This is not directly trading related but if there was a game that mimicked trading it would be golf. A golf game is won by the person who makes the fewest catastrophic error and whose management of their internal game is superior to others. Incremental gains count.
I am assuming that they are referring to lifetime earnings.
That would be the difference in what they can earn in one tournament. 2020 PGA winner earned more than $1 Mill US more than the second placegetter.