a $2.5 million The 144-player field will be duking it out for a $2.5 million purse and a $375,000 winner's check at Blythefield Country Club.

$2.5 million – Ireland's Leona Maguire's pockets just got a little bit heavier. The first-time Meijer LPGA Classic champion, and second time winner on the LPGA, claimed $375,000 for the first-place prize, more than her total earnings for the 2023 season thus far. The total purse for the event was $2.5 million.

Leona Maguire of Ireland plays her second shot on the 1st hole during the final round of the Meijer LPGA Classic at Blythefield Country Club on June 19, 2022 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

meijer-lpga-classic. Leona Maguire.

$375,000 BELMONT, Mich. – Ireland's Leona Maguire's pockets just got a little bit heavier. The first-time Meijer LPGA Classic champion, and second time winner on the LPGA, claimed $375,000 for the first-place prize, more than her total earnings for the 2023 season thus far.

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But with her victory on Sunday, she banked the $225,000 first-place prize money payout from the $1.5 million overall purse. Here's the prize money payout for each golfer this week in Portland.

The LPGA Tour is currently at Pebble Beach Golf Links for the 2023 US Women's Open. The purse size for this year's event is the biggest in the tournament's history. The prize money this year is $11 million, which is twice as much as 2021's and $1 million more than the 2022 Championship.

Grand Rapids, Michigan Leona Maguire of Ireland poses for a photo with the trophy after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield Country Club on June 18, 2023 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

BELMONT - Rose Zhang, a 20-year-old golf phenom from Stanford University, burst onto the scene with a historical debut on the LPGA Tour. Zhang isn't in the field for the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, but the golfers are definitely still talking about her debut.

On the LPGA Tour, the story is decidedly different. The average winnings on that tour was $141k in 2021. While on the PGA Tour everyone in the top 100 made at least $1.29 million, on the LPGA Tour only 12 players made 7 figure salaries. They were led by Jin Young Ko at $3.5 million.

This year, the total purse for 36 official events is more than $100 million. Ten years ago, that number was $49 million, but even in 2021 it was around $70 million. Last year, 27 L.P.G.A. players earned $1 million in prize money (up from 15 the year before).