{"id":810562,"date":"2026-07-19T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:12:09","slug":"the-open-championship-prize-money-payout-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810562\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Championship Prize Money Payout 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the final men’s Major of the year, The Open Championship has quite the act to follow with The Masters, the PGA Championship and the US Open each having offered a diverse celebration of golf in the preceding months.<\/p>\n

The Open is the game’s most historic Major and leans heavily on tradition as it closes out the year, with the prestige of hoisting the Claret Jug<\/a> deemed to be far more important than any amount of money.<\/p>\n

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As a result, The R&A has long ensured prize money levels at The Open do not become outrageous and – in 2026 – the Championship purse will sit far below that of its three peers.<\/p>\n

The Masters and US Open both offered a total of $22.5 million to the field this year while the PGA Championship nudged north of $20 million as well.<\/p>\n

In a comfortable fourth place for 2026 is The Open with a grand total of $17.75 million. That’s up $750,000 from last year.<\/p>\n

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Consequently, the winner is set to collect $3.2 million (roughly \u00a32.4 million), which is $100,000 (\u00a374,600) more than Scottie Scheffler picked up at Royal Portrush in 2025. However, there are a couple of very good reasons why the Open champion’s take-home pay will be significantly less<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sam Burns began the final round at 10-under and was in the best position to pick up the lucrative perk for winning The Open<\/a> ahead of Ryan Fox, who he partners on Sunday, and Si Woo Kim on eight-under.<\/p>\n

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However, the South Korean now leads and looks to be in a great position to land his maiden Major championship.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, each of the top-three positions offer more than $1 million while everyone who finishes 34th or better will scoop at least $100,000 (\u00a374,600) – that is before various factors such as taxes reduce how much every pro golfer really earns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Any professional who made the cut at Royal Birkdale<\/a> is guaranteed to claim $39,700 while the leading 10 pros and ties who missed the cut will take away $12,900 (\u00a39,600).<\/p>\n

The next 20 leading pros (and ties) will earn $10,750 (\u00a38,000) each and the remaining pros who qualified for The Open but languished down at the bottom of the leaderboard will clinch $9,100 ($6,800).<\/p>\n

Below is the full prize money breakdown for The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale before ties are taken into account. This list will be updated once The Open has concluded.<\/p>\n

THE OPEN PRIZE MONEY BREAKDOWN 2026Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n

Position<\/p>\n

Prize Money<\/p>\n

1st<\/p>\n

$3,200,000<\/p>\n

2nd<\/p>\n

$1,842,000<\/p>\n

3rd<\/p>\n

$1,181,000<\/p>\n

4th<\/p>\n

$917,000<\/p>\n

5th<\/p>\n

$738,000<\/p>\n

6th<\/p>\n

$639,700<\/p>\n

7th<\/p>\n

$549,700<\/p>\n

8th<\/p>\n

$463,250<\/p>\n

9th<\/p>\n

$406,200<\/p>\n

10th<\/p>\n

$367,000<\/p>\n

11th<\/p>\n

$334,200<\/p>\n

12th<\/p>\n

$296,000<\/p>\n

13th<\/p>\n

$278,500<\/p>\n

14th<\/p>\n

$260,700<\/p>\n

15th<\/p>\n

$241,900<\/p>\n

16th<\/p>\n

$222,700<\/p>\n

17th<\/p>\n

$212,000<\/p>\n

18th<\/p>\n

$202,000<\/p>\n

19th<\/p>\n

$193,600<\/p>\n

20th<\/p>\n

$184,500<\/p>\n

21st<\/p>\n

$175,900<\/p>\n

22nd<\/p>\n

$167,100<\/p>\n

23rd<\/p>\n

$158,100<\/p>\n

24th<\/p>\n

$149,300<\/p>\n

25th<\/p>\n

$144,250<\/p>\n

26th<\/p>\n

$138,000<\/p>\n

27th<\/p>\n

$133,000<\/p>\n

28th<\/p>\n

$128,400<\/p>\n

29th<\/p>\n

$122,800<\/p>\n

30th<\/p>\n

$116,500<\/p>\n

31st<\/p>\n

$112,700<\/p>\n

32nd<\/p>\n

$106,900<\/p>\n

33rd<\/p>\n

$103,100<\/p>\n

34th<\/p>\n

$100,200<\/p>\n

35th<\/p>\n

$96,700<\/p>\n

36th<\/p>\n

$92,900<\/p>\n

37th<\/p>\n

$88,500<\/p>\n

38th<\/p>\n

$84,100<\/p>\n

39th<\/p>\n

$81,000<\/p>\n

40th<\/p>\n

$78,400<\/p>\n

41st<\/p>\n

$75,200<\/p>\n

42nd<\/p>\n

$71,500<\/p>\n

43rd<\/p>\n

$68,300<\/p>\n

44th<\/p>\n

$64,400<\/p>\n

45th<\/p>\n

$60,700<\/p>\n

46th<\/p>\n

$57,600<\/p>\n

47th<\/p>\n

$55,300<\/p>\n

48th<\/p>\n

$53,100<\/p>\n

49th<\/p>\n

$50,700<\/p>\n

50th<\/p>\n

$49,400<\/p>\n

51st<\/p>\n

$48,350<\/p>\n

52nd<\/p>\n

$47,500<\/p>\n

53rd<\/p>\n

$46,800<\/p>\n

54th<\/p>\n

$46,100<\/p>\n

55th<\/p>\n

$45,300<\/p>\n

56th<\/p>\n

$44,700<\/p>\n

57th<\/p>\n

$44,250 <\/p>\n

58th<\/p>\n

$43,950<\/p>\n

59th<\/p>\n

$43,625<\/p>\n

60th<\/p>\n

$43,325<\/p>\n

61st<\/p>\n

$43,100<\/p>\n

62nd<\/p>\n

$42,900<\/p>\n

63rd<\/p>\n

$42,700<\/p>\n

64th<\/p>\n

$42,500<\/p>\n

65th<\/p>\n

$42,150<\/p>\n

66th<\/p>\n

$41,825<\/p>\n

67th<\/p>\n

$41,500<\/p>\n

68th<\/p>\n

$41,200<\/p>\n

69th<\/p>\n

$40,900<\/p>\n

70th<\/p>\n

$40,700<\/p>\n

71st<\/p>\n

$40,575<\/p>\n

72nd<\/p>\n

$40,450<\/p>\n

73rd<\/p>\n

$40,325<\/p>\n

74th<\/p>\n

$40,200<\/p>\n

75th<\/p>\n

$40,075<\/p>\n

76th<\/p>\n

$39,950<\/p>\n

77th<\/p>\n

$39,825<\/p>\n

78th<\/p>\n

$39,700<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the final men’s Major of the year, The Open Championship has quite the act to follow with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-810562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810562","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=810562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}