The Open Championship 2018: Breakdown of prize money
By Luke Norris
Here’s the breakdown of the prize money at the 2018 edition of The Open Championship from Carnoustie.
The Open Championship is the oldest major championship in golf and winning the Claret Jug can certainly change the course of a career. It can also change the winner’s bank account a bit as well, even if the total purse is still a bit behind the other majors.
The 2018 edition of The Open boasts a $10.5 million purse, up $250,000 from a year ago, which is the same as last year’s PGA Championship, which has yet to announce next month’s prize money. The Masters offered $11 million to the field and last month’s U.S. Open offered a cool $12 million.
The winner of this year’s Open Championship, which will be played at Carnoustie for the eighth time and the first time since Padraig Harrington won the first of his two consecutive titles in 2007, will take home $1.89 million, which is the standard 18 percent share of the total purse. 18 percent, 18 holes…you know, because it’s golf. Get it? The runner-up will cash a $1.134 million check.
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So even if this week’s winner won’t take home as much as Patrick Reed did from Augusta ($1.98 million) or Brooks Koepka did from Shinnecock Hills ($2.16 million), don’t feel too sorry for the man that emerges victorious in Scotland come Sunday afternoon. The top 70 and ties will play the weekend following the first two rounds on Thursday and Friday. The ties at the end of the week obviously brings different numbers into play than what you’ll see below. For example, take last year’s PGA Championship. Three players tied for second, meaning that the total payout for second, third and fourth place were combined and split evenly. Then you can move into what the fifth place finisher would receive and so on and so forth.
Here’s the full breakdown of the prize money at the 2018 edition of The Open Championship.
1. $1,890,000
2. $1,134,000
3. $714,000
4. $504,000
5. $420,000
6. $357,000
7. $330,000
8. $305,000
9. $280,000
10. $260,000
11. $240,000
12. $220,000
13. $200,000
14. $190,000
15. $180,000
16. $170,000
17. $160,000
18. $150,000
19. $140,000
20. $130,000
21. $120,000
22. $110,000
23. $100,000
24. $92,000
25. $84,000
26. $81,900
27. $76,000
28. $70,000
29. $67,000
30. $64,000
31. $61,000
32. $69,000
33. $57,000
34. $55,000
35. $53,000
36. $51,000
37. $49,000
38. $47,000
39. $45,000
40. $43,000
41. $41,000
42. $39,000
43. $37,000
44. $35,000
45. $33,000
46. $31,000
47. $29,500
48. $28,000
49. $27,000
50. $26,000
51. $25,400
52. $24,800
53. $24,200
54. $23,600
55. $23,000
56. $23,000
57. $22,300
58. $22,000
59. $21,800
60. $21,600
61. $21,400
62. $21,200
63. $21,000
64. $20,800
65. $20,600
66. $20,400
67. $20,200
68. $20,000
69. $19,800
70. $19,600
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