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When the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship was last played at Hazeltine National in 2019, Australia’s Hannah Green took home a first-place prizemoney payout of $US577,500 from an overall purse of $US3.85 million.
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Last Monday, officials with KPMG, the PGA of America and LPGA proudly announced the purse for this year’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship would be $US13 million, more than triple Hazeltine’s previous amount and the highest for any women’s golf tournament in history. The winner will receive $US1.95 million.
“When this came across my desk with the option of what we wanted this to look like, it was such an easy decision to lean into a record-breaking purse,” Tim Walsh, the KPMG US chair and CEO, told Golf Digest. “We’re so supportive if this event. We’re so proud of our association with this event and all that comes from it. We’ve been doing the sponsorship for 12 years. When we started, the purse was $2 million, now $13 million. That’s almost a 500 percent increase in supporting that purse which supports these incredible female athletes. I’m so proud to do that in partnership with PGA of America and the LPGA Tour.”
The amount jumps past the previous mark of $12.5 million which the USGA offered last month at the US Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club.
As Walsh alluded to, the championship has seen an impressive increase in prizemoney during the past decade-plus:
YEAR: PURSE, WINNER’S CHEQUE
2014: $2.25 million, $337.500
2015: $3.5 million, $525,000
2018: $3.65 million, $547,500
2019: $3.85 million, $577,500
2020: $4.3 million, $645,000
2021: $4.5 million, $675,000
2022: $9 million, $1.35 million
2023: $10 million, $1.5 million
2024: $10.4 million, $1.56 million
2025: $12 million, $1.8 million
All figures in $US
The PGA of America announced on the weekend the specific prizemoney payouts for each golfer:
[All figures in $US]
Win: $1,950,000
2: $1,169,107
3: $848,104
4: $656,075
5: $528,068
6: $432,053
7: $361,645
8: $316,843
9: $284,838
10: $259,232
11: $240,024
12: $224,021
13: $209,940
14: $197,143
15: $185,618
16: $175,378
17: $166,422
18: $158,739
19: $152,341
20: $147,214
21: $142,101
22: $136,975
23: $131,861
24: $126,734
25: $122,257
26: $117,779
27: $113,289
28: $108,811
29: $104,333
30: $100,492
31: $96,650
32: $92,809
33: $88,967
34: $85,125
35: $81,933
36: $78,727
37: $75,534
38: $72,329
39: $69,123
40: $66,566
41: $64,009
42: $61,452
43: $58,883
44: $56,326
45: $54,405
46: $52,485
47: $50,564
48: $48,643
49: $46,722
50: $44,801
51: $43,529
52: $42,244
53: $40,960
54: $39,688
55: $38,403
56: $37,118
57: $35,846
58: $34,561
59: $33,289
60: $32,004
61: $31,368
62: $30,720
63: $30,084
64: $29,448
65: $28,799
66: $28,163
67: $27,527
68: $26,878
69: $26,242
70: $25,606
