Whoever wins the Masters on Sunday will get $1.98 million in prize money out of a total purse of $11 million. Those figures are unchanged from 2017.
The Masters winner will get $1.98 million out of an $11 million total payout
Winning the Masters gets you way more than a Green Jacket.
The Masters is among golf’s most prestigious tournaments, obviously, and it pays out bigger sums than most. But Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the tournament, knows that it’s prestigious, and so does everybody else. That’s why the Masters hasn’t been caught up quite as much as some other tournaments in a purse arms race, where organizers at the sport’s biggest events try to flex their financial muscle to show how big a deal their tournaments are. The U.S. Open paid a record $12 million payout last year. and the Players Championship has made a push to start paying major-like dollars in recent years.
Like in most every tournament, the payouts for Masters competitors vary by specific place, all the way down the leaderboard. The biggest gap in pay is between the first-place finisher and the second-place finisher, and the differences get smaller from there. If multiple players are tied in a place, they each get the average of the total positions they occupy on the board. The field had 87 players this year, and all except the six amateurs get paid.
Even professionals who missed the cut get paid. The Masters only releases payout information for the top 50 positions on the leaderboard, but it notes that professionals outside the top 50 get a maximum of $27,060, with that figure varying by score.
Here’s the full payout table for the top 50:
Masters purse 2018 ($11 million total)
Position | Payout |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,980,000 |
| 2 | $1,118,000 |
| 3 | $748,000 |
| 4 | $528,000 |
| 5 | $440,000 |
| 6 | $396,000 |
| 7 | $368,500 |
| 8 | $341,000 |
| 9 | $319,000 |
| 10 | $297,000 |
| 11 | $275,000 |
| 12 | $253,000 |
| 13 | $231,000 |
| 14 | $209,000 |
| 15 | $198,000 |
| 16 | $187,000 |
| 17 | $176,000 |
| 18 | $165,000 |
| 19 | $154,000 |
| 20 | $143,000 |
| 21 | $132,000 |
| 22 | $123,200 |
| 23 | $114,400 |
| 24 | $105,600 |
| 25 | $96,800 |
| 26 | $88,000 |
| 27 | $84,700 |
| 28 | $81,400 |
| 29 | $78,100 |
| 30 | $74,800 |
| 31 | $71,500 |
| 32 | $68,200 |
| 33 | $64,900 |
| 34 | $62,150 |
| 35 | $59,400 |
| 36 | $56,650 |
| 37 | $53,900 |
| 38 | $51,700 |
| 39 | $49,500 |
| 40 | $47,300 |
| 41 | $45,100 |
| 42 | $42,900 |
| 43 | $40,700 |
| 44 | $38,500 |
| 45 | $36,300 |
| 46 | $34,100 |
| 47 | $31,900 |
| 48 | $30,140 |
| 49 | $28,600 |
| 50 | $27,720 |
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