Women’s U.S. Open features record $11M purse

The winner of the 2023 U.S. Ladies’s Open will money a $2 million verify as a part of the file $11 million purse at Pebble Seashore.

Final month, the Ladies’s PGA Championship paid $1.5 million to the winner as a part of a $10 million whole occasion purse, furthering the development of ballooning event prize winnings on the LPGA Tour.

“I simply acquired to say as somebody who has spent a variety of his life on the ladies’s facet of the sport, to be sitting at Pebble Seashore speaking about going to Pine Valley, speaking about 12 hours of community TV and taking part in for $11 million, some issues are higher than what you dream of,” USGA CEO Mike Whan stated Wednesday. “Whenever you return 10 or 15 years in the past, these are fairly massive moments, and I hope that every one of us aren’t each so callused and in a rush and iPhone-driven that we have missed that sort of breakthrough second.”

The USGA obtained a file variety of occasion entries — 2,107, a file by 250 — for the U.S. Ladies’s Open. The winner claimed a prize of $1.8 million final 12 months and a complete of $10 million in winnings was distributed.

“It would not matter what city you reside in, the garments in your again, or the golf equipment that you simply play with,” USGA’s senior director of Ladies’s Open championships Shannon Rouillard stated. “If you will get the ball within the gap, you have got a possibility to play within the U.S. Ladies’s Open.”

Pebble Seashore will host the U.S. Ladies’s Open once more in 2035, USGA president Fred Perpall stated in a rundown asserting the upcoming host websites.

“As a lady dad, I can not wait to see one in every of these spectacular girls sink the putt on 18 to win a U.S. Open,” Perpall stated. “I do know that every one the little ladies on the market additionally now get to dream their dream about sinking that putt on 18, and what a particular reward that’s, not only for the little girls however for the whole sport of golf.”

The long run U.S. Ladies’s Open websites embody Lancaster Nation Membership in Pennsylvania subsequent 12 months and Erin Hills in Wisconsin in 2025; adopted by Riviera Nation Membership in 2026, Inverness Membership in Toledo, Ohio, in 2027; Oakmont Nation Membership in 2028 and Pinehurst Resort and Nation Membership in 2029.

The 2029 occasion can be performed weeks after the boys’s occasion is held in Pinehurst, North Carolina.