Ehe US Open is one of the best-endowed tournaments on the PGA Tour. In total, there is a purse of 12.5 million dollars at stake.. It is, in fact, the largest of the four main golf championships, the so-called ‘Major’, although it does not reach the 15 million distributed by The Players, the so-called ‘fifth big’, which for prizes and field should be.
US Open Golf Award for Jon Rahm
But, of those 12.5 million, How much does the winner take, in this case Jon Rahm? The answer is $ 2.25 million. to be victorious. The subcameon Louis Oosthuizen is awarded 1.35 million. The prize pool for the top five finishers is 5.5 million. Harris English, who has been third, takes $ 861,457.
All these amounts coincide with those of 2020, when Bryson DeChambeau was the winner in Winged Foot. When a position is tied, the players distribute the money corresponding to the positions they win. Until before this tournament, Rahm had won only on the PGA Tour (not counting the European Tour, where he competes considerably less) $ 25.9 million, now rising to $ 28.4.
The large profits from Barrika’s are easy to explain, and it is that not only has won six tournaments on the PGA Tour (Farmers 2017, CareerBuilder 2018, Zurich Classic 2019 -along with Ryan Palmer- Memorial 2020, BMW Championship 2020 and US Open 2021), but his regularity leads him almost every time he competes to be among the top ten, statistic in which in fact he keeps the pulse of Tiger Woods. In 2018, the Hero World Challenge, the Tiger tournament, was also awarded, although this does not count for the PGA history.
In the European Tour Jon has won seven tournaments, although in this case the US Open is shared. From professional victories we are talking therefore about 13. It must be borne in mind that, although in Europe the prizes are much lower than those of the American circuit, it happens that Rahm has won four Rolex Series events, one of the most economically powerful that the Old Continent has. The Spaniard was the player with the highest earnings on the European Tour in 2019, something that only Seve had achieved in Spain. In the United States, it was second last year.
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