1st: $1.4 million
2nd: $826,874
3rd: $531,020
4th: $413,437
5th: $333,784
6th: $288,268
7th: $246,545
8th: $208,615
9th: $182,064
10th: $166,892
The 50th-place finisher won $22,378.
For the 2010 year:For 2010: The total purse has risen by £600,000, to take the amount to £4.8 million...The defending champion, Stuart Cink, took home £750,000 last year, but Louis Oosthuizen will collect £850,000 this year. The rise in the purse is apparently due to the weak pound against the US Dollar and the Euro. Second-placed Lee Westwood will take home £500,000 and even the player at the bottom of the leaderboard after the final round will still collect £2,250.
Mcdowell-$1,350,000; Havret-$810,000; Els-$480,687; Woods and Michelson-$303,119 each; Love and Kuchar-$228,255 each
For the 2008 year:The total prize fund for the 2008 Open Championship will be £4.2 million, the same as in 2007. That equates to just over $8.3 million, or €5.25 million.Prize money for the winner will also remain the same as in 2007. The player who lifts the Claret Jug at Royal Birkdale will receive £750,000 - that's equivalent to US$1.49 million or €939,000.
Padrig Harrington won the 2008 Open Championship and $1,498,875
Ian Poulter came in 2nd place and won $899,325
Henrik Stenson and Greg Norman came in tied for 3rd place and each won $509,618
Jim Furyk tied for 5th and won $359,730
There was a total of $8,169,179 awarded to the 83 players who made the cut.
Two amateurs finished in the top 83, Chris Wood (Tied for 5th) and Thomas Sherreard (Tied for 19th) but they do not get any prize money.
First prize money for the 2015 British Open is $1,805,500
The prize money is $2,340,000
The cash prize for 2nd place in the theBritish Open golf is £675,000.This is equal to $886,798 US dollars.
$2,100,000
The 2015 Irish Open Golf winner's prize was £416,000.
$1,600,000
No, they get no money. Just prestige.
its for Australian open $2,200,000
Yes, an amateur would win the Claret Jug if he won the Open Champoinship. However, he would not win the prize money, as that would contavene his amateur status
The US Open and the Australian Open.
In terms of money it is 1,060,000 Euros
A$2,100,000 for the winner