The ultimate main championship check this season concluded Sunday the world’s finest golfers ended their chase for probably the most coveted prizes in golf: the Claret Jug. Together with golf’s oldest main trophy and the title of Champion Golfer of the 12 months, gamers have been vying for his or her portion of a $17 million purse on the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Eire.
The R&A introduced The Open is carrying the identical prize pool as 2024’s record-setting purse with the winner taking house a $3.1 million examine like Xander Schauffele did final 12 months. That may be a good-looking payday however not one all that unusual right now in skilled golf. Scottie Scheffler was able to bring that home with a historic, dominant victory that resulted in him capturing the third leg of his profession grand slam chase.
The Open Championship is the paradigm of prize cash not figuring out the significance of an occasion, as the overall purse is lower than the opposite three majors and even a PGA Tour signature occasion — the winner’s minimize being the identical quantity. Nevertheless, nobody would confuse a signature occasion as being as necessary as The Open, and whereas the R&A has upped its payouts amid golf’s purse arm’s race, it has not chased being the game’s in the end payday.
The possibility to etch one’s title in golf historical past is what makes The Open probably the most necessary and particular occasions within the sport. Actually these in the UK would argue it is the most necessary. Nonetheless, a $3.1 million payday does not damage for the winner, and the highest three finishers every receiving over $1 million just isn’t too shabby, both.
Let’s check out every little thing that was on the road — from a financial standpoint — at The Open Championship on Sunday.
2025 Open Championship purse, payouts
Whole purse: $17 million
1st: $3,100,000 — Scottie Scheffler
2nd: $1,759,000 — Harris English
third: $1,128,000 — Chris Gotterup
4th: $876,000 — Matt Fitzpatrick, Haotong Li, Wyndham Clark ($730,667)
fifth: $705,000
sixth: $611,000
seventh: $525,000 — Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Xander Schauffele ($451,833)
eighth: $442,500
ninth: $388,000
tenth: $350,600 — Russell Henley, Brian Harman, Corey Conners, Bryson DeChambeau ($304,650)
eleventh: $319,200
twelfth: $282,800
thirteenth: $266,000
14th: $249,000 — Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Højgaard ($240,000)
fifteenth: $231,000
sixteenth: $212,700 — Jesper Svensson, Hideki Matsuyama, Tommy Fleetwood, John Parry, Justin Rose, Rasmus Højgaard, Tyrrell Hatton ($185,257)
seventeenth: $202,400
18th: $193,000
nineteenth: $184,900
twentieth: $176,200
twenty first: $168,000
twenty second: $159,600
twenty third: $151,000 — Maverick McNealy, J.J. Spaun, Lucas Glover, Dustin Johnson, Ludvig Åberg ($138,040)
twenty fourth: $142,600
twenty fifth: $137,800
twenty sixth: $131,800
twenty seventh: $127,000
twenty eighth: $122,600 — Harry Corridor, Oliver Lindell ($119,950)
twenty ninth: $117,300
thirtieth: $111,200 — Daniel Berger, Akshay Bhatia, Keegan Bradley, Kristoffer Reitan ($104,850)
thirty first: $107,600
thirty second: $102,100
thirty third: $98,500
thirty fourth: $95,700 — Sergio Garcia, Aaron Rai, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Lee Westwood ($86,517)
thirty fifth: $92,400
thirty sixth: $88,700
thirty seventh: $84,600
thirty eighth: $80,300
thirty ninth: $77,400
fortieth: $74,900 — Shane Lowry, Jordan Spieth, Jason Kokrak, Takumi Kanaya, Nathan Kimsey ($68,340)
forty first: $71,800
forty second: $68,300
forty third: $65,200
forty fourth: $61,500
forty fifth: $58,000 — Matthew Jordan, Thomas Detry, Henrick Stenson, Jordan Smith, Sam Burns, Thriston Lawrence, Matt Wallace ($51,186)
forty sixth: $55,000
forty seventh: $52,800
forty eighth: $50,700
forty ninth: $48,400
fiftieth: $47,200
51st: $46,200
52nd: $45,400 — Adrien Saddier, Sepp Straka, Marc Leishman, Sungjae Im ($44,350)
53rd: $44,700
54th: $44,000
fifty fifth: $43,300
56th: $42,700 — Phil Mickelson, Jhonattan Vegas, Tony Finau ($42,333)
57th: $42,300
58th: $42,000
59th: $41,700 — Antoine Rozner, Justin Leonard ($41,550)
sixtieth: $41,400
61st: $41,200 — Dean Burmester, Romain Langasque ($41,100)
62nd: $41,000
63rd: $40,800 — Riki Kawamoto, Andrew Novak, Viktor Hovland, Ryggs Johnston, Francesco Molindari ($40,280)
sixty fourth: $40,600
sixty fifth: $40,300
66th: $40,000
67th: $39,700
68th: $39,400 — Jacob Skov Olesen
69th: $39,100 — Matti Schmid
seventieth: $38,900 — Sebastian Soderberg
If greater than 70 professionals made the minimize, further prize cash would have been added. Payouts would lower by $125 per place above 70 with a minimal of $37,650.