How much will the winner of Alfred Dunhill Links Championship win from the $4,700,000+ purse? Prize money payouts explored

By Ankita Yadav

Modified Oct 07, 2023 12:53 GMT

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship - Day Two — Alfred Dunhill Links Championship (Image via Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

The 2023 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship has a purse of $4.8 million with the winner receiving a check of $816,000. The prize consists of $4.8 million for professional individual events and $20,000 for the Team Championship.

However, only the professional will be receiving the prize money from the team event. The winner of the individual professional event will earn $816,000, while the Team Championship winner will receive a check of $50,000.

The DP World Tour event got underway on Thursday, October 5, and will have its finale on Sunday, October 8.

Following the second round of the tournament, Matt Fitzpatrick topped the leaderboard with a score of under eight. Nacho Elvira and Grant Forrest settled for second place followed by Matthew Southgate and Marcus Armitage.

Fitzpatrick played the first round of 67 followed by another round of 64 to settle at the top position with a score of under 13. He started his game on Thursday with a par on the first hole followed by a birdie on the second.

The English golfer made a bogey on the fifth and then added three back-to-back birdies from seventh to ninth hole. Fitzpatrick entered the second half of the tournament with a birdie on the 12th and added two more birdies and one bogey to score five under-par 67 in the first round.

In the second round, he carded six birdies and one bogey on the front nine and three birdies on the back nine to settle for a score of eight under 64.

Fitzpatrick opened up about his performance at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship after the second round on Friday. Speaking to the media, the English golfer admitted that he enjoyed playing at the tournament and said (via Shepp News):

"I felt like we really enjoyed it out there. We both like the golf course, Kingsbarns. Very relaxed atmosphere. Compared to Carnoustie, you can kind of coast a little bit more. Of the three, I do like Kingsbarns. I just think that's the most enjoyable with the views, the hole designs. I like that one most. That's the only one I felt any affinity to.