Quick Answer: Alex Noren won the 2025 BMW PGA Championship, beating Adrien Saddier in a playoff at Wentworth’s West Course on September 14. The Swede banked $1.53 million from a $9 million purse. The event returns to Wentworth from 17-20 September 2026, with general admission tickets starting at £30.
Wentworth’s West Course closes with back-to-back par 5s, and that finish decided the whole tournament again in 2025. Alex Noren and Adrien Saddier were still level after 72 holes, and the title came down to a playoff in the rain on the 18th. Below is the full picture: how Noren won, exactly how the $9 million purse got split, who else showed up (and who skipped it), the other “BMW” tournament everyone confuses this one with, and what’s changed for 2026, including current ticket prices.
How Alex Noren Won the 2025 BMW PGA Championship
Noren and Saddier both finished regulation at 19-under 269, and neither man had separated himself from the other all week. Rain arrived for the final round, softening the greens and turning Wentworth’s back nine into a different test than the one players faced on Thursday.
The playoff went to the par-5 18th, Wentworth’s signature closer, guarded by water down the entire left side. Saddier’s third shot found a tough lie left of the green. Noren’s approach came up short too, but into thick rough with a lie clean enough to work with, and his chip rolled out to two feet. Saddier’s birdie putt from range never threatened the hole, and Noren tapped in for his second BMW PGA Championship title.
Here’s the detail most recaps buried: Noren already shared the course record at Wentworth’s West Course, a 62 set in 2017 the same year he first won this event. Winning it again in 2025 wasn’t a lucky pairing of form and course fit. This is a golfer who has genuinely figured out one specific golf course, twice, eight years apart.
Eleven of the twelve players on that year’s European Ryder Cup team teed it up at Wentworth that week, treating it as a tune-up two weeks before Bethpage Black. Noren wasn’t one of them. He made the trip as a vice-captain, not a player, which makes the win sharper: he beat a field stacked with Ryder Cuppers while not even being one himself that year.
BMW PGA Championship 2025 Leaderboard: Top 10 at Wentworth
| Pos | Player | Country | Score | Prize Money | 2025 Ryder Cup Team? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Noren (won playoff) | Sweden | -19 (269) | $1,530,000 | No vice-captain |
| 2 | Adrien Saddier | France | -19 (269) | $990,000 | No |
| T3 | Patrick Reed | USA | -16 (272) | $508,500 | No |
| T3 | Aaron Rai | England | -16 (272) | $508,500 | No |
| T5 | Viktor Hovland | Norway | -15 (273) | $262,200 | Yes |
| T5 | Darren Fichardt | South Africa | -15 (273) | $262,200 | No |
| T5 | Ewen Ferguson | Scotland | -15 (273) | $262,200 | No |
| T5 | Matt Fitzpatrick | England | -15 (273) | $262,200 | Yes |
| T5 | Si Woo Kim | South Korea | -15 (273) | $262,200 | No |
| T5 | Tyrrell Hatton | England | -15 (273) | $262,200 | Yes |
Wentworth’s closing stretch is the best week-to-week finish in European golf, full stop. Nowhere else on the DP World Tour schedule do two genuine eagle-or-disaster par 5s land back-to-back at the very end of a Sunday.
Patrick Reed’s tie for third deserves a second look. He’s a LIV golfer who rarely tees it up on the DP World Tour, and this result his best finish of the year by some distance, came in a field that had every reason to look past Wentworth entirely, two weeks out from a Ryder Cup he wasn’t part of.
BMW PGA Championship 2025 Prize Money: Inside the $9 Million Purse
Here’s the full list of BMW PGA Championship 2025 winners’ payouts, from Noren’s $1.53 million down through the field. His winner’s share worked out to roughly 17% of the total purse, in line with how the DP World Tour pays its Rolex Series events. Saddier’s runner-up cheque came to $990,000. From there the money drops fast: third place split $508,500 each, and every player who finished T31 or worse still cleared five figures.
That $9 million purse has held for three straight years now. It sat at $7 million as recently as 2020, climbed to $8 million in 2021, and has stayed at $9 million since, a jump of nearly 30% in five years, and still the richest week on the DP World Tour outside the majors and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
The win also carried an elevated 8,000 Race to Dubai points on offer, with Noren collecting 1,335 of them for the victory. That kind of points swing can shift a player’s entire end-of-season ranking on its own.
BMW PGA Championship 2025 Players: Who Showed Up (and Who Didn’t)
The 2025 field carried serious depth, but not everyone finished where you’d expect. Rory McIlroy carded solid rounds in practice but finished T20 at 12-under, three shots off Jon Rahm’s T13. Neither ever got close to the lead. Hideki Matsuyama matched Rahm’s 13-under finish in that same tied group, if you want the fuller picture of his career earnings and current ranking, our Hideki Matsuyama profile covers it in depth.
If you wanted a leaderboard stacked with the sport’s biggest stars, 2025 undersells itself a little. McIlroy and Rahm both had quiet weeks, and the headline story ended up being two players, Noren and Saddier, who plenty of casual fans outside Europe wouldn’t recognise on sight.
Only one player skipped the Ryder Cup prep entirely: Sepp Straka stayed home in the US with a newborn rather than fly to Surrey. Every other fit and available member of that 12-man European team played, which tells you how seriously Wentworth gets treated as a Bethpage tune-up, not just another start on the schedule.
Is the BMW PGA Championship the Same as the BMW Championship?
No, and this mix-up trips up more searches than you’d think. These are two entirely different tournaments, run by two different tours, on two different continents.
The BMW PGA Championship is the DP World Tour’s flagship event, played every September at Wentworth Club in Surrey, England. Alex Noren won the 2025 edition, as covered above.
The BMW Championship is a PGA Tour event and one of three FedEx Cup Playoff tournaments, played in August at a rotating US venue, Caves Valley Golf Club in Maryland in 2025. Scottie Scheffler won that one, taking a $3.6 million winner’s share from a $20 million purse, more than double what Noren earned at Wentworth.
Even major sports sites mix these two events up in their own internal linking. If a search for this tournament sends you to a leaderboard from Owings Mills, Maryland, or a ticket page quoting dollars instead of pounds, that’s the American event, not the one this article covers.
Wentworth’s West Course: The Two Holes That Decide the BMW PGA Championship
The West Course dates back to 1926, designed by Harry Colt, with a significant Ernie Els and Greg Letsche renovation completed in 2017, the same year Noren first won here and set a share of the course record. Depending on the tee setup, it plays to somewhere around 7,280-7,300 yards at par 72.
The finishing two-hole stretch is the whole story. Both 17 and 18 are par 5s, reachable in two for most of the field but genuinely risky, with water guarding the left side of 18 the entire way in. That’s why leaderboards here bunch up late and playoffs happen more often than at most European venues, for a broader sense of how course design shapes these swings, our course-by-course breakdowns cover the same idea at Riviera.
Nineteen-under for the win sounds soft next to a US Open score, and it is, but that’s the format working as intended, not a flaw. Wentworth rewards aggression on the closing holes, and 2025 delivered exactly that kind of finish.
BMW PGA Championship 2026: Dates, Tickets and What’s Changing
If you’re searching “BMW PGA Championship 2025 tickets,” that window has closed, the tournament finished in September 2025. What’s actually on sale right now is 2026.
The 2026 BMW PGA Championship runs 17-20 September at Wentworth Club, with practice and the celebrity Pro-Am starting from 15 September. Sold-out crowds turned up on four of five days in 2025, plus a record attendance figure, so 2026 tickets should move fast. We have full ticket pricing for 2026 below; the prize fund is the one number still missing, the DP World Tour hasn’t announced it as of this writing, and we’ll update this section once it does.
| Package | From (per person) | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| General Admission | £30/day | First-timers who just want to walk the course |
| Treetops | £155 | Elevated views over the par-3 14th, still casual |
| 72 Lounge | £308 | Groups wanting flexible, informal dining |
| 72 Signature Lounge | £405 | Upper-deck views plus 18th grandstand access |
| The Approach | £450 | Watching tee shots and approaches into 18 |
| The Ballroom | £460 | Clubhouse dining, halfway-hut shuttle on the 9th |
| Green on 18 | £625 | Best-in-house 18th green views, 3-course lunch |
None of this is cheap. A single General Admission day starts at £30, but the top hospitality package runs to £625 per person before food and drink, this isn’t a budget day out, and it’s worth planning for parking, travel from central London (about 40 minutes away), and food on top of whatever ticket tier you pick.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the BMW PGA Championship in 2025?
Alex Noren won, beating Adrien Saddier in a playoff on the 18th hole at Wentworth. Both players finished regulation at 19-under 269. It was Noren’s second BMW PGA Championship title, he also won in 2017, the same year he set a share of the Wentworth course record.
How much prize money did Alex Noren win at Wentworth in 2025?
Noren earned $1,530,000 from the tournament’s $9 million purse. Runner-up Adrien Saddier collected $990,000. The purse has held at $9 million for three straight years, up from $7 million as recently as 2020.
Is the BMW PGA Championship the same as the BMW Championship?
No. The BMW PGA Championship is a DP World Tour event at Wentworth in England, while the BMW Championship is a PGA Tour FedEx Cup Playoff event held on a rotating US course.
When is the BMW PGA Championship 2026?
The 2026 edition runs 17-20 September at Wentworth Club, with the pro-am and practice days starting 15 September.
How much are BMW PGA Championship 2026 tickets?
General admission starts at £30 per day, with premium hospitality packages running from £308 up to £625 per person.
Where is the BMW PGA Championship played?
Wentworth Club’s West Course hosts the tournament, in Virginia Water, Surrey, about 40 minutes from central London. The club has hosted the event, under various names, since 1926, and Ernie Els led a significant redesign that finished in 2017.
Final Word
Noren’s win at Wentworth wasn’t a fluke, it’s a golfer who has now solved this specific course twice, eight years apart, beating a Ryder Cup-stacked field to do it. If you’re planning to see the 2026 edition in person, book early: 2025 sold out four of five days, and general admission from £30 is still the cheapest way in. For a sense of how tour scoring like Noren’s 19-under actually compares to a real handicap, see our golf handicap explainer.