Tournaments / 2025
The American Express
2025-01-16 · Pete Dye Stadium Course
- Winner
- Sepp Straka
- Winning score
- -25
- Field
- 153
- Field strength
- +0.013 SG
The 2025 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 16 January 2025. Sepp Straka won at 25 under par (263), 2 strokes ahead of Justin Thomas. The winning card was 65, 64, 64 and 70, and the win paid $1,584,000. Justin Thomas finished second, and Jason Day and Justin Lower tied for third. 153 players started the event. The field averaged +0.013 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 153. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Sepp Straka
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 263
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 266
- Justin Lower
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 266
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 268
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 268
- Ben Griffin
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Camilo Villegas
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Max Greyserman
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Taylor Moore
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Alex Smalley
- Pos
- 11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 270
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Frankie Capan III
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 76
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Mark Hubbard
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 271
- Nick Taylor
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Will Zalatoris
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Cam Davis
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Kevin Roy
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Trey Mullinax
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.229
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (33rd) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Cantlay | 1st | 5th |
| Sam Burns | 2nd | 29th |
| Si Woo Kim | 3rd | 51st |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 2nd |
| Ben Griffin | 5th | 7th |
| Davis Thompson | 6th | 51st |
| Doug Ghim | 7th | 21st |
| Mac Meissner | 8th | 68th |
| Kurt Kitayama | 9th | 58th |
| J.T. Poston | 10th | 12th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Camilo Villegas | 71st | 7th(−64) |
| Mac Meissner | 8th | 68th(+60) |
| Eric Cole | 11th | 68th(+57) |
| Trey Mullinax | 69th | 18th(−51) |
| Kurt Kitayama | 9th | 58th(+49) |
| Si Woo Kim | 3rd | 51st(+48) |
| Frankie Capan III | 59th | 12th(−47) |
| Davis Thompson | 6th | 51st(+45) |
| Charley Hoffman | 46th | 5th(−41) |
| Vincent Norrman | 70th | 29th(−41) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
The venue
This event was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course in La Quinta, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the The American Express in 2025?
- Sepp Straka won the 2025 The American Express at Pete Dye Stadium Course, finishing 25 under par.
Where was the 2025 The American Express played?
- The 2025 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 16 January 2025.
What was the winning score at the 2025 The American Express?
- The winning score was 25 under par (263 strokes), posted by Sepp Straka.
How many players were in the The American Express field?
- 153 players started the 2025 The American Express. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.
Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.