In the sixth playoff in PLAYERS Championship history and first since 2015, Rory McIlroy defeated J.J. Spaun in a three-hole aggregate playoff. This was the second three-hole aggregate playoff in PLAYERS Championship history (2015) as the format was sudden-death until 2013.

Playoff Scores to Par

McIlroy becomes the eighth multiple winner of THE PLAYERS in his 15th appearance (previous win: 2019), joining Jack Nicklaus (3), Steve Elkington (2), Hal Sutton (2), Fred Couples (2), Davis Love III (2), Tiger Woods (2), Scottie Scheffler (2).

Final Leaderboard

Rory earned his 28th PGA TOUR win in his 261st start at the age of 35 years, 10 months and moves to T20 on the PGA TOUR all-time wins list (Leo Diegel, Paul Runyan).

He earns his second win of the 2025 season in his fourth start (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship) to become the first multiple winner of the 2025 season on TOUR. It’s his fourth consecutive multi-win season on TOUR and ninth multi-win season overall. He also earns 750 FedExCup points and moves up to No. 1 in the FedExCup standings.

J.J. Spaun loses in first career playoff appearance on TOUR; it’s his third career runner-up and second of the season (2^nd/2017 RSM Classic, T2/Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, P2/THE PLAYERS Championship), becoming one of two players with two runner-ups this season (other: Collin Morikawa)

Spaun moves from No. 57 to the No. 25 in the Official World Golf Ranking; moved from No. 15 to No. 5 in the FedExCup.

Best placed Australian was Min Woo Lee. In the thick of the action at the midway point of the tournament, Lee recorded a third round 78 to end his run. He closed with a 73 to finish T20.
Adam Scott (74, 72), last start rookie winner Karl Vilips (72,78) and Cam Davis (72, 80) all missed the cut of -1.