R&A announce total prize purse for 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews
The R&A have announced the total prize purse for the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews.
The winner of the forthcoming, landmark 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews will receive a whopping $2.5million, the R&A have announced.
The players will battle it out for the Claret Jug at the home of golf next week, where the total prize purse will be a record $14million at the iconic Old Course.
It sees the prize fund up by 22 per cent from the $12.5million last year. Collin Morikawa won last summer with a stunning performance at Royal St. Georges at the 149th Open Championship.
Martin Slumbers, chief executive of the R&A, said: “There have been significant changes in prize money over the last year.
“We have therefore increased the prize fund by 22 per cent, which means that the prize money has increased by more than 60 per cent since 2016.
“We have made this substantial investment while balancing our wider commitments to developing golf at all levels around the world and continuing to elevate the AIG Women’s Open.”
The R&A have stayed silent so far in the development of golf’s apparent civil war between LIV Golf, the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.
Ian Poulter overturned his ban at the Scottish Open, along with three other LIV Golf rebels who have teed it up in the inaugural league funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Rory McIlroy has urged peace talks.
Tiger Woods will be returning to play the landmark major, a tournament that he has won twice at the Old Course. He confirmed that he skipped the U.S. Open to prepare for it.
Scroll down to see the full prize purse.
Total prize purse for The Open
WIN - $2,500,000
2. - $1,445,000
3. $933,000
4. $725,000
5. $583,000
6. $505,000
7. $434,000
8. $366,000
9. $321,000
10. $290,000
11. $264,000
12. $234,000
13. $220,000
14. $206,000
15. $191,000
16. $176,000
17. $167,500
18. $159,750
19. $153,000
20. $147,750
21. $139,000
22. $132,000
23. $125,000
24. $118,000
25. $114,000
26. $109,000
27. $105,000
28. $101,500
29. $97,000
30. $92,000
31. $89,000
32. $84,500
33. $81,500
34. $79,250
35. $76,500
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