, however, the prize money remained the same ( with a money tree of £ 50 -£ 100 -£ 250 -£ 1, 000 -£ 1, 750 -£ 2, 500 ; the seventh round being a double round for £ 10, 000 ).

After the seven-player edition, the studio was revamped once again to add two more podiums, and the potential prize money was raised to £ 50, 000.

UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those competitions.

One of the earliest was a competition to win ' a ton of money ' a pointed satire of tabloid newspapers promising huge cash prizes to boost circulation-the prize was in fact a metric tonne of one-and two-pence pieces, equivalent to a few hundred pounds sterling.

As she has only a thimble, the Dodo requests it from her and then awards it to Alice as her prize.

Brought back from Sippar to Susa as war prize in the 12th century BC

Fleming ( centre ) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden | Gustaf V of Sweden ( right ) in 1945

* Ark, a literary prize from the Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord

The show featured eight a cappella groups from the United States and Puerto Rico vying for the prize of $ 100, 000 and a recording contract with Epic Records / Sony Music.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

This prime allowed GIMPS to win the $ 100, 000 prize from Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a prime with more than 10 million decimal digits.

There is the widespread use of " promotional consideration ", in which a game show receives a subsidy from an advertiser in return for awarding that manufacturer's product as a prize or consolation prize.

In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels, often overtly political, that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting ( 1993 ), Warner's Morvern Callar ( 1995 ), Gray ’ s Poor Things ( 1992 ) and Kelman ’ s How Late It Was, How Late ( 1994 ).

* Prize indemnity insurance protects the insured from giving away a large prize at a specific event.

The International Prize Court was to hear appeals from national courts concerning prize cases.

The prize was announced on 22 October 1964 ; on 14 October, Sartre had written a letter to the Nobel Institute, asking to be removed from the list of nominees, and warning that he would not accept the prize if awarded, but the letter went unread ; on 23 October, Le Figaro published a statement by Sartre explaining his refusal.

In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story " Talboys ", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

Nominated more than 40 times for awards, including various lifetime achievement awards, she won the best actress prize three times from the National Society of Film Critics, three times from the National Board of Review, received three awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and a Golden Globe.

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

The prize pool, instead of being an accumulation of the entry fees minus a fee for the ' house ' ( the way pay-to-play tournaments are typically constructed ), is derived from a donation from the house, sponsorship fees, admission charged to spectators, broadcast rights fees, or any combination of these.

In 2011, Philips won a $ 10 million cash prize from the US Department of Energy for winning its L-Prize competition, to produce a high-efficiency, long operating life replacement for a standard 60-W incandescent lightbulb.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

In 1944, Hahn received the Nobel prize in chemistry.

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

* Willem Einthoven ( 1860 – 1927 ), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won the 1924 Nobel prize in medicine

Thomson was given the 1906 Nobel prize for physics for this work.

Philipp Lenard also contributed a great deal to cathode ray theory, winning the Nobel prize for physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and their properties.

Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize for his work though the nomination arrived just days after his death.

His theory of the photoelectric effect ( for which he won the Nobel prize for physics ) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons.

* Nobel prize page for the 1938 physics ' prize

* And Quiet Flows the Don ( 1957-8 ) by Sergei Gerasimov-an adaptation of the Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

The reasons for the two of them winning the prize are described in the Nobel committee's press release.

" Hayek's research into this argument was specifically cited by the Nobel Committee in its press release awarding Hayek the Nobel prize.

Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist ( after Kenneth Arrow ) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, particularly since his lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classical modelization.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.