Brexit! Open Championship Purse Up, Value Way Down
/As Joel Beall explains at GolfDigest.com, a small bump in The Open Championship purse is offset and then some by the plummeting pound, which hit a new low Tuesday.
Beal writes of what the drop means to first place money:
Meaning that, while Johnson took home a $1.8 million payday for winning the British Open, this year's champ will receive close to $1.54 million, a significant cut in earnings.
The full purse announced Tuesday by the R&A:
Prize money
Place £ Place £
1 £1,175,000 36 £34,000
2 £675,000 37 £32,500
3 £433,000 38 £31,000
4 £337,000 39 £30,000
5 £271,000 40 £28,750
6 £235,000 41 £27,500
7 £201,000 42 £26,250
8 £170,000 43 £25,000
9 £149,000 44 £23,750
10 £135,000 45 £22,500
11 £122,000 46 £21,500
12 £108,750 47 £20,500
13 £102,000 48 £19,500
14 £95,500 49 £18,700
15 £89,500 50 £18,300
16 £82,000 51 £17,900
17 £78,000 52 £17,500
18 £74,000 53 £17,250
19 £71,000 54 £17,000
20 £68,000 55 £16,750
21 £64,500 56 £16,500
22 £61,500 57 £16,300
23 £58,250 58 £16,200
24 £55,000 59 £16,100
25 £53,000 60 £16,000
26 £50,750 61 £15,900
27 £48,750 62 £15,800
28 £47,000 63 £15,700
29 £45,000 64 £15,600
30 £43,250 65 £15,500
31 £41,500 66 £15,400
32 £39,250 67 £15,300
33 £38,000 68 £15,200
34 £36,750 69 £15,100
35 £35,500 70 £15,000
