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2023 Women’s Scottish Open prize money payouts for each LPGA player

Celine Boutier is the third LPGA golfer to surpass the $2 million mark in 2023.

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One week after banking $1 million for her first major, Celine Boutier cashed another big check after winning the 2023 Women’s Scottish Open.

Boutier won at Dundonald Links in Ayshire, Scotland, by two shots over Hyu Joo Kim and by three over Ruoning Yin.

It’s Boutier’s fifth LPGA victory and second in two weeks after she claimed the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship in France. She’s the first LPGA golfer in seven years to win a major and then win the next week’s event. She’s the first on the LPGA to win consecutive tournaments in two years. And she’s the first to win three times in 2023, after having also won the LPGA Drive On Championship in Arizona in March.

Her $300,000 payday in Scotland pushes her past the $2 million mark for the 2023 season.

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Position Player Score Money
1 Celine Boutier -15 $300,000
2 Hyo Joo Kim -13 $167,294
3 Ruoning Yin -12 $111,529
T4 A Lim Kim -11 $75,282
T4 Maja Stark -11 $75,282
T6 Caroline Hedwall -10 $52,047
T6 Nicole Broch Estrup -10 $52,047
T6 Patty Tavatanakit -10 $52,047
T9 Ally Ewing -9 $41,824
T9 Andrea Lee -9 $41,824
T9 Sarah Kemp -9 $41,824
T9 Madelene Sagstrom -9 $41,824
T13 Minjee Lee -8 $35,318
T13 Stephanie Kyriacou -8 $35,318
T13 Arpichaya Yubol -8 $35,318
T16 Jenny Shin -7 $31,135
T16 Jennifer Kupcho -7 $31,135
T16 Xiyu Lin -7 $31,135
T16 Hinako Shibuno -7 $31,135
T20 Esther Henseleit -6 $27,185
T20 Linn Grant -6 $27,185
T20 Yu Liu -6 $27,185
T20 Yuna Nishimura -6 $27,185
T24 Sarah Schmelzel -4 $22,771
T24 Linnea Strom -4 $22,771
T24 Nasa Hataoka -4 $22,771
T24 Mi Hyang Lee -4 $22,771
T28 Megan Khang -3 $17,324
T28 Angel Yin -3 $17,324
T28 Minami Katsu -3 $17,324
T28 Jeongeun Lee6 -3 $17,324
T28 Eleanor Givens -3 $17,324
T33 Celine Herbin -2 $14,127
T33 Eun-Hee Ji -2 $14,127
T35 Charley Hull -1 $10,575
T35 Ana Pelaez Trivino -1 $10,575
T35 Lee-Anne Pace -1 $10,575
T35 Gaby Lopez -1 $10,575
T35 Maddie Szeryk -1 $10,575
T35 Frida Kinhult -1 $10,575
T35 Cara Gainer -1 $10,575
T35 In Gee Chun -1 $10,575
T35 Lilia Vu -1 $10,575
T44 Soo Bin Joo E $8,736
T44 Gemma Dryburgh E $8,736
T44 Narin An E $8,736
T47 Perrine Delacour +1 $7,714
T47 Casandra Alexander +1 $7,714
T47 Kim Metraux +1 $7,714
T47 Elin Arvidsson +1 $7,714
T47 Annie Park +1 $7,714
T47 Ayaka Furue +1 $7,714
T47 Agathe Sauzon +1 $7,714
T47 Amanda Doherty +1 $7,714
T55 Jasmine Suwannapura +3 $6,413
T55 Aditi Ashok +3 $6,413
T55 Emily Kristine Pedersen +3 $6,413
T55 Lydia Hall +3 $6,413
T55 Paula Reto +3 $6,413
T55 Lauren Coughlin +3 $6,413
T61 Pernilla Lindberg +4 $5,669
T61 Louise Duncan +4 $5,669
T63 Caroline Inglis +5 $5,298
T63 Mel Reid +5 $5,298
T63 Ginnie Ding (a) +5 $0
T66 Marissa Steen +6 $4,647
T66 Alice Hewson +6 $4,647
T66 Bronte Law +6 $4,647
T66 Bailey Tardy +6 $4,647
T66 Alison Lee +6 $4,647
71 Leonie Harm +8 $4,089
T72 Magdalena Simmermacher +12 $3,811
T72 Emma Grechi +12 $3,811
74 Klara Davidson Spilkova +16 $3,532

 

Fresh off major win, Celine Boutier in front at Women’s Scottish Open

Celine Boutier is on fire.

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AYRSHIRE, Scotland — Celine Boutier is riding such a wave of confidence these days, you half expected her to march up the 18th at Dundonald Links whistling a jolly tune of surfing satisfaction by the Beach Boys.

A week on from her maiden major victory in the Evian Championship, the Frenchwoman is on course for a notable double whammy of triumphs as she forged a sturdy advantage on the penultimate day of the Freed Group Women’s Scottish Open.

A composed, classy and clinical performance led to a 6-under 66, a 13-under total and a three-stroke lead over Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit and Maja Stark of Sweden.

Seven days ago on the shores of Lake Geneva, Boutier led by three after 54-holes and went on to win by six. Here on the Firth of Clyde, her latest three-stroke lead could prompt another procession to a coronation.

There is a lot of golf to be played, of course, but in this particular parish, Boutier, last year’s runner-up, is in her element. This was her seventh consecutive round in the 60s at Dundonald.  Her position of authority at the summit is so fortified, her name on the leaderboard could be shielded by a portcullis.

The home of golf certainly brings out the best in Boutier. Four years ago at Gleneagles, she won four out of four during a thrilling Solheim Cup debut to help Europe claim a famous victory. Here in 2023, individual glory beckons in the game’s cradle.

It was one of those days when all the golfing cogs and pistons were working and finely tuned. “Sometimes you envision shots and they don’t always happen,” said Boutier. “But today, it happened the way I saw it.”

When she did make the odd deviation from the straight and narrow, Boutier took the positives from it. “I made a bogey on the ninth, which actually fired me up,” she added. “It was nice to get some more energy going.”

Boutier had been five shots off the halfway pace set by Japan’s Hinako Shibuno but she chomped into that deficit with gusto. Four birdies on her first seven holes had her bounding along nicely as Shibuno stumbled and stuttered. Stark, the 23-year-old who was leading the chasing pack after 36-holes, would take up the front-running and did briefly move into a two-shot lead before her round unravelled on the run-in.

Shibuno, a wonderful Women’s British Open champion at Woburn back in 2019, endured a trying day, meanwhile, and a double-bogey on the short 15th prompted a pained grimace from the woman known as the Smiling Cinderella. It would get worse for the 24-year-old. A bogey on 17 was followed by a trip into the water on the last and another leaked shot in a 77 left her six shots off the lead.

Those late lapses were pounced on by Boutier, whose poise and purpose was rewarded with a brace of birdies at 17 and 18 as she conjured a telling late thrust. Stark also found the wet stuff on the 18th and dropped a costly shot in a level-par 72.

Stark may have been left scunnered by that sore one, but the six-time Ladies European Tour winner remained determined to make amends on the final day. “I want revenge,” she hissed through clenched teeth as she plotted a closing offensive. “I think it’s just a ‘screw it’ mentality now because it’s the final day and you know where you’re standing. It’s all about getting the win.”

Boutier, meanwhile, will be hoping to stay in the winning habit, but she will also stay in the moment. “I definitely have to keep my expectations in check and not get too far ahead of myself,” she said.

Tavatanakit, a major champion in 2021, is not out of it and she energised her title tilt with a charging 66 that was illuminated by eagles on the third and 14th.

On the home front, Gemma Dryburgh, the Scottish No 1, moved up a couple of gears with a four-under 68 which hoisted her up into the leading 30 on two-under. Four birdies in five holes from the third was an enjoyable flurry for the LPGA winner. “I got on a pretty hot run there and that was fun,” she said after a decent stride up the order.

Hinako Shibuno still smiling as she leads Women’s Scottish Open

The 24-year-old from Japan famously earned the nickname “the Smiling Cinderella.”

Golfers can often display the kind of inscrutable countenance that would make the fizzog of the Sphinx of Giza look positively animated.

Not so, Hinako Shibuno. With a constant, glowing beam you tend to get with a LED bulb, the 24-year-old from Japan famously earned the nickname “the Smiling Cinderella” during her giggling, grinning march to glory in the AIG Women’s Open at Woburn in 2019.

Here at the Freed Group Women’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Links, Shibuno was still smiling. She had every reason to be, of course. A delightfully assembled 8-under 64 on a largely bright and increasingly breezy Ayrshire day thrust her into a two-shot lead over Madelene Sagstrom. Local tour rookie Louise Duncan, meanwhile, was the pick of the Scots on one-under after a spirited late rally.

Shibuno’s smile may remain but it seems the twinkling moniker has gone. “Nobody calls me the Smiling Cinderella anymore,” said Shibuno with something of a wistful, well, smile.

Presumably, the fickle fans in Japan, who tend to shower successful female golfers with the adulation you would get during a ticker-tape parade, have focussed their affections on someone else. Shibuno has not won since that wonder of Woburn while a niggling finger injury has hindered her progress. Living with the expectation that comes with being a major champion in her golf-mad homeland adds another layer of professional pressure.

The Smiling Cinderella may be no more but there is a new nickname. “Lydia Ko called me the Assassin once which I like better than Smiling Cinderella,” added Shibuno. She certainly had her sights fixed on Dundonald yesterday.

Before the wind started to really get going, Shibuno made hay while the sun keeked through some light clouds. Starting on the 10th, Shibuno made an early statement of intent with a birdie on her first hole then bolstered her assault with four birdies on the spin from the 13th. “I surprised myself with four in a row,” she said of that profitable push. Shibuno then finished with a flourish, picking up birdies at three of her last four holes to streak away from the field.

Shibuno missed the halfway cut in last year’s championship here. “The course looked different this time, a little wider,” she noted. It’s amazing what eight birdies can do to the outlook eh?

The sprightly standard Shibuno set was going to be a hard act to follow. Sagstrom gave it a good go and the Swedish Solheim Cup player got herself motoring with three birdies in a row from her 10th tee start. It was an impressive round of poise and patience for a 30-year-old who has taken time to figure out the quirks, curiosities and occasional absurdities of the links game. The fact she has finished fourth and second in the last two AIG Women’s Opens at Muirfield and Carnoustie shows that she is finally getting to grips with it.

“As an amateur, I hated coming to Scotland,” she said of her initial relationship with golf by the seaside. “But my caddie is Irish and over the last couple of years we’ve been really working on it. I’m much more creative on the course and he has helped me see different shots. It’s a journey.”

On the home front, meanwhile, Duncan harnessed the growing gusts to fine effect and was justifiably chipper with her battling 71. The 23-year-old from West Kilbride, who made her professional debut in this event last summer, made an early stumble with a bogey on the first but she remained resolute. “A year ago, I may have squirmed at that, but I managed to hold it together,” said the former Women’s Amateur champion.

Duncan’s finish underlined her sense of purpose. She cracked a 3-iron into 10 feet on the 15th to set up a birdie and, despite a bogey on 16, a brace of sturdy birdies to finish at 17 and 18 stirred the local galleries and a strong contingent of watching family members.

“It wasn’t easy out there, the greens were faster than the practice days and the wind was brutal,” added Duncan of the exacting nature of the test.

Gemma Dryburgh, the Scottish No 1, ignited her day by holing a greenside bunker shot for birdie on the 15th to dip under par. A couple of loose drives at 17 and 18, though, brought her back down to earth and the 30-year-old had to settle for a one-over 73 after a bogey, bogey finish.

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Her head was still in the clouds, and so were Celine Boutier’s clubs prior to the Women’s Scottish Open

Of course, dreams don’t last forever. And while Boutier was still riding high on Tuesday, her clubs were just riding.

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As could be expected, Celine Boutier was teeming with emotion after securing her first major victory at the Amundi Evian Championship, causing her to skip a few REM cycles after she traveled to Paris to celebrate the historic title.

Boutier became a French icon after her win on home soil, taking the crown by a comfortable margin by finishing the tournament at 14 under which was good enough for a six-stroke victory over runner-up Brooke Henderson.

Time spent with family and friends after the victory had her so revved up that she couldn’t sleep in advance of her media appearance at the Freed Group Women’s Scottish Open, which will take place this week at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire, Scotland.

And who needs a sleep cycle? Boutier insisted all week that winning the Amundi Evian would be a “dream scenario,” one that would make her season, if not her career, complete.

Of course, dreams don’t last forever. And while Boutier was still riding high on Tuesday, her clubs were just riding. When she arrived on-site in Scotland the Duke University product’s clubs had yet to finish the trip.

“First day off for me today,” she said, “but hopefully they will get on the next flight that’s coming tonight.”

It’s about the only thing that has gone wrong for Boutier over the last few days. She entered the Amundi Evian with three LPGA victories and three wins on the Ladies European Tour, but left with the prize she most coveted. Still, she’s smart enough to realize how fleeting success can be at this level.

“I think winning at any level is difficult. I think especially on the LPGA, the talent is just unbelievable and it’s very hard to be able to pull it off, and to be able to do it in major conditions is even harder because of the pressure and because of what it means because of the history,” she said. “And so I feel like, yeah, the fact that I had a chance to even play for the win on Sunday was already a big win for me, and to have the crowd behind you, I feel like it definitely also like carried me a little bit.”

2023 Amundi Evian Championship
Celine Boutier celebrates with the Amundi Evian Championship trophy following victory in the Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Club on July 30, 2023, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

As for the final celebration, which included more champagne than even Botuier could have imaged, it’s something she’s been replaying in her mind ever since she clinched the crown.

“I never really pictured how it was going to happen. Obviously, it was such a dream for me. I wouldn’t even call it a goal for me this year. I obviously wanted to perform well in the majors,” she said. “But in the past I was never really able to play well in Evian, just the pressure of everything was a lot for me to handle and this year, I just decided to really do it for myself and not put so much pressure on myself. The fact that I even had a chance to play for the win in the final round was a big advantage for me and to pull it off on the final day to, have the crowd behind you, which I never imagined that they would be so loud and so energetic, so passionate about it.

“It felt like a win for me and it felt like a win for them as well. To be able to share it with everyone in my home country is an absolute dream come true.”

There’s no rest for the weary, however, as Boutier now prepares to meet up with an impressive field this week at the Scottish Open — a total of seven of the year’s 15 winners are expected to play, including Ashleigh Buhai (ShopRite LPGA Classic), Allisen Corpuz (U.S. Women’s Open), Linn Grant (Dana Open), Cheyenne Knight (Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational), Lilia Vu (Honda LPGA Thailand, Chevron Championship) and Ruoning Yin (DIO Implant LA Open, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship).

And Boutier’s mother and sister are still in tow, as they often make the trip to European stops when possible. Although the Evian was the one she truly wanted, Boutier said she’d be thrilled to play well this week, perhaps getting to celebrate again with her family and friends.

“That would be unbelievable. I feel like Scotland is definitely the Home of Golf, so it would be a goal of mine to win in Scotland for sure during my career,” she said. “So any opportunity I will have to play for the win, I will definitely try to seize it and do my best.”

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