AUGUSTA, Ga. — To win the Masters Tournament is to claim a piece of golf immortality. The tangible rewards are significant and humbling: your own green jacket, a place in the Champions locker room and an invitation to visit Augusta National each April for the rest of your life being the most well-known and perhaps the most coveted. And then there are the intangible benefits of saying you’re a Masters champion; you’ll be able to book speaking appearance for decades, dusting off Masters tales into perpetuity.
Not to be forgotten, though, is the financial benefit of winning at Augusta. Suffice it to say, the first-place prize money payout that goes to the Masters champion is significant and humbling.
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It’s a fun fact we’ve written before that players don’t officially have any idea how much prize money their playing for at Augusta National before teeing off in the opening round. Typically, the club waits until after a 36-hole cut has been made before announcing anything formally.
The question this week is whether Augusta National decided to increase the purse yet again in 2026. A year ago, Masters officials bumped the total to $21 million, a $6 million jump from 2022 and a little less than $10 million more than in 2021. That overall number now exceeds the $20 million purses offered in the PGA Tour’s signature events.
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Currently, the top paying men’s major championship is the U.S. Open, with the USGA giving out $21.5 million in prize money during last year’s championship at Oakmont. The PGA Championship bumped up its purse last year at Quail Hollow to $19 million while the Open Championship continued to pay $17 million in 2025. All the majors are currently outpaced by the Players Championship, which paid out $25 million in March with winner Cameron Young earning $4.5 million.
Below is the prize money payouts for everybody who made the cut in 2025 at Augusta National. We’ll update this with 2026 numbers when the club officially releases them, and then come back shortly after the end of the event on Sunday and we’ll update the list with individual names and paydays.
Win: $4,200,000
2: $2,268,000
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3: $1,428,000
4: $1,008,000
5: $840,000
6: $756,000
7: $703,500
8: $651,000
9: $609,000
10: $567,000
11: $525,000
12: $483,000
13: $441,000
14: $399,000
15: $378,000
16: $357,000
17: $336,000
18: $315,000
19: $294,000
20: $273,000
21: $252,000
22: $235,200
23: $218,400
24: $201,600
25: $184,800
26: $168,000
27: $161,700
28: $155,400
29: $149,100
30: $142,800
31: $136,500
32: $130,200
33: $123,900
34: $118,650
35: $113,400
36: $108,150
37: $102,900
38: $98,700
39: $94,500
40: $90,300
41: $86,100
42: $81,900
43: $77,700
44: $73,500
45: $69,300
46: $65,100
47: $60,900
48: $57,540
49: $54,600
50: $52,920
The remainder of the professionals will receive cash prizes ranging downward from $51,660 depending on the scores. All professionals who did not qualify for the final 36 holes will receive $25,000.
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