Aberdeen<\/a>, Ms Dryburgh played\u00a0at Tulane University in Louisiana before turning professional in 2015, playing on various circuits including the Ladies European Tour (LET) before joining the LPGA Tour in the US in 2018. Now based in New Orleans, she’s back in the UK to compete in the ISPS\u00a0Handa Women’s Scottish Open before moving on next week to the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales.\n<\/p>\n\n The total purse for the Women’s Open has roughly tripled since AIG became the title sponsor in 2019, reaching $9.5m in 2024. Last year’s winner, Lydia Ko, walked away with\u00a0$1.42m.\n<\/p>\n
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\n By comparison, last week’s Open winner Scottie Scheffler left Royal Portrush with a paycheque of $3.1m from a total purse of $17m.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms\u00a0Dryburgh’s biggest financial win to date was a first place finish in the 2022 TOTO Japan Classic, earning her $300,000. This stacks up against annual outgoings ranging from $180,000 to $200,000 for expenses such as her caddie,\u00a0travel, accommodation and tournament entry fees.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have the same expenses as men,” she said. “Obviously sometimes if they\u2019re making that much money they can fly private, etcetera, but on a base rate they are the same expenses and we\u2019re not making as much.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt can be a discouragement but I would say on a positive note that since I turned pro, which was 10 years ago now, the prize money [for women] has gone up massively, especially the majors.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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\n As a player director at the LPGA, Ms Dryburgh is among those representing the interests of her fellow competitors on the tour. She believes there are “big opportunities” to make further progress on financial parity under new LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler, who officially took over on July 15.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The more you can see us, the more you know who we are,” she said. “I think women\u2019s sport\u00a0has shown that, like recently in women\u2019s football.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you actually get the eyes on it, people want to watch, and I think especially with women\u2019s golf because it\u2019s such a good product \u2013 you\u00a0don\u2019t have to compare it to men\u2019s golf, it\u2019s its own product. I\u2019ve heard from lots and lots of people who really, really enjoy watching us play, and I think they can learn a lot from the way we play the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I have friends [on the tour] that worry a lot\u00a0about money and the financial side of things, so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}