The cash prize for 2nd place in the theBritish Open golf is £675,000.This is equal to $886,798 US dollars.
The total purse for the tournament was $7,500,000. Graeme McDowell received $1,350,000 as champion.
$1,048,000
$ 1,350,000 was the announced prize money for first place in the 2010 Masters Golf Tournament.
$1,451,830 for First Place
Amateurs make no money from playing in any professional event.
Second place prize money is $810,000.
100 000
About $1.83 million dollars.
$2,000,000
The VRC offered prize money in excess of $6,200,000
The Champion Golfer of the year gets the Claret Jug and the first place prize money, second place gets the silver salver and the second place prize money and the leading amateur (who makes the cut) gets the silver medal but no prize money. The rest of the field get their allocation of the prize money, depending on how they finished. Those who missed the cut still get a share of the purse, but it's not very much.