The Women’s British Open award increases the record bonus

After the major award for Men - The Open, since this year, the total prize money at AIG Women’s British Open, the major award for women's golf has increased by 40% to 4.5 million USD. This award is second only to the U.S. Open is 5.5 million USD.

The only major award in the UK for women's golf - Women’s British Open has the second largest prize value, only after the US.Women’s Open (Photo by Ross Kinnaird / Getty Images)

The bonus at Women’s British Open increased by 40%

According to the R & A organization Golfweek, the prize money in the tournament has increased by 1.25 million USD from the previous season and will remain the same for the next 5 years.

The 43th Women’s British Open award will take place at Woburn Golf Club from July 31 to. According to the above award, the champion will receive 675 thousand USD, compared with 490 thousand of last season.

Although the awards at the LPGA Tour are frequently raised, the distance with male colleagues is still far away

The bonuses at the major prize for female golf villages have increased over the years. However, compared to male colleagues, the bonus gap is still very far away. Compared to this year's Open champion (US $ 1,935 million), the winner of the Women's tournament is only 34.89%.

Distance bonuses are very far between male and female golfers.

The biggest difference between the two men's and women's tournaments is shown by the interest of television viewers.

At Round 4 of The 2018 The Open between Molinari and Tiger Woods received the attention of 6.48 million viewers on NBC. Meanwhile, also at the last round of the Women’s British Open tournament, there were only 964 thousand viewers, which is only 15% of The Open.

Ratio of donor items

R&A and NBC have signed a 12-year contract worth $ 50 million each year. Thereby, the leading US television channel won the broadcast rights of both major tournaments of professional golfing men and women in England.

Meanwhile, British television channel Sky Sports also had to pay R&A 22 million USD to broadcast the annual Open Open. The contract between the two parties will last until 2021.