The Tour Championship is the final event of the season and ends the FedEx Cup Playoffs. This is the finale to the 2025 schedule and will essentially crown the best player of the year.
So here is how the prize money works for the Tour Championship in 2025. In May, the PGA Tour announced that starting strokes would be removed from the Tour Championship format. Instead of a staggered scoring start, all 30 players will start on even par, and it is a 72-hole stroke play event.
The FedEx Cup Bonus Distribution is the same as 2024: $100 million. The winner of the FedEx Cup will get $10 million, which is the largest winner’s share of a tour event this season. The total prize purse for the Tour Championship is $40 million.
Below are images of how it works. As you can see, if a player held top spot at each Playoff event, they would earn $25 million, which is the same as what Scottie Scheffler won for taking the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup titles in 2024.
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Signature Events
The Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Memorial and the Genesis Invitational were the player-hosted Signature Events that have 36-hole cuts and give away 20% of the purse to the tournament winner.
Here was the Signature Event schedule for the 2025 PGA Tour season. The Players Championship is not a Signature Event but offers 750 FedEx Cup points for the winner and a total purse of $25 million.
The Sentry: January 2 – 5
Winner: Hideki Matsuyama
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: January 30 – Feb 2
Winner: Rory McIlroy
Genesis Invitational: February 13 – 16
Winner: Ludvig Aberg
Arnold Palmer Invitational: March 6 – 9
Winner: Russell Henley
RBC Heritage: April 17 – 20
Winner: Justin Thomas
Truist Championship: May 8 – 11
Winner: Sepp Straka
Memorial Tournament: May 29 – June 1
Winner: Scottie Scheffler
Travelers Championship: June 19 – 22
Winner: Keegan Bradley
While we await tournament week, here are the purse breakdowns of previous years of the Tour Championship. From 2019 and onwards, we show how much each player won for winning the FedEx Cup. Prior to 2019, we have the specific Tour Championship winners, as up to 2018, the winner of the Tour Championship didn’t necessarily win the FedEx Cup.
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Tour Championship payout
Starting strokes era
2024
Winner: Scottie Scheffler
Earnings: $25,000,000
2023
Winner: Viktor Hovland
Earnings: $18,000,000
2022
Winner: Rory McIlroy
Earnings:: $18,000,000
2021
Winner: Patrick Cantlay
Earnings: $15,000,000
2020
Winner: Dustin Johnson
Earnings: $15,000,000
2019
Winner: Rory McIlroy
Earnings: $15,000,000
Pre-starting strokes era
2018
Purse: $9,000,000
Winner: $1,620,000 (Tiger Woods)
2017
Purse: $8,750,000
Winner: $1,575,000 (Xander Schauffele)
2016
Purse: $8,500,000
Winner: $1,530,000 (Rory McIlroy)
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