Whoever conquers Royal Liverpool this week to lift the famous Claret Jug will also be rewarded financially, handsomely so, with the winner receiving a $3m payout.
The check for finishing first is the biggest it has ever been in golf’s oldest Major Championship, but The Open is not the most lucrative tournament in professional golf – far from it.
Compared to prize funds and first prizes in other individual sports, golf comes out on top, especially when you look at the money that’s on offer for competitors on a week to week basis.
The Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour has taken prize money to a new level, too, which means professional golfers have never had a better opportunity to secure their financial futures.
Wherever today’s elite professional golfers are playing around the world, there’s good money to be made in the professional game, with some tournaments in particular offering eye-watering sums of money, and not just for the winners, either – players might miss the cut and still take home a decent wedge.
Here, we list the most lucrative official golf tournaments in the professional game according to the 2022/23 season, as well as individual checks for bonuses and season-ending rewards.
Talor Gooch won the individual and team competitions at LIV Golf Singapore, which amounted to a $4.75m payday
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Biggest Tournament Checks
- The Players Championship, purse $25m, first $4.5m
- LIV Golf Mayakoba, purse $25m*, first $4m**
- LIV Golf Tucson, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Orlando, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Adelaide, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Singapore, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Tulsa, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf DC, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Andalucía, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf London, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Greenbrier, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Bedminster, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Chicago, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Jeddah, purse $25m, first $4m
- LIV Golf Miami, purse $25m, first $4m
- US Open, purse $20m, first $3.6m *Major
- Phoenix Open, purse $20m, first $3.6m
- The Genesis Invitational, purse $20m, first $3.6m
- Arnold Palmer Invitational, purse $20m, first $3.6m
- RBC Heritage, purse $20m, first…
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