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.
2023 U.S. Open prize money, purse
Total purse: $20 million
1st (Winner): $3,600,000 -- Wyndham Clark
2nd: $2,160,000 -- Rory McIlroy
3rd: $1,413,430 -- Scottie Scheffler
4th: $990,867 -- Cameron Smith
5th: $825,297 -- Tommy Fleetwood, Min Woo Lee, Rickie Fowler ($738,934 each)
6th: $731,779
7th: $659,727
8th: $590,864 -- Tom Kim, Harris English ($562,808 each)
9th: $534,753
10th: $491,182 -- Austin Eckroat, Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele ($435,018 each)
11th: $448,249
12th: $414,455
13th: $386,187
14th: $356,431 -- Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay ($332,343 each)
15th: $330,926
16th: $309,672
17th: $292,669 -- Brooks Koepka, Matt Fitzpatrick ($284,167 each)
18th: $275,665
19th: $258,662 -- Viktor Hovland
20th: $241,659 -- Jordan Smith, Nick Hardy, Denny McCarthy, Keith Mitchell, Shane Lowry, Bryson DeChambeau, Ryutaro Nagano ($200,152 each)
21st: $226,993
22nd: $212,328
23rd: $198,088
24th: $184,910
25th: $173,433
26th: $163,656
27th: $156,217 -- Sahith Theegala, Sergio Garcia, Justin Suh, Tyrrell Hatton, Padraig Harrington ($199,805 each)
28th: $149,628
29th: $143,252
30th: $136,876
31st: $130,500
32nd: $124,124 -- Patrick Rodgers, Dylan Wu, Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Joaquin Niemann, Tony Finau, Hideki Matsuyama ($108,001 each)
33rd: $117,747
34th: $112,009
35th: $107,333
36th: $102,657
37th: $98,194
38th: $93,943
39th: $89,692 -- David Puig, Si Woo Kim, Eric Cole ($85,441 each)
40th: $85,441
41st: $81,190
42nd: $76,939 -- Sam Bennett, Sam Stevens, Andrew Putnam, Ryan Fox, Billy Horschel, Bryan Harman (T43 -- $66,532 each)
43rd: $72,689
44th: $68,438
45th: $64,187
46th: $60,361
47th: $56,535
48th: $52,922 -- Mackenzie Hughes, Sebastian Munoz, Charley Hoffman, Kevin Streelman, Gary Woodland (T49 -- $49,224 each)
49th: $50,797
50th: $48,671
51st: $47,396
52nd: $46,333
53rd: $45,483 -- Romain Langasque, Abraham Ancer (T54 -- $45,270 each)
54th: $45,058
55th: $44,633 -- Patrick Reed, Ryan Gerard (T56 -- $44,420 each)
56th: $44,208
57th: $43,783 -- Yuko Katsuragawa (58th)
58th: $43,358 -- Adam Hadwin (59th)
59th: $42,933 -- Jacob Solomon, Adam Svensson (T60 -- $42,720 each)
60th: $42,508
61st: $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).
