Columbia Edgewater Country Club hosts the 2026 Standard Portland Classic this weekend, with $2 million up for grabs. The winner’s share is $300,000, following the LPGA’s standard 15 percent payout chart. 144 players tee it up over 72 holes, and after 36 holes the field cuts to the top 65 and ties.
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Columbia Edgewater Country Club opened along the Columbia River in July 1925, the seventh 18-hole course built in Portland. Kathy Whitworth won that first tournament in 1972, taking home $3,750 from the $25,000 purse. Five decades later, under a new name and a title sponsor, the Portland Classic offers one of the most modest purses on the LPGA Tour, tied for second-smallest among the tour’s 31 official-money events and trailing only Honda LPGA Thailand’s $1.8 million.
Money has come in fits and starts here. The purse sat at $1.7 million in 2007, then dropped to $1.3 million once the tournament went to 72 holes in 2013, where it held for seven years. 2020 briefly pushed it up to $1.75 million, before it slid back to $1.4 million in 2021 and settled at $1.5 million for 2022 and 2023. It reached $1.75 million again in 2024. The Standard, a financial services firm based in Portland, stepped in that November, and by 2025 the purse was up to $2 million. Compared to the rest of the tour, though, Portland still lags: the LPGA’s 2026 prize fund totals a record $132 million across 31 official-money events (33 total, minus two unofficial ones), and Portland has now gone two years running at $2 million.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of the prize money:
Interesting History You Must Know
Since 1972, the tournament has raised $18–19 million for local children’s charities. It’s also launched careers, Andrea Lee got her first LPGA win here in 2022, Chanette Wannasaen in 2023, two of three first-time champions crowned in the last four years.
Beloved and prestigious on tour, the event nearly didn’t reach its 53rd edition after almost losing its title sponsor in 2024. It’s now back on solid footing, with a field that includes seven former Portland champions, among them Juli Inkster. Now 65, Inkster is playing 27 years after claiming the trophy in 1999 by six strokes.