Arnold Palmer Invitational 2026 is currently underway at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando. The third Signature event of the season currently has a 72-hole player field competing to make the Friday cut to the top 50 and ties. Owing to the event’s elevated status, the competition at Arnie’s Place offers a whopping $20 million prize purse.
For the unversed, the event’s 72 player field features all of the Official World Golf Rankings’ (OWGR) top-10. Golfers including the likes of World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and No.2 Rory McIlroy are in competition for the winner’s paycheck of $4 million this weekend. It is noteworthy that Russell Henley bagged the big last year, making it the largest single payout in his career and the highest prize for a PGA Tour event in 2025.
Apart from the valuable prize money, the winner of Arnold-hosted event earns 700 FedEx Cup points and 70 OWGR points. While the champion also enjoys the benefits of winning PGA Tour event, including a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour and an exemption into the Masters, the PGA Championship and The Players, the golfer finishing runner-up will bank a massive $2.2 million paycheck.
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The PGA Tour golfer finishing the podium will win $1.4 million, while the player trailing them gets $1 million. Any golfer finishing outside the top-four bags sub-$1 million figures with the fifth placed finisher adding $840,000 to their bank. Golfer finishing in the next five positions inside the top-10 wins $760,000, $700,000, $646,000, $600,000 and $556,000 respectively.
It is pertinent to note that the competition’s Friday cut means all top-50 golfers and ties finishing the event on Sunday returns with a paycheck. The player finishing last on the final leaderboard returns home with $40,000 in the bank.
Arnold Palmer Invitational 2026 payout
Listed below is the complete prize money breakdown for Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge:
WIN: $4 million
2: $2.2 million
3: $1.4 million
4: $1 million
5: $840,000
6: $760,000
7: $700,000
8: $646,000
9: $600,000
10: $556,000
11: $514,000
12: $472,000
13: $430,000
14: $389,000
15: $369,000
16: $349,000
17: $329,000
18: $309,000
19: $289,000
20: $269,000
21: $250,000
22: $233,000
23: $216,000
24: $200,000
25: $184,000
26: $168,000
27: $161,000
28: $154,000
29: $147,000
30: $140,000
31: $133,000
32: $126,000
33: $119,000
34: $114,000
35: $109,000
36: $104,000
37: $99,000
38: $94,000
39: $90,000
40: $86,000
41: $82,000
42: $78,000
43: $74,000
44: $70,000
45: $66,000
46: $62,000
47: $58,000
48: $56,000
49: $54,000
50: $52,000
51: $50,000
52: $48,000
53: $46,000
54: $44,000
55: $42,000
56: $40,000
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