Last week’s third women’s Major of the year, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, offered record prize money of $10.4m, but it’s back to the regular LPGA Tour schedule this week with the Dow Championship at Midland Country Club in Michigan.
As a result, participants are competing for a considerably more modest sum, although this week’s figure is still a record for the unique team event which began five years ago as the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.
When it launched, the tournament’s overall purse was $2m before rising in subsequent years to $2.3m and $2,5m, with last year’s edition seeing it increased once again to $2.7m.
However, for the first time it will offer $3m this year – one of the highest prize funds on the LPGA Tour schedule and equal to events including the Mizuho Americas Open and Meijer LPGA Classic.
The format is similar to the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where teams of two compete over sessions of foursomes in the first and third rounds and fourball in the second and fourth rounds.
In 2023, US pair Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol (aka the Elizabethan Knight) won by one over Kelly Tan and Matilda Castren to claim $328,115 each in prize money, but there is a significant bump this year with the winning team set to bank $366,082 apiece.
As well as the monetary rewards, there are also world ranking points up for grabs as well as 400 Race to the CME Globe points available to the winners.
Below is the prize money payout for the Dow Championship.
Dow Championship Prize Money Payout
| Position | Team Prize | Individual Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | $732,165 | $366,082 |
| 2nd | $363,035 | $181,517 |
| 3rd | $231,726 | $115,863 |
| 4th | $163,754 | $81,877 |
| 5th | $131,312 | $65,656 |
| 6th | $111,998 | $55,999 |
| 7th | $98,250 | $49,125 |
| 8th | $87,127 | $43,563 |
| 9th | $78,478 | $39,239 |
| 10th | $72,298 | $36,149 |
| 11th | $67,355 | $33,678 |
| 12th | $62,412 | $31,206 |
| 13th | $57,933 | $28,966 |
| 14th | $53,604 | $26,802 |
| 15th | $49,435 | $24,717 |
| 16th | $45,726 | $22,863 |
| 17th | $42,018 | $21,009 |
| 18th | $38,776 | $19,388 |
| 19th | $35,687 | $17,843 |
| 20th | $32,749 | $16,374 |
| 21st | $30,281 | $15,140 |
| 22nd | $27,806 | $13,903 |
| 23rd | $25,798 | $12,899 |
| 24th | $23,944 | $11,972 |
| 25th | $22,089 | $11,045 |
| 26th | $20,702 | $10,351 |
| 27th | $19,465 | $9,732 |
| 28th | $18,227 | $9,114 |
| 29th | $16,993 | $ 8,497 |
| 30th | $15,759 | $7,879 |
| 31st | $14,985 | $7,493 |
| 32nd | $14,368 | $7,184 |
| 33rd | $13,748 | $6,874 |
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