The 2026 The Annika winner's share is a big LPGA payday

The LPGA Tour is down to their final two events of the year. They're both in Florida, and the first of two is a 108-player event honoring one of the greats of the game. But the winner of the Anika, driven by GameBridge and Pelican, is going to take home a sizable amount. I'm Ryan Baloggy with Golf News Net. We're looking at the winner's share of the purse and the prize money payout for the Onica, driven by GameBridge at Pelican, which is Pelican Golf Club, the host in Bel Air, Florida, near Tampa. This is a 108-player field. It's the penultimate event of the year on the LPGA. It's the final full field event of the year on the LPGA, and the last one with a cut. There's a cut to the top 65 and ties after two rounds. So, you know, 108-player field, you just have to kind of finish in the top 60%. Get yourself to the weekend and get a payday in this tournament. It's a $3.25 million purse on the LPGA that pay 15% to the winner. So $487,500 goes to the champion this week. Now that may seem like not so much money compared to what's on offer next week to the champion, which is $4 million if you win the 60 player CME Group Tour Championship. This week is important, though, not only because of that payday, but also because if you get into the top 60 in Race to the CME Globe points, you're going to qualify for that tournament. Then all you got to do, hopefully not mildly, is win next week in the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Resort. And you get that $4 million from the $11 million purse, the biggest single payday in women's golf. It's a huge opportunity. However, there's also another really important thing this week beyond the money and getting into the race to the CME. Whoa, top 60. You want to get into the top 100 in that points list if you can, because that assures you playing privileges on the LPGA in 2027 basically gets you in every regular season tournament if you want to play it. You need to be in the top 100 to maintain your status. This is the cutoff for that, obviously, with just 60 players, the top 60 next week. This is your week to be able to make sure you can get into that top 100. There's a lot on the line for players who might be kind of hanging around that number this week, and you can make a big move and save your season and save your status for next year. So lots of opportunities at the top, $487,500 to the winner. But you also have a really important opportunity in front of you as well if you can try and get in the top 100 and have LPGA status for 2027.