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Open Champion set to pocket $3m – Golf News | Golf Magazine

umarkamran May 23, 2024

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The winner of subsequent week’s 151st Open at Royal Liverpool will decide up a cool $3 million (£2.32m) in prize cash, the very best quantity within the championship’s historical past.

The R&A introduced that the full prize fund for subsequent week’s Open might be $16.5 million (£12.7m), representing an 18% improve on 2022 – comfortably forward of the present price of inflation within the UK.

The highest 70 gamers and ties will make the reduce, with the final positioned participant on Sunday who made the weekend’s play set to earn $36,000. Those that miss the reduce is not going to depart Hoylake empty handed, with the main 10 execs and ties pocketing $12,000; the subsequent 20 taking dwelling $10,000; and the rest $8,500 every.

Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A, stated: “Our intention is to make sure The Open stays on the pinnacle of world golf and we’ve virtually doubled the prize fund since 2016. Whereas we’re seeing substantial will increase in prize cash throughout the boys’s skilled recreation, we’re fulfilling our wider obligation to the game by elevating the AIG Ladies’s Open, strengthening pathways within the elite novice recreation and inspiring extra individuals world wide to play golf. We imagine that getting this stability proper is important to the long-term way forward for the game.”

2023 Open Championship prize cash allocation

Place	USD	Place	USD
1	$3,000,000	36	$86,200
2	$1,708,000	37	$82,200
3	$1,095,000	38	$78,000
4	$851,000	39	$75,200
5	$684,500	40	$72,800
6	$593,000	41	$69,800
7	$509,500	42	$66,400
8	$429,700	43	$63,400
9	$377,000	44	$59,800
10	$340,500	45	$56,400
11	$310,000	46	$53,400
12	$274,700	47	$51,300
13	$258,300	48	$49,300
14	$241,800	49	$47,000
15	$224,800	50	$45,900
16	$206,600	51	$44,900
17	$196,600	52	$44,100
18	$187,500	53	$43,400
19	$179,600	54	$42,800
20	$171,100	55	$42,100
21	$163,100	56	$41,500
22	$155,000	57	$41,100
23	$146,700	58	$40,800
24	$138,500	59	$40,500
25	$133,800	60	$40,200
26	$128,000	61	$40,000
27	$123,300	62	$39,800
28	$119,100	63	$39,600
29	$113,900	64	$39,400
30	$108,000	65	$39,200
31	$104,500	66	$38,900
32	$99,200	67	$38,600
33	$95,700	68	$38,300
34	$93,000	69	$38,000
35	$89,800	70	$37,800