The cash prize for 2nd place in the theBritish Open golf is £675,000.This is equal to $886,798 US dollars.
$1,600,000
$1,451,830 for First Place
Whoever finishes runner up to him will get all the first place money and the second place money.
Prestwick,Scotland
British open
2nd place wins 700,000 dollars.
Anthony Wall was the top British finisher in the 2006 Open, 10 strokes behind winner Tiger Woods in a tie for 11th place.
People in the golf world swap back and forth but I think "THE" Open sounds better to most mainly it's because it was the first major, and was held for 35 years before the next golf major came to be (The Open Championship first took place in 1860 and the U.S. Open started in 1895).
Muirfield
Tom Watson won £450,000.
Patty Sheehan