The 150th Open Championship is set to get underway at St Andrews on Thursday and will feature a record prize fund.
The total amount available will stand at £11.6m, a rise of 22% whilst the player who lifts the Claret Jug at the end of the tournament will claim £2.1m of that pot. That's a £500,000 increase on the £1.6m won by last year's winner Collin Morikawa.
Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R&A, said: “There have been significant changes in prize money over the last year. We have therefore increased the prize fund by 22% which means that the prize money has increased by more than 60% since 2016.
