Tour Championship: Format, where to watch, field, prize money payouts, what's new for 2025
The 2025 Tour Championship brings a close to the FedEx Cup Playoffs race for the season. The top 30 golfers left standing after last week's BMW Championship will move on to East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta Thursday through Sunday.
There's been changes once again to the ever-evolving Tour Championship over its 19 years. Expect more in the future, with one possibility being that the Tour Championship rotates sites and stops being played at East Lake every year. There is much work to be done before something like that happens though.
What's new for this season?
No more starting strokes at 2025 Tour Championship
The biggest change is the elimination of the "starting strokes" format. Instituted in 2019, it gave FedEx Cup leaders in the season-long points race a head start in the Playoff finale, but in May it was quashed and the typical 72-hole stroke-play format was brought back. All 30 golfers in the field will start at level par.
Where to watch, stream, follow the Tour Championship
First round, Thursday, Aug. 21
11 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
12 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM
1 pm. to 6 p.m. ET, Golf Channel
Second round, Friday, Aug. 22
11:15 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
12 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM
1 pm. to 6 p.m. ET, Golf Channel
Third round, Saturday, Aug. 23
12 p.m. ET to 7 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
1 p.m. ET to 2:30 p.m. ET, Golf Channel
2 p.m. ET to 7 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM
2:30 p.m. ET to 7 p.m., NBC and Peacock
Final round, Saturday, Aug. 24
11 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
11 p.m. ET to 1:30 p.m. ET, Golf Channel
1 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM
1:30 p.m. ET to 6 p.m., NBC and Peacock
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Who's playing in the 2025 Tour Championship?
The 30 golfers in the field, listed in order of their current FedEx Cup Playoffs position:
Pos. | Golfer |
1 | Scottie Scheffler |
2 | Rory McIlroy |
3 | J.J. Spaun |
4 | Justin Rose |
5 | Tommy Fleetwood |
6 | Ben Griffin |
7 | Russell Henley |
8 | Sepp Straka |
9 | Robert MacIntyre |
10 | Maverick McNealy |
11 | Harris English |
12 | Justin Thomas |
13 | Cameron Young |
14 | Ludvig Aberg |
15 | Andrew Novak |
16 | Keegan Bradley |
17 | Sam Burns |
18 | Brian Harman |
19 | Corey Conners |
20 | Patrick Cantlay |
21 | Collin Morikawa |
22 | Viktor Hovland |
23 | Hideki Matsuyama |
24 | Shane Lowry |
25 | Nick Taylor |
26 | Harry Hall |
27 | Jacob Bridgeman |
28 | Sungjae Im |
29 | Chris Gotterup |
30 | Akshay Bhatia |
What does the winner of the 2025 Tour Championship get?
The first-place prize at East Lake is $ 10 million. That's a big change from previous years, where the 2024 Tour Championship winner (Scottie Scheffler) banked $ 25 million. The PGA Tour spread out $ 100 million in "bonus" money across the season. The winner is also named the FedEx Cup champion. He will receive a five-year PGA Tour exemption as well.
Prize money payouts for the 2025 Tour Championship
The top eight golfers will clear seven figures in earnings this week.
- $ 10 million
- $ 5 million
- $ 3.705 million
- $ 3.2 million
- $ 2.75 million
- $ 1.9 million
- $ 1.4 million
- $ 1.065 million
- $ 900,000
- $ 735,000
- $ 695,000
- $ 660,000
- $ 625,000
- $ 590,000
- $ 560,000
- $ 505,000
- $ 490,000
- $ 475,000
- $ 460,000
- $ 445,000
- $ 430,000
- $ 415,000
- $ 400,000
- $ 390,000
- $ 380,000
- $ 375,000
- $ 370,000
- $ 365,000
- $ 360,000
- $ 335,000
Where is the Tour Championship played?
East Lake ties for No. 4 on Golfweek's Best list of the top private courses in Georgia and ties for No. 85 among all classic courses in the U.S.
Tour Championship past champions
No one has won the Tour Championship in consecutive years. Scottie Scheffler has the chance to be the first.
- 2024: Scottie Scheffler
- 2023: Viktor Hovland
- 2022: Rory McIlroy
- 2021: Patrick Cantlay
- 2020: Dustin Johnson
- 2019: Rory McIlroy
- 2018: Justin Rose
- 2017: Justin Thomas
- 2016: Rory McIlroy
- 2015: Jordan Spieth
- 2014: Billy Horschel
- 2013: Henrik Stenson
- 2012: Brandt Snedeker
- 2011: Bill Haas
- 2010: Jim Furyk
- 2009: Tiger Woods
- 2008: Vijay Singh
- 2007: Tiger Woods
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Tour Championship 2025: Format, field, prize money, where to watch