In what has become an annual recurring theme, the 2026 Masters purse is, once again, the biggest its ever been.
Given the super-sized purses now up for grabs on LIV and in each PGA Tour Signature Event, it’s hard to believe that just five years ago, in 2021, the Masters purse was set at $11.5 million. The next year, in 2022, the purse increased dramatically, to $15 million. Then, the 2023 Masters purse jumped yet again to a total of $18 million.
But it didn’t stop there. In 2024, an additional $2 million was added to the pot to reach an eye-popping total purse of $20 million. And last year, the bar went higher still, to an impressive $21 million.
So what happened to this year’s purse? You guessed it. It went up. Again. The 2026 Masters purse now totals $22.5 million, a $1.5 million increase from last year. (The Players championship remains the richest purse in golf at a total of $25 million.)
This year’s Masters champion will surpass the payout received by 2025 champion, Rory McIlroy, by $300,000, with a $4.5 million total payday. The runner-up will receive a cool $2.43 million, and third and fourth place will clear seven figures too, with a payout of $1.53 and $1.08 million, respectively.
Even the players who missed the cut (of which there were 37) receive a payout of $25,000 each (the same amount as last year, which was an increase of $15,000 from years past) — but that’s for the professionals only. So how much did the rest of the players in the field come away with this year? You can find a complete list of the 2026 Masters payouts for each player below.
How much money every player made at the 2026 Masters
The player-by-player payout information will be updated as soon as it’s available.
1st — $4,500,000
2nd — $2,430,000
3rd — $1,530,000
4th — $1,080,000
5th — $900,000
6th — $810,000
7th — $753,750
8th — $697,500
9th — $652,500
10th — $607,500
11th — $562,500
12th — $517,500
13th — $472,500
14th — $427,500
15th — $405,000
16th — $382,500
17th — $360,000
18th — $337,500
19th — $315,000
20th — $292,500
21st — $270,000
22nd — $252,000
23rd — $234,000
24th — $216,000
25th — $198,000
26th — $180,000
27th — $173,250
28th — $166,500
29th — $159,750
30th — $153,000
31st — $146,250
32nd — $139,500
33rd — $132,750
34th — $127,125
35th — $121,500
36th — $115,875
37th — $110,250
38th — $105,750
39th — $101,250
40th — $96,750
41st — $92,250
42nd — $87,750
43rd — $83,250
44th — $78,750
45th — $74,250
46th — $69,750
47th — $65,250
48th — $61,650
49th — $58,500
50th — $56,700
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