WGC-Match Play Final Prize Money, Payouts, Winnings: Sam Burns Wins $3.5 Million

The Louisiana native won the final WGC-Dell Match Play over Cam Young for a career-best payday.

Jeff Ritter | Mar 26, 2023

WGC-Match Play Final Prize Money, Payouts, Winnings: Sam Burns Wins $3.5 Million /

This WGC-Match Play was the last World Golf Championships event and perhaps the last match play event for the foreseeable future, but no one would say it wasn't memorable.

Sam Burns took out world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler in Sunday's semifinals then beat Cam Young in the final, 6 and 5, winning $3.5 million from the event-record $20 million purse.

Here's the prize money breakdown for all 64 competitors at Austin Country Club.

Final Payouts for 2023 WGC-Dell Match Play

WIN: Sam Burns, $3,500,000

2. Cam Young, $2,200,000

3. Rory McIlroy, consolation winner: $1,420,000

4. Scottie Scheffler, $1,145,000

T5: Mackenzie Hughes, Jason Day, Xander Schauffele, Kurt Kitayama; Quarterfinals: $645,000

T9. Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay, Matt Kuchar, J.T. Poston, J.J. Spaun, Putnam, Horschel, Lucas Herbert; Round of 16: $365,000

T17: Rickie Fowler, Brian Harman, Cam Davis, Ryan Fox, Si Woo Kim, Tony Finau, Adrian Meronk, Taylor Montgomery, Russell Henley, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im; 2 points: $219,909

T28: Davis Riley, Keegan Bradley, Collin Morikawa; 1.5 points: $166,000

T31: Tom Kim, Jon Rahm, Scott Stallings, Nick Taylor, Hideki Matsuyama, Kevin Kisner, Justin Suh, Aaron Wise, Harris English, Viktor Hovland, Victor Perez, Matt Fitzpatrick, Sahith Theegala, Min Woo Lee, Jordan Spieth, Shane Lowry, Seamus Power, Adam Scott, Adam Hadwin, Ben Griffin, Davis Thompson; 1 point: $113,761

T52: Alex Noren, Keith Mitchell, Denny McCarthy, Chris Kirk, Adam Svensson, Tommy Fleetwood, Maverick McNealy; .5 points: $74,857

T59: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, K.H. Lee, Tom Hoge, Will Zalatoris, Tyrrell Hatton, Sepp Straka; 0 points: $67,500

Published Mar 26, 2023

JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business's growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.