The Players Championship payout distribution 2025: Prize money, purse

Full prize money and purse breakdown for THE PLAYERS Championship in 2025 with full payouts for every finishing position and the winner's share.
THE PLAYERS Championship 2025
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One of the defining characteristics of THE PLAYERS Championship, beyond being called the "fifth major" by some and boasting one of the best fields in golf and certainly on the PGA Tour, is the volatility at TPC Sawgrass. Year to year or even day to day, you never know what you're going to get. That was certainly the case for THE PLAYERS this week in the 2025 season as players competed for their prize money share and payout from the biggest purse of the season.

With winds howling and blustering on Saturday, it changed everything with relative lesser-known players like J.J. Spaun and Bud Cauley atop the leaderboard. However, the chase pack with Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Akshay Bhatia and many other big names behind them threatened to make Sunday a hectic affair — that was made even more true when tee times were moved up, put in threesomes, and going off split tees because of looming rain and wind that would've made the course nearly impossible. Needless to say, in these conditions, the winner and top finishers would more than earn their prize money.

How much money are we talking about, though? Let's take a look at the record-setting purse for THE PLAYERS Championship along with the winner's share of the prize money and the full payout distribution for all 72 players who made the cut this week at TPC Sawgrass.

The Players Championship purse 2025: Winner's prize money, total purse

The winner of THE PLAYERS Championship will receive a monster $4.5 million payday, the biggest winner's prize money on the PGA Tour, for the 2025 season. That tracks considering that THE PLAYERS also features the biggest total purse on Tour, coming in at an eye-popping $25 million. What certainly makes this event stand out even among the other biggest purses of the season, though, is that this is a full-field, regular cut event on the PGA Tour, not the limited-field signature events that also feature massive amounts of prize money on the line. Players truly have to run the gauntlet in order to cash in here.

The Players Championship payout distribution by finishing position in 2025

Finishing Position

The Players Championship Prize Money

Winner

$4.5 million

2nd

$2.725 million

3rd

$1.725 million

4th

$1.225 million

5th

$1.025 million

6th

$906,250

7th

$843,750

8th

$781,250

9th

$731,250

10th

$681,250

11th

$631,250

12th

$581,250

13th

$531,250

14th

$481,250

15th

$456,250

16th

$431,250

17th

$406,250

18th

$381,250

19th

$356,250

20th

$331,250

21st

$306,250

22nd

$281,250

23rd

$261,250

24th

$241,250

25th

$221,250

26th

$201,250

27th

$193,750

28th

$186,250

29th

$178,750

30th

$171,250

31st

$163,750

32nd

$156,250

33rd

$148,750

34th

$142,500

35th

$136,250

36th

$130,000

37th

$123,750

38th

$118,750

39th

$113,750

40th

$108,750

41st

$103,750

42nd

$98,750

43rd

$93,750

44th

$88,750

45th

$83,750

46th

$78,750

47th

$73,750

48th

$69,750

49th

$66,250

50th

$64,250

51st

$62,750

52nd

$61,250

53rd

$60,250

54th

$59,250

55th

$58,750

56th

$58,250

57th

$57,750

58th

$57,250

59th

$56,750

60th

$56,250

61st

$55,750

62nd

$55,250

63rd

$54,750

64th

$54,250

65th

$53,750

66th

$53,250

67th

$52,750

68th

$52,250

69th

$51,750

70th

$51,250

71st

$50,750

72nd

$50,250

Seeing how THE PLAYERS Championship payouts break down, you really start to be able to fathom just how huge a $25 million purse is. Every player who finishes in the Top 5, while they might not earn $4.5 million, will clear at least $1 million with their payday. Even more incredible is that every player inside the Top 40 (and even the player in 41st as well) will get a six-figure paycheck for their work at Sawgrass this week. They probably deserve it given the conditions that they were forced to withstand on the weekend.

Perhaps the biggest indication of the amount of prize money on the line at THE PLAYERS is actually at the bottom of the leaderboard. Even the player who finishes in 72nd, dead last among golfers who made the cut this week, will still clear $50K. That's not something you'll see at any other PGA Tour tournament.

The PGA Tour does a phenomenal job of making THE PLAYERS feel special and the purse and payouts are one of the best examples. Earning your way in can pay huge dividends, both in terms of what the bank account looks like after the week of action at Sawgrass and what it could mean for a season or career to win this event.