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2025 Chevron Championship Final Payouts, Prize Money, Winnings: Mao Saigo Wins $1,200,000
The LPGA's major championship season kicked off this week in Houston for the annual Chevron Championship. It's offering a $9 million purse, with $1.2 million to the winner.
Mao Saigo is taking home that check, winning a major for her first LPGA title after a wild five-way playoff.
She won with a birdie on the first playoff hole as the other four players, including American Lindy Duncan, all fell to the wayside at the closing par-5. The playoff was the largest in LPGA major history.
Here are the final payouts for the 2025 Chevron Championship.
2025 Chevron Championship Final Payouts
WIN: Mao Saigo, playoff: $1,200,000
T2. Ariya Jutanugarn, Lindy Duncan, Hyo Joo Kim, Ruoning Yin; playoff runners-up: $509,585
T6. Jin Young Ko, Sarah Schmelzel, Haeran Ryu; 5 under: $235,699
T9. Manon De Roey, Carlota Ciganda, Hye-Jin Choi, Yan Liu; 4 under: $160,470
13. Angel Yin, 3 under: $133,671
T14. Nelly Korda, Weiwei Zhang, Minjee Lee, Lexi Thompson; 2 under: $115,334
T18. Allisen Corpuz, Esther Henseleit, Mi Hyang Lee, Chanettee Wannasaen, Lauren Coughlin, In Gee Chun; 1 under: $92,242
T24. Jeeno Thitikul, Sei Young Kim, Emily Kristine Pedersen, Somi Lee; Even: $76,416
T28. Brooke Matthews, Georgia Hall; 1 over: $67,857
T30. Chisato Iwai, Stephanie Kyriacou, Andrea Lee, Dewi Weber, Ayaka Furue, Miyu Yamashita, Sophia Popov, Pajaree Anannarukarn, Elizabeth Szokol, Lucy Li; 2 over: $53,592
T40. Yuri Yoshida, A Lim Kim, Cassie Porter, Megan Khang; 3 over: $39,940
T44. Brooke Henderson, Maja Stark, Yuna Nishimura, Akie Iwai, Gabriela Ruffels, Hinako Shibuno, Albane Valenzuela; 4 over: $32,195
T51. Nasa Hataoka, Lydia Ko, Ingrid Lindblad, Ina Yoon, Miranda Wang, Amy Yang, Cheyenne Knight, Auston Kim; 5 over: $24,860
T59. Grace Kim, Anna Nordqvist, Rio Takeda; 6 over: $20,516
T62. Aditi Ashok, Jasmine Suwannapura, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, Minami Katsu, Ashleigh Buhai; 7 over: $18,747
T67. Alena Sharp, Leona Maguire, Alexa Pano; 8 over: $17,117
70. Gigi Stoll, 9 over: $16,304
Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business's growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.