April 19, 2026, 10:06 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
When Walter Wang and his wife Shirley took over the JM Eagle LA Championship<\/a> in 2023, they promptly doubled the purse from $1.5 million to $3 million. Now, three years later, the Wangs boast the highest purse on the LPGA outside the majors and CME.<\/p>\n Wang, JM Eagle’s CEO, surprised everyone when he announced a $1 million increase to the purse<\/a> on Saturday while in the Golf Channel booth. The move brought the purse for the week to $4.75 million and increased the winner’s share to $712,500.<\/p>\n Australia’s Hannah Green survived a wild Sunday finish in L.A.<\/a>, coming out on top in a three-way playoff against Sei Young Kim and Jin Hee Im. Green shot 31 on the back side and then birdied the first extra hole to win her third title in L.A. and eighth career LPGA victory. She has $8.8 million in official career earnings.<\/p>\n Green has now won four titles worldwide in 2026, including the HSBC Women’s World Championship, Australian Open and Australian WPGA.<\/p>\n JM Eagle LA Championship 2026 prize money payoutsPos.NameScoreMoney earned1Hannah Green-17$712,500T2Jin Hee Im-17$388,849T2Sei Young Kim-17$388,8494Ina Yoon-16$252,937T5Haeran Ryu-14$185,078T5Patty Tavatanakit-14$185,078T7Minami Katsu-12$130,789T7Chizzy Iwai-12$130,789T9Jing Yan-11$104,878T9Melanie Green-11$104,878T11Jenny Bae-10$89,452T11Suvichaya Vinijchaitham-10$89,452T13Alison Lee-9$74,030T13Asterisk Talley (a)-9$0T13Akie Iwai-9$74,030T13Jennifer Kupcho-9$74,030T13Allisen Corpuz-9$74,030T18Celine Boutier-8$58,073T18Yu Liu-8$58,073T18Manon De Roey-8$58,073T18Lucy Li-8$58,073T18Anna Nordqvist-8$58,073T18Jessica Porvasnik-8$58,073T24Nataliya Guseva-7$48,060T24Narin An-7$48,060T24Robyn Choi-7$48,060T24Mi Hyang Lee-7$48,060T28Grace Kim-6$38,094T28Megan Khang-6$38,094T28Lauren Coughlin-6$38,094T28Wei-Ling Hsu-6$38,094T28Alexa Pano-6$38,094T28Kumkang Park-6$38,094T28Dewi Weber-6$38,094T28Jodi Ewart Shadoff-6$38,094T36Ingrid Lindblad-5$30,970T36Lottie Woad-5$30,970T38Camille Boyd-4$27,330T38Mary Liu-4$27,330T38Gurleen Kaur-4$27,330T38Aphrodite Deng (a)-4$0T38Pornanong Phatlum-4$27,330T43Lilia Vu-3$23,690T43Yan Liu-3$23,690T43Frida Kinhult-3$23,690T46Chella Choi-2$20,235T46Miyu Yamashita-2$20,235T46Peiyun Chien-2$20,235T46Hira Naveed-2$20,235T46Jasmine Suwannapura-2$20,235T51Ryann O’Toole-1$16,322T51Saki Baba-1$16,322T51Azahara Munoz-1$16,322T51Ayaka Furue-1$16,322T51Dongeun Lee-1$16,322T51Isabella Fierro-1$16,322T51Aditi Ashok-1$16,322T58Karis DavidsonE$13,818T58Soo Bin JooE$13,818T58Paula RetoE$13,81861Ilhee Lee+1$12,83462Youmin Hwang+2$12,339T63Polly Mack+3$11,969T63Maja Stark+3$11,96965Jin Young Ko+4$11,598Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 19, 2026, 10:06 p.m. ET When Walter Wang and his wife Shirley took over the JM Eagle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[202558,64,63,755,85,203131,203132,203138,203140,300332,203147,202563,203498,203139,260233,202561],"class_list":{"0":"post-619358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sstssportsgolflpga","14":"tag-sstsnlpga","15":"tag-taggolf","16":"tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","17":"tag-taglpga","18":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","19":"tag-tagoverall-positive","20":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-tagwomens-sports","23":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}