How much did Nacho Elvira win of the $2.25 million Soudal Open prize purse? Exploring winner's payout at DP World Tour event

The Soudal Open just finished, with Nacho Elvira surviving as the winner by a single stroke. This DP World Tour event carried a $2.25 million prize purse, meaning the winner could take home $382,500. That was what was on Elvira's check after a -18 performance. He is the only golfer in this field to come away with more than $250,000.

Second place only earned $247,500, and it will be split because of ties and other factors. Elvira, after surviving the final-round pushes of Thomas Pieters and Niklas Moller, came out with the most money.

Elvira’s second career win came on Sunday, May 26. The other win came at the Cazoo Open in Wales in 2021 at Rinkven International Golf Club. That marked his first career victory, but it was a difficult one to earn because the final round had to be suspended midway because of flooded greens.

The golfer had to survive those pushes because he could only muster up an even par on the day. While his competitors whittled down his four-stroke lead, he didn't take any more points on Sunday but did enough in the first three rounds to earn the win.

Norgaard almost tied it with a birdie putt on the 18th hole, but Elvira could breathe a sigh of relief and earned the biggest paycheck when the putt narrowly missed.

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Thomas Pieters lost to Nacho Elvira at Soudal Open after clever loophole

Thomas Pieters is an LIV Golf player, which ordinarily means he cannot play any DP World Tour events. There was a lawsuit between the two and the courts eventually sided with the European Tour.

Thomas Pieters at the Soudal Open on the DP World Tour

Pieters ended up placing second in a tie with Niklas Moller behind Nacho Elvira, but he only played in the tournament because of a loophole he found. DP World Tour events have an exemption for players from the host country, which was Belgium in this case.

This allowed Pieters to qualify even though he doesn't have a DP World Tour card anymore after signing with LIV. Though he came up short of his goal, he had expressed before the Soudal Open a desire to win at home.

"Playing in front of friends and family, the Rinkven members, young people in general, that is what excites me most about the Soudal Open. I am definitely hungry. I have never before won in Belgium, so I would obviously like to add that to my track record." (via Mirror)

Pieters earned six DP World wins before he defected, but he fell just short of capturing a seventh despite shooting five under and charging up the Soudal Open leaderboard in the final round.