Women's Golf Just Had Its Biggest Week of the Year. The Purses Still Tell a Different Story.

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Europe’s win over the United States at Bernardus Golf a couple of weeks ago was, by any honest measure, one of the best weeks women’s golf has had in years. Full galleries, a match that swung on Sunday singles, a crowd that made Bernardus sound like a football ground rather than a golf course. It was the kind of week the sport’s administrators point to when they talk about momentum, and they are not wrong to. It was also a week in which not a single player on either team earned a cent of prize money for playing, because that is how the Solheim Cup works, exactly like the Ryder Cup on the men’s side. That is a fair and defensible arrangement in isolation. It becomes a slightly less comfortable one when you set it against the wider gap in what women’s golf actually pays across the rest of its season.

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Women's Golf Just Had Its Biggest Week of the Year. The Purses Still Tell a Different Story.