2026 Austin Championship Purse: Prize Money and Winner’s Share
Andy Molitor
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The 2026 Austin Championship purse is 6 million dollars, and the winner takes home 1,080,000 dollars, per the tournament’s own overview and the PGA Tour’s media site. It runs Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15 on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas, and since this is the first edition there is no defending champion and no prior purse to compare it to.
The number itself is ordinary for the fall. The story is that it is still 6 million dollars at all. This event was supposed to be the Good Good Championship until the title sponsor walked in August, and the check did not shrink when the name changed.
How much is the 2026 Austin Championship purse?
The 2026 Austin Championship purse is 6 million dollars, with 1,080,000 dollars going to the winner, or 18 percent of the total. That is the standard top cut on a PGA Tour payout. The winner also gets 500 FedExCup points, per the PGA Tour’s tournament page.
The payout runs on a set percentage scale, so every finishing spot gets a fixed slice no matter who ends up in it. Not everyone in the 120-player field gets paid. Only professionals who make the 36-hole cut cash a check.
About that sponsor mess. Good Good pulled out after the backlash to its driver ad with Callaway, and the event became the Austin Championship. Compliance Solutions came on as presenting sponsor, announced in early November. Front Office Sports and Golfweek both reported that the deal covers only 2026 and that the company is not paying the full 6 million dollars Good Good had agreed to, while the Tour stayed committed to the purse. Players still get the full amount. Somebody else is covering the difference.
If you want to see who is chasing the money, our 2026 Austin Championship field breakdown has the names.
Austin Championship prize money payout by finish
The table below shows what a 6-million-dollar purse paid by finish at the 2026 Butterfield Bermuda Championship, per Golf.com and Golf News Net in October. The World Wide Technology Championship table on November 2 matched it. The PGA Tour had not posted a position-by-position table for Austin as of Monday morning, November 9, so treat this as the expected scale until it does.
| Finish | Share of purse | Prize money on a 6-million-dollar purse |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 40th | 0.435 percent | 26,100 dollars |
| 50th | 0.257 percent | 15,420 dollars |
| 65th | 0.215 percent | 12,900 dollars |
Winning is worth 426,000 dollars more than finishing alone in second. And second pays more than fourth and fifth put together, which tells you how steep this thing gets.
The money goes to everyone who plays the weekend. On that scale, 65th pays 12,900 dollars, and the table runs deeper when ties push extra players through. Tied players pool the money for the spots they occupy and split it evenly, so a two-way tie for second would pay 534,000 dollars each.
Does a missed cut pay at the Austin Championship?
No. A missed cut at the 2026 Austin Championship pays nothing. The standard cut at a 120-player PGA Tour full-field event is the top 65 and ties after 36 holes, so a little under half the field goes home Friday with no check.
The top of the sheet is where the money actually lives. On the 6-million-dollar scale, the first 10 spots take about 60.6 percent of the purse and the first 20 take about 78.9 percent. The winner makes roughly 84 times what 65th does.
For a lot of this field, though, the money is the second-biggest thing on the line. The Austin Championship is the next-to-last FedExCup Fall event, and Golfweek notes that players are still fighting to finish inside the top 100 and lock up exempt status for 2027. Somebody sitting right on that number cares a lot more about the points from a top-20 finish than the 79,500 dollars that come with it.
How the Austin Championship purse compares
The 2026 Austin Championship purse matches the 6 million dollars on offer at three other 2026 fall events and is 1.4 million dollars below next week’s RSM Classic. It is nowhere near the top of the schedule. The Players Championship pays 25 million dollars and signature events pay 20 million, so all of Austin’s money is less than a quarter of one Players purse.
The table below lists the purse and winner’s share for the late-season 2026 PGA Tour fall stops, from BetMGM’s 2026 purse rankings, ESPN’s schedule, and the tournament pages, checked November 9, 2026.
| 2026 fall event | Purse | Winner’s share |
|---|---|---|
| Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| VidantaWorld Mexico Open | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| World Wide Technology Championship | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| Austin Championship | 6,000,000 dollars | 1,080,000 dollars |
| RSM Classic | 7,400,000 dollars | 1,332,000 dollars |
Blades Brown cashed that same 1,080,000-dollar check at the World Wide Technology Championship on Sunday, and the 19-year-old is in the Austin field. Austin Smotherman has won each of his last two starts, the Bank of Utah Championship and the Bermuda stop, and he is here too, along with Jackson Koivun, Max Homa, and Billy Horschel. The RSM winner gets 252,000 dollars more than the Austin winner, and that is the only bigger check left on the fall calendar.
Betting and DFS angle: what the payout tells you
Do not pretend you know this golf course. Fazio Canyons plays as a par 72 at 7,451 yards per the PGA Tour’s scorecard, it came through a big renovation, and nobody in this field has PGA Tour scoring history there. Any course-history case for Austin is made up.
That makes a cut line of 65 and ties in a 120-player field a harder sort than it looks. Just over half the field gets paid, and with no venue data to lean on, a six-for-six DFS build is really a bet on current form. Weigh ball striking and recent results, and be suspicious of anyone selling you a course-fit angle. If you want to set those weights yourself, here is how the Rabbit Hole model builder works, and how golf DFS lineups and scoring work if the format is new to you.
Outright prices are the one thing missing here. As of Monday morning, November 9, our odds feed for DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, BetRivers, and theScore had no Austin Championship board, and no book’s number could be confirmed, so this piece is not printing one. Smotherman should be at or near the top when prices land, based on two straight wins. Paying a short number at a course nobody has seen is the mistake to avoid.
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Austin Championship purse FAQ
Do amateurs get prize money at the Austin Championship?
No. An amateur cannot accept prize money, so the checks go only to professionals who make the cut.
How much would a three-way tie for fifth pay?
On the 6-million-dollar scale, the fifth, sixth, and seventh place money adds up to 666,000 dollars, so each player would get 222,000 dollars.
Who won the Austin Championship last year?
Nobody. The 2026 edition is the first Austin Championship, so there is no past champion or prior purse. Four spots in the 120-player field were still open for Monday qualifiers as of November 8.
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