Open Championship: $17 Million Purse Breakdown as Scottie Scheffler Runs Away with It
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Scottie Scheffler won the Open Championship with a score of 17-under, four strokes ahead of runner-up Harris English. The new Champion Golfer of the Year gave another example of his extraordinary superiority in men's professional golf, earning standing ovations from the crowd at Royal Portrush.
Scheffler carded a final-round 68, with five birdies and a double bogey on the eighth hole. That was precisely his only difficult moment of the day, when he sent his tee shot into a fairway bunker and, as he tried to clear it with his second shot, the ball hit the edge of the slope and rolled straight back to his feet.
The rest of the round was more of the good old Scheffler. He hit 57% of the fairways in the round, reached 83.3% of the greens in regulations, and didn't three-putt a single hole. Just as he said he would the day before.
Scheffler thus claimed the fourth major title of his professional golf career and the third leg of the Career Grand Slam. Only the US Open remains for him to complete this tremendous feat.
Scottie Scheffler of the United States celebrates on the seventh green during day four of The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 20, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
Scottie Scheffler of the United States celebrates on the seventh green during day four of The 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 20, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
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The World No. 1 will have the extraordinary chance to complete it on his 30th birthday, as his birthday, June 21, coincides with the final round of next year's US Open at Shinnecock Hills.
The local hero at Royal Portrush, Rory McIlroy, charged hard during the final round, but ultimately only managed to finish tied for seventh at 10-under.
Open Championship 2025 $17 Million Purse Breakdown
Scheffler took home the winner's share of the $17 million purse, a paycheck of $3.1 million.
This is the purse breakdown for the 2025 Open Championship:
1 Scottie Scheffler $3,100,000
2 Harris English $1,759,000
3 Chris Gotterup $1,128,000
T4 Wyndham Clark $730,667
T4 Matt Fitzpatrick $730,667
T4 Haotong Li $730,667
T7 Robert MacIntyre $451,833
T7 Xander Schauffele $451,833
T7 Rory McIlroy $451,833
T10 Bryson DeChambeau $304,650
T10 Corey Conners $304,650
T10 Russell Henley $304,650
T10 Brian Harman $304,650
T14 Rickie Fowler $240,000
T14 Nicolai Højgaard $240,000
T16 Jesper Svensson $185,257
T16 Hideki Matsuyama $185,257
T16 John Parry $185,257
T16 Tommy Fleetwood $185,257
T16 Justin Rose $185,257
T16 Rasmus Højgaard $185,257
T16 Tyrrell Hatton $185,257
T23 Maverick McNealy $138,040
T23 J.J. Spaun $138,040
T23 Dustin Johnson $138,040
T23 Lucas Glover $138,040
T23 Ludvig Åberg $138,040
T28 Harry Hall $119,950
T28 Oliver Lindell $119,950
T30 Daniel Berger $104,850
T30 Akshay Bhatia $104,850
T30 Keegan Bradley $104,850
T30 Kristoffer Reitan $104,850
T34 Sergio Garcia $86,517
T34 Aaron Rai $86,517
T34 Jon Rahm $86,517
T34 Justin Thomas $86,517
T34 Christiaan Bezuidenhout $86,517
T34 Lee Westwood $86,517
T40 Shane Lowry $68,340
T40 Jordan Spieth $68,340
T40 Takumi Kanaya $68,340
T40 Jason Kokrak $68,340
T40 Nathan Kimsey $68,340
T45 Thomas Detry $50,462
T45 Matthew Jordan $50,462
T45 Henrik Stenson $50,462
T45 Thriston Lawrence $50,462
T45 Jordan Smith $50,462
T45 Sam Burns $50,462
T45 Marc Leishman $50,462
T45 Matt Wallace $50,462
T53 Adrien Saddier $44,000
T53 Sepp Straka $44,000
T53 Sungjae Im $44,000
T56 Phil Mickelson $42,333
T56 Jhonattan Vegas $42,333
T56 Tony Finau $42,333
T59 Antoine Rozner $41,550
T59 Justin Leonard $41,550
T61 Dean Burmester $41,100
T61 Romain Langasque $41,100
T63 Riki Kawamoto $40,280
T63 Andrew Novak $40,280
T63 Viktor Hovland $40,280
T63 Francesco Molinari $40,280
T63 Ryggs Johnston $40,280
68 Jacob Skov Olesen $39,400
69 Matthias Schmid $39,100
70 Sebastian Söderberg $38,900
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