The 2023 Open Championship purse has increased significantly over the years.
Just two years ago, in 2021, the purse was set at $11.5 million. One year later, it went up again, to $14 million. Both increases were record payouts for the Open at the time, and this year, the R&A announced another big jump.
In 2023, the Open Championship purse is set at a whopping total of $16.5 million. Despite the increases, the Open is still the least lucrative of the major championships. The U.S. Open tops the list at $20 million, followed by the Masters ($18 million) and the PGA Championship ($17.5 million). The Players Championship remains the richest purse in golf at a total of $25 million.
It’s a good time to be a pro golfer, to say the least.
This year’s Open champion will surpass the payout received by 2022 champion, Cameron Smith, by an impressive $500,000, with a $3 million total payday. The runner-up will receive a cool $1.708 million, and third place will clear seven figures too, with a payout of $1.095 million.
Even the players who missed the cut receive a payout ranging from $12,000 to $8,500, depending on their finish through 36 holes. 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 2023 Open Championship payouts for each player below.
How much money every player made at the 2023 Open Championship
1. Brian Harman, $3,000,000
T2. Tom Kim
Sepp Straka
Jason Day
Jon Rahm, $1,084,625
T6. Emiliano Grillo
Rory McIlroy, $551,250
T8. Shubhanker Sharma
Cameron Young, $403,350
T10. Max Homa
Matthew Jordan
Tommy Fleetwood, $308,400
T13. Hideki Matsuyama
Henrik Stenson
Thomas Detry
Viktor Hovland, $232,875
T17. Laurie Canter
Xander Schauffele
Alex Fitzpatrick, $187,900
T20. Tyrrell Hatton
Sungjae Im
Antoine Rozner, $163,067
T23. Adrian Meronk
Matthew Southgate
Scottie Scheffler
Louis Oosthuizen
Alex Noren
Stewart Cink
Byeong Hun An
Rickie Fowler
Jordan Spieth
Nicolai Hojgaard, $121,500
T33. Adam Scott
Oliver Wilson
Wyndham Clark
Richard Bland
Patrick Reed
Cameron Smith
Patrick Cantlay
Romain Langasque, $84,112
T41. Marcel Siem
Hurly Long
Victor Perez
JT Poston
Jordan Smith
Alexander Bjork
Min Woo Lee
Matt Fitzpatrick, $58,725
T49. Christiaan Bezhuidenhout
Abe Ancer
Brendon Todd, $45,933
T52. Ryan Fox
Michael Stewart
Corey Conners, $43,433
T55. Andrew Putnam
Gary Woodland
Adrian Otaegui
Zach Johnson, $41,375
59. Brandon Thompson Robinson, $40,500
T60. Scott Stallings
Bryson DeChambeau
Kurt Kitayama
Rikuya Hoshino, $40,200
T64. Padraig Harrington
Brooks Koepka
Richie Ramsay
Guido Migliozzi, $39,025
T68. Danny Willett
David Lingmerth
Sami Valimaki, $38,033
T71. Robert MacIntyre
Thomas Pieters
Joost Luiten, $37,600
T74. Thriston Lawrence
Christo Lamprecht (a), $37,100