The PGA Tour has created a bonus system that will reward the biggest stars regardless of their performance on the course, as part of efforts to prevent top players from joining an international league, CBS Sports reported Wednesday.

The new system is designed to pay players who are judged to drive fan and sponsor engagement, like Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler, and Bryson DeChambeau, the report said.

Some of the top players and managers have loosely hinted at the proposal, dubbed the "Player Impact Program," since the beginning of 2020. Golfweek first reported details of the program in January.

During the start of 2020, a concept known as the Premier Golf League that was bankrolled in part by Saudi money was attempting to entice PGA's top players to join an overseas league with the promise of a massive paycheck.

The PGL has spent years wooing golf's biggest names but seems no closer to sealing a deal with a sufficient number of elite players.

The floundering PGL initiative nonetheless forced the PGA Tour to come up with a lucrative move to compensate the game's stars for the value they add to the league and not make them go away.

The objective is to "recognize and reward players who positively move the needle," a PGA Tour official confirmed to Golfweek magazine.

At the end of the year, a pool of $40 million will be distributed among 10 of the league's top players, with the one deemed most valuable getting paid $8 million.

But the reward plan is not as easy as it sounds as the metrics for deciding who will be rewarded parts of the $40 million are not exclusively based on tournament play. Thus, applying the exact formula the PGA Tour will utilize can get messy, according to some players.

For instance, will the PGA Tour pay Tiger Woods a bonus because he ranked high on Google searches after his car accident instead of playing golf?

While the money-rich PPI will be popular with its beneficiaries, it received mixed reaction among journeymen who are unlikely to reap its rewards.

"We earn our money through performance. Using metrics will definitely cause complications at some point. What if you're a really awesome player but don't move the needle in those metrics?" a veteran PGA Tour player, who asked not to be named, said.