AUGUSTA, Ga. — To win the Masters Tournament is to say a bit of golf immortality. The tangible rewards are important and humbling: your personal inexperienced jacket, a spot in the Champions locker room and an invite to go to Augusta National each April for the remainder of your life being the most well-known and maybe the most coveted. And then there are the intangible advantages of claiming you’re a Masters champion; you’ll be capable of guide talking look for many years, dusting off Masters tales into perpetuity.
Not to be forgotten, although, is the monetary advantage of successful at Augusta. Suffice it to say, the first-place prize money payout that goes to the Masters champion is important and humbling.
It’s a enjoyable reality we’ve written earlier than that gamers don’t formally have any thought how a lot prize money their enjoying for at Augusta National earlier than teeing off in the opening spherical. Typically, the membership waits till after a 36-hole minimize has been made earlier than asserting something formally.
That occurred once more this 12 months, the Masters formally releasing the 2026 prize money payout on Saturday morning—and revealing a brand new record general purse. The 54 gamers who made the minimize are actually enjoying for $22.5 million, a improve of $1.5 million from 2025, a $7.5 million leap from 2022 and a greater than $11 million improve from 2021. That general quantity now exceeds the $20 million purses supplied in the PGA Tour’s signature occasions.
The Masters improve now makes it the high paying males’s main championship, passing the U.S. Open, with the USGA giving out $21.5 million in prize money throughout final 12 months’s championship at Oakmont. The PGA Championship bumped up its purse final 12 months at Quail Hollow to $19 million whereas the Open Championship continued to pay $17 million in 2025. All the majors are presently outpaced by the Players Championship, which paid out $25 million in March with winner Cameron Young incomes $4.5 million.
The evolution of the payday for a Masters champion is fascinating. Horton Smith made $1,500 when he received the first enjoying in 1934 in comparison with McIlroy’s $4.2 million in 2025.
Below is the prize money payouts for everyone who made the minimize in 2026 at Augusta National. We’ll replace this after the finish of the occasion on Sunday with particular person names and paydays.
The the rest of the professionals will obtain money prizes ranging downward from $55,250 relying on the scores. All professionals who didn’t qualify for the ultimate 36 holes will obtain $25,000.
