How much will golfers win at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship? Prize purse and winner’s share explored

Modified May 03, 2023 12:00 GMT

Wells Fargo Championship - Final Round (Image via Getty)

The 2023 Wells Fargo Championship is set to tee off on Thursday, May 4. The designated tournament will be played at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event will see a 156-player field compete for the $20 million prize purse on offer.

Owing to its designated tournament, the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship winner will bag a whopping $3.6 million, the standard 18 percent payout of the total purse. This is significantly more than the 1.62 million paycheck won by Max Homa last year.

Apart from the hefty prize money, the event winner will also bag around 70 Official World Golf Ranking points and 500 FedEx Cup points.

The champion golfer will also earn a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a berth in next year's Tournament of Champions. While the winner takes a major share of the prize purse, the event’s runner-up will bag a $2.18 million paycheck. The golfer finishing third will win $1.38 million, while the fourth-placed golfer will return home with $980,000.

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It is pertinent to note that the Wells Fargo Championship has a 36-hole cut. Owing to the cut, the top 65 players and ties on the final leaderboard will earn prize-money payouts. The golfer finishing last on the leaderboard will return home with a $43,000 paycheck.

2023 Wells Fargo Championship purse

Here is the complete prize purse breakdown for the Wells Fargo Championship:

1 - $3,600,000
2 - $2,180,000
3 - $1,380,000
4 - $980,000
5 - $820,000
6 - $725,000
7 - $675,000
8 - $625,000
9 - $585,000
10 - $545,000
11 - $505,000
12 - $465,000
13 - $425,000
14 - $385,000
15 - $365,000
16 - $345,000
17 - $325,000
18 - $305,000
19 - $285,000
20 - $265,000
21 - $245,000
22 - $225,000
23 - $209,000
24 - $193,000
25 - $177,000
26 - $161,000
27 - $155,000
28 - $149,000
29 - $143,000
30 - $137,000
31 - $131,000
32 - $125,000
33 - $119,000
34 - $114,000
35 - $109,000
36 - $104,000
37 - $99,000
38 - $95,000
39 - $91,000
40 - $87,000
41 - $83,000
42 - $79,000
43 - $75,000
44 - $71,000
45 - $67,000
46 - $63,000
47 - $59,000
48 - $55,800
49 - $53,000
50 - $51,400
51 - $50,200
52 - $49,000
53 - $48,200
54 - $47,400
55 - $47,000
56 - $46,600
57 - $46,200
58 - $45,800
59 - $45,400
60 - $45,000
61 - $44,600
62 - $44,200
63 - $43,800
64 - $43,400
65 - $43,000

With players like Rory McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, and Max Homa among others on the Wells Fargo Championship field, it’ll be interesting to see how bags the winner’s share this weekend.

Edited by Ankush Das