there's a broken record being played at LGA tour majors of late but one that's creating beautiful music to those competing in the events as tour Executives emphasize the goal of increasing the prize money payouts for each event they're making good on the promise in 2023 all five of the tour's biggest individual events paid out record amounts including a $12 million payout from the YCA at the U women's open and a $10 million purse from the PGA of America at the KPMG women's PGA will the trend continue into 224 particularly with the public Awakening going regarding women's sports overall if this week's Chevron Championship is any indication it likely will on Wednesday tournament organizers in conjunction with LGA commissioner Molly Maru San announced that the overall prize money payout for the event would be $7.9 million a jump from $5.2 million in 2023 the winner on Sunday at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands Texas will earn $1.2 million in the 3 years since Chevron became the sponsor purses for the tournament previously held in the Palm Springs area and best known as the dinos Shore have risen $4.8 million and the tour and Chevron announced that the title sponsorship has been extended until 2029 at the Chevron this week even those who don't make the cut are going to be getting a little more all Pros in the field will receive $110,000 for their participation up from $5,000 last year here are the prize money payouts for every golfer who makes the cut this week in Texas come back shortly after the end of the tournament and well update the list with names and individual paydays use of Andor registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our visitor agreement updated 1623 privacy and cookies notice updated 32724 Golf Digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate Partnerships with retailers the material on this site may not be reproduced distributed transmitted cached or otherwise used except with the prior written permission of Discovery golf Inc