The 2025 Masters was poised for an electric finish Sunday as a loaded leaderboard entered the final round with all eyes focused on the green jacket. The first major championship of the year was ultimately decided at Augusta National Golf Club, but it took 73 holes to do it as Rory McIlroy emerged with his first green jacket while becoming the sixth man in history to complete the career grand slam.
It took McIlroy 11 years to win his fifth and major championship, but despite battling thorugh adversity and near agony, it was pure relief and euphoria for the Northern Irishman, who walked off his fifth trek around the 18th this week with more hardware on his mantle.
The Masters this week announced a record $21 million purse would be divided amongst the 53 players who made the cut at Augusta National. A record $4.2 million will be awarded to the 2025 champion, McIlroy, an increase of $600,000 from what Scottie Scheffler earned when he captured his second green jacket in 2024.
Take-home pay of at least $1 million goes to the top four finishers, meaning there were be some significant shots down the stretch Sunday that were be immensely important both to the tournament outcome and players’ bank accounts.
For those who do not find themselves in contention to win in the latter stages of the round, the next-most important position was 12th place as finishing there or higher on the leaderboard earned players an invitation for the 90th Masters. Not only that, finishing as “low” as 12th still netted a golfer nearly half a million dollars for their participation in this tradition unlike any other.
The top 50 at the 2025 Masters will all take home at least $52,920 with anyone outside the top 50 receiving cash prizes descending from $51,660 — a nice reward for battling to get inside the cut line.
Let’s take a look at the complete 2025 Masters prize money breakdown, including the total purse and payouts for each position in the field.
2025 Masters prize money, purse, payouts
Total purse: $21 million
1st — $4,200,000 — Rory McIlroy
2nd — $2,268,000 — Justin Rose
3rd — $1,428,000 — Patrick Reed
4th — $1,008,000 — Scottie Scheffler
T-5th — $798,000 — Sungjae Im, Bryson DeChambeau
7th — $703,500 — Ludvig Åberg
T-8th — $588,000 — Xander Schauffele, Zach Johnson, Corey Conners, Jason Day
T-12th — $462,000 — Max Homa, Harris English
T-14th — $336,000 — Tom Hoge, Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm, Matt McCarty, Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson
T-21st — $210,000 — Davis Riley, Daniel Berger, Tommy Fleetwood, Byeong Hun An, Hideki Matsuyama, Viktor Hovland
T-27th — $158,550 — Michael Kim, Aaron Rai
T-29th — $142,800 — Joaquín Niemann, Denny McCarthy, Sahith Theegala
T-32nd — $121,538 — Rasmus Høgaard, Maverick McNealy, Brian Campbell, Max Greyserman
T-36th — $101,063 — Justin Thomas, Brian Harman, Charl Schwartzel, Patrick Cantlay
T-40th — $88,200 — Matt Fitzpatrick, Nick Taylor
T-42nd — $75,600 — Danny Willett, Akshay Bhatia, J.T. Poston, Shane Lowry
T-46th — $61,180 — Sam Burns, Davis Thompson, Wyndham Clark
49th — $54,600 — Min Woo Lee
50th — $52,920 — J.J. Spaun
51st — $51,660 — Nico Echavarria
T-52nd — Tom Kim, Stephan Jaeger
The remainder of the professionals will receive cash prizes downward from $51,660 depending on the scores. All professionals who missed the cut will receive $25,000.
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