{"id":632732,"date":"2026-04-26T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:57:08","slug":"2026-chevron-championship-purse-payout-info-winners-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632732\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Chevron Championship purse: Payout info, winner&#8217;s share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">This year\u2019s Chevron Championship has been set up to reflect an evolving LPGA \u2014 and those changes begin on the balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>This week, thanks to help from <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/lpga-purse-increase-richest-outside-majors-cme\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqh9VNubxSZ6P3KG06OYpbykT0JsQPC7AAhvyPuhvF89pcLbUOh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tournament sponsors JM Eagle<\/a>, the LPGA will deliver $9 million to the players for the first major of the season, an increase of $1 million from last year\u2019s iteration of the event, and just $500,000 less than the purse awarded at this week\u2019s Zurich Classic on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>As for the golfer in the hottest pursuit of a major title and a major payday? That honor would belong to Nelly Korda, whose 54-hole lead has stretched to five shots at Memorial Park in Houston. Korda is looking for her third major championship victory at the Chevron, and second victory at this event this weekend. Through three days, she\u2019s certainly looked the part: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpga.com\/tournaments\/chevron-championship\/leaderboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patty Tavatanakit<\/a> has recorded just one bogey in 54 holes, and she rises on Sunday morning trailing Korda by five full shots. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the full payout information for the tournament\u2019s $9 million purse, including winner\u2019s share and payout information; you can <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/nbc-chevron-championship-coverage-new-lead-voice\/\" type=\"article\" id=\"15584315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">catch the action on NBC<\/a> beginning at 2 p.m. ET and following through to the end of the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>2025 U.S. Women\u2019s Open payout information, winner\u2019s share<\/p>\n<p>1st: $1,375,000<\/p>\n<p>2nd: $961,200<\/p>\n<p>3rd: $565,400<\/p>\n<p>4th: $462,500<\/p>\n<p>5th: $368,100<\/p>\n<p>6th: $336,000<\/p>\n<p>7th: $307,700<\/p>\n<p>8th: $287,200<\/p>\n<p>9th: $267,600<\/p>\n<p>10th: $253,400<\/p>\n<p>11th: $239,900<\/p>\n<p>12th: $217,800<\/p>\n<p>13th: $194,200<\/p>\n<p>14th: $180,600<\/p>\n<p>15th: $169,000<\/p>\n<p>16th: $159,300<\/p>\n<p>17th: $150,000<\/p>\n<p>18th: $140,800<\/p>\n<p>19th: $131,500<\/p>\n<p>20th: $122,300<\/p>\n<p>21st: $113,000<\/p>\n<p>22nd: $104,700<\/p>\n<p>23rd: $96,900<\/p>\n<p>24th: $89,300<\/p>\n<p>25th: $81,900<\/p>\n<p>26th: $76,800<\/p>\n<p>27th: $72,800<\/p>\n<p>28th: $69,600<\/p>\n<p>29th: $66,900<\/p>\n<p>30th: $64,100<\/p>\n<p>31st: $61,300<\/p>\n<p>32nd: $58,600<\/p>\n<p>33rd: $55,900<\/p>\n<p>34th: $53,400<\/p>\n<p>35th: $51,100<\/p>\n<p>36th: $48,900<\/p>\n<p>37th: $46,700<\/p>\n<p>38th: $44,600<\/p>\n<p>39th: $42,800<\/p>\n<p>40th: $40,900<\/p>\n<p>41st: $39,100<\/p>\n<p>42nd: $37,200<\/p>\n<p>43rd: $35,400<\/p>\n<p>44th: $33,500<\/p>\n<p>45th: $31,700<\/p>\n<p>46th: $29,900<\/p>\n<p>47th: $28,100<\/p>\n<p>48th: $26,500<\/p>\n<p>49th: $25,300<\/p>\n<p>50th: $24,300<\/p>\n<p>51st: $23,700<\/p>\n<p>52nd: $23,200<\/p>\n<p>53rd: $22,800<\/p>\n<p>54th: $22,400<\/p>\n<p>55th: $22,200<\/p>\n<p>56th: $21,900<\/p>\n<p>57th: $21,700<\/p>\n<p>58th: $21,600<\/p>\n<p>59th: $21,400<\/p>\n<p>60th: $21,200<\/p>\n<p>61st: $21,000<\/p>\n<p>62nd: $20,800<\/p>\n<p>63rd: $20,600<\/p>\n<p>64th: $20,500<\/p>\n<p>65th: $20,300<\/p>\n<p>66th: $20,100<\/p>\n<p>67th: $19,600<\/p>\n<p>68th: $19,200<\/p>\n<p>69th: $19,100<\/p>\n<p>70th: $18,900<\/p>\n<p>71st: $18,700<\/p>\n<p>72nd: $18,400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s Chevron Championship has been set up to reflect an evolving LPGA \u2014 and those changes begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-632732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632732","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=632732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}