Format, field, prize money, where to watch

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:

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.

1. $10 million
2. $5 million
3. $3.705 million
4. $3.2 million
5. $2.75 million
6. $1.9 million
7. $1.4 million
8. $1.065 million
9. $900,000
10. $735,000
11. $695,000
12. $660,000
13. $625,000
14. $590,000
15. $560,000
16. $505,000
17. $490,000
18. $475,000
19. $460,000
20. $445,000
21. $430,000
22. $415,000
23. $400,000
24. $390,000
25. $380,000
26. $375,000
27. $370,000
28. $365,000
29. $360,000
30. $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