AIG Women's Open at Muirfield: Prize purse, winner's share

The winner of the AIG Women's Open at Muirfield will take home north of $1million for the very first time in the tournament's history. 

In fact, the check the winner will receive will be for $1,095,000. 

R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers, who has been receiving a bit of criticism from LIV Golf's Greg Norman, announced a considerable boost to the prize purse for the Women's Open earlier in the week.

He announced that the total purse was increasing to a whopping $7.3million. That means that for the very first time the winner will take home seven figures. 

Slumbers confirmed that this was a 26 per cent increase from last year. 

When the tournament was played at Royal Lytham & St. Annes four years ago, the total prize purse was $3.25million. 

The other women's majors have also boosted their purses this year. The Chevron Championship jumped from $3million to $5million. 

The U.S. Women's Open went from $4.5million to $10million after they took on the sponsor ProMedica. 

Elsewhere, the KPMG Women's PGA Championship doubled it's prize money to $9million. 

Canada's Brooke Henderson took home $1million when she won the Amundi Evian Championship. That purse jumped to $6.5million from $4.5million. 

At the time of writing, it looked like South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai was going to take down the Claret Jug after forging a five-shot lead heading into the final round. 

Japan's Hinako Shibuno, who won the major in 2019, was hot on her heels at 9-under par alongside South Korea's In Gee Chun, who held the 36-hole lead. 

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Scroll down to see the full payout info from the AIG Women's Open

WIN - $1,095,000

2: $720,028

3: $521,498

4: $402,734

5: $323,565

6: $264,183

7: $220,638

8: $192,929

9: $173,135

10: $157,299

11: $145,419

12: $135,522

13: $126,813

14: $118,898

15: $111,771

16: $105,438

17: $99,899

18: $95,147

19: $91,190

20: $88,019

21: $84,857

22: $81,686

23: $78,524

24: $75,353

25: $72,584

26: $69,815

27: $67,037

28: $64,268

29: $61,499

30: $59,123

31: $56,747

32: $54,371

33: $51,995

34: $49,619

35: $47,645

36: $45,662

37: $43,687

38: $41,705

39: $39,722

40: $38,141

41: $36,560

42: $34,978

43: $33,389

44: $31,808

45: $30,620

46: $29,432

47: $28,244

48: $27,056

49: $25,868

50: $24,680

51: $23,893

52: $23,099

53: $22,304

54: $21,517

55: $20,723

56: $19,928

57: $19,142

58: $18,347

59: $17,560

60: $16,766

61: $16,372

62: $15,971

63: $15,578

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