with an overall purse of $12 million $1 million more than a year ago the 2024 Women's Open has the biggest prize money payout of an women's tournament in golf history as you let that impressive fact settle in what makes it even more remarkable is that just 3 years ago the person the same Championship was just $5.5 million the exponential increase is a testament to the powers that being involved in women's golf recognizing the need to better reward the game's best players on the game's biggest stages the total amount of prize money being played for on the LGA tour in 2024 is up to nearly $124 million compared to $ 88.9 million in 2022 and the purses and the other for women's Majors have also seen similar growth in recent years take a look as for the Winner's payday in the USU Women's Open the champion on Sunday at Pennsylvania's Lancaster Country Club will earn a record $2.4 million interestingly the USA decided to increase the Winner's payday in relation to the rest of the field giving the champ 20% of the overall payout compared to 18% in previous years and the typical 15% on the LGA tour even if you don't make the cut at the USU women is open you're still walking away with a nice return $110,000 a doubling of the stipend given to Pros leaving after 36 holes compared to a year ago we've charted the growth in the US Women's Open before but it's worth showing again if only to remind everyone that that the overall purse for the US Women's Open didn't pass $10,000 until 1965 the 20th year of the championship and a winner of the major didn't make $10,000 until 1977 here's a historic look at the prize money payouts in the championship for context about this year's historic Payday the full prize money payout breakdown for this year's championship was released Saturday morning you can see it below well update this list when this year is announced and then update things again after the the finish of the championship on Sunday and well update with individual names and official totals