How much will 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational winner get? Prize money purse breakdown

The 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational will tee off on Thursday, March 2 at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando. Set as the 18th event on the 2023-2023 PGA Tour schedule, the event is also the fourth ‘designated’ one in the past two months.

Like other ‘designated’ events on the PGA Tour, the Arnold Palmer Invitational has a prize purse of $20 million. This will be a significant jump from last week’s Honda Classic which had a set purse of $8.4 million. According to the American circuit’s prize money distribution chart’s 18 percent payout, the winner of the Orlando event will win a paycheck of $3,600,000.

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2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational prize money

Featuring a stacked 120-player field, the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational will see golfers play the four-day event with a 36-hole cut. Much like other PGA Tour events, the event will pay the top 65 players and ties. While the champion wins $3.6 million, the event’s runner-up will bag an attractive $2.18 million. It is pertinent to note that this is more than last week’s Classic winner’s prize.

According to the PGA Tour, the golfer finishing third on the Arnold Palmer Invitational will win $1.38 million. The golfer finishing fourth will settle for $980,000. Golfers coming fifth and sixth will return home with $820,000 and $725,000 respectively. Meanwhile, the golfer finishing 65th on the field will win $43,000 for his efforts.

Here is the complete prize money breakdown for the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational:

1 - $3,600,000
2 - $2,180,000
3 - $1,380,000
4 - $980,000
5 - $820,000
6 - $725,000
7 - $675,000
8 - $625,000
9 - $585,000
10 - $545,000
11 - $505,000
12 - $465,000
13 - $425,000
14 - $385,000
15 - $365,000
16 - $345,000
17 - $325,000
18 - $305,000
19 - $285,000
20 - $265,000
21 - $245,000
22 - $225,000
23 - $209,000
24 - $193,000
25 - $177,000
26 - $161,000
27 - $155,000
28 - $149,000
29 - $143,000
30 - $137,000
31 - $131,000
32 - $125,000
33 - $119,000
34 - $114,000
35 - $109,000
36 - $104,000
37 - $99,000
38 - $95,000
39 - $91,000
40 - $87,000
41 - $83,000
42 - $79,000
43 - $75,000
44 - $71,000
45 - $67,000
46 - $63,000
47 - $59,000
48 - $55,800
49 - $53,000
50 - $51,400
51 - $50,200
52 - $49,000
53 - $48,200
54 - $47,400
55 - $47,000
56 - $46,600
57 - $46,200
58 - $45,800
59 - $45,400
60 - $45,000
61 - $44,600
62 - $44,200
63 - $43,800
64 - $43,400
65 - $43,000

Apart from the prize money, the Arnold Palmer Invitational champion will also earn 67 Official World Golf Ranking points, along with 550 FedEx Cup points. The winner will also be eligible for a three-year exemption on the PGA Tour and an exemption into next year's Tournament of Champions

Headlined by the likes of Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McIlroy, among other top players in the world, it’ll be interesting to see how the event ends.