There's a gold rush happening in pro golf, and the USGA is on the train. This year it boosted its purse for the U.S. Women's Open to $12 million, up from $11 million at last year's event at Pebble Beach.
Yuka Saso is taking home $2.4 million, the richest first-place prize in women's golf. The 22-year-old Japanese player, born in the Philippines, won a second U.S. Women's Open to go alongside her title in 2021. In second, the only other player under par, was Hinako Shibuno, giving Japan its first 1-2 finish in a major, men's or women's
Here's the full payouts from Lancaster, Pa.
WIN. Yuka Saso, 4 under: $2,400,000
2. Hinako Shibuno, 1 under: $1,296,000
T3. Ally Ewing, Andrea Lee; Even: $664,777.50
5. Arpichaya Yubol, 1 over: $456,375
T6. Atthaya Thitikul, Ayaka Furue, Wichanee Meechai; 2 over: $365,405.67
T9. Rio Takeda, Sakura Koiwai, Minjee Lee; 3 over: $271,732.67
T12. Hyo Joo Kim, Ruoning Yin, Miyu Yamashita, Jin Hee Im; 4 over: $205,709.25
T16. Hannah Green, A Lim Kim, Mi Hyang Lee; 5 over: $161,840.67
T19. Jenny Shin, Charley Hull, Yan Liu, Carlota Ciganda, Chisato Iwai; 6 over: $125,829
T24. Jiwon Jeon, Wei-Ling Hsu; 7 over: $99,078.50
T26. Aditi Ashok, Sophia Popov, Minbyeol Kim; 8 over: $86,542
T29. Jin Young Ko, Sarah Kemp, Pia Babnik, Albane Valenzuela, Xiyu Lin, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Su Ji Kim; 9 over: $68,873.14
T36. Kristen Gillman, Anna Nordqvist, Amiyu Ozeki; 10 over: $54,338.33
T39. Hyun Kyung Park, Gaby Lopez, Jiyai Shin, Yuna Nishimura, Yui Kawamoto; 11 over: $44,914.60
T44. Megan Khang, Mariel Galdiano, Alison Lee, Asterisk Talley (a), Megan Schofill (a), Nasa Hataoka, Catherine Park (a); 12 over: $31,750
T51. Gabriela Ruffels, Haeran Ryu, Sofia Garcia, Alexandra Forsterling, Yuri Yoshida, Danielle Kang, Ashleigh Buhai; 13 over: $26,209
T58. Narin An, Celine Boutier, Amelia Garvey, Alana Uriell, Alexa Pano, Emily Kristine Pedersen, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, Kim Kaufman, Jeongeun Lee6; 14 over: $23,035.89
T67. Adela Cernousek (a), Ai Suzuki; 15 over: $21,860
T69. Caroline Inglis, Madelene Sagstrom, Marissa Steen; 16 over: $21,155
JEFF RITTER
Jeff Ritter is the Managing Director of SI Golf. He spent more than a decade at Sports Illustrated and Golf Magazine, and in 2020 joined Morning Read to help spark its growth and eventual acquisition by Arena Group, the publisher of Sports Illustrated. He has covered more than 25 major championships, and previously helped launch SI Golf Plus Digital, Golf Magazine’s first original, weekly e-magazine, and served as its top editor. He also launched Golf's “Films” division, the magazine’s first long-form video storytelling franchise, and his debut documentary received an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. His writing has earned first-place awards from the Society of American Travel Writers, the MIN Magazine Awards, and the Golf Writers Association of America, among others. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. A native Michigander, he remains a diehard Wolverine fan and will defend Jim Harbaugh until the bitter end.
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