While the women’s game is somewhat dwarfed in prize money by the men’s, there are still several healthy purses to be won by the best players on the LPGA Tour.
With five major championships and other spotlight LPGA Tour events such as the CME Group Tour Championship carrying a $11 million purse, there are earning opportunities abound in the States, as we are about to show below.
Here are the top earners in the women’s game in 2025, how much cash they banked and a rundown of the seasons they’ve had…
LPGA Tour Money List 2025
5 – Nelly Korda $2,780,355
In at number five is former World No.1 Nelly Korda. Now ranked number two, the American saw a slight dip in form this year in terms of the win column. The 27-year-old reeled off seven victories in a stellar 2024 season, but failed to come close to that this year.
Since turning pro in 2016, Nelly has 15 total wins on the LPGA Tour, including her two major championships. The first of which came back in 2021 at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which was held at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The second came last year at the Chevron Championship, where she won by two strokes over Maja Stark.
It is hard to criticise someone who has two majors to her name, but Korda’s expectations exceed those of her peers, and more titles are anticipated. But that did not materialise this year, at least. However, in spite of not claiming a single win, Nelly had an incredibly consistent 2025 whilst ranking third in total strokes gained on tour.
In 19 starts this season, the Floridian made every single cut and finished inside the top 10 on nine occasions. This included a runner-up at the US Women’s Open at Erin Hills. Incidentally, she lost out to Maja Stark, a revenge of sorts for Nelly’s 2024 Chevron victory. That was Korda’s only top 10 finish in the five majors, something she will be eager to improve upon in 2026.
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With 13 career top 10s and eight top fives in majors, alongside an impressive 10-5-1 Solheim Cup record in four appearances, it is surely only a matter of time before Nelly Korda hits her stride once again and rejoins the winners’ circle, whether in the majors or on the LPGA Tour.
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4 – Rio Takeda $2,896,319
Next on the list is Japanese superstar Rio Takeda, who blitzed onto the scene this season, her rookie year on the LPGA Tour. The 22-year-old only turned pro in 2022, and already has two titles on her resume. This came after she won eight times on the Japan LPGA the year prior.
Takeda missed just two cuts all year in 30 starts, but came up just shy in the Rolex Rookie of the Year. The Japanese golfer is still only ranked 14th in the world, but is certainly on the rise, looking to cement herself as one of the game’s biggest names.
Rio ended in a tie for ninth in her first major appearance in 2024 at the US Women’s Open, ostensibly the toughest of all the majors. This was followed up by a tie for second this year alongside Korda, two back of the winner Stark. She bolstered her reputation with a fourth-place finish at the AIG British Open at Royal Porthcawl in July.
Takeda has her career ahead of her and has still only competed in nine majors, with a penchant to play better in the tougher tests. With eight top 10s on the LPGA this season, it seems as if Rio Takeda is on the ascendancy and could become a mainstay at the top of LPGA leaderboards in years to come.
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3 – Miyu Yamashita $3,545,888
2025 really was the year for Japanese Women’s golf, as Yamashita took the British Open crown in Wales in the summer. There are currently nine Japanese women ranked inside the top 50 and four inside the top 20. Yamashita leads them all, ranked third behind Korda and Thitikul, and she earned three and a half million dollars this year.
Miyu’s triumph in Wales was her first outside of Japan, as she held off home favourite Charley Hull to take the title by two strokes. The 24-year-old went on to win the Maybank Championship in a three-way playoff in November with a birdie on the first extra hole. This event, although an LPGA stop, was held in Malaysia, meaning Yamashita is still yet to win on US soil, but that is no slight on her.
After turning professional in 2020, Miyu won 13 times on the Japan LPGA in a span of three and a half years, from April 2021 to November 2024. She earned her full-time LPGA card through qualifying school last December and climbed to third in the world rankings, up from 13th a year ago. Yamashita pipped her aforementioned compatriot Takeda to win Rookie of the Year, highlighted by her maiden major championship.
At 4ft 11, Miyu is not the longest hitter on tour, but she does not need to be. In fact, she lost strokes off the tee in 2025, but made up the difference by being the best putter, gaining 1.32 strokes on the greens across the course of the season. With only 14 major appearances, Yamashita has made the cut 12 times and has two other top 10s as well as her victory this year. Can the rookie of the year sustain this early brilliance going into her sophomore season?
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2 – Minjee Lee $3,910,471
The Australian earned just under $4 million for her play in 2025, placing her second on the list. Lee ended her 2025 campaign with a T13 at the CME Group Tour Championship. But the unequivocal highlight of 2025 for Minjee was her victory at the KPMG Women’s PGA in June. On a tricky PGA Frisco track, the 29-year-old held on to win by three shots at four under par, despite a two-over-par final round, as her close competitors plummeted out of contention.
Lee won $1,800,00 for that win alone, which made up nearly half of her yearly total. The PGA was her third major championship, to go along with her 2021 Evian Championship and 2022 US Women’s Open. Minjee finished tied for third at the Evian this year, just one shot outside of what ended up as a two-way playoff. Lee has 11 career LPGA Tour wins and has made 50 of 57 cuts in all of her major appearances.
In 2025, Lee made 21 of 22 cuts, and her worst finish at a major was a tie for 22nd, a testament to her consistency. This season, Minjee became the first lady ever to win the Rolex Annika Major Award twice, which was established in 2014, after also claiming the accolade in 2022.
Lee’s brother, Min Woo, plays on the PGA and DP World Tour, and the pair are the only ever siblings to win the girls’ and boys’ USGA junior championships, Minjee taking the title in 2012, her younger brother in 2016. Hailing from Perth, Minjee helped Australia to win the International Crown, an LPGA team event, in October. Hosted in South Korea, the Aussies battled past a strong US side in the final to win the tournament.
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The 4th-ranked player in the women’s game, Minjee has been a name at the summit of women’s golf for over a decade now, since coming onto the scene with her maiden LPGA title in May of 2015.
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1 – Jeeno Thitikul $7,578,330
2025 belonged to Jeeno Thitikul, who recently claimed her second consecutive Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club. The season-ending $4 million first-place prize elevated Jeeno’s status as both the biggest earner, but more importantly, the undisputed World No.1 in women’s golf at the moment. The Tour Championship was her third win of the year and seventh career win.
Still just 22, Jeeno Thitikul finished top of the money list for the second year in a row, coinciding with being named player of the year on the LPGA Tour. The Thai phenom had a 68.68 scoring average on tour this season, the best return among her competitors for the third campaign running. Unsurprisingly, she also led the tour in strokes gained: total, which was 2.96 for the year, whilst gaining 1.62 tee to green.
Since surpassing Korda to World No.1, Jeeno has lifted and separated with her incessantly accurate ball striking, and highly competent flat stick. Thitikul’s well-rounded arsenal aided her in making 19 of 20 cuts this season. But not only did she just make the cut, but she also consistently contended, with 14 top tens, one third place, and four runner-ups.
But despite all this, Thitikul is without a major championship in her trophy cabinet, seemingly the only award missing, but the most significant of them all. There have been close calls, most notably, a second place at the Evian this year, where Jeeno lost to Grace Kim in a playoff.
All in all, the former number one-ranked amateur has nine top tens in 27 major starts (33%). A remarkable record, minus the elusive victory. But a golfer of Thitikul’s calibre, it is surely only a matter of time before she converts those top tens and enters the major winners’ circle, establishing herself as the undeniable number one force in Women’s golf. Thankfully, the young Thai has time on her hands, and it is our job to be there when the time comes.
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