How much will the winner of the 2021 US Open take home

The winner of the 2021 U.S. Open will get a $2.25 million cut of a $12.5 million total purse from golf’s national championship. It is the highest paying major and matches last year’s total prize pool. Second place will take home $1.35 million.

This year, The Masters purse was $11.5 million and the PGA Championship was at $12.5 million. The Open Championship was at $10.75 million in 2019 but was canceled last year due to COVID-19. The Players Championship has continued hiking its purses in recent years to solidify its status as a quasi-fifth major and paid out a whopping $15 million in 2021.

This year’s U.S Open is headed into the final round on Sunday with a three-way tie atop the leaderboard. Mackeznie Hughes, Louis Oosthuizen, and Russell Henley all sit at -5 through 54 holes. Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau are tied for fourth at -3, and then Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, and Matthew Wolff follow at -2. With a host of big names in the hunt and plenty of bogeys through the first three days, it could make for a wild championship Sunday.

The tournament had a 156-man field with a top-60 breakdown as follows at Torrey Pines:

1. $2,250,000 — Jon Rahm
2. $1,350,000 — Louis Oosthuizen
3. $861,457 — Harris English
4. $603,903
5. $502,993
6. $445,997
7. $402,083
8. $360,113
9. $325,916
10. $299,360
11. $273,194
12. $252,597
13. $235,369
14. $217,234
15. $201,689
16. $188,735
17. $178,372
18. $168,009
19. $157,646
20. $147,283
21. $138,345
22. $129,407
23. $120,728
24. $112,697
25. $105,702
26. $99,743
27. $95,209
28. $91,194
29. $87,308
30. $83,422
31. $79,535
32. $75,649
33. $71,763
34. $68,266
35. $65,416
36. $62,566
37. $59,846
38. $57,255
39. $54,664
40. $52,074
41. $49,483
42. $46,892
43. $44,301
44. $41,711
45. $39,120
46. $36,788
47. $34,456
48. $32,254
49. $30,959
50. $29,664
51. $28,886
52. $28,239
53. $27,720
54. $27,461
55. $27,202
56. $26,943
57. $26,684
58. $26,425
59. $26,166
60. $25,907