MASTERS
Masters Tournament 2025
The winner of the 2025 Masters Tournament will walk away not only with a good-looking green jacket, but also with a fatter wallet.
First-round action tees off Thursday at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for the 89th Masters Tournament. Action continues through Sunday, where one golfer from the initial 95-team field will look to walk up to the iconic 18th hole looking to make that legendary, multimillion dollar-winning putt.
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How much the winner and other competitors can walk away will not be known until the end of the tournament, but a payout of than $20 million is expected to be handed out among the golfers in this year’s field.
For the first time ever, the Masters pool was $20 million in 2024. That means the pool for the winner was higher than ever, too. Scottie Scheffler won $3.6 million after beating Ludvig Aberg by four shots to win his second Masters in three years. Aberg still got a nice purse of $2.16 million.
Here’s what you need to know about the 2025 Masters prize payout:
2025 Masters winner payout
The tournament won’t announce an official purse until later in the tournament, until after the official cuts are made. However, based on last year’s total purse, the purse is once again expected to be over $20 million and break a new record.
Last year, Scheffler walked away with a purse of $3.6 million for winning the tournament, which was nearly $! million more than what he made when he won the tournament in 2022. Here’s a look at how much the winner has been paid out every year since 2020:
- 2024 winner’s share: $3.6 million (Scottie Scheffler)
- 2023 winner’s share: $3.24 million (Jon Rahm)
- 2022 winner’s share: $2.7 million (Scottie Scheffler)
- 2021 winner’s share: $2.07 million (Hideki Matsuyama)
- 2020 winner’s share: $1.8 million (Dustin Johnson)
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2024 Masters prize payouts
Each of the top five placers took home a purse of over $1 million last year at the Masters. Meanwhile, even the players who did not make the cut got a payout of $10,000.
Here’s a look at the top 10 Masters purse payouts for 2024:
- 1. Scottie Scheffler: $3,600,000
- 2. Ludvig Aberg: $2,160,000
- T-3. Collin Morikawa: $1,040,000
- T-3. Tommy Fleetwood: $1,040,000
- T-3. Max Homa: $1,040,000
- T-6. Cameron Smith: $695,000
- T-6. Bryson DeChambeau: $695,000
- 8. Xander Schauffele: $620,000
- T-9. Will Zalatoris: $540,000
- T-9. Tyrrell Hatton: $540,000
- T-9. Cameron Young: $540,000
