{"id":526188,"date":"2026-04-12T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:48:12","slug":"masters-purse-increases-to-22-5m-with-winner-to-get-4-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526188\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters purse increases to $22.5M, with winner to get $4.5M"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark SchlabachApr 11, 2026, 05:50 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Senior college football writer
\nAuthor of seven books on college football
\nGraduate of the University of Georgia<\/p>\n

Multiple Authors<\/p>\n

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy<\/a> will pocket $4.5 million from an increased purse of $22.5 million if he can hold his record six-shot lead over the final 36 holes of the 90th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.<\/p>\n

The tournament announced Saturday that the total prize money for this year’s Masters has been increased by $1.5 million from last year, when McIlroy won $4.2 million while earning his first green jacket and completing the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

The runner-up will receive $2.43 million, third place gets $1.53 million, and fourth place collects $1.08 million.<\/p>\n

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The Masters purse has more than doubled over the past 10 years. It was $10 million in 2016 when England’s Danny Willett<\/a> was a surprising winner and received $1.8 million.<\/p>\n

The top 39 finishers this year will receive at least $101,250. The 50th-place finisher gets $56,700. Golfers who missed the 36-hole cut will collect $25,000.<\/p>\n

After carding six birdies over his final seven holes of the second round for a 7-under 65, McIlroy tees off Saturday with a six-stroke lead over Sam Burns<\/a> and 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed<\/a>. It is the largest 36-hole lead in Masters history.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, 36, is already No. 2 in career earnings on the PGA Tour with more than $110 million. Fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods<\/a> won more than $120 million during his storied career, which included 82 PGA Tour victories.<\/p>\n

The Players Championship has the highest purse in men’s professional golf at $25 million, with Cameron Young<\/a> earning $4.5 million for winning at TPC Sawgrass last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark SchlabachApr 11, 2026, 05:50 PM CloseSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-526188","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\/526188","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=526188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}