{"id":10282,"date":"2025-06-12T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/us-open-2025-maintains-21-5m-in-prize-money-leading-world-golf\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:37:21","slug":"us-open-2025-maintains-21-5m-in-prize-money-leading-world-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/us-open-2025-maintains-21-5m-in-prize-money-leading-world-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025: Maintains $21.5M in prize money, leading world golf"},"content":{"rendered":"The US Open this year will maintain its prize money at $21.5 million, matching the figure from the 2024 championship.\n\nThis tournament continues to be the major championship with the highest prize. The Masters raised its purse to $21 million in April, while the PGA Championship offered $19 million and the most recent Open Championship (July 2024) distributed $17 million.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0225%2Fr1456205_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Si Bryson DeChambeau gana el US Open por segundo a\u00f1o consecutivo, recibir\u00e1 la misma cantidad: $21.5 millones.\n(Foto de Gregory Shamus\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10046\/bryson-dechambeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> earned $4.3 million at the 2024 US Open at Pinehurst No. 2. This weekend&#8217;s champion at Oakmont Country Club will receive the same amount.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When I started at the USGA just four years ago, our purse was $12.5 [million], so I feel comfortable that we have been leaders in moving fast and big.<\/p><cite>Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe USGA&#8217;s CEO, Mike Whan, highlighted the significant increase in golf prize money over the last decade.\n\nWhan added that growth has also been seen in women&#8217;s golf, going from $5.5 million to $12 million in a similar period.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We know this probably isn&#8217;t really about the money for the person who [wins], but at the same time we want the money to be commensurate with the achievement. So we feel comfortable.<\/p><cite>Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Open this year will maintain its prize money at $21.5 million, matching the figure from the 2024 championship. This tournament continues to be the major championship with the highest prize. The Masters raised its purse to $21 million in April, while the PGA Championship offered $19 million and the most recent Open Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[162,3306,1402,2414],"class_list":{"0":"post-10282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","9":"tag-prize-money","10":"tag-u-s-open","11":"tag-usga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}