When Brian Harman won the John Deere in 2014, his first PGA Tour victory, he took home $800k. Yesterday, after lifting the Big-A Claret Jug, he pocketed nearly 4x as much, settling in at a cool $3M (before crazy taxes).
With the victory, Harman has now won over $30M on Tour. Not bad for a journeyman, who before yesterday had only won twice previously during his 10+ years on tour. The purse for this year’s Open Championship was nearly 2x what the big boys played for as recently as 2016. I keep hearing that golf is a popular sport, but damn; PIF’s $$$ influence on golf is paying off. These guys are playing for big cheese these days.
Even if you shot a bazillion at Hoylake and missed the cut (we’re looking at you JT), the R&A still laid out a min. $8,500 per player for making the field and teeing it up. Now, that didn’t cover JT’s expenses, but it did for others; and the full-field payments were a nice gesture, especially for the up-and-comers and lower-tier players who qualified.
The R&A announced that the total prize fund for the 2023 Open was $16.5 million, an 18 percent increase from a year ago and nearly double the purse from 2016. Cha-ching.
2023 British Open Payouts:
| Pos | Golfer | Score | Earnings |
| 1 | Brian Harman | -13 | $3,000,000 |
| T2 | Tom Kim | -7 | $1,084,625 |
| T2 | Sepp Straka | -7 | $1,084,625 |
| T2 | Jason Day | -7 | $1,084,625 |
| T2 | Jon Rahm | -7 | $1,084,625 |
| T6 | Rory McIlroy | -6 | $551,250 |
| T6 | Emiliano Grillo | -6 | $551,250 |
| T8 | Shubhankar Sharma | -5 | $403,350 |
| T8 | Cameron Young | -5 | $403,350 |
| T10 | Max Homa | -4 | $308,400 |
| T10 | Matthew Jordan | -4 | $308,400 |
| T10 | Tommy Fleetwood | -4 | $308,400 |
| T13 | Henrik Stenson | -3 | $232,875 |
| T13 | Hideki Matsuyama | -3 | $232,875 |
| T13 | Thomas Detry | -3 | $232,875 |
| T13 | Viktor Hovland | -3 | $232,875 |
| T17 | Laurie Canter | -2 | $187,900 |
| T17 | Xander Schauffele | -2 | $187,900 |
| T17 | Alex Fitzpatrick | -2 | $187,900 |
| T20 | Tyrrell Hatton | -1 | $163,067 |
| T20 | Sungae Im | -1 | $163,067 |
| T20 | Antoine Rozner | -1 | $163,067 |
| T23 | Adrian Meronk | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Scottie Scheffler | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Matthew Southgate | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Louis Oosthuizen | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Alex Noren | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Stewart Cink | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Byeong Hun An | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Rickie Fowler | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Jordan Spieth | E | $121,500 |
| T23 | Nicolai Hojgaard | E | $121,500 |
| T33 | Adam Scott | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Oliver Wilson | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Wyndham Clark | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Richard Bland | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Patrick Reed | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Cameron Smith | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Patrick Cantlay | 1 | $84,112 |
| T33 | Romain Langasque | 1 | $84,112 |
| T41 | Marcel Siem | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Victor Perez | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Hurly Long | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Jordan Smith | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | J.T. Poston | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Alexander Bjork | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Min Woo Lee | 2 | $58,725 |
| T41 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 2 | $58,725 |
| T49 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 3 | $45,933 |
| T49 | Abraham Ancer | 3 | $45,933 |
| T49 | Brendon Todd | 3 | $45,933 |
| T52 | Ryan Fox | 4 | $43,433 |
| T52 | Michael Stewart | 4 | $43,433 |
| T52 | Corey Conners | 4 | $43,433 |
| T55 | Andrew Putnam | 5 | $41,375 |
| T55 | Adrian Otaegui | 5 | $41,375 |
| T55 | Gary Woodland | 5 | $41,375 |
| T55 | Zach Johnson | 5 | $41,375 |
| 59 | Brandon Robinson Thompson | 6 | $40,500 |
| T60 | Scott Stallings | 7 | $39,900 |
| T60 | Bryson DeChambeau | 7 | $39,900 |
| T60 | Kurt Kitayama | 7 | $39,900 |
| T60 | Rikuya Hoshino | 7 | $39,900 |
| T64 | Padraig Harrington | 8 | $39,025 |
| T64 | Brooks Koepka | 8 | $39,025 |
| T64 | Richie Ramsay | 8 | $39,025 |
| T64 | Guido Migliozzi | 8 | $39,025 |
| T68 | Danny Willett | $9 | $38,033 |
| T68 | David Lingmerth | 9 | $38,033 |
| T68 | Sami Valimaki | 9 | $38,033 |
| T71 | Robert MacIntyre | 10 | $37,550 |
| T71 | Joost Luiten | 10 | $37,550 |
| T71 | Thomas Pieters | 10 | $37,550 |
| T74 | Christo Lamprecht (a) | 11 | $0 |
| T74 | Thriston Lawrence | 11 | $37,300 |
| 76 | Zack Fischer | 13 | $37,175 |