KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Purse And Prize Money 2023
A lucrative prize fund is on offer for the second Major of the year at Baltusrol Golf Club


After the first Major of the year, The Chevron Championship, featured its largest purse of all time at $5.1m, an even more attractive prize fund is on offer for the one that follows it, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
Players will compete for an increased purse of $10m, raised by $1m on last year's championship.
Last year's figure of $9m represented a huge leap for a tournament that offered $4.5m just a year earlier and it has continued to rise. Last year's US Women’s Open also offered a payout of $10m.
The tournament has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years following a 2015 alliance between the PGA of America, KPMG and LPGA. As a result, this year's purse is $7.75m more than just nine years ago.
The prize fund is another sign that the status of the women’s game is at an all-time high. That’s also reflected in the venue for the tournament, Baltusrol Golf Club, which is one of the most famous and exclusive in the US, and has hosted a range of Majors over the years including seven US Opens and two PGA Championships.
In 2022, In Gee Chun claimed her third Major title with a one-shot victory over Lexi Thompson and Minjee Lee at Congressional. That achievement banked her $1.35m. Whoever wins this year will surely have her work cut out among a top-class field that includes 19 of the world’s top 20, with only Japanese player Miyu Yamashita missing out.
Other previous winners of the tournament include Nelly Korda, Kim Sei-Young and Hannah Green, while much of the attention will be on the player at the top of the world rankings Jin Young Ko, who already has two wins to her name in 2023.
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Here is the prize distribution for the 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Players who missed the cut each earned $4,000.
KPMG Women's PGA Championship Prize Money
Position | Prize Money |
---|---|
1st | $1,500,000 |
2nd | $944,292 |
3rd | $685,016 |
4th | $529,914 |
5th | $426,522 |
6th | $348,971 |
7th | $292,102 |
8th | $255,915 |
9th | $230,065 |
10th | $209,382 |
11th | $193,868 |
12th | $180,943 |
13th | $169,569 |
14th | $159,233 |
15th | $149,924 |
16th | $141,653 |
17th | $134,420 |
18th | $128,214 |
19th | $123,046 |
20th | $118,906 |
21st | $114,775 |
22nd | $110,635 |
23rd | $106,504 |
24th | $102,364 |
25th | $98,747 |
26th | $95,130 |
27th | $91,504 |
28th | $87,887 |
29th | $84,270 |
30th | $81,168 |
31st | $78,065 |
32nd | $74,962 |
33rd | $71,859 |
34th | $68,756 |
35th | $66,177 |
36th | $63,588 |
37th | $61,009 |
38th | $58,420 |
39th | $55,831 |
40th | $53,766 |
41st | $51,700 |
42nd | $49,635 |
43rd | $47,560 |
44th | $45,495 |
45th | $43,943 |
46th | $42,392 |
47th | $40,840 |
48th | $39,289 |
49th | $37,737 |
50th | $36,186 |
51st | $35,159 |
52nd | $34,121 |
53rd | $33,083 |
54th | $32,056 |
55th | $31,018 |
56th | $29,980 |
57th | $28,953 |
58th | $27,915 |
59th | $26,888 |
60th | $25,850 |
61st | $25,336 |
62nd | $24,812 |
63rd | $24,299 |
64th | $23,785 |
65th | $23,261 |
66th | $22,747 |
67th | $22,233 |
68th | $21,709 |
69th | $21,196 |
70th | $20,682 |
71st | $20,425 |
72nd | $20,158 |
73rd | $19,901 |
74th | $19,644 |
75th | $19,408 |
76th | $19,162 |
77th | $18,918 |
78th | $18,677 |
79th | $18,439 |
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