Prize fund announced for the AIG Women’s Open 2025. The AIG Women’s Open 2025, taking place this week at Royal Porthcawl, will feature a record prize fund of $9.75 million, marking an increase of $250,000 from last year.
Since The R&A partnered with AIG in 2019, the Championship’s prize fund has more than tripled, reflecting the tournament’s growing stature in women’s golf. The 2025 Champion will receive $1,462,500, the highest winner’s cheque in the event’s 49-year history.
Prize fund growth over recent years highlights this remarkable progress:
- 2025 – $9.75 million
- 2024 – $9.5 million
- 2023 – $9 million
- 2022 – $7.3 million
- 2021 – $5.8 million
- 2020 – $4.5 million
- 2019 – $4.5 million (start of The R&A–AIG partnership)
- 2018 – $3.25 million
This consistent growth underscores the commitment of The R&A and AIG to elevating women’s golf and rewarding the world’s best players on one of its biggest stages.
About the HotelPlanner Tour
The HotelPlanner Tour, formerly the Challenge Tour, had its first official season in 1989, and has developed into a proven training ground, where the champions-in-waiting compete across the globe for a place on the DP World Tour.
Many players who have progressed from the HotelPlanner Tour have gone on to become Major Champions – including Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick and Brooks Koepka – and Ryder Cup stars, such as Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Nicolai Højgaard and Tyrrell Hatton.
Using its vast international schedule and relationships with golf federations and PGAs, the HotelPlanner Tour is widely accessible to professionals from across the globe, giving players from developing golfing nations the opportunity to test their skill amongst some of the most talented up and coming stars in world golf.
HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology company, has been the title partner of the HotelPlanner Tour since the start of the 2025 season.
About the European Tour group
The European Tour group administers the DP World Tour, the HotelPlanner Tour, the Legends Tour and the G4D Tour and, as the Managing Partner of Ryder Cup Europe LLP, stages golf’s greatest team contest, the Ryder Cup, in partnership with the PGA of America.
The European Tour group has Strategic Partnerships with the PGA TOUR, the Sunshine Tour, the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association (CGA), the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO), the Korea Professional Golfers’ Association (KPGA), and the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India. These partnerships provide global pathways for players from across the world to compete internationally on the DP World Tour, the main men’s professional golf Tour of the European Tour group which was established in 1972, as well as the HotelPlanner Tour.
