The final major of 2025 has arrived, and the 2025 British Open is in Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland this week. It's offering a $17 million purse, with $3.1 million to the winner.
In what might be considered a mild surprise, the R&A did not increase its prize purse from last year, a decision that cuts against the ongoing gold rush in men's golf. While the recent U.S. Open had a similar payout as 2024, earlier this year the Masters increased its purse by $1 million (to $21 million), and the PGA Championship gave its purse a half-a-million bump.
Of course, Scottie Scheffler isn't in it for the money, he's chasing history and he got another piece of it Sunday in winning the Open in a runaway by four shots. After winning the PGA Championship in May he now has three legs of the Grand Slam. He's the ninth player in history to win a Masters, PGA and British Open.
Harris English continued playing well in big events with a solo second and Chris Gotterup, one week after winning the Genesis Scottish Open, came to Royal Portrush and took third.
Here are the final payouts for the 2025 Open Championship.
2025 Open Championship Final Payouts
WIN: Scottie Scheffler, 17 under: $3.1 million
2. Harris English, 13 under: $1.759 million
3. Chris Gotterup, 12 under: $1.128 million
T4. Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark, Haotong Li, 11 under: $730,667
T7. Robert MacIntyre, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy; 10 under: $451,833
T10. Bryson DeChambeau, Corey Conners, Brian Harman, Russell Henley; 9 under: $304,650
T14. Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Hojgaard; 8 under: $240,000
T16. Jesper Svensson, Hideki Matsuyama, Tommy Fleetwood, John Parry, Justin Rose, Rasmus Hojgaard, Tyrrell Hatton; 7 under: $185,257
T23. Maverick McNealy, J.J. Spaun, Lucas Glover, Dustin Johnson, Ludvig Aberg; 6 under: $138,040
T28. Harry Hall, Oliver Lindell; 5 under: $119,950
T30. Daniel Berger, Akshay Bhatia, Keegan Bradley, Kristoffer Reitan; 4 under: $104,850
T34. Sergio Garcia, Aaron Rai, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Lee Westwood; 3 under: $86,517
T40. Shane Lowry, Jordan Spieth, Jason Kokrak, Takumi Kanaya, Nathan Kimsey; 2 under: $68,340
T45. Matthew Jordan, Thomas Detry, Henrik Stenson, Jordan Smith, Sam Burns, Thriston Lawrence, Matt Wallace; 1 under: $51,186
T52. Adrien Saddier, Sepp Straka, Marc Leishman, Sungjae Im; Even: $44,350
T56. Phil Mickelson, Jhonattan Vegas, Tony Finau; 1 over: $42,333
T59. Antoine Rozner, Justin Leonard; 2 over: $41,550
T61. Dean Burmester, Romain Langasque; 3 over: $41,100
T63. Riki Kawamoto, Andrew Novak, Viktor Hovland, Ryggs Johnston, Francesco Molinari; 4 over: $40,280
68. Jacob Skov Olesen, 6 over: $39,400
69. Matti Schmid, 8 over: $39,100
70. Sebastian Soderberg, 11 over: $38,900
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