A king’s ransom was up for grabs this week at the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational as the third signature event of the PGA Tour season wrapped up at Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Welcoming 72 players to Arnie’s Place, the event boasted a $20 million purse with $4 million reserved for the man who finishes atop the leaderboard, Akshay Bhatia.
Bhatia captured his first signature event and third career PGA Tour victory, becoming the eighth man in history to win his first three tournaments in playoff competition.
Unlike other signature events, not all who competed were guaranteed paydays at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, as the field was cut to the top 50 players and ties (as well as those within 10 strokes of the leader) at the 36-hole mark. Not among them was Rory McIlroy, who withdrew on Saturday, citing back spasms. (McIlroy is expected to be healthy enough to participate in The Players next week.)
Beyond Bhatia’s payday, he continued a streak of 11 different signature event winners. Every player inside the top 11 this week earned north of $500,000, and those inside the top 24 will all cleared at least $200,000.
Due to the Arnold Palmer Invitational being designated as a player-hosted invitational — just like the Genesis Invitational and the Memorial — the winner’s share is slightly more than those doled out at signature events.
Here are your winners from the 2026 signature events thus far:
- Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Collin Morikawa ($3.6 million)
- Genesis Invitational: Jacob Bridgeman ($4 million)
- Arnold Palmer Invitational: Akshay Bhatia ($4 million)
Let’s take a look at the full breakdown of how much each finishing spot took home from the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational.
2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational prize money, purse
Total purse: $20 million
1st: $4,000,000 — Akshay Bhatia
2nd: $2,200,000 — Daniel Berger
3rd: $1,400,000 — Ludvig Åberg, Cameron Young
4th: $1,000,000
5th: $840,000 — Collin Morikawa
6th: $760,000 — Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley, Min Woo lee
7th: $700,000
8th: $646,000
9th: $600,000 — Rickie Fowler, Harry Hall
10th: $556,000
11th: $514,000 — Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth
12th: $472,000
13th: $430,000 — Billy Horschel, Si Woo Kim, Maverick McNealy, Viktor Hovland, Sepp Straka
14th: $389,000
15th: $369,000
16th: $349,000
17th: $329,000
18th: $309,000 — Jacob Bridgeman, Jhonattan Vegas, Bud Cauley, Chris Gotterup
19th: $289,000
20th: $269,000
21st: $250,000
22nd: $233,000
23rd: $216,000
24th: $200,000 — Robert MacIntyre, Lucas Glover, Ryan Fox, Nicolai Hojgaard, Harris English, Scottie Scheffler, Alex Noren, Patrick Rodgers, Xander Schauffele
25th: $184,000
26th: $168,000
27th: $161,000
28th: $154,000
29th: $147,000
30th: $140,000
31st: $133,000
32nd: $126,000 — Keith Mitchell, Corey Conners, Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune, Michael Thorbjornsen
33rd: $119,000
34th: $114,000
35th: $109,000
36th: $104,000
37th: $99,000
38th: $94,000 — Nick Taylor, Taylor Pendrith, Andrew Novak
39th: $90,000
40th: $86,000
41st: $82,000 — Hideki Matsuyama, Matt McCarty, Matt Fitzpatrick,
42nd: $78,000
43rd: $74,000
44th: $70,000 — Taylor Moore, Andrew Putnam, Nico Echavarria
45th: $66,000
46th: $62,000
47th: $58,000 — Chris Kirk
48th: $56,000 — Tommy Fleetwood
49th: $54,000 — Bryan Harman
