2026 U.S. Open cash: Whole purse, payout breakdown, winner’s share

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Wyndham Clark has a commanding lead on the 2026 U.S. Open, however now comes the arduous half — closing it out when everybody expects you to take action.

At seven below, Clark leads 4 gamers by six strokes heading into the ultimate spherical at Shinnecock Hills Golf Membership on Lengthy Island. That group is led by World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who’s a win away from finishing the profession Grand Slam. And if he did so on Sunday, it will be fairly the thirtieth birthday current.

Scheffler, Sahith Theegala, Tom Kim and Sam Stevens are all tied at one below, whereas Emiliano Grillo, Keith Mitchell, Sam Burns and Xander Schauffele are even par and 7 off the lead.

The winner Sunday can even take dwelling the $4.5 million winner’s examine, though the top-four finishers all earn no less than a million {dollars}.

Clark has been on this place earlier than, though issues had been a little bit totally different when he gained the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Nation Membership. He was tied for the 54-hole lead with Rickie Fowler, and Rory McIlroy was only one behind.

Now? He leads by a half dozen.

“I might say I’m undoubtedly much more assured and consider I can do it — in ’23 there was nonetheless doubts,” Clark stated Saturday. “Not essentially doubts, however I hadn’t performed it, so there was quite a lot of unknown. Now that I’ve performed it, I do know I can do it, and I can do it once more. So I’ll undoubtedly lean on that have and different experiences from once I’ve gained that I can break by means of and do that once more.”

The whole purse for the U.S. Open is $22.5 million, which is similar whole purse (and winner’s share) because the 2026 Masters. Aaron Rai took dwelling $3.69 million for successful the PGA Championship final month, and Cameron Younger gained $4.5 million on the Gamers Championship in March.

Under is the payout breakdown for the U.S. Open. All of the professionals who missed the minimize obtain $10,000 every.

2026 U.S. Open whole purse, payout

1st: $4.5 million
2nd: $2,430,000
third: $1,532,530
4th: $1,074,363
fifth: $894,841
sixth: $793,443
seventh: $715,320
eighth: $640,654
ninth: $579,815
tenth: $532,572
eleventh: $486,021
twelfth: $449,379
thirteenth: $418,729
14th: $386,466
fifteenth: $358,812
sixteenth: $335,767
seventeenth: $317,331
18th: $298,895
nineteenth: $280,459
twentieth: $262,022
twenty first: $246,121
twenty second: $230,220
twenty third: $214,780
twenty fourth: $200,492
twenty fifth: $188,048
twenty sixth: $177,447
twenty seventh: $169,381
twenty eighth: $162,237
twenty ninth: $155,324
thirtieth: $148,410
thirty first: $141,497
thirty second: $134,583
thirty third: $127,669
thirty fourth: $121,447
thirty fifth: $116,377
thirty sixth: $111,307
thirty seventh: $106,468
thirty eighth: $101,859
thirty ninth: $97,250
fortieth: $92,641
forty first: $88,032
forty second: $83,423
forty third: $78,814
forty fourth: $74,205
forty fifth: $69,596
forty sixth: $65,448
forty seventh: $61,300
forty eighth: $57,382
forty ninth: $55,077
fiftieth: $52,773
51st: $51,390
52nd: $50,238
53rd: $49,316
54th: $48,855
fifty fifth: $48,394
56th: $47,933
57th: $47,472
58th: $47,012
59th: $46,551
sixtieth: $46,090
61th: $45,629
62th: $45,168
63th: $44,707
sixty fourth: $44,246
sixty fifth: $43,785
66th: $43,324
67th: $42,863