2023 U.S. Open purse, prize money: Payouts, winnings for ...

The 2023 U.S. Open made its way to Los Angeles Country Club with the city hosting a major championship for the first time in 75 years. Needless to say, the money up for grabs was a much more significant sum than it was three quarters of a century ago as a record $20 million purse will be up for grabs Sunday.

Representing a $2.5 million increase from last year and a $7.5 million increase from 2021, the U.S. Open's prize pool was the largest in the history of the national championship. It was also the largest purse of the three major championships played so far this year. The Masters shelled out $18 million, while the PGA Championship had a purse of $17.5 million.

At the 2022 U.S. Open, Matt Fitzpatrick claimed not only his first major but also $3.15 million. This year's champion, Wyndham Clark, will receive a winner's check of $3.6 million in his bank account (well, minus taxes). That's the same amount given to winners of full-field designated events on the PGA Tour schedule. Scottie Scheffler's Players Championship victory still holds the honors of the highest payday of the year as he collected $4.5 million from a $25 million purse at TPC Sawgrass.

The USGA was extra-generous, too. Not only did everyone who made the weekend at LACC get compensated, all 76 professionals who failed to make the cut will receive $10,000 as well.

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Let's take a look at how the payouts for the 2023 U.S. Open will be divided among the players who made the cut.

Total purse: $20 million

1st (Winner): $3,600,000 -- Wyndham Clark2nd: $2,160,000 -- Rory McIlroy3rd: $1,413,430 -- Scottie Scheffler4th: $990,867 -- Cameron Smith5th: $825,297 -- Tommy Fleetwood, Min Woo Lee, Rickie Fowler ($738,934 each)6th: $731,7797th: $659,7278th: $590,864 -- Tom Kim, Harris English ($562,808 each)9th: $534,75310th: $491,182 -- Austin Eckroat, Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele ($435,018 each)11th: $448,24912th: $414,45513th: $386,18714th: $356,431 -- Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay ($332,343 each)15th: $330,92616th: $309,67217th: $292,669 -- Brooks Koepka, Matt Fitzpatrick ($284,167 each)18th: $275,66519th: $258,662 -- Viktor Hovland20th: $241,659 -- Jordan Smith, Nick Hardy, Denny McCarthy, Keith Mitchell, Shane Lowry, Bryson DeChambeau, Ryutaro Nagano ($200,152 each)21st: $226,99322nd: $212,32823rd: $198,08824th: $184,91025th: $173,43326th: $163,65627th: $156,217 -- Sahith Theegala, Sergio Garcia, Justin Suh, Tyrrell Hatton, Padraig Harrington ($199,805 each)28th: $149,62829th: $143,25230th: $136,87631st: $130,50032nd: $124,124 -- Patrick Rodgers, Dylan Wu, Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Joaquin Niemann, Tony Finau, Hideki Matsuyama ($108,001 each)33rd: $117,74734th: $112,00935th: $107,33336th: $102,65737th: $98,19438th: $93,94339th: $89,692 -- David Puig, Si Woo Kim, Eric Cole ($85,441 each)40th: $85,44141st: $81,19042nd: $76,939 -- Sam Bennett, Sam Stevens, Andrew Putnam, Ryan Fox, Billy Horschel, Bryan Harman (T43 -- $66,532 each)43rd: $72,68944th: $68,43845th: $64,18746th: $60,36147th: $56,53548th: $52,922 -- Mackenzie Hughes, Sebastian Munoz, Charley Hoffman, Kevin Streelman, Gary Woodland (T49 -- $49,224 each)49th: $50,79750th: $48,67151st: $47,39652nd: $46,33353rd: $45,483 -- Romain Langasque, Abraham Ancer (T54 -- $45,270 each)54th: $45,05855th: $44,633 -- Patrick Reed, Ryan Gerard (T56 -- $44,420 each)56th: $44,20857th: $43,783 -- Yuko Katsuragawa (58th)58th: $43,358 -- Adam Hadwin (59th)59th: $42,933 -- Jacob Solomon, Adam Svensson (T60 -- $42,720 each)60th: $42,50861st: $42,083 -- Ryo Ishikawa (63rd)

Amateurs who do not earn prize money from professional events: Gordon Sargent (T39), Ben Carr (62nd), Aldrich Potgieter (64th), Maxwell Moldovan (65th).