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2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational Final Payouts, Prize Money From Bay Hill

Akshay Bhatia won the signature event in a playoff, denying Daniel Berger a wire-to-wire win.
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Akshay Bhatia picked up his third PGA Tour title and his first signature event win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Akshay Bhatia picked up his third PGA Tour title and his first signature event win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. | Reinhold Matay-Imagn Images

The PGA Tour landed in Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, with the signature event offering a $20 million purse, with $4 million to the winner.

Big changes appear to be coming to the PGA Tour, but the Arnold Palmer Invitational remains a marquee event, just as its founder would’ve wanted. This year the API is one of the Tour’s three “legacy” signature events, which means it features a 36-hole cut, even with its smaller 72-man field.

Akshay Bhatia ran down Daniel Berger on Sunday to win the biggest title in his career, finishing off the victory with a par on the first playoff hole. Berger was going for a wire-to-wire win and a five-year drought buster, but fell in the playoff after a three-putt from across the green on 18 at Bay Hill.

Here are the final payouts for the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational.

2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational final payouts

WIN: Akshay Bhatia, playoff: $4 million

2. Daniel Berger, playoff runner-up: $2.2 million

T3. Ludvig Aberg, Cameron Young; 12 under: $1,200,000

5. Collin Morikawa; 11 under: $840,000

T6. Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley, Min Woo Lee; 10 under: $702,000

T9. Rickie Fowler, Harry Hall; 8 under: $578,000

T11. Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth; 6 under: $493,000

T13. Billy Horschel, Si Woo Kim, Maverick McNealy, Viktor Hovland, Sepp Straka; 5 under: $373,200

T18. Max Greyserman, Kurt Kitayama, Jacob Bridgeman, Jhonattan Vegas, Bud Cauley, Chris Gotterup; 3 under: $261,000

T24. Robert MacIntyre, Lucas Glover, Ryan Fox, Nicolai Hojgaard, Harris English, Scottie Scheffler, Alex Noren, Patrick Rodgers, Xander Schauffele; 2 under: $157,000

T33. Keith Mitchell, Corey Conners, Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune, Michael Thorbjornsen; 1 under: $109,000

T38. Nick Taylor, Taylor Pendrith, Andrew Novak; Even: $90,000

T41. Hideki Matsuyama, Matt McCarty, Matt Fitzpatrick; 1 over: $78,000

T44. Taylor Moore, Andrew Putnam, Nico Echavarria; 2 over: $66,000

T47. Daniel Bennett (a), Chris Kirk; 5 over: $58,000

49. Tommy Fleetwood, 6 over: $56,000

50. Brian Harman, 10 over: $54,000

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JEFF RITTER

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.

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