From the $1 million in total prize money and $500 000 for the winner in 1981, to a $1 million winner-takes-all prize when Ian Woosnam won in 1987, to $2 million for the 2000 champion Ernie Els, and to its 2019 total purse of $7.5 million with $2.5 million for the champion, Tommy Fleetwood.