How much each player won at the 2026 PGA Championship

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2 days ago

May 18, 2026

Aaron Rai upset the odds to win his first major championship on Sunday at Aronimink, firing a final round of 5-under par to see off his competitors and claim the winner’s check for $3,690,000.

Jon Rahm and Alex Smalley were the best of the chasing pack, with both men sharing runner-up spot which was good enough for each to receive a check for $1,804,000.

With a total prize purse of $20.5 million up for grabs, here’s a look at how much each player won at the 2026 PGA Championship.

Players who missed the PGA Championship cut each received $4,300 each.

1: Aaron Rai, $3,690,000

T2 : Jon Rahm, $1,804,000

T2 : Alex Smalley, $1,804,000

T4: Justin Thomas, $843,866

T4: Ludvig Aberg, $843,866

T4: Matti Schmid, $843,866

T7: Cameron Smith, $637,050

T7: Rory McIlroy, $637,050

T7: Xander Schauffele, $637,050

T10: Kurt Kitayama, $496,707

T10: Chris Gotterup, $496,707

T10: Justin Rose, $496,707

T10: Patrick Reed, $496,707

T14: Matt Fitzpatrick, $364,762

T14: Scottie Scheffler, $364,762

T14: Max Greyserman, $364,762

T14: Ben Griffin, $364,762

T18: Maverick McNealy, $229,128

T18: Jordan Spieth, $229,128

T18: Stephan Jaeger, $229,128

T18: Padraigh Harrington, $229,128

T18: David Puig, $229,128

T18: Harris English, $229,128

T18: Min Woo Lee, $229,128

T18: Joaquin Niemann, $229,128

T26: Nick Taylor, $125,523

T26: Alex Noren, $125,523

T26: Cameron Young, $125,523

T26: Andrew Novak, $125,523

T-26: Daniel Hiller, $125,523

T26: Tom Hoge, $125,523

T26: Sam Burns, $125,523

T26: Hideki Matsuyama, $125,523

T26: Bud Cauley, $125,523

T35: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, $78,805

T35: Patrick Cantlay, $78,805

T35: Ryo Hisatsune, $78,805

T35: Daniel Berger, $78,805

T35: Ryan Fox, $78,805

T35: Haotong Li, $78,805

T35: Aldrich Potgieter, $78,805

T35: Si Woo Kim, $78,805

T35: Martin Kaymer, $78,805

T44: Chris Kirk, $53,743

T44: Matt Wallace, $53,743

T44: Shane Lowry, $53,743

T44: Jhonattan Vegas, $53,743

T44: Denny McCarthy, $53,743

T44: Chandler Blachet, $53,743

T44: Taylor Pendrith, $53,743

T44: Dustin Johnson, $53,743

T44: Nicolai Hojgaard, $53,743

T44: Michael Kim, $53,743

T44: Kristoffer Reitan, $53,743

T55: Collin Morikawa, $34,186

T55: Corey Conners, $34,186

T55: Andrew Putnam, $34,186

T55: Brooks Koepka, $34,186

T55: Mikael Lindberg, $34,186

T60: Sami Valimaki, $29,218

T60: Sahith Theegala, $29,218

T60: Rico Hoey, $29,218

T60: Rickie Fowler, $29,218

T60: Brian Harman, $29,218

T65: Casey Jarvis, $26,900

T65: Jason Day, $26,900

T65: Rasmus Hojgaard, $26,900

T65: Keith Mitchell, $26,900

T65: Sam Stevens, $26,900

T70: Luke Donald, $25,070

T70: Ryan Gerard, $25,070

T70: John Parry, $25,070

T70: William Mouw, $25,070

T70: Kazuki Higa, $25,070

T75: Elvis Smylie, $24,158

T75: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, $24,158

T75: Alex Fitzpatrick, $24,158

T75: Daniel Brown, $24,158

79: John Keefer, $23,970

80: Ben Kern, $23,930

81: Michael Brennan, $23,910

82: Brian Campebll, $23,900

Photos from the 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson

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1 day ago

May 18, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

With the second major of 2026 now behind us, the PGA Tour arrives in Texas for the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

GolfWRX Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, is on site at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, and he’s already captured several WITBs and a look at some new colorways of just-spotted L.A.B. Golf VZN.1i putters.

Check out links to all our photos below.

General Albums

WITB Albums

Pullout Albums

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Pro’s must-see putter grip at the PGA Championship

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2 days ago

May 17, 2026

Andrew Von Lossow

When it comes to the PGA Championship, we get some first-timers. With that, there are great stories and experiences about the players that arrive. This week has been the first trip to the PGA Championship for Bryce Fisher. Bryce plays out of Arrowhead Golf Club in Molalla, Oregon, and qualified for this week’s event through the PGA Professional Championship at Bandon Dunes, where he finished in a tie for 10th, battling the wind and links conditions. Certainly, he trusted his clubs when it came to the event at Bandon, especially when it came to holing the final putt. Some of the GolfWRXers had a grip on things from GolfWRX PGA Tour Photographer Greg Moore’s photos this week of Fisher’s golf bag.

When it comes to Bryce’s bag, we see a Titleist GT3 driver with a Graphite Design Tour AD VF-7 shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet Align grip. For fairway woods, Titleist GT2 three and GT3 five woods, the hybrid is a GT2 21 degree with a Graphite Design Tour AD VF-hybrid 95-X.

Keep working with me here.

Titleist T100 irons, 5 through pitching wedge, Vokey wedges, all black setup with custom hand stamping on the wedges with black Dynamic Gold S400 shafts. Very sleek! All from the years 2024 and 2025.

We get to the putter, an Odyssey White Hot XG Marxman. A putter that was released in 2007! With a putter in play from 2007, my radar is up for some nicely played golf in this period.

Bryce is no stranger to playing golf at a high level. He played at Scottsdale Community College, where he was a part of two national championship teams. He then finished his college career at Oregon State University from 2001 to 2004. After college, he played events on the Gateway Tour, Spanos Tour, and the Nationwide Tour, aka the Korn Ferry Tour today. Around 2006 he wrapped up golf to raise a family and in 2015 began to get back to tournament golf, fast forward to today, this week he is playing in the PGA Championship at 46 years old.

Piecing together this timeline, if Bryce got this putter brand new, this is right after the Tour days. Now I do realize this could have been a gift or anything else, as we know, acquiring putters is a world of its own.

Then it gets better. Take a look at this grip, doesn’t get much more game-used than this. The tennis wrap was layered up so much it would make Scott Verplank proud. It is truly incredible that the original grip is buried under the wraps with the butt end of the grip worn down to the steel!

This putter alone got some good reactions on the GolfWRX Forum. “MikuTheGolfer” states ‘I got sick looking at that putter grip. “Cmb71 says, “I feel like that putter grip requires surgical gloves.”

These are reactions of emotion, this to me shows that the putter and especially the grip are a work of art. Art evokes emotion as well.

Layers of tennis wrap, a grip worn through to the shaft. If the putter has been in the bag off and on since 2007, Fisher has literally made miles of putts with it. The thing I like about the whole setup is that we have all-new clubs in the bag, and the tried-and-true putter that has seen it all and been there for everything. How fitting to be at the PGA Championship this week.

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5 Things we Learned: Saturday at The PGA Championship

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3 days ago

May 16, 2026

Ronald Montesano

There is precedence for an Alex Smalley triumph on Sunday at Aronimink. The Shaun Micheels, the Fuzzy Zoellers, the Lou Grahams, the Ben Curtis of the world all won major championships in the most unlikely, unheralded of fashions. The way that Alex Smalley disproved my third point (see below) was the stuff of unexpected brilliance. If someone repeats what Smalley did, on Sunday, he will most likely find himself liftening heavy Wannamaker Trophy with a notoriously-loose top. If Smalley gets the job done, I’ll serve myself a hearty portion of crow in this column on Sunday evening.

Until we know the denouement of the 2026 PGA Championship, an unbridled success in every aspect of its execution, we can subsist on the five things that we learned this day, in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Join us at the table, please.

First, what makes a proper course and tournament?
At his Friday press conference, Rory McIlroy said something along the lines of a major championship course should give the chance to establish a big lead, and that is why he did not view this week. Layout through that Lenz. Rory better count his lucky stars, because after being out of it on Thursday, he sits just three strokes off the lead after three rounds. If there’s one thing we love about the Ulsterman, he speaks his mind. He isn’t always correct and he isn’t always accurate, but he is sincere. Don’t fret, Rory. There’s magic yet to come. Just ask Hideki.

Second, the drivable par four hole

Other than the masters, which does not have a drivable par four and does not seek to establish one, every major championship should genuflect at the altar of Mike Davis, the USGA man who brought the idea back to U.S. Open championships. We see them now at the Open championship and the PGA as well, and they are wonderful changes of pace. They provide excitement, supply drama, and toast with effervescence. With luck, we will see number 13 play forward again on Sunday.

Third, the northern Green Mile

Quail Hollow has a northern cousin when it comes to the difficult, fabled, green mile of closing holes. The final stretch at this week‘s venue have sorted any opportunity to establish that big lead that Rory McIlroy mentioned in point number one. Despite number 15 as a Power, five being about as long as number 16 as a Power, four, very few golfers play the closing stretch in subpar figures. If someone near the lead does so on Sunday, he might be setting the menu for next year‘s champions dinner.

Fourth, Ben Kern, the one in twenty

Let’s take a minute to recognize Ben Kern, the 5% man. 20 PGA professionals qualified into this week‘s tournament, but Coene was the only one to survive the 36 whole cut. Among his brother, Kern is one of the best. He routinely finishes near the top of the PGA professional championship, and was runner-up this year. Take a quick peek at all of the great touring professionals that did not make the cut this week, and then understand what a feet it was for Kern to shoot three underpar on Friday to slip inside the cut line. On Saturday, Kern returned to the ranks of the mortals with a 77, but he’ll tee it up again on Sunday, and complete all 72 holes of one of the four major chmpionships.

And your winner-to-be is…
It’s time to make a selection for the winner of this year’s PGA championship. One of my favorite writers was a golf Weak guy named Ron Balicki. They used to call him wrong Ron, because he never failed to pick the wrong person to win a tournament. I miss Ron, and in his honor, I’m going to keep my true selection to myself. I don’t wish to jinx the lad. I’m going to go with a different golfer, one that we all know, and one that will give us two legs up on this year‘s grand slam. Shinae Koch just got a lot more difficult for Rory McIlroy, because he wins a PGA championship tomorrow, for his third wanna make a trophy.