Open Championship prize money as purse less than LIV Golf and PGA Tour events

An exciting final round awaits on championship Sunday at The Open, with some of the best golfers on the planet gunning to get their hands on the Claret Jug at Royal Troon.

As well as the famous trophy, a record-breaking prize pot is on offer too, with a whopping $17 million up for grabs for those competing, a $500,000 increase on last year's event at Royal Liverpool. The winner will bank $3.1 million for their efforts, the biggest payout ever given to the Champion Golfer of The Year.

The man in poll position to take that prize is Billy Horschel, who leads the Open by a single a shot after a two-under-par 69 in Saturday's third saw him move to four-under for the tournament.

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He has plenty of competition below him though, with six players all tied for second at three-under in Thriston Lawrence, Sam Burns, Russell Henley, Xander Schauffele, Justin Rose and Dan Brown. The world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler is also in the mix, and sits two shots behind Horschel at two-under.

Scheffler has been a dominant force in 2024, having won six times on the PGA Tour so far this season, including the Masters in April. This has seen him bank a whopping $27.6 million in prize money, and he will no doubt be keen to add another $3.1 million to that come Sunday evening.

The Open has the smallest purse of the three majors, and is also less than 12 PGA Tour tournaments and all 14 LIV Golf events. Despite this departing R&A chief Martin Slumbers admitted this week that he 'doesn't care' about the inferior prize pot. "A, I didn't know that, and B, I don't care," he claimed this week.

"There has been a massive increase in prize money. You can look at every sort of number of other sports and things, and you see this going in waves. Do I think it will continue? No, I don't."

The 2024 Open Championship prize pot

1st: $3,100,000
2nd: $1,759,000
3rd: $1,128,000
4th: $876,000
5th: $705,000
6th: $611,000
7th: $525,000
8th: $442,500
9th: $388,000
10th: $350,600
11th: $319,200
12th: $282,800
13th: $266,000
14th: $249,000
15th: $231,000
16th: $212,700
17th: $202,400
18th: $193,000
19th: $184,900
20th: $176,200
21st: $168,000
22nd: $159,600
23rd: $151,000
24th: $142,600
25th: $137,600
26th: $131,800
27th: $127,000
28th: $122,600
29th: $117,300
30th: $111,200
31st: $107,600
32nd: $102,100
33rd: $98,500
34th: $95,700
35th: $92,400
36th: $88,700
37th: $84,600
38th: $80,300
39th: $77,400
40th: $74,900
41st: $71,800
42nd: $68,300
43rd: $65,200
44th: $61,500
45th: $58,000
46th: $55,000
47th: $52,800
48th: $50,700
49th: $48,400
50th: $47,200
51st: $46,200
52nd: $45,400
53rd: $44,700
54th: $44,000
55th: $43,300
56th: $42,700
57th: $42,300
58th: $42,000
59th: $41,700
60th: $41,400
61st: $41,200
62nd: $41,000
63rd: $40,800
64th: $40,600
65th: $40,300
66th: $40,000
67th: $39,700
68th: $39,400
69th: $39,100
70th: $38,900