Tournaments / 2025
THE PLAYERS Championship
2025-03-13 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course
- Winner
- Rory McIlroy
- Winning score
- -12
- Field
- 144
- Field strength
- +0.243 SG
The 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 13 March 2025. Rory McIlroy won at 12 under par (276). The winning card was 67, 68, 73 and 68, and the win paid $4,500,000. J.J. Spaun finished second, and Akshay Bhatia, Lucas Glover and Tom Hoge tied for third. 144 players started the event. The field averaged +0.243 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 96% 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 144. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- J.J. Spaun
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Akshay Bhatia
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Tom Hoge
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 278
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 279
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
- Danny Walker
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Robert MacIntyre
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Collin Morikawa
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Davis Thompson
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 281
- Jake Knapp
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 282
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 282
- Aaron Rai
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 283
- Alex Smalley
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 76
- Total
- 283
- Denny McCarthy
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 283
- Sam Ryder
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 283
- Sepp Straka
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 283
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 283
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 284
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 72 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.362
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (74th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 1st | 20th |
| Xander Schauffele | 2nd | 72nd |
| Rory McIlroy | 3rd | 1st |
| Collin Morikawa | 4th | 10th |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 5th | 14th |
| Russell Henley | 6th | 30th |
| Aaron Rai | 7th | 14th |
| Sungjae Im | 8th | 61st |
| Patrick Cantlay | 9th | 12th |
| Corey Conners | 10th | 6th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Xander Schauffele | 2nd | 72nd(+70) |
| Danny Walker | 65th | 6th(−59) |
| Sungjae Im | 8th | 61st(+53) |
| Jake Knapp | 64th | 12th(−52) |
| Max McGreevy | 71st | 20th(−51) |
| Sam Ryder | 60th | 14th(−46) |
| Matt McCarty | 66th | 20th(−46) |
| Tom Hoge | 46th | 3rd(−43) |
| Bud Cauley | 47th | 6th(−41) |
| Alex Smalley | 51st | 14th(−37) |
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 TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the THE PLAYERS Championship in 2025?
- Rory McIlroy won the 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, finishing 12 under par.
Where was the 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship played?
- The 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 13 March 2025.
What was the winning score at the 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship?
- The winning score was 12 under par (276 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.
How many players were in the THE PLAYERS Championship field?
- 144 players started the 2025 THE PLAYERS Championship. 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.