{"id":11256,"date":"2025-06-18T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-pga-championship-prize-money-reaches-12-million\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:40:29","slug":"womens-pga-championship-prize-money-reaches-12-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/womens-pga-championship-prize-money-reaches-12-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Womens PGA Championship: Prize money reaches $12 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase the Prize Pool at the Women&#8217;s PGA Championship<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Women&#8217;s PGA Championship has increased its prize money to $12 million, matching last month&#8217;s U.S. Women&#8217;s Open as the tournament with the largest purse of the season.\n\nThe tournament winner, which will feature 156 players at Fields Ranch East in PGA Frisco, Texas, this week, will pocket $1.8 million.\n\nIn last year&#8217;s edition, the prize money was $10.4 million.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are incredibly proud to be able to do that. It&#8217;s part of creating a standard of excellence in women&#8217;s golf. The prize money is a very important part of that.<\/p><cite>Paul Knopp, Chairman and CEO of KPMG<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nKnopp also added:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We see it as the ultimate strategy when we think about the excellence we are trying to achieve to achieve success. We continue to play this tournament on iconic courses that are recognized by the golf community every year. We are excited about the future.<\/p><cite>Paul Knopp, President and CEO of KPMG<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAmy Yang of South Korea won last year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s PGA Championship, achieving her first major title at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington.\n\nYang registered a total of 7 under par, with a score of 281, surpassing Lilia Vu, Jin Young Ko of South Korea, and Miyu Yamashita of Japan by three strokes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase the Prize Pool at the Women&#8217;s PGA Championship The Women&#8217;s PGA Championship has increased its prize money to $12 million, matching last month&#8217;s U.S. Women&#8217;s Open as the tournament with the largest purse of the season. The tournament winner, which will feature 156 players at Fields Ranch East in PGA Frisco, Texas, this week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4271,163,4272,4273],"class_list":{"0":"post-11256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-amy-yang","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-purse","11":"tag-womens-pga-championship"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","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=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}