Quick Answer: Scottie Scheffler won the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, finishing at 11-under-par 273 — five strokes ahead of Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley. It was his first PGA Championship and third career major. He earned $3.42 million from the tournament’s then-record $19 million purse.
I had this one on in the background on a Sunday afternoon and nearly burned dinner during the back nine. That’s the kind of finish this tournament turned into. Scottie Scheffler built a five-shot lead, watched almost all of it evaporate by the turn, then reasserted himself over the closing “Green Mile” stretch to win by the same five shots he started the day with.
Short version: Scheffler was this year’s winner, Quail Hollow played hard, and the purse hit a tournament record. Below is the round-by-round detail, the full payout breakdown, and — since “PGA Championship” gets attached to at least six unrelated tournaments online — a quick guide to making sure you’re reading about the right one. If you already know the leaderboard and just want the money, skip straight to the payout table; the recap section won’t tell you anything new.
2025 PGA Championship Final Leaderboard
This was the 107th PGA Championship, the second men’s major of the 2025 season, played May 15–18 at Quail Hollow Club. Par ran 71 for the week, and the field included 16 LIV Golf players competing under the PGA of America’s invitation criteria alongside the usual mix of PGA Tour winners and major champions.
Here are the full results from the top of the leaderboard:
| Place | Player | Score | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | 273 | -11 |
| T2 | Bryson DeChambeau | 275 | -6 |
| T2 | Harris English | 275 | -6 |
| T2 | Davis Riley | 275 | -6 |
| T5 | Taylor Pendrith | 276 | -5 |
| T5 | Jhonattan Vegas | 276 | -5 |
| T5 | J.T. Poston | 276 | -5 |
| T8 | Jon Rahm | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Keegan Bradley | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Si Woo Kim | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Joaquín Niemann | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Ben Griffin | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Denny McCarthy | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Ryan Gerard | 277 | -4 |
| T8 | Joe Highsmith | 277 | -4 |
| T17 | Alex Norén | 278 | -3 |
| T17 | Matt Wallace | 278 | -3 |
Defending champion Xander Schauffele had a quiet week and finished T28. Rory McIlroy — fresh off completing the career Grand Slam at the Masters that April — never got into contention either, opening with a 72 and settling for a tie for 47th.
How Scheffler Won: A Round-by-Round Breakdown
Raw scores tell you who won. They don’t explain how strange Thursday and Friday were, or how close Sunday actually got.
Rounds 1-2: Vegas leads, the favorites stay quiet
Jhonattan Vegas opened with a 7-under 64 to grab a two-shot lead — the first time any player has led a round of a men’s major representing Venezuela. A one-under 70 on Friday stretched his lead to two shots at the halfway point, still the first time a Venezuelan golfer had held the outright lead at a major after any round. Scheffler and McIlroy both stayed quiet through 36 holes.
Friday’s better story might have belonged to Luke Donald. At 47 years old and ranked 871st in the world without a made cut anywhere in 2025, he carded a bogey-free 67 — the only clean round of the day. He faded on the weekend, but I still think it’s the round I’d want to watch back if I could only pick one clip from Thursday or Friday.
Round 3: Scheffler’s 65 changes everything
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler shot the low round of the day, a 6-under 65, to grab the outright lead at 11-under. Everything turned at the 304-yard par-4 14th, short enough to tempt an aggressive tee shot, where he stuffed his drive to three feet and made eagle. Three more birdies over his last four holes gave him a three-shot cushion over Alex Norén heading into Sunday.
Norén’s spot atop the leaderboard was its own story. He’d played exactly one competitive round all year after tearing a hamstring tendon in January, and his best finish across 39 prior major starts was a tie for sixth. He wouldn’t finish that high here either, but for three days it looked genuinely possible.
Round 4: The lead disappears, then comes right back
This is where it got tight. Bryson DeChambeau, runner-up here in 2024, took the outright lead through 15 holes before finding water on 17 and closing with a bogey to fall to 6-under — our full Bryson DeChambeau profile covers how the rest of his 2025 season went. Jon Rahm briefly drew level with Scheffler after a birdie on the difficult 11th, with Scheffler having played the front nine in 2-over, before Rahm gave three shots back over the closing “Green Mile” (16, 17, 18) and finished tied for 8th.
Scheffler’s even-par 71 was good enough once nobody chasing him could finish clean. Harris English climbed into a tie for second with a final-round 65, birdieing six of his last twelve holes — and if you ask me, that was the best round anybody played all week, better than Scheffler’s Saturday 65, because English shot it from four groups back with real pressure on every putt. Davis Riley recovered from a triple bogey on the par-4 7th to shoot 73 and join him. Both were career-best major finishes.
Scheffler’s 71 gave him 11-under 273 for the week: his first PGA Championship, and third career major after his 2022 and 2024 Masters wins.
2025 PGA Championship Payout: Full Purse Breakdown
The total purse reached $19 million for 2025, a tournament record at the time and up from $18.5 million in 2024. That number climbed again the following year, but $19 million was what sat on the table at Quail Hollow that week.
Below is the payout through the top of the field, with a column most purse breakdowns leave out: what actually made each finish notable.
| Finish | Player | Earnings | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | $3,420,000 | First PGA Championship, third career major |
| T2 | Bryson DeChambeau | $1,418,667 | Led through 15 holes before a closing bogey |
| T2 | Harris English | $1,418,667 | Best major finish of his career |
| T2 | Davis Riley | $1,418,667 | Best major finish of his career |
| T5 | Taylor Pendrith | $694,700 | — |
| T5 | Jhonattan Vegas | $694,700 | Held the 36-hole lead; first Venezuelan to do so at a major |
| T5 | J.T. Poston | $694,700 | — |
| T8 (9-way) | Rahm, Fitzpatrick, Bradley, Kim, Niemann, Griffin, McCarthy, Gerard, Highsmith | $415,262 each | Rahm briefly tied for the lead on Sunday’s front nine |
| T17 | Alex Norén, Matt Wallace | $290,230 | Norén’s first real contention since a January hamstring tear |
Every player who made the cut earned a six-figure check through 32nd place, and the payout continued down to 74th, the last player to complete all four rounds. The winner and the three players tied for second combined to take home more than $7.6 million of the $19 million pool — over 40% of the purse split between just four players.
Quail Hollow Club: Course Facts That Actually Matter
Quail Hollow Club hosted its second PGA Championship in 2025; the first came in 2017, when Justin Thomas won. That created an odd scheduling wrinkle. Quail Hollow normally hosts the PGA Tour’s Truist Championship (formerly the Wells Fargo Championship), but the Truist moved to Philadelphia Cricket Club for 2025 to free up the course for the major.
The course played to a par of 71 and roughly 7,600 yards for the week, split 3,744 yards on the front and 3,882 on the back. Nothing tests a scorecard like the closing stretch of 16, 17 and 18 — a 529-yard par-4, a 223-yard par-3, and a 494-yard par-4 that players and broadcasters call the “Green Mile.” That nickname actually undersells it; those three holes produced the single best 45 minutes of golf on TV all year, and Rahm’s Sunday collapse happened almost entirely inside them.
Not the Tournament You’re Looking For? Here’s How to Tell
People use “PGA Championship” to describe more than half a dozen different events, and if you landed here searching for one of the others, here’s where to look instead:
- BMW PGA Championship — a DP World Tour (European Tour) event at Wentworth Club in England, run separately from the major covered above.
- Australian PGA Championship (sometimes “BMW Australian PGA Championship”) — run by the PGA of Australia, a completely different governing body.
- KPMG Women’s PGA Championship — the LPGA’s major. Our profile of 2023 champion Ruoning Yin covers her path to that title.
- Junior PGA Championship — the PGA of America’s championship for golfers under 19.
- PGA Tour Championship — the FedEx Cup season finale at East Lake Golf Club, an entirely different event from the major above. Tommy Fleetwood won the 2025 edition, his first PGA Tour title.
- PGA Professional Championship — the qualifying event for club professionals, some of whom earn their way into the actual PGA Championship field through it.
- The Open Championship — golf’s oldest major, run by the R&A rather than the PGA of America. Scheffler won this one too in 2025, a few weeks after Quail Hollow.
- Wyndham Championship, Travelers Championship and Procore Championship — regular PGA Tour events, not majors, and not connected to the tournament on this page beyond sharing “PGA” in the name.
If you meant the major at Quail Hollow, you’re in the right place.
What Scheffler’s Win Actually Means, One Year Later
Every recap published in May 2025 stopped at “third major,” because that’s all anyone knew at the time. A few weeks later, Scheffler added the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush, turning a three-major résumé into a four-major one before the year was out — our full Scottie Scheffler profile has the complete list. Quail Hollow wasn’t the story’s ending. It marked the pivot where “very good player with two green jackets” turned into “a golfer chasing the career Grand Slam,” with only the U.S. Open left on his list heading into 2026.
That’s context a same-week recap can’t give you, and it’s the whole difference between reading about this tournament in May 2025 and reading about it now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the 2025 PGA Championship?
Scottie Scheffler won the 2025 PGA Championship, finishing at 11-under-par 273 at Quail Hollow Club — five strokes ahead of Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley. It was his first PGA Championship title and third career major.
What was the 2025 PGA Championship payout?
The total purse was $19 million, a tournament record at the time. Scheffler’s winning share came to $3.42 million, and every finisher through 32nd place earned six figures or more.
Where was the 2025 PGA Championship played?
Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, hosted the event from May 15–18, 2025 — its second time hosting the PGA Championship after 2017.
Who is the famous drinker golfer?
In golf media, that description most often points to John Daly, who’s written and spoken openly for years about his own history with alcohol as part of his public story.
What happened to Scottie Scheffler today?
At this tournament specifically: Scheffler built a five-shot lead, watched Jon Rahm briefly draw level with him on Sunday’s front nine, then pulled away again over the closing holes to win by five.
What does F mean in golf?
On a live leaderboard, “F” marks a player as finished — every hole posted, scorecard complete. Some boards show “F*” instead, which usually flags a player who finished on a different tee-time wave than the rest of the field, common at events with a split start.
Do pro golfers pay for their hotel rooms?
Not usually at PGA Tour and major-championship events. Most weeks run on host-housing programs where local families provide free lodging for players and caddies, and the ones who skip that route often get access to special tournament-week hotel rates instead.
The Bottom Line
Golf fans will remember this major for two things: Scottie Scheffler’s five-shot win at Quail Hollow, and how much closer that margin looked from the 11th tee on Sunday than it does on the final scorecard. A $19 million purse, a Green Mile collapse from Jon Rahm, and career-best finishes for two players who’d never sniffed major contention before — that’s a lot packed into one Sunday in Charlotte. For the fuller picture of how Scheffler’s season unfolded from here, our Scheffler profile tracks everything that came after.