plenty of green was up for grabs at the 2024 Masters on Sunday not only in the form of the famed jacket awarded to the winner of this year's tournament but also in regards to the prize money being paid out from a record setting pool Augusta National Golf Club announced that the 2024 Masters would have a total purse of $20 million marking a new tournament High by $2 million and the largest payout awarded to players at one of the nation's most pristine venues Scotty sheffel was the greatest beneficiary of that increased purse capturing the $3 6 million winners share by capturing his second Master's Championship in 3 years finishing 11 under with a four under 68 capping a tremendous tournament sheffel became the fourth youngest golfer to win two green jackets and the 10th to win two in a three-year span the $36 million prize is $360,000 more than 2023 champion John ROM earned a year ago runner up ludvig abber achieved quite a Payday in his first career major championship pressing sheffel down the stretch the young swed scored $2 16 million for second place a larger sum than either Danny Willet 2016 or Jordan spe 2015 earned for winning the Green jacket sheffel and abber were not the only players set to receive significant green by week's end in fact the top three were set to receive seven figure payday except col and moric Kawa struggled down the stretch and entered into a three-way tie with Max H and Tommy Fleetwood Mory Cowell lost $320,000 by bogeying the last though he increased the take-home of H and Fleetwood with the trio each taking home $104 million this marked the first time that the Masters had five players bring home $1 million or more those among the top 11 were set to see at least $500,000 deposited into their bank accounts and the handsome payouts trickled down the leaderboard with every golfer inside the top 36 leaving Augusta National with six figures