Jordan Spieth’s $1.8 million payout for his wire-to-wire victory last week at the Masters was just a tad more than what Brittany Lincicome took home after winning the most prestigious major championship on the women’s schedule.
Jordan Spieth’s major win is far more lucrative than Brittany Lincicome’s
The disparity in payouts for Spieth’s Masters win and Lincicome’s victory at Mission Hills is disconcertingly enormous.
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Lincicome grabbed her second major title at Mission Hills a week before at the tournament formerly known as the Dinah Shore/Kraft Nabisco (now the ANA Inspiration). As she watched Spieth shrug into his green jacket, Lincicome cited a column by Digest's Ron Sirak in a tweet about the income disparity between the two major titleholders:
That's just a little more then I got hahaha https://t.co/mgXxuXU5Al
— Brittany Lincicome (@Brittany1golf) April 13, 2015 LPGA purses have increased tremendously over the past couple of years, but it’s still a man’s world when it comes to prize money.
It’s hardly a news flash that paychecks for even the best women on tour are pretty much chump change for their male counterparts. But what Lincicome grossed for her efforts ($375,000 — or $1,425,000 less than Spieth’s Sunday payoff) was not even close to the overall societal inequity that still has women making 78 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Indeed, as espnW.com pointed out, Lincicome’s most lucrative year on the LPGA Tour was 2011 when she made $1.154 million — still far less than Spieth’s financial reward from one tournament.
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