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Three Key Holes at Phoenix Country Club

Steven Alker breaks down a few important holes at Phoenix CC ahead of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship

PHOENIX — The Charles Schwab Cup Championship is the final event of the PGA Tour Champions 2025 season. It’s one last chance to bank a payday before the offseason/silly season for the senior circuit golfers.

First place at Phoenix Country Club was good for $528,000. The top eight finishers all earned checks in the six figures. All 36 players in the field get paid as well, as there was no cut this week in the 72-hole event, the only non-major to go 72 holes all season.

2025 Charles Schwab Cup Championship prize money

Stewart Cink won for the fourth time on the PGA Tour Champions and the third time in 2025 with his two-shot win over Steven Alker on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club.

His first-place check in Arizona puts him at $3.4 million for the season.

Pos. Player Score Earnings 1 Stewart Cink -20 $528,000 2 Steven Alker -18 $300,000 T3 Freddie Jacobson -15 $214,000 T3 Jerry Kelly -15 $214,000 T3 Tommy Gainey -15 $214,000 T6 Alex Cejka -14 $135,750 T6 Steve Flesch -14 $135,750 T8 Vijay Singh -13 $97,500 T8 Tag Ridings -13 $97,500 T10 Steve Allan -12 $73,500 T10 Cameron Percy -12 $73,500 T10 Miguel Angel Jiménez -12 $73,500 T10 Thomas Bjorn -12 $73,500 14 Bernhard Langer -11 $66,000 T15 Soren Kjeldsen -10 $61,500 T15 Matt Gogel -10 $61,500 T17 Greg Chalmers -9 $53,000 T17 Doug Barron -9 $53,000 T17 Richard Green -9 $37,000 T20 K.J. Choi -8 $37,000 T20 Ángel Cabrera -8 $37,000 T20 Charlie Wi -8 $37,000 T23 Darren Clarke -7 $27,000 T23 Ernie Els -7 $27,000 T23 Jason Caron -7 $27,000 T23 Padraig Harrington -7 $27,000 T23 Y.E. Yang -7 $27,000 T28 Mark Hensby -5 $22,125 T28 Boo Weekley -5 $22,125 30 Tim O’Neal -4 $21,000 31 Michael Wright -3 $20,250 T32 Justin Leonard -1 $19,125 T32 Retief Goosen -1 $19,125 T34 Tim Petrovic E $17,625 T34 Paul Stankowski E $17,625 36 Ricardo Gonzalez 2 $16,500

There was also money paid out in the Charles Schwab Cup season-long points race. Only the top-five finishers in this contest earn money and what they get is a lump-sum deposit into a Schwab brokeage account to be invested into a Schwab-managed portfolio.

  1. Stewart Cink, $1 million
  2. Steven Alker, $500,000
  3. Miguel Angel Jimenez, $300,000
  4. Ernie Els, $200,000
  5. Thomas Bjorn, $100,000