Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the LPGA’s 2026 Ford Championship

Prepping for major championship season isn’t exclusively reserved for the men’s pro game. With the Chevron Championship just a month away, the LPGA’s top stars are looking to get in some reps over the next few weeks. So it is that 22 of the top 25 players in the latest Rolex Women’s World Ranking are in the field at this week’s Ford Championship in Phoenix.

Returning to the Cattail Course at Whiteline Golf Club, Hyo Joo Kim looks to defend her title, having beaten Lilia Vu with a birdie on the first playoff hole a year ago. Also playing this week is Nelly Korda, who won the inaugural Ford Championship in 2024.

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Joining Kim and Korda are not only several top ranked stars—Jenno Thitkul, Charley Hull, Lydia Ko among others—but also Nelly’s older sister Jessica (playing for the first time since May 2023 while recovering from injuries and becoming a mom in 2024). Also notable are the two sponsor’s exemptions into the event: nascent tour pro Carla Bernat Escuder, last year’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur champ) and standout amateur Asterisk Talley (runner-up at the ANWA and the top-ranked junior golfer in the world).

If last year’s event is any barometer, expect to see low scores. Kim and Vu finished the event at 22-under 266.

The overall purse in Arizona is $2.25 million with the winner earning $337,500. Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer who makes the cut in the desert. Come back after the final round on Sunday and we’ll update this list with names and individual paydays.

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Previous Next Pause Play false Public Whirlwind Golf Club: Cattail Chandler, AZ 4.3 3 Panelists Just about 30 minutes south of Scottsdale, Whirlwind Golf Club at Wild Horse Pass boasts a world-class practice facility and two very good public courses. For five years, the then-Nationwide Tour hosted an event here, the Gila River Golf Classic, an ode to the heritage of the surrounding Gila River Indian Reservation. The layouts—the Cattail and the Devil’s Claw—are routed over 500 acres, with half of that being native vegetation. The courses boast large greens and wide fairways for the most part, but golfers are rewarded for taking on hazards with shorter lines into the greens, which boast subtle but tumbling undulations. View Course Ford Championship Prize Money Payouts

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Win: $337,500

2: $212,232

3: $153,959

4: $119,100

5: $95,862

6: $78,432

7: $65,651

8: $57,518

9: $51,708

10: $47,059

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11: $43,572

12: $40,667

13: $38,111

14: $35,788

15: $33,696

16: $31,837

17: $30,211

18: $28,817

19: $27,655

20: $26,724

21: $25,796

22: $24,866

23: $23,937

24: $23,007

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25: $22,194

26: $21,381

27: $20,566

28: $19,753

29: $18,940

30: $18,243

31: $17,545

32: $16,848

33: $16,151

34: $15,453

35: $14,874

36: $14,292

37: $13,712

38: $13,130

39: $12,548

40: $12,084

41: $11,620

42: $11,156

43: $10,689

44: $10,225

45: $9,876

46: $9,528

47: $9,179

48: $8,830

49: $8,482

50: $8,133

51: $7,902

52: $7,669

53: $7,436

54: $7,205

55: $6,971

56: $6,738

57: $6,507

58: $6,274

59: $6,043

60: $5,810

61: $5,695

62: $5,577

63: $5,461

64: $5,346

65: $5,228