{
  "id": 4490105,
  "title": "2026 FM Championship prize money payouts for each LPGA Tour player at TPC Boston",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/2026-fm-championship-prize-money-payouts-for-each-lpga-tour-player-at",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-30T19:51:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-fm-championship-prize-money-195144113.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ruoning Yin, a 23-year-old player from China, emerged victorious at the 2026 FM Championship held at TPC Boston in Massachusetts on Sunday. This win marked her sixth LPGA title and best season performance. Yin overcame Hyo Joo Kim for the championship and will receive a prize of $660,000.\n\nThe tournament featured a $4.4 million purse, with the top four players earning significant sums. Hyo Joo Kim, who finished tied for second place, took home $413,841. Allisen Corpuz, Rose Zhang, Sei Young Kim, Brooke Matthews, Miyu Yamashita, and Jenny Bae each earned $300,213 for their tied fourth-place finishes.\n\nThe remaining players earned progressively less, with T9 finishers Jeeno Thitikul, Haeran Ryu, and Jin Hee Im taking home $89,214 each. The payout continued to decrease as players moved lower on the leaderboard, with the 17th-place finishers, Charley Hull, Karis Davidson, Patty Tavatanakit, Hye-Jin Choi, and Morgane Metraux, each earning $54,288.\n\nThe lower half of the leaderboard saw a more gradual decrease in earnings, with T27 through T50 players receiving $33,669, $18,239, and $15,408 respectively. Lower finishers, such as T53 through T62, received $13,821, $10,761, and $10,310. The final tier of players, T65 and below, earned significantly less, with some players like Aphrodite Deng (a) not receiving any prize money.",
  "summary": "Here's the breakdown of how much money each LPGA player earned at the FM Championship, where there was a purse of $4.4 million.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
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        "published": "2026-08-30T09:19:55.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Golf.com",
        "title": "2026 Tour Championship purse: Payout info, winner's share",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/2026-tour-championship-purse-payout-info-winners-share",
        "published": "2026-08-30T14:30:41.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}