US Open Golf Purse 2015: Prize Money Payout for Top Players on Final Leaderboard

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Published: June 22, 2015

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Jordan Spieth took home his second major championship of his career and of the year Sunday in a thrilling finish to the 2015 U.S. Open, raking in yet another massive payday for the 21-year-old.

A $10 million purse is the largest the tournament has ever seen and tied for the largest in golf, and just short of $2 million of said money will be going Spieth's way after he edged Dustin Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen by one stroke. He wasn't the only golfer to receive a big check, as the top 25 finishers all placed in six figures.

Here's a breakdown of the prize money payouts, along with a closer look into a wild final round.

 

2015 U.S. Open Prize Money Earnings

Purse information courtesy of GolfWeek.com

 



Just a little over 12 feet of short fescue green was the only thing that stood between Dustin Johnson and his first major championship. And even after his eagle opportunity for the win rolled three feet past the hole, one short birdie putt would have clinched an 18-hole playoff with Spieth for Monday.

It just wasn't meant to be.

With a one-putt opportunity to win the championship and a two-putt chance to force a playoff, Johnson three-putted to grant Spieth his second major title. After coming around the turn six strokes below par with a two-stroke lead, he bogeyed three of four holes from holes 10-13 and couldn't go birdie-birdie in his final two to extend it into Monday. 

It marked yet another instance of coming up short on major Sunday, as ESPN told:



Although he's been in position to win a major before, Johnson hasn't lost any of them in quite this suffocating of a manner. With that said, he had no trouble finding a silver lining on Father's Day, as per Golf Channel's Randall Mell:



As Johnson's chances for a major title faded down the stretch, another golfer emerged f...
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