How much money does Jon Rahm make for his 2021 US Open win?

The US Open is one of the most financially endowed tournaments on the PGA Tour. In total, there is a purse of 12.5 million dollars at stake. It is, in fact, the largest of the four main golf championships, the so-called 'Major', although it does not reach the 15 million that The Players distributes, the so-called 'big fifth', which by prizes and field should be.

US Open Golf prize for Jon Rahm

But, of those 12.5 million, how much does the winner, in this case Jon Rahm, get? The answer is $2.25 million for victory. Runner-up Louis Oosthuizen is awarded 1.35 million. The prize pool for the top five finishers is 5.5 million. Harris English, who finished third, takes $861,457.

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All of these numbers match those of 2020, when Bryson DeChambeau was the winner in Winged Foot. When there is a tie in a position, the players share the money corresponding to the positions they win. Until before this tournament, Rahm had won only on the PGA Tour (not counting the European Tour, where he competes much less) 25.9 million dollars, now rising to 28.4.

The large earnings of Barrika's man are easy to explain, and it is that he has not only won six tournaments on the PGA Tour (Farmers 2017, CareerBuilder 2018, Zurich Classic 2019 -together with Ryan Palmer- Memorial 2020, BMW Championship 2020 and US Open 2021), but his regularity takes him almost every time he competes to be in the top ten, a statistic in which he actually keeps Tiger Woods' pulse. In 2018 he also won the Hero World Challenge, the Tigre tournament, although this does not count for the PGA history.

On the European Tour Jon has won seven tournaments, although in this case the US Open is shared. We are therefore talking about 13 professional victories. It must be taken into account that, although in Europe the prizes are much lower than those of the American circuit, it so happens that Rahm has won four events in the Rolex Series, otherwise more economically powerful than the Old Continent. The Spaniard was the player with the most earnings on the European Tour in 2019, something that only Seve had achieved in Spain. In the United States last year he was second.