2015 Masters: Payout and purse set at $10 million in Sunday’s final round
Not to be outdone, the green jackets of Augusta National bump their purse to eight figures and match the richest in golf.
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The Masters purse is always a bit of a mystery until the final scores become official, but the Augusta Chronicle reports Sunday that the 2015 purse was set at $10 million. That matches the two richest purses in golf doled out at The Players Championship and PGA Championship last year.
The move to $10 million is another dramatic $1 million bump from the previous year. It has jumped from $8 million in 2013 to the eight-figure mark today, an arms race largely incited by the PGA Tour’s and PGA of America’s big joint announcement last year to increase their purses to $10 million. That Ted Bishop and Tim Finchem press conference spurred action from the other three majors, who all started to push their purses towards that $10 million figure. Here are the richest purses in the game from 2014:
- Players Championship/PGA Championship -- winner took $1.8M of $10M purse
- British Open -- winner took $1,665,788 of $9.19 million purse
- Masters/U.S. Open -- winner took $1.62M of $9M purse
- 3 WGC events -- winner took $1.53M of $9M purse
Now the Masters joins the two up top, who may make another increase to stay out in front later this summer. The Players has always fought for legitimacy and tried to elbow their way into the group branded as the game’s “fifth major.” Part of that sell is always having the richest purse in golf. We’ll see if Finchem has bumped that payout in a month at TPC Sawgrass.
Should Jordan Spieth hold on to his four-shot lead, this would obviously be the biggest payday of his career. He held the lead at The Players last year on Sunday and nearly took home the first prize in that $10 million purse, but stumbled down the stretch and had to settle for a fourth-place finish and $440,000. At just 21 years old, Spieth already has two wins, one $1 million-plus payday, and $12,430,915 in career earnings. The enormous payout Sunday would obviously be secondary to the career-defining win and green jacket, but it will help given that he just bought a $2.2 million house in Dallas.
The increase to $10 million, and the relatively small group that makes the cut at the Masters, also means that the second-place finisher will earn more than $1 million. Here are the full payout totals for the 2015 field (per Augusta Chronicle):
| Place | Payout Amount |
| 1st | 1,800,000 |
| 2nd | 1,080,000 |
| 3rd | 680,000 |
| 4th | 480,000 |
| 5th | 400,000 |
| 6th | 360,000 |
| 7th | 335,000 |
| 8th | 310,000 |
| 9th | 290,000 |
| 10th | 270,000 |
| 11th | 250,000 |
| 12th | 230,000 |
| 13th | 210,000 |
| 14th | 190,000 |
| 15th | 180,000 |
| 16th | 170,000 |
| 17th | 160,000 |
| 18th | 150,000 |
| 19th | 140,000 |
| 20th | 130,000 |
| 21st | 120,000 |
| 22nd | 112,000 |
| 23rd | 104,000 |
| 24th | 96,000 |
| 25th | 88,000 |
| 26th | 80,000 |
| 27th | 77,000 |
| 28th | 74,000 |
| 29th | 71,000 |
| 30th | 68,000 |
| 31st | 65,000 |
| 32nd | 62,000 |
| 33rd | 59,000 |
| 34th | 56,500 |
| 35th | 54,000 |
| 36th | 51,500 |
| 37th | 49,000 |
| 38th | 47,000 |
| 39th | 45,000 |
| 40th | 43,000 |
| 41st | 41,000 |
| 42nd | 39,000 |
| 43rd | 37,000 |
| 44th | 35,000 |
| 45th | 33,000 |
| 46th | 31,000 |
| 47th | 29,000 |
| 48th | 27,400 |
| 49th | 26,000 |
| 50th | 25,200 |
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