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.
Win: Wyndham Clark, $4.5 million
2nd: $2,430,000
3rd: $1,532,530
4th: $1,074,363
5th: $894,841
6th: $793,443
7th: $715,320
8th: $640,654
9th: $579,815
10th: $532,572
11th: $486,021
12th: $449,379
13th: $418,729
14th: $386,466
15th: $358,812
16th: $335,767
17th: $317,331
18th: $298,895
19th: $280,459
20th: $262,022
21st: $246,121
22nd: $230,220
23rd: $214,780
24th: $200,492
25th: $188,048
26th: $177,447
27th: $169,381
28th: $162,237
29th: $155,324
30th: $148,410
31st: $141,497
32nd: $134,583
33rd: $127,669
34th: $121,447
35th: $116,377
36th: $111,307
37th: $106,468
38th: $101,859
39th: $97,250
40th: $92,641
41st: $88,032
42nd: $83,423
43rd: $78,814
44th: $74,205
45th: $69,596
46th: $65,448
47th: $61,300
48th: $57,382
49th: $55,077
50th: $52,773
51st: $51,390
52nd: $50,238
53rd: $49,316
54th: $48,855
55th: $48,394
56th: $47,933
57th: $47,472
58th: $47,012
59th: $46,551
60th: $46,090
61th: $45,629
62th: $45,168
63th: $44,707
64th: $44,246
65th: $43,785
66th: $43,324
67th: $42,863
71st: Patrick Rodgers
72nd: Dylan Wu
