After hitting pause on its steady uptick last year, the U.S. Open purse has upped the ante once again, offering its largest payout ever: $22.5 million, matching the Masters as the largest of the major championship purses.
This eye-watering sum has grown rapidly over the last several years. In 2021, the U.S. Open purse was set at $12.5 million. It increased significantly to $17.5 million in 2022, then jumped to $20 million in 2023 and $21.5 million in 2024, where it remained for last year’s edition.
How does this mega purse compare to the rest of the PGA Tour season? The eight PGA Tour Signature Event purses that take place ahead of the FedEx Cup playoffs offer purses of $20 million each. The Players Championship remains the richest purse in golf at a total of $25 million.
While the overall Players Championship purse is higher than the payout offered by the Masters and U.S. Open, the winner’s cut is the same for all three: a whopping $4.5 million. That means this year’s U.S. Open champion will receive $200,000 more than last year’s winner, J.J. Spaun, who went home with $4.3 million. The runner-up at Shinnecock will receive a cool $2.43 million, and third and fourth place will clear seven figures too, with a payout of $1,532,530 and $1,074,363, respectively.
Even the players who missed the cut will receive a $10,000 check. So how much did the rest of the players in the field come away with this year? You can find a complete list of the 2026 U.S. Open payouts for each player below.
How much money every player made at the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock
Winner: Wyndham Clark — $4.5 million
2. Sam Burns — $2.43 million
3. Tom Kim — $1,532,530
T4. J.T. Poston, Keith Mitchell, Scottie Scheffler — $920,882
T7. Joaquin Niemann, Tyrrell Hatton, Gary Woodland, Sam Stevens — $617,090
T11. Justin Rose, Aaron Rai, John Parry, Tommy Fleetwood, Xander Schauffele, Sahith Theegala — $405,862
T17. Ludvig Åberg, Justin Thomas, Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia, Collin Morikawa — $280,966
22. Matt Fitzpatrick — $230,220
T23. Ben James, Ryan Fox, Jackson Koivun (a), Ben Kohles, Pierceson Coody, Ryder Cowan (a), Alex Fitzpatrick, Corey Conners, Emiliano Grillo — $181,101
T32. Max McGreevy, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Maverick McNealy, Brian Harman, Zac Blair, Keegan Bradley — $128,756
T39. Jacob Bridgeman, Johnny Keefer, Miles Russell (a), Robert MacIntyre — $101,859
T43. Max Greyserman, Chris Gotterup, Harry Higgs, Michael Brennan, Cameron Young, Laurie Canter, Niklas Norgaard, Ryo Hisatsune, Sungjae Im, Michael Kim — $72,592
T53. Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Kurt Kitayama, Angel Hidalgo — $51,467
T56. Peter Uihlein, Nico Echavarria, Marek Fleming (a), Jordan Spieth, Bud Cauley — $48,625
T61. Jackson Van Paris, Spencer Tibbits — $47,242
T63. Eric Lee (a), Caleb Surratt — $46,551
T65. James Nicholas, Russell Henley, Neal Shipley, Hideki Matsuyama, Andrew Putnam, William Mouw — $44,938
71. Patrick Rodgers — $43,324
72. Dylan Wu — $42,863
