The trouble to bridge the gender pay hole in skilled golf was on full present at Royal Porthcawl with the AIG Girls’s British Open elevating the bar.
In a historic achievement for girls’s golf, the R&A introduced a document $9.75million purse for the 2025 Open and the newest main of the 12 months on the iconic Royal Porthcawl Golf Membership in South Wales.
The purse for the occasion has elevated yearly, with the $10million barrier subsequent to be surpassed as this weekend’s occasion noticed a $750,000 improve from 2024.
The AIG and R&A partnership, fashioned in 2019, is proving revolutionary for girls’s golf – the historic stakes have produced a landmark winner.
It was 24-year-old Miyu Yamashita of Japan who constructed on her stable 2025 season to seize a maiden LPGA title – and first main – with a composed end at Porthcawl.
She ruthlessly closed out her first-ever win, carding rounds of 68-65-74-70 to complete at eight below par and safe a historic main title, having missed the reduce within the occasion final 12 months.
And if closing out a significant event wasn’t sufficient, her victory secured the biggest winner’s pay cheque in event historical past: $1,462,500.
So shut but up to now for Charley Hull
Simply two strokes behind the champion, England’s Charley Hull and Minami Katsu of Japan completed degree at 9 below par after their enduring battle to share runner-up honours and every declare $772,391 in earnings.
For Hull, it marks her fifth top-three main end as she edges ever nearer to a much-anticipated main crown.
A Lim Kim and Rio Takeda tied for fourth at -7 to say $452,217 apiece and spherical off the highest finishers.
Lottie Woad, a pre-tournament hopeful who solely just lately turned skilled, managed 4 below and a tie for eighth because the English star claimed $228,359 in winnings.
Prize cash for every participant on the 2025 AIG Girls’s Open Championship:
1. Miyu Yamashita (-11) – $1,462,500
T2. Charley Hull (-9) – $772,391
T2. Minami Katsu (-9) – $772,391
T4. A Lim Kim (-7) – $452,217
T4. Rio Takeda (-7) – $452,217
T6. Megan Khang (-6) – $302,157
T6. Wei Ling Hsu (-6) – $302,157
T8. Steph Kyriacou (-4) – $228,359
T8. Lottie Woad (-4) – $228,359
T8. Paula Martin Sampedro (AMATEUR) (-4) – $0
T11. Andrea Lee (-3) – $188,993
T11. Mao Saigo (-3) – $188,993
T13. Chiara Tamburlini (-2) – $145,533
T13. Hyo Joo Kim (-2) – $145,533
T13. Minjee Lee (-2) – $145,533
T13. Sei Younger Kim (-2) – $145,533
T13. Lauren Coughlin (-2) – $145,533
T13. Pajaree Anannarukarn (-2) – $145,533
T19. Georgia Corridor (-1) – $112,489
T19. Mimi Rhodes (-1) – $112,489
T19. Yan Liu (-1) – $112,489
T19. Linn Grant (-1) – $112,489
T23. Jenny Shin (E) – $91,298
T23. Ariya Jutanugarn (E) – $91,298
T23. Morgan Metraux (E) – $91,298
T23. Esther Henseleit (E) – $91,298
T23. Celine Boutier (E) – $91,298
T23. Haeran Ryu (E) – $91,298
T23. Jinhee Im (E) – $91,298
T30. Anna Nordqvist (+1) – $74,358
T30. Atthaya Thitikul (+1) – $74,358
T30. Narin An (+1) – $74,358
T33. Ayaka Furue (+2) – $65,500
T33. Nasa Hataoka (+2) – $65,500
T33. Alexa Pano (+2) – $65,500
T36. Sarah Schmelzel (+3) – $57,632
T36. Lydia Ko (+3) – $57,632
T36. Nelly Korda (+3) – $57,632
39. In Gee Chun (+4) – $52,710
T40. Darcey Harry (+5) – $45,330
T40. Madelene Sagstrom (+5) – $45,330
T40. Casandra Alexander (+5) – $45,330
T40. Angel Yin (+5) – $45,330
T40. Akie Iwai (+5) – $45,330
T40. Shannon Tan (+5) – $45,330
T46. Ilhee Lee (+6) – $36,719
T46. Diksha Dagar (+6) – $36,719
T46. Lindy Duncan (+6) – $36,719
T46. Brooke Matthews (+6) – $36,719
T50. Bronte Regulation (+7) – $30,667
T50. Ashleigh Buhai (+7) – $30,667
T50. Amy Yang (+7) – $30,667
T50. Mi Hyang Lee (+7) – $30,667
T50. Stacy Lewis (+7) – $30,667
T55. Kristen Gillman (+8) – $26,633
T55. Emma Spitz (+8) – $26,633
T55. Manon De Roey (+8) – $26,633
T58. Chisato Iwai (+9) – $23,191
T58. Yuri Yoshida (+9) – $23,191
T58. Arpichaya Yubol (+9) – $23,191
T58. Carla Bernat (AMATEUR) (+9) – $0
T58. Mary Liu (+9) – $23,191
T63. Perrine Delacour (+11) – $20,485
T63. Leona Maguire (+11) – $20,485
T63. Patty Tavatanakit (+11) – $20,485
T63. Yani Tseng (+11) – $20,485
T67. Laura Fuenfstueck (+12) – $19,006
T67. Grace Kim (+12) – $19,006
T69. Dasom Ma (+15) – $18,024
T69. Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (+15) – $18,024
71. Jeneath Wong (AMATEUR) (+17) – $0
The prize pot is multiplying
The ever-growing prize purse for the Girls’s Open Championship is exhibiting no indicators of slowing down, with it leaping 12 months on 12 months.
The previous decade has seen enhancements in all aspects of the ladies’s recreation, rewarded with purses growing at a staggering fee:
2015 – $3,000,000
2016 – $3,000,000
2017 – $3,250,000
2018 – $3,250,000
2019 – $4,500,000
2020 – $4,500,000
2021 – $5,800,000
2022 – $7,300,000
2023 – $9,000,000
2024 – $9,000,000
2025 – $9,750,000
The AIG Girls’s Open Championship is now one among girls’s golf’s largest paydays behind the Girls’s PGA Championship and U.S. Girls’s Open, which sit at $12 million every.
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