Alfred Dunhill Links Championship prize money for Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy as Tyrrell Hatton wins big
Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy were both in action at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship over the weekend
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.”
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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