Scottie Scheffler won the Open Championship with a score of 17-under, four strokes ahead of runner-up Harris English. The new Champion Golfer of the Year gave another example of his extraordinary superiority in men’s professional golf, earning standing ovations from the crowd at Royal Portrush.
Scheffler carded a final-round 68, with five birdies and a double bogey on the eighth hole. That was precisely his only difficult moment of the day, when he sent his tee shot into a fairway bunker and, as he tried to clear it with his second shot, the ball hit the edge of the slope and rolled straight back to his feet.
The rest of the round was more of the good old Scheffler. He hit 57% of the fairways in the round, reached 83.3% of the greens in regulations, and didn’t three-putt a single hole. Just as he said he would the day before.
Scheffler thus claimed the fourth major title of his professional golf career and the third leg of the Career Grand Slam. Only the US Open remains for him to complete this tremendous feat.
The World No. 1 will have the extraordinary chance to complete it on his 30th birthday, as his birthday, June 21, coincides with the final round of next year’s US Open at Shinnecock Hills.
The local hero at Royal Portrush, Rory McIlroy, charged hard during the final round, but ultimately only managed to finish tied for seventh at 10-under.
Open Championship 2025 $17 Million Purse Breakdown
Scheffler took home the winner’s share of the $17 million purse, a paycheck of $3.1 million.
This is the purse breakdown for the 2025 Open Championship:
- 1 Scottie Scheffler $3,100,000
- 2 Harris English $1,759,000
- 3 Chris Gotterup $1,128,000
- T4 Wyndham Clark $730,667
- T4 Matt Fitzpatrick $730,667
- T4 Haotong Li $730,667
- T7 Robert MacIntyre $451,833
- T7 Xander Schauffele $451,833
- T7 Rory McIlroy $451,833
- T10 Bryson DeChambeau $304,650
- T10 Corey Conners $304,650
- T10 Russell Henley $304,650
- T10 Brian Harman $304,650
- T14 Rickie Fowler $240,000
- T14 Nicolai Højgaard $240,000
- T16 Jesper Svensson $185,257
- T16 Hideki Matsuyama $185,257
- T16 John Parry $185,257
- T16 Tommy Fleetwood $185,257
- T16 Justin Rose $185,257
- T16 Rasmus Højgaard $185,257
- T16 Tyrrell Hatton $185,257
- T23 Maverick McNealy $138,040
- T23 J.J. Spaun $138,040
- T23 Dustin Johnson $138,040
- T23 Lucas Glover $138,040
- T23 Ludvig Åberg $138,040
- T28 Harry Hall $119,950
- T28 Oliver Lindell $119,950
- T30 Daniel Berger $104,850
- T30 Akshay Bhatia $104,850
- T30 Keegan Bradley $104,850
- T30 Kristoffer Reitan $104,850
- T34 Sergio Garcia $86,517
- T34 Aaron Rai $86,517
- T34 Jon Rahm $86,517
- T34 Justin Thomas $86,517
- T34 Christiaan Bezuidenhout $86,517
- T34 Lee Westwood $86,517
- T40 Shane Lowry $68,340
- T40 Jordan Spieth $68,340
- T40 Takumi Kanaya $68,340
- T40 Jason Kokrak $68,340
- T40 Nathan Kimsey $68,340
- T45 Thomas Detry $50,462
- T45 Matthew Jordan $50,462
- T45 Henrik Stenson $50,462
- T45 Thriston Lawrence $50,462
- T45 Jordan Smith $50,462
- T45 Sam Burns $50,462
- T45 Marc Leishman $50,462
- T45 Matt Wallace $50,462
- T53 Adrien Saddier $44,000
- T53 Sepp Straka $44,000
- T53 Sungjae Im $44,000
- T56 Phil Mickelson $42,333
- T56 Jhonattan Vegas $42,333
- T56 Tony Finau $42,333
- T59 Antoine Rozner $41,550
- T59 Justin Leonard $41,550
- T61 Dean Burmester $41,100
- T61 Romain Langasque $41,100
- T63 Riki Kawamoto $40,280
- T63 Andrew Novak $40,280
- T63 Viktor Hovland $40,280
- T63 Francesco Molinari $40,280
- T63 Ryggs Johnston $40,280
- 68 Jacob Skov Olesen $39,400
- 69 Matthias Schmid $39,100
- 70 Sebastian Söderberg $38,900
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