The return to Doral for the 2026 Cadillac Championship on the PGA Tour was a fun prospect. Regardless of politics, it’s a fun golf course that has produced largely a who’s who of winners in the past, but the tour hadn’t been back since 2016. However, with its return, Cameron Young apparently didn’t want there to be any drama at Doral about who was going to take home the winner’s prize money from the $20 million purse this week.
Young jumped out to the first-round lead and then just continued to add onto it throughout the tournament, entering Sunday with a commanding lead that would’ve taken a complete collapse to lose. But how much money were he and the rest of the field chasing at Doral? We have you covered with the details for the 2026 Cadillac Championship payouts, including the prize money for every finishing position.
Cadillac Championship winner’s prize money, total purse for 2026
The winner of the 2026 Cadillac Championship will take home $3.6 million in prize money. As mentioned, the tournament entered the fray on the PGA Tour schedule this season as a signature event, so we’ve become accustomed to the winner’s prize for these tournaments being set at that point. That’s because there is a standard $20 million total purse for the Cadillac Championship and every signature event that the players are competing for their share of.
Speaking of those payouts, it’s not just the winner who will be taking home seven figures this week at Doral.
Cadillac Championship payout distribution by finishing position
| Finishing Position | Cadillac Championship Prize Money |
|---|---|
| Winner | $3.6 million |
| 2nd | $2.16 million |
| 3rd | $1.36 million |
| 4th | $960,000 |
| 5th | $800,000 |
| 6th | $720,000 |
| 7th | $670,000 |
| 8th | $620,000 |
| 9th | $580,000 |
| 10th | $540,000 |
| 11th | $500,000 |
| 12th | $460,000 |
| 13th | $420,000 |
| 14th | $380,000 |
| 15th | $360,000 |
| 16th | $340,000 |
| 17th | $320,000 |
| 18th | $300,000 |
| 19th | $280,000 |
| 20th | $260,000 |
| 21st | $240,000 |
| 22nd | $223,000 |
| 23rd | $207,500 |
| 24th | $190,000 |
| 25th | $175,000 |
| 26th | $159,000 |
| 27th | $152,500 |
| 28th | $146,000 |
| 29th | $140,000 |
| 30th | $134,000 |
| 31st | $128,500 |
| 32nd | $122,500 |
| 33rd | $116,500 |
| 34th | $111,000 |
| 35th | $106,500 |
| 36th | $101,500 |
| 37th | $96,500 |
| 38th | $92,500 |
| 39th | $88,500 |
| 40th | $84,000 |
| 41st | $80,000 |
| 42nd | $76,000 |
| 43rd | $72,000 |
| 44th | $68,000 |
| 45th | $64,000 |
| 46th | $60,000 |
| 47th | $56,000 |
| 48th | $53,000 |
| 49th | $50,000 |
| 50th | $49,000 |
| 51st | $48,000 |
| 52nd | $47,000 |
| 53rd | $46,000 |
| 54th | $46,000 |
| 55th | $45,500 |
| 56th | $45,000 |
| 57th | $44,500 |
| 58th | $44,000 |
| 59th | $43,500 |
| 60th | $43,000 |
| 61st | $42,500 |
| 62nd | $42,000 |
| 63rd | $41,500 |
| 64th | $41,000 |
| 65th | $40,500 |
| 66th | $40,000 |
| 67th | $39,500 |
| 68th | $39,000 |
| 69th | $38,000 |
| 70th | $37,500 |
| 71st | $37,000 |
| 72nd | $36,000 |
The top three finishers at the Cadillac Championship will go home with more than $1 million this week, which, as always, speaks to the lucrative nature of signature events and why it’s such an advantageous path to play your way into them in a given PGA Tour season. Furthering that, the top 36 finishers will make at least $100K for the week, while every player to finish in the top 11 goes home with $500,000 or more this week.
It’s also worth noting that this is a no-cut signature event, meaning that all 72 players in the field were able to play the full weekend and get their payout from the $20 million purse. Not a bad week if you’re playing poorly and still taking home $36,000 for the week, considering that might be a top 40-ish finish in a regular PGA Tour event.
What was the PGA Tour’s purse the last time they played at Doral?
One thing we already talked about was that the PGA Tour was making its return to Doral this week for the Cadillac Championship after having not played there since 2016, when it was the host for a WGC event. As such, we don’t have the last five years of data when it comes to purses because, well, there hasn’t been an event to look back on.
But what we can do is look back at 2016, when the event was won by Adam Scott at Doral. That year, the WGC event (a precursor, in many ways, to the modern signature events) paid $1.62 million to the winner from a $9.5 million purse. Though that doesn’t seem like much given the money in modern golf, including the PGA Tour, it’s worth noting that Scott actually won the Honda Classic the week prior to playing at Doral, and only took home $1.098 million from a $6.1 million purse.
All that to say, the purse at the time was quite substantial compared to the rest of the tour, even if it pales in comparison to what we’re seeing in the 2026 season and in recent years.
