US
Open prize money tops £2m The
winner of the US Open, which begins tomorrow, will earn £388,319 from a total
purse of nearly £2.2million. The
event also counts for the European Order of Merit and the Ryder Cup table, although
the player winning this week's Moroccan Open will earn more points than anybody
finishing fourth at Pinehurst. A
total of 16 Europeans are in the US Open field - seven Britons, five Swedes, two
Spaniards, Dane Thomas Bjorn and German Sven Struver. |