The Women’s PGA Championship raised the purse of the main match to $12 million, matching final month’s U.S. Ladies’s Open for the largest purse of the season.
Besides, the winner of the 156-player discipline at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco in Texas this week will pocket $1.8 million.
The purse was $10.4 million eventually yr’s Ladies’s PGA Championship.
“We’re extremely proud to have the ability to do this,” stated Paul Knopp, the KPMG chair and CEO, of the increase within the purse, per Golf Digest. “It is all a part of creating a normal of excellence in ladies’s golf. The purse is a massively essential a part of that.
“… We have a look at it as the last word technique after we take into consideration the excellence we’re attempting to bear to convey success. We proceed to play this match on iconic programs which are acknowledged by the golf neighborhood yearly. … We’re enthusiastic about the place we’re going.”
Amy Yang of South Korea held off the sector on the Ladies’s PGA Championship for her first profession main title final yr at Sahalee Nation Membership in Sammamish, Wash.
Yang carded a 7-under 281 for the match to defeat Lilia Vu, Jin Young Ko of South Korea and Miyu Yamashita of Japan by three pictures.
