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2026 Chevron Championship Final Payouts, Prize Money, Winnings for LPGA’s First Major: Nelly Korda Wins $1,375,000

Nelly Korda won the Chevron Championship for the second time in dominating fashion, winning by five shots.
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Nelly Korda enters the Chevron ranked No. 2 in the world.
Nelly Korda enters the Chevron ranked No. 2 in the world. | Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

Major-championship season has arrived on the LPGA Tour, and this week’s Chevron Championship in Houston offered a $9 million purse, with $1.375 million to the winner.

It’s a $1 million bump in total prize money from the 2025 Chevron, continuing the trend of prize-money growth in pro golf. Here are the LPGA current purses for each of its five majors:

Major

Total Purse

Chevron Championship

$9 million

U.S. Women’s Open

$12 million

KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

$12 million

Amundi Evian Championship

$8 million

AIG Women’s Open

$9.75 million

Nelly Korda is taking home the big check after winning the Chevron for the second time, dominating the week with a five-shot win. She now owns three major titles and 17 LPGA wins overall. She also has five top-two finishes in a row this season.

Here are the final payouts for the 2026 Chevron Championship.

2026 Chevron Championship final payouts

WIN: Nelly Korda, 18 under: $1,350,000

T2. Patty Tavatanakit, Ruoning Yin; 13 under: $669,859

T4. Yan Liu, Ina Yoon; 12 under: $393,221

6. Hyo Joo Kim, 7 under: $286,945

T7. Hannah Green, Lottie Woad, Ryann O'Toole; 6 under: $213,262

T10. Charley Hull, Angel Yin; 5 under: $165,789

T12. Haeran Ryu, Carlota Ciganda, Minami Katsu, Youmin Hwang, Jennifer Kupcho, Rio Takeda, Lexi Thompson, Gaby Lopez, Yealimi Noh; 4 under: $119,311

T21. Celine Boutier, Maja Stark, Hye-Jin Choi, Akie Iwai, Miyu Yamashita, Jin Hee Im; 3 under: $86,065

T27. Allisen Corpuz, Jenny Bae, Saki Baba, Mary Liu, Chiara Tamburlini, Jasmine Suwannapura, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard; 2 under: $66,922

T34. Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Cassie Porter, Somi Lee, Megan Khang; 1 under: $53,351

T38. Shannon Tan, Yuri Yoshida, Jing Yan, Erika Hara, Sora Kamiya, Yunseo Yang (a), Farah O'Keefe (a); Even: $44,296

T45. Ingrid Lindblad, Melanie Green, Julia Lopez Ramirez, Perrine Delacour; 1 over: $36,877

T49. Manon De Roey, Yana Wilson, Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson, Asterisk Talley (a), Ayaka Furue; 2 over: $31,117

T55. Jessica Porvasnik, Nastasia Nadaud, Wei-Ling Hsu, Lauren Coughlin; 3 over: $26,781

T59. Amy Yang, Peiyun Chien, Andrea Revuelta (a), Mao Saigo, Linnea Strom, Paula Martin Sampedro (a), Auston Kim, Yuka Saso; 4 over: $22,602

T67. Weiwei Zhang, Karis Davidson; 5 over: $20,191

69. Paula Reto, 6 over: $19,558

70. Jenny Shin, 7 over: $19,127

71. Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, 8 over: $18,704

72. Albane Valenzuela, 9 over: $18,282

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JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business’s growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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