"Our purse is $21.5 million. Winner's check is $4.3 million. We didn't raise our purse this year," USGA CEO Mike Whan said. "When I started at the USGA just four years ago, our purse was $12.5 million, so I feel comfortable that we've been a leader in moving fast and bigger. [...] We want the money to be commensurate with the achievement."

J.J. Spaun won the U.S. Open in dramatic fashion Sunday for his second PGA Tour title. He also collected $4.3 million. Runner-up Robert MacIntyre earned $2,322,000 while Viktor Hovland, who was solo third, picked up $1,459,284. Here’s how the full $21.5 million purse was paid out at Oakmont Country Club.

It says something about the cockeyed state of prize money payouts in men’s professional golf that players might be disappointed to hear that for the first time in five years the USGA didn't increase the payday at the U.