Curious about the 2026 U.S. Open prize money? See the full breakdown of payouts, from Wyndham Clark’s massive winner’s check to what even the players who missed the cut took home.

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Breaking Down the Payouts: Who Made What?

  • Winner: Wyndham Clark — $4.5 million
  • 2nd Place: Sam Burns — $2.43 million
  • 3rd Place: Tom Kim — $1,532,530
  • T4: J.T. Poston, Keith Mitchell, Scottie Scheffler — $920,882 each
  • T7: Joaquin Niemann, Tyrrell Hatton, Gary Woodland, Sam Stevens — $617,090 each
  • T11: Justin Rose, Aaron Rai, John Parry, Tommy Fleetwood, Xander Schauffele, Sahith Theegala — $405,862 each
  • T17: Ludvig Åberg, Justin Thomas, Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia, Collin Morikawa — $280,966 each
  • 22nd Place: Matt Fitzpatrick — $230,220
  • T23: Ben James, Ryan Fox, Jackson Koivun (a), Ben Kohles, Pierceson Coody, Ryder Cowan (a), Alex Fitzpatrick, Corey Conners, Emiliano Grillo — $181,101 each
  • T32: Max McGreevy, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Maverick McNealy, Brian Harman, Zac Blair, Keegan Bradley — $128,756 each
  • T39: Jacob Bridgeman, Johnny Keefer, Miles Russell (a), Robert MacIntyre — $101,859 each
  • T43: Max Greyserman, Chris Gotterup, Harry Higgs, Michael Brennan, Cameron Young, Laurie Canter, Niklas Norgaard, Ryo Hisatsune, Sungjae Im, Michael Kim — $72,592 each
  • T53: Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Kurt Kitayama, Angel Hidalgo — $51,467 each
  • T56: Peter Uihlein, Nico Echavarria, Marek Fleming (a), Jordan Spieth, Bud Cauley — $48,625 each
  • T61: Jackson Van Paris, Spencer Tibbits — $47,242 each
  • T63: Eric Lee (a), Caleb Surratt — $46,551 each
  • T65: James Nicholas, Russell Henley, Neal Shipley, Hideki Matsuyama, Andrew Putnam, William Mouw — $44,938 each
  • 71st Place: Patrick Rodgers — $43,324
  • 72nd Place: Dylan Wu — $42,863

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