2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs Schedule: FAQ, Everything You Need to know

FedEx Cup Playoffs 2025: Schedule dates, Time, Venues, Playoffs Format, Prize Money payout, Purse, Past winner, FAQ

The 2025 PGA TOUR Season Calendar marks the 19th edition of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

• The FedExCup is a season-long points competition which culminates with the FedExCup Playoffs, a series of three events to determine the FedExCup Champion
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• The Top 70 players in the FedExCup standings are eligible for the FedExCup Playoffs with the three events featuring a progressive cut with fields of 70, 50 and 30
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• The total bonus pool for the FedExCup Playoffs is $75 million, with the FedExCup Champion earning $18 million

What is the FedEx Cup?

The FedEx Cup is a season-long points competition that culminates with a playoff consisting of three events to determine the FedEx Cup champion. The PGA Tour first introduced the FedEx Cup in 2007.

What are the three events in the FedEx Cup playoffs?

The FedEx St. Jude Championship, BMW Championship and Tour Championship make up the FedEx Cup playoffs.

What is the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs Schedule, event dates, venues, Purse, funds.

The FedEx Cup Playoffs consist of three tournaments played in the month of August: Here is the three tournament events schedule:


FedEx St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind,   Aug. 7-10

Venue: Memphis, Tennessee

Fields: Top 70 players

Purse: $20 Million, $3.6 million winners share

2024  Hideki Matsuyama



BMW Championship, Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills,  Aug. 14-17

Venue: ( Maryland)

Field: Qualify Top 50 players

Purse: $20 Million, $3.6 million winners share

2024 Winner: Keegan Bradly



Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club,  Aug. 21- 24

Venue: (Atlanta, Georgia)

Field: Top 30 Players

Purse: 100 Million, ($25 million winner share)

2024 Winner: Scottie Scheffler

How many golfers will qualify for each event of FedEx Cup Playoffs?

Players on the PGA Tour earn points that make up the FedEx Cup standings. The top 70 in the standings qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.

The field shrinks to 50 after the first playoff event, and to 30 after the second. The remaining 30 players compete for the FedEx Cup at the third and final playoff event where the FedEx Cup Champion will be determined.

How does the FedEx Cup works, 2025 Playoffs format, Points distributions.

The Tour Championship will be played as a 72-hole stroke-play event, with all players starting the tournament at even par, just like most Tour events. This is a shift away from the "starting strokes" format (in which the top golfer in the standings started at 10 under, the second-place golfer at 8 under and so on), which was used from 2019-2024.

Details: 2024 FedEx Cup Explained: Who keeps their TOUR Championship, who makes Playoffs, and more

Who won the defending champion of FedEx Cup 202 Winner.?

Scottie Scheffler won last year's FedEx Cup after coasting to a four-stroke victory at the 2024 Tour Championship. The win sealed Scheffler's first career FedEx Cup title. Scheffler won seven PGA Tour events in 2024, the most since Tiger Woods in 2007.

Viktor Hovland won last year's FedEx Cup after shooting 27-under at the 2023 Tour Championship. The victory marked Hovland's first FedEx Cup title.

Who has won the most FedEx Cup titles?

Rory McIlroy has surpassed the Tiger Woods that have won the Most FedEx Cup titles, three times, while Woods clinched the title two times.

Rory McIlroy captured his most recent & third title in 2022, having also claimed the victory in 2019 & 2016. Go beyond the Golf Legend Tiger Woods who also has won the playoffs titles twice, in 2007 and 2009.

How is the actual FedEx Cup winner decided after the TOUR Championship.?

The Tour Championship will be played as a 72-hole stroke-play event, with all players starting the tournament at even par, just like most Tour events. This is a shift away from the "starting strokes" format from starting at the under 10, then under 8 & so on...

Then it will be crowned the FedExCup Champion, be credited with an official victory at the TOUR Championship, earn a bonus of $18 million and a five-year PGA TOUR exemption.

Do points from the regular season carry over into the playoffs?

Yes. And then any points earned in the first two FedEx Cup playoff events are added to a players' regular-season points to get their new place on the FedEx Cup points list each week.

How are the points earned different in the playoffs compared to the regular season?

A premium is given to players who win/play well in playoff events. If you won a regular-season PGA Tour stop, you earned 500 points. For a playoff win, you get 2,000 points. Similarly, all players earn four times the points for their performances in playoff events compared with regular-season tournaments.

Who are the past FedEx Cup Champions: Last 10 years winners list since 2012.

2013: Henrik Stenson

2014: Billy Horschel

2015: Jordan Spieth

2016: Rory McIlroy

2017: Justin Thomas

2018: Justin Rose

2019: Rory McIlroy

2020: Dustin Johnson

2021: Patrick Cantlay

2022: Rory McIlroy

2023:  Viktor Hovland 

2024: Scotti Scheffler

2025:  

More:    List of FedEx Cup Past Winners by Year, History 2007 - 2024.

2025 FedEx Cup Prize money, Purse payout, winner's share for All 30 Players ..

Starting in 2019, the FedEx Cup winner earned $10-15 million prize money payout from an overall prize fund of $60 million Purse.

The total bonus pool for the FedEx Cup playoffs is $100 million, with the champion earning $10 million.

The St. Jude and the BMW each have a total purse of $20 million, with the winner getting $3.6 million.

Those two events are prize money payouts, while the Tour Championship is considered "bonus" money and doesn't count toward a golfer's official money on the PGA Tour's all-time money list.

BUT THIS YEAR iT BEEN GOES TO HIGHER LEVEL.

This year, the overall payout is $100 million bonus pool and the winner will take home a whopping $10 million prize money payout.


Here’s the breakdown for what each player will earn at the Tour Championship:

1st - $10 million

2nd - $5 million

3rd - $3.7 million

4th - $3.2 million

5th - $2.75 million

6th - $1.9 million

7th - $1.4 million

8th - $1.07 million

9th - $900,000

10th - $735,000

Other 20 in Top 30 players prize pool revealed at later date.

What happens to PGA Tour golfers outside the top 70 Golf rankings?

Those who finish Nos. 71-100 in the standings will have full PGA Tour status for 2026, while players Nos. 101-125 will retain conditional status, although the top 100 and top 125 will not be finalized until after the FedExCup Fall and The RSM Classic in November.

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