How Much Prize Money Has Rory McIlroy Won In 2025?
The World No.2 has claimed some significant titles this year and recorded a number of other high finishes - but how much prize money has he collected?


Mike Hall
In April 2025, Rory McIlroy became just the second golfer ever to surpass the $100 million earnings mark on the PGA Tour behind a certain Tiger Woods.
The Northern Irishman's extremely successful career has arrived at a time where purses are at record-high levels, and McIlroy is quite literally cashing in by maintaining his generational levels of consistency everywhere he goes.
A winner in all but two seasons since claiming his first pro title at the European Tour's 2009 Dubai Desert Classic (2017 and 2020), the 36-year-old has collected over $10 million in prize money in each of the past four seasons (2025 inclusive) and scooped over $5 million in all but three campaigns since 2013-2014.
McIlroy will extend all of those records through at least 2025 as well after winning two PGA Tour events and a Major before May, with another big win coming in September's Irish Open on the DP World Tour.
The first of his triumphs arrived in just McIlroy's second start of the year at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Fuelled by an early tournament ace, the Holywood-born pro beat good friend Shane Lowry to the title by two shots to earn $3.6 million.
Rory McIlroy's first win of 2025 came at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am
That US success occurred two weeks after the World No.2 had finished T4th on the DP World Tour's Dubai Desert Classic and banked a check for just north of $460,000.
A couple of top-20 results at the Genesis Invitational and Arnold Palmer Invitational secured McIlroy a cumulative package of roughly $620,000 for two weeks' work, all before the biggest prize purse of the year at The Players Championship.
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McIlroy defeated JJ Spaun in a Monday playoff at TPC Sawgrass to collect the $4.5 million top check and almost double his season earnings up to that point.
Upon his return and serving as preparation for The Masters, McIlroy ended T5th at the Texas Children's Houston Open to scoop around $338,000. Seven days later, and McIlroy fulfilled a childhood dream in winning a Green Jacket at Augusta National.
The five-time Major winner received $4.2 million off the back of his career Grand Slam achievement, taking his season tally to over $13 million in just seven appearances.
Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam at The Masters
Working with Lowry at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, McIlroy endured a frustrating time and finished a relatively disappointing T12th, picking up a pay packet of about $69,000.
Two weeks later and the Northern Irishman scored a prize worth almost 10 times that at the Truist Championship ($602,500) courtesy of ending the Signature Event at Philadelphia Cricket Club T7th.
After barely making the cut at the PGA Championship and finishing T47th, McIlroy won $49,190. His following start, at the RBC Canadian Open, would turn out to be even more disappointing as a missed cut made the trip up to TPC Toronto fruitless.
He was still struggling for his best form at the US Open, but he rallied in the final round to finish T19 at Oakmont for a $242,532 payday. A week later, a T6 in the final Signature Event of the year, the Travelers Championship, handed him $695,000.
McIlroy then lapped up the appreciation from the home fans in The Open at Royal Portrush - an atmosphere that inspired him to a T7 finish and a paycheck of $451,834, before he took a well-earned break, including skipping the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Even then, he earned money without swinging a club thanks to finishing second in the Comcast Business Tour Top 10, which banked him a bonus payout of $6m.
On his return to action at the BMW Championship, he finished T12 to win $441,000 before a T23 at the Tour Championship earned him $395,000.
There were also FedEx Cup Playoffs bonus payouts distributed after the Wyndham Championship and the BMW Championship, with McIlroy scooping an additional $7,500,000 for his position of second in the FedEx Cup standings after each of those events.
McIlroy then took another breather before returning to action in September at the Irish Open, where, to the delight of the home fans, he beat Joakim Lagergren in a playoff to claim another $1,020,000.
McIlroy won September's Irish Open for prize money of more than $1m
All that means that, in total, McIlroy had earned over $31m by the end of the Irish Open, and with the likes of Rolex Series event the BMW PGA Championship and the DP World Tour Playoffs still to come, that number is likely to increase significantly before the curtain comes down on McIlroy's highly lucrative year.
Rory McIlroy's 2025 Earnings
Position | Event | Money Earned |
---|---|---|
T4th | Dubai Desert Classic | $461,243 |
Won | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | $3,600,000 |
T17th | The Genesis Invitational | $270,714 |
T15th | Arnold Palmer Invitational | $349,000 |
Won | The Players Championship | $4,500,000 |
T5th | Texas Children's Houston Open | $337,843 |
Won | The Masters | $4,200,000 |
T12th | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | $69,092 |
T7th | Truist Championship | $602,500 |
T47th | PGA Championship | $49,190 |
MC | RBC Canadian Open | $0 |
T19 | US Open | $242,532 |
T6 | Travelers Championship | $695,000 |
T7 | The Open | $451,834 |
T12 | BMW Championship | $441,000 |
T23 | Tour Championship | $395,000 |
Won | Irish Open | $1,020,000 |
N/A | FedEx Cup Playoffs Bonus Money | $7,500,000 |
N/A | Comcast Business Tour Top 10 | $6,000,000 |
TOTAL | Row 19 - Cell 1 | $31,184,948 |

Jonny Leighfield is our Staff News Writer who joined Golf Monthly just in time for the 2023 Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup. He graduated from the University of Brighton with a degree in Sport Journalism in 2017 and spent almost five years as the sole sports reporter at his local newspaper. During his time with Golf Monthly, Jonny has interviewed several stars of the game, including Robert MacIntyre, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, and Joaquin Niemann. An improving golfer himself, Jonny enjoys learning as much about the game as he can and recently reached his Handicap goal of 18 for the first time. He attended both the 150th and 151st Open Championships and dreams of attending The Masters one day.
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