2024 U.S Ladies's Open: Payout data, winner's share in Lancaster

The U.S. Women’s Open is the oldest and most prestigious of the 5 ladies’s majors and it has the purse in addition.

Earlier this yr, the USGA, together with the event’s new presenting sponsor this yr, Ally, announced a $1 million increase in the U.S. Women’s Open purse to $12 million, making it the most important in all of ladies’s golf.

The $12 million prize fund represents a 200 p.c improve over the 2014 championship. It’s additionally greater than double the $5.5 million purse for the event simply three years in the past.

For this yr, the USGA can be tweaking the payout construction, upping the winner’s share from 18 to twenty p.c, which can apply to all of its skilled championships, together with the U.S. Open in two weeks at Pinehurst.

That makes this week’s winner’s prize of $2.4 million the largest first-place test in ladies’s golf, exterior of the first-place prize for this yr’s LPGA CME Group Tour Championship.

“We noticed that in some elevated occasions on the PGA Tour and type of checked out that ourselves from a standpoint of how that regarded, and we preferred it,” USGA CEO Mike Wahn mentioned on the change to twenty p.c. “If you begin speaking concerning the type of cash we’re speaking about in 12 million and extra, it has little or no impact type of all the best way down the road, however even makes the win much more vital.”

The bigger prize fund gained’t simply have an effect on the gamers making the reduce both. Each skilled who earned her solution to Lancaster this week will get $10,000 this week even when she missed the reduce.

“We actually view making it into this championship making the reduce,” Wahn mentioned. “If 2000 had been making an attempt to get into 156 slots, they’ve made it so far as we’re involved.”

Maintain studying under for the complete breakdown of the $12 million U.S. Ladies’s Open purse at Lancaster Country Club.

2024 U.S. Ladies’s Open payout data, winner’s share

1. $2,400,000
2. $1,296,000
3. $781,623
4. $547,932
5. $456,375
6. $404,661
7. $364,818
8. $326,738
9. $295,709
10. $271,615
11. $247,874
12. $229,186
13. $213,555
14. $197,100
15. $182,996
16. $171,243
17. $161,841
18. $152,438
19. $143,036
20. $133,633
21. $125,523
22. $117,414
23. $109,539
24. $102,252
25. $95,905
26. $90,499
27. $86,385
28. $82,742
29. $79,216
30. $75,690
31. $72,164
32. $68,638
33. $65,112
34. $61,939
35. $59,353
36. $56,767
37. $54,299
38. $51,949
39. $49,598
40. $47,247
41. $44,897
42. $42,546
43. $40,195
44. $37,845
45. $35,494
46. $33,379
47. $31,263
48. $29,265
49. $28,090
50. $26,914
51. $26,209
52. $25,621
53. $25,151
54. $24,916
55. $24,681
56. $24,446
57. $24,211
58. $23,976
59. $23,741
60. $23,506
61. $23,271
62. $23,036
63. $22,801
64. $22,566
65. $22,331
66. $22,095
67. $21,860
68. $21,625
69. $21,390
70. $21,155
71. $20,920
*63 Professionals lacking the reduce, every receiving $10,000

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