2026 World Wide Technology Championship Purse: Prize Money and Winner’s Share
Andy Molitor
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The 2026 World Wide Technology Championship purse is 6 million dollars, and the winner takes home 1,080,000 dollars, per the PGA Tour’s purse breakdown published Monday, November 2. The event runs Thursday, November 5 through Sunday, November 8 at El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, Mexico, and the money is flat with last year, when Ben Griffin won at a record 29 under.
Flat is the generous word. This purse has shrunk two years running and then stopped, and the 2026 winner’s check is almost 400,000 dollars smaller than the one Erik van Rooyen cashed here in 2023. For a field fighting for next season’s status, though, a 1.08-million-dollar check still changes a career.
How much is the 2026 World Wide Technology Championship purse?
The 2026 World Wide Technology Championship purse is 6 million dollars, the same as in 2025. The winner’s share is 1,080,000 dollars, which is 18 percent of the total, the standard top cut on a PGA Tour payout. Second place pays 654,000 dollars and third pays 414,000 dollars, per the PGA Tour and Golfweek.
The payout is a set percentage scale, not a negotiated number for each spot. Every finishing position gets a fixed slice of the 6 million dollars, and that slice gets thinner fast once you leave the top 10. The winner also banks 500 FedExCup Fall points.
Not everyone gets paid. This is a regular full-field PGA Tour stop of about 120 players, and only professionals who make the 36-hole cut collect a check.
World Wide Technology Championship prize money payout by finish
The table below shows the 2026 World Wide Technology Championship prize money for selected finishing spots, from the PGA Tour’s purse breakdown published November 2 and matched against Golfweek’s payout list the same day.
| Finish | Share of purse | Prize money |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | 18.00 percent | 1,080,000 dollars |
| 2nd | 10.90 percent | 654,000 dollars |
| 3rd | 6.90 percent | 414,000 dollars |
| 4th | 4.90 percent | 294,000 dollars |
| 5th | 4.10 percent | 246,000 dollars |
| 10th | 2.725 percent | 163,500 dollars |
| 20th | 1.325 percent | 79,500 dollars |
| 30th | 0.685 percent | 41,100 dollars |
| 50th | 0.257 percent | 15,420 dollars |
| 65th | 0.215 percent | 12,900 dollars |
Look at the cliff between first and second. Winning is worth 426,000 dollars more than finishing alone in second, and second is worth more than fourth and fifth put together.
The money reaches everyone who plays the weekend. If exactly 65 players make the cut, last place pays 12,900 dollars, and the PGA Tour’s table runs deeper than that for weeks when ties push extra players through. When players tie, the money for the spots they occupy is added up and split evenly. So a two-way tie for second splits the 2nd and 3rd place money, 534,000 dollars each.
Does a missed cut pay at the World Wide Technology Championship?
No. A missed cut at the 2026 World Wide Technology Championship pays nothing. The cut comes after 36 holes, and the standard PGA Tour full-field cut, used here in 2024 and 2025, keeps the top 65 and ties. Everyone below that line flies home from Los Cabos with zero.
That is where the real pressure sits in a fall event like this one. Nearly half the field leaves without a dollar, and the guys hanging around 65th on Friday afternoon are playing for status points as much as for the 12,900-dollar floor. And the money is stacked at the top. The first 10 spots alone eat up about 60 percent of the purse.
How the 2026 purse compares with past years
The 2026 World Wide Technology Championship purse of 6 million dollars is 2.2 million dollars smaller than the 8.2 million dollars on offer in 2023, the first year at El Cardonal. It dropped to 7.2 million dollars in 2024, fell to 6 million dollars in 2025, and held there this year.
The table below lists the purse and winner’s share for each edition at El Cardonal, from the PGA Tour, Golf News Net, and Golf.com coverage of each year, checked on November 3, 2026.
| Year | Course | Winner | Purse | Winner’s share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | El Cardonal at Diamante | To be decided | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| 2025 | El Cardonal at Diamante | Ben Griffin | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| 2024 | El Cardonal at Diamante | Austin Eckroat | 7,200,000 dollars | 1,296,000 dollars |
| 2023 | El Cardonal at Diamante | Erik van Rooyen | 8,200,000 dollars | 1,476,000 dollars |
One thing worth flagging. Some coverage this week describes the 2026 purse as a million dollars lower than last year. The PGA Tour’s own 2025 breakdown and Golf News Net both put last year’s purse at 6 million dollars, so the honest read is no change from 2025, not a cut.
Ben Griffin‘s 2025 check was 1,080,000 dollars, exactly what the 2026 winner gets. Austin Eckroat, the 2024 champion, made 216,000 dollars more for his win than Griffin did a year later.
Betting and DFS angle: what the payout structure tells you
The cut matters more than the purse here. With roughly 120 players and a top-65-and-ties line, a little over half the field plays the weekend, which makes make-cut props on the short end of the board a tough way to find value and makes six-of-six DFS builds harder than they look at a soft-field fall stop.
El Cardonal does not help you sort it out. Winning scores here have been 27 under, 24 under, and 29 under, so the cut line usually lands deep under par and a single loose round on Thursday or Friday can sink a good player. The opening two days also look like the breezy ones. Early forecasts call for wind around 15 mph out of the northwest on Thursday and Friday, then a calmer weekend.
The market has firmed up on the top two since Monday. Ben Griffin was +1550 at DraftKings on Monday morning and sat at +1325 there early Tuesday, while Ryan Gerard moved from +1450 to +1375. Keith Mitchell went the other way, +1900 on Monday to +2800 at DraftKings on Tuesday.
The table below shows the top of the 2026 World Wide Technology Championship outright board at DraftKings on Monday, November 2 at 8 AM CT and on Tuesday, November 3 at 7 AM CT, plus the best price across DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, and BetRivers on Tuesday.
| Player | DraftKings Monday | DraftKings Tuesday | Best price Tuesday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Gerard | +1450 | +1375 | +1400 Fanatics |
| Ben Griffin | +1550 | +1325 | +1500 FanDuel |
| Jackson Koivun | +1750 | +1800 | +1800 DraftKings and FanDuel |
| Keith Mitchell | +1900 | +2800 | +3300 FanDuel |
| Blades Brown | +3100 | +3000 | +3000 DraftKings |
Griffin at +1500 on FanDuel is almost two points better than the DraftKings number, and if you like the defending champ at a course where he holds the scoring record, that gap is the whole reason to shop. Paying +1325 for him after the move is harder to love. Mitchell is the one drifting, and drifting players at a birdie-fest are not always a red flag, but nobody has said why yet, so treat that move as noise until a reason shows up.
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World Wide Technology Championship purse FAQ
Do amateurs get prize money at the World Wide Technology Championship?
No. Amateurs cannot accept prize money, so the checks go only to professionals who make the cut, paid by where they finish among the pros.
How is prize money split when players tie?
The money for every position the tied players occupy is pooled and divided evenly. Three players tied for 10th would split the 10th, 11th, and 12th place money, 454,500 dollars in total, or 151,500 dollars each.
Is there a playoff if players tie for the win?
Yes. A tie after 72 holes is settled by a sudden-death playoff under PGA Tour rules, so the 1.08 million dollars never gets split between co-winners.
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