Players Championship Leaderboard 2025: FedEx Points and Prize Money for Top Stars
Rory McIlroy captured his second Players Championship title on Monday in a three-hole playoff win over J.J. Spaun.
McIlroy defeated Spaun by three shots to claim one of the top non-major titles on the PGA Tour.
McIlroy took home a $4.5 winner's purse and kickstarted a ton of buzz for what the 2025 major season could look like for the Northern Irishman.
Players Championship Leaderboard
Rory McIlroy (-12) (won playoff by two strokes)
J.J. Spaun (-12)
Tom Hoge (-10)
Akshay Bhatia (-10)
Lucas Glover (-10)
Danny Walker (-9)
Corey Conners (-9)
Bud Cauley (-9)
Full leaderboard can be found here on PGATour.com.
McIlroy outlasted Spaun in a Monday morning playoff in which the windy conditions got the best of both players.
McIlroy shot one-over across the 16th, 17th and 18th holes, but his birdie on the 16th hole was key to his success. He held the advantage going into the 17th hole, where Spaun misjudged his tee shot and ended up with a triple bogey on the par-three.
McIlroy had a bogey-bogey finish to the playoff, but Spaun's triple bogey determined the final result before the 18th hole.
McIlroy was awarded 750 FedEx Cup points for his victory. He is now first in the FedEx Cup standings by 304 points ahead of Sepp Straka.
Spaun, who has three top-three finishes on the PGA Tour this season, moved up to fifth in the FedEx Cup standings.
The full FedEx Cup standings can be viewed on the PGA Tour's official website.
The Players Championship is one of five events, along with the four majors, to award 750 FedEx Cup points to the winner.
McIlroy's triumph at TPC Sawgrass will increase the hype around what he can do at the season's four majors, starting with The Masters in April.
The 35-year-old is still in search of his first major title since 2014. He'll get the first crack at that at Augusta in April, where he and Scottie Scheffler will enter as the favorites.
CBI 2025: Tournament Bracket, Schedule, Format and Men's Teams to Watch
Twelve men's college basketball teams will descend upon Daytona Beach, Florida from March 22-26 for the College Basketball Invitational tournament.
The CBI is one of four postseason events and its field is strictly made up of mid-major programs.
Florida Gulf Coast, UC Riverside, Jacksonville and Cleveland State all received byes in the quarterfinals.
Eight other teams have to play a first-round game. Those eight squads need four wins to capture the tournament title.
2025 CBI Bracket and Schedule
Teams to Watch
Florida Gulf Coast
Florida Gulf Coast comes into the CBI in a decent bit of form.
The Eagles reeled off a four-game winning streak to conclude the Atlantic Sun regular season. They lost in the first round of the A-Sun tournament, though, to fellow CBI participant Queens.
FGCU finished with an 18-13 overall mark and a 13-5 record in conference play. It will have an edge in its quarterfinal matchup since both Elon and Army struggled down the stretch.
FCGU should be viewed as the favorite to reach the final from the top side of the bracket because of its overall record.
The Eagles produced one of the best conference records across the 12-team field and it has one of the highest KenPom rankings in the field at 172.
UC Riverside
UC Riverside pulled off two of the best mid-major wins of the regular season when it knocked off UC San Diego and UC Irvine in consecutive days.
Those victories showcased UC Riverside's potential against top mid-major programs. UC San Diego is in the NCAA tournament and UC Irvine made the NIT as the Big West tournament runner-up.
The 21-11 Highlanders, like FGCU, did not win a conference tournament game, but they still have potential to go deep in the CBI.
UC Riverside won 21 games and was competitive out of conference with a win over Colorado State and close losses to BYU and Oregon.
The Highlanders can bank on their experience against tougher opposition to help them throughout the CBI, where they are on the tougher side of the bracket alongside Cleveland State and Jacksonville.
Players Championship Leaderboard 2025: Reviewing Top Day 3 Scorecards, Player Stats
J.J. Spaun is the unlikely 54-hole leader at the Players Championship.
Spaun navigated treacherous conditions at TPC Sawgrass to shoot a two-under 70 and take a one-shot lead into Sunday.
Spaun owns a slight advantage over Bud Cauley, who was one of three golfers tied for Saturday's low round of 66.
The tournament is far from over, but Spaun, Cauley and others do have a sizable buffer over some of the top names in the field.
Rory McIlroy is four shots back of the lead, while Scottie Scheffler is seven shots adrift going into Sunday morning's final round.
The fourth round will be played on Sunday morning due to weather conditions in the Jacksonville area.
Players Championship Leaderboard
J.J. Spaun (-12)
Bud Cauley (-11)
Lucas Glover (-9)
Alex Smalley (-9)
Corey Conners (-8)
Rory McIlroy (-8)
Akshay Bhatia (-8)
Full leaderboard can be found here on PGATour.com.
Spaun fought through difficult conditions at TPC Sawgrass to produce a two-under 70.
The 54-hole leader rolled in five birdies, but he also had three bogeys, two of which came immediately after birdies.
A key par putt on the 18th hole allowed Spaun to take the solo advantage into Sunday's final round.
Bud Cauley is the only other golfer with a double-digit number under par and that is thanks to a six-under 66.
Cauley tied Corey Conners and Danny Walker for the low third-round score. Conners is four back of Spaun, while Walker sits five shots behind.
Cauley caught fire on the final 10 holes, a run that started with an eagle on the ninth hole.
He went on to roll in four birdies on his final eight holes to become the closest challenger to Spaun.
Spaun and Cauley's success stories stood out amid a round of carnage for some of the most notable golfers in the field.
Rory McIlroy dropped three shots on the 12th, 13th and 17th holes. He rebounded with a birdie on the 18th, but he still finished with a one-over score for the round.
Scottie Scheffler also carded three bogeys on the back nine. That cancelled out his three birdies on the day. His 72 kept him at five-under for the tournament.
At least McIlroy and Scheffler can claim they have an outside shot to still win the tournament.
Rickie Fowler shot a 10-over 82, Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa both recorded five-over 77s.
Will Zalatoris had the worst day of any potential winner. He went from a potential winner of the event through six holes on Saturday to 10 shots back of the lead.
Zalatoris fell apart on the back nine with a trio of double bogeys on the 14th, 16th and 17th holes. His disaster round ended with a bogey on the 18th hole.
Sunday's final round will take place in the morning with threesomes teeing off split tees on the first and 10th holes starting at 8 a.m. ET.
Players Championship Leaderboard 2025: Reviewing Top Day 2 Scorecards, Player Stats
Justin Thomas produced one of the most drastic round-to-round swings as you'll ever see on the PGA Tour on Friday.
Thomas rebounded from a first-round 78 by tying the course record at TPC Sawgrass with a second-round 62.
Thomas still has loads of work to do to challenge for the lead. His first round set him back and he is currently seven shots back.
Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa are among the golfers right around the lead held by Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia.
McIlroy and Morikawa enter Saturday's third round just two shots back of the pair of leaders at 11-under.
Players Championship Leaderboard
Min Woo Lee (-11)
Akshay Bhatia (-11)
J.J. Spaun (-10)
Rory McIlroy (-9)
Collin Morikawa (-9)
Alex Smalley (-9)
Lucas Glover (-8)
Will Zalatoris (-8)
Full leaderboard can be found on PGATour.com.
Justin Thomas' 62 was the story of the day at TPC Sawgrass.
Thomas rolled in 11 birdies during his incredible round, but it finished with one major blemish.
Thomas found the water on the 18th hole and gave a shot back to the course with a bogey to settle for a tie with the course record. A par or birdie on the 18th would have given Thomas the new course record.
Thomas might need another 62 to get into winning contention, though, because his first round was so bad. Friday's incredible performance allowed Thomas to stick around for the weekend.
Low scores were a theme across the course on Friday, especially for some of the leaders.
Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia both carded 66s to finish in a two-way tie for the lead at 11-under. The two leaders combined for 15 birdies. Lee would've had the solo lead after 36 holes if he did not bogey the ninth hole, his final hole of the day.
Only Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Charley Hoffman recorded better second-round scorers than Lee and Bhatia.
Morikawa's seven-under 65 moved him to nine-under for the tournament and into a tie with McIlroy.
McIlroy was poised to be in the tie for the lead until he bogeyed the sixth and ninth holes and dropped back to nine-under.
Two-time reigning Players Championship winner Scottie Scheffler is six shots back of the lead at five-under. Scheffler only produced a two-under 70, but with the way the course played on Friday, there's always a chance he ends up near the top of the leaderboard by Saturday's end.