A $12.5 million purse was up for grabs Sunday afternoon at the 2021 U.S. Open. The lucrative pot is the largest among all four of golf's major championships and comes with a whopping $2.25 million prize for the winner and $1.35 million for the runner-up. The combined payout for the top five finishers on the leaderboard is $5.5 million.
The $12.5 million purse matches last year's U.S. Open payout, and the prize money for each slot stays as it was last September when Bryson DeChambeau won his first career major championship at Winged Foot.
The site of this year's event, Torrey Pines, was no Winged Foot. For one, it played longer than last year's U.S. Open venue. At a par 71, it was receptive enough for golfers to take advantage of the track, none more so than eventual champion Jon Rahm, who closed in exciting fashion with a tournament-best 4-under 67 on Sunday to win his first major.
Let's take a look at how the prize money breaks down for the 2021 U.S. Open now that action is in the books from La Jolla, California. If golfers tie for a place, they split an average of the combined winnings of their respective spots on the leaderboard.
2021 U.S. Open prize money, purse, payouts
Total purse: $12.5 million
1. $2,250,000 -- Jon Rahm
2. $1,350,000 -- Louis Oosthuizen
3. $861,457 -- Harris ENglish
4. $603,903 -- Guido Migliozzi, Brooks Koepka, Collin Morikawa
5. $502,993
6. $445,997
7. $402,083 -- Branden Grace, Daniel Berger, Paul Casey, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy
8. $360,113
9. $325,916
10. $299,360
11. $273,194
12. $252,597
13. $235,369 -- Francesco Molinari, Russell Henley
14. $217,234
15. $201,689 -- Patrick Cantlay, Kevin Streelman, Matthew Wolff, Mackenzie Hughes
16. $188,735
17. $178,372
18. $168,009
19. $157,646 -- Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Charl Schwartzel, Brian Harman, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson
20. $147,283
21. $138,345
22. $129,407
23. $120,728
24. $112,697
25. $105,702
26. $99,743 -- Hideki Matsuyama, Rikuya Hoshino, Chris Baker, Martin Kaymer, Bryson DeChambeau
27. $95,209
28. $91,194
29. $87,308
30. $83,422
31. $79,535 -- Patrick Rodgers, Dylan Wu, Joaquin Niemann, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
32. $75,649
33. $71,763
34. $68,266
35. $65,416 -- Edoardo Molinari, Robert MacIntyre, Adam Scott, Lanto Griffin, Sungjae Im
36. $62,566
37. $59,846
38. $57,255
39. $54,664
40. $52,074 -- Wade Ormsby, Adam Hadwin, Chez Reavie, J.T. Poston, Si Woo Kim, Ian Poulter
41. $49,483
42. $46,892
43. $44,301
44. $41,711
45. $39,120
46. $36,788 -- Rick Lamb, Tom Hoge, Dylan Frittelli, Lee Westwood
47. $34,456
48. $32,254
49. $30,959
50. $29,664 -- Tommy Fleetwood, Gary Woodland, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Bubba Watson, Richard Bland
51. $28,886
52. $28,239
53. $27,720
54. $27,461
55. $27,202 -- Kevin Kisner, Matthew Fitzpatrick
56. $26,943
57. $26,684 -- Taylor Montgomery, Akshay Bhatia, Stewart Cink, Charley Hoffman, Jhonattan Vegas
58. $26,425
59. $26,166
60. $25,907
T62. $25,907 -- Phil Mickelson, Greyson Sigg
64. $25,907 -- Marc Leishman
T65. $25,907 -- Matt Jones, Troy Merritt, Shane Lowry
T68. $25,907 -- Wilco Nienaber, Kyle Westmoreland
T70. $25,907 -- Fabian Gomez, Jimmy Walker
