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Officials with the LPGA and the Chevron Championship made news earlier this week when they announced that the prize money payout for the year’s first women’s major championship was increasing to $9 million. That’s a bump of $1 million from 2025 and an exponential increase of $5.9 million since Chevron started sponsoring the major in 2022.
The winner this week at Memorial Park in Houston, Nelly Korda, earned $1.35 million. By contrast, Jane Blalock won the inaugural Chevron (then called the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle), she made $20,050 from a purse of $110,000 total; that’s the amount the 17th place finisher will earn this year.
Some more contest: When the event became a major in 1983, Amy Alcott earned won $55,000 for her victory from an overall purse of $400,000.
As for the five LPGA majors, the Chevron still trails the U.S. Women’s Open and KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which both boasted overall purses of $12 million in 2025. The AIG Women’s Open offered $9.75 million and the Amundi Evian Championship paid $8 million.
Back to Korda. She rolled all week and held a large lead after each of the four rounds, winning by five over Ruoning Yin and Patty Tavatanakit. It’s her third major championship title and second here at the Chevron. She shot 65-65-70-70 for an 18-under 270 total. It’s her second victory this season, which comes after finishing in second place in each of her last three events on tour this year.
(Note: each player who missed the cut received $10,000.)
Here’s the prize money payout in Houston
Win: Nelly Korda, -18/270, $1.35 million
T-2: Ruoning Yin, -13/275, $669,859
T-2: Patty Tavatanakit, -13/275, $669,859
T-4: Yan Liu, -12/276, $393,221
T-4: Ina Yoon, -12/276, $393,221
6: Hyo Joo Kim, -7/281, $286,945
T-7: Hannah Green, -6/282, $213,262
T-7: Lottie Woad, -6/282, $213,262
T-7: Ryan O’Toole, -6/282, $213,262
T-10: Angel Yin, -5/283, $165,789
T-10: Charley Hull, -5/283, $165,789
T-12: Haeran Ryu, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Carlota Ciganda, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Minami Katsu, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Youmin Hwang, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Jennifer Kupcho, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Rio Takeda, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Lexi Thompson, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Gaby Lopez, -4/284, $119,311
T-12: Yealimi Noh, -4/284, $119,311
T-21: Celine Boutier, -3/285, $86,085
T-21: Maja Stark, -3/285, $86,085
T-21: Hye-Jin Choi, -3/285, $86,085
T-21: Akie Iwai, -3/285, $86,085
T-21: Miyu Yamashita, -3/285, $86,085
T-21: Jin Hee Im, -3/285, $86,085
T-27: Allisen Corpuz, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Jenny Bae, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Saki Baba, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Mary Liu, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Chiara Tamburlini, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Jasmine Suwannapura, -2/286, $66,922
T-27: Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, -2/286, $66,922
T-34: Nanna Koerstz Madsen, -1/287, $53,351
T-34: Cassie Porter, -1/287, $53,351
T-34: Somi Lee, -1/287, $53,351
T-34: Megan Khang, -1/287, $53,351
T-38: Shannon Tan, E/288, $44,296
T-38: Yuri Yoshida, E/288, $44,296
T-38: Jing Yan, E/288, $44,296
T-38: Erika Hara, E/288, $44,296
T-38: Sora Kamiya, E/288, $44,296
T-38: Yunseo Yang, E/288, $0 (amateur)
T-38: Farah O’Keefe, E/288, $0 (amateur)
T-45: Ingrid Lindblad, +1/289, $36,877
T-45: Melanie Green, +1/289, $36,877
T-45: Julia Lopez Ramirez, +1/289, $36,877
T-45: Perrine Delacour, +1/289, $36,877
T-49: Manon De Roey, +2/290, $31,117
T-49: Yana Wilson, +2/290, $31,117
T-49: Minjee Lee, +2/290, $31,117
T-49: Brooke Henderson, +2/290, $31,117
T-49: Asterisk Talley, +2/290, $0 (amateur)
T-49: Ayaka Furue, +2/290, $31,117
T-55: Jessica Porvasnik, +3/291, $26,781
T-55: Nastasia Nadaud, +3/291, $26,781
T-55: Wei-Ling Hsu, +3/291, $26,781
T-55: Lauren Coughlin, +3/291, $26,781
T-59: Amy Yang, +4/292, $22,602
T-59: Peiyun Chien, +4/292, $22,602
T-59: Andrea Revuelta, +4/292, $0 (amateur)
T-59: Mao Saigo, +4/292, $22,602
T-59: Linnea Strom, +4/292, $22,602
T-59: Paula Martin Sampedro, +4/292, $0 (amateur)
T-59: Auston Kim, +4/292, $22,602
T-59: Yuka Saso, +4/292, $22,602
T-67: Weiwei Zhang, +5/293, $20,191
T-67: Karis Davidson, +5/293, $20,191
69: Paula Reto, +6/294, $19,558
70: Jenny Shin, +7/295, $19,127
71: Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, +8/296, $18,704
72: Albane Valenzuela, +9/297, $18,282
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