Alfred Dunhill Links Championship prize money for Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy as Tyrrell Hatton wins big

Shane Lowry took home a cheque for almost €65,000 after finishing in a tie for 12th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday.

The Offaly man shot a six-under-par final round 66 to finish on 16 under for the tournament, which Tyrrell Hatton won for a record third time at St Andrews, pocketing €729,000 in the process. Rory McIlroy finished in a tie for 25th, earning himself €36,000.

Hatton survived a late stumble to win after equalling the course record at the same venue with a 61 on Saturday, birdied the 18th to card a closing 70 and finish 24 under par, a shot ahead of Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts.

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Colsaerts left a long eagle putt from the Valley of Sin eight feet below the hole and was unable to convert the birdie attempt.

Hatton, who also finished second in the team event with his father Jeff, told Sky Sports: “It feels good.

“It’s the first time I’ve actually won the tournament with my dad here so it means a lot and to do it at the Home of Golf is really special. I’m trying not to cry to be honest. I’m a bit lost for words.”

Birdies on the second, fifth, 10th and 11th had given Hatton a comfortable three-shot lead with six holes to play, only for the Ryder Cup star to run up a double bogey on the 13th and drop another shot on the next, each time finding a bunker off the tee.

Colsaerts had also bogeyed the 13th but birdied the 15th to get on level terms, something which came as a surprise to Hatton.

“To be honest I actually didn’t know what the scores were from when we left the halfway house,” Hatton added. “There’s a nice TV in there but the first leaderboard I saw was on the 17th green.

“When I made double on 13 and then bogeyed 14 I didn’t realise I was still around the lead. I just tried my best on every shot coming in and then I see where we’re actually at on the 17th green. Then I’d by lying if I said I wasn’t nervous.

“I actually stood over the ball on the 18th tee and was like ‘Please don’t hit it out of bounds’, which is not a good though process. Luckily managed to hit a good shot and that chip shot there was great.

“I played that with a pitching wedge and it’s not normally a shot I would go to, but it felt right in the moment. To have a three-and-a-half-foot putt is quite nerve wracking and I was just so relieved when it went in.”

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Hatton’s victory secures his place in the DP World Tour’s season-ending event in Dubai and ensures he can also attend the upcoming wedding of Ryder Cup team-mate Matt Fitzpatrick.

“I was meant to be going to Fitzy’s wedding the week of Spain (Andalucia Masters) and I had to message him a few weeks ago to say if I don’t earn enough points I might not be able to go and I felt so bad about that.

“I guess having a little bit of extra motivation to play well and be able to be there for their special day (was good).”

Colsaerts, who was seeking his first victory since the 2019 French Open, was left to rue missed birdie chances around the turn as much as the one on the 18th.

“I’m pretty proud,” he said. “I played well in this event before, but to be able to putt a couple good rounds together, get all the way to the end in a position that I haven’t really been in the last couple of years is quite good, of course.

“When you finish like that it’s a bit bittersweet. But if you look at what happened during the day, the way it all panned out, it was probably eight, nine, 10, 11 (which were key).

“People might look at the last but I could have maybe done a little bit better throughout the middle of the round.”

Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen and Irish businessman Dermot Desmond won the team event on 48 under par, two shots ahead of Hatton and his father.

2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship prize money prize money

1 Tyrrell Hatton $800,000 2 Nicolas Colsaerts $533,330 3 Tommy Fleetwood $300,480 T4 Rasmus Neergaard-Peterson $203,840 T4 David Puig $203,840 T4 Robin Williams $203,840 T7 Tom Valliant $123,840 T7 Haotong Li $123,840 T7 Jon Rahm $123,840 T10 Matthew Jordan $92,160 T10 Brooks Koepka $92,160 T12 Kazuma Kobori $71,178 T12 Darren Fichardt $71,178 T12 Niklas Norgaard $71,178 T12 Thorbjorn Oleson $71,178 T12 Shane Lowry $71,178 T12 Alex Noren $71,178 T12 Dean Burmester $71,178 T19 Peter Uihlein $55,200 T19 Adrien Saddier $55,200 T19 David Micheluzzi $55,200 T19 Jorge Campillo $55,200 T19 Yannik Paul $55,200 T19 Louis Albertse $55,200 T25 Maximilian Rottluff $39,744 T25 James Ashfield $39,744 T25 Jens Dantorp $39,744 T25 Daniel Hillier $39,744 T25 Callum Shinkwin $39,744 T25 Robert MacIntyre $39,744 T25 Rory McIlroy $39,744 T25 Padraig Harrington $39,744 T25 Andrew Putnam $39,744 T25 Scott Jamieson $39,744 T35 Jordan Smith $28,975 T35 Todd Clements $28,975 T35 Branden Grace $28,975 T35 Joost Luiten $28,975 T35 Matthew Baldwin $28,975 T35 Grant Forrest $28,975 T35 Patrick Reed $28,975 T35 Connor Syme $28,975 T43 Matthew Southgate $23,520 T43 John Parry $23,520 T43 Fabrizio Zanotti $23,520 T43 Tom McKibbin $23,520 T43 Wilco Nienaber $23,520 T43 Matt Wallace $23,520 T43 Richard Mansell $23,520 T43 Sam Jones $23,520 T43 Francesco Laporta $23,520 T43 Marcus Armitage $23,520 T43 Matthis Besard $23,520 T54 Yurav Premlall $15,235 T54 Robert Rock $15,235 T54 Thriston Lawrence $15,235 T54 Daniel Brown $15,235 T54 John Cameron $15,235 T54 Lorenzo Scalise $15,235 T54 Jesper Svensson $15,235 61 Justin Harding $14,000 62 Matthieu Pavon $13,500 63 Shubhankar Sharma $13,000 T64 Sebastian Soderberg $12,250 T64 Alex Fitzpatrick $12,250 T64 Sung Kang $12,250 T64 David Law $12,250 T68 James Nicholas $10,250 T68 Kiradech Aphibardrat $10,250 T68 Adrian Otaegui $10,250 T68 Sean Crocker $10,250

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