The American Express cut rules 2025: How many players make the cut?

Of all of the events on this year's PGA Tour schedule, The American Express stands out from the rest as one of the more unique events players will tee it up in during the 2025 campaign.

Contested across three different courses, La Quinta, the PGA West Stadium Course, and the Nicklaus Tournament Course, everyone in the field is guaranteed at least three rounds. With the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am now one of eight signature events on the schedule, The American Express stands out as the only event that now utilizes a three-course rotation across 72 holes of play.

Even with a guaranteed extra round, players know coming into this event that they will need to accumulate a plethora of birdies over the first three days if they hope to make the cut or contend for the title at week's end. Amateur at the time, Nick Dunlap, reached 29-under par on his way to the title at last year's American Express, and with previous winning scores often surpassing the 20-under mark here, those who simply hope to make the weekend often have their work cut out for them. With that being said, what is the historic cut line in an event that often produces some very low scores and what exactly are the cut rules at The American Express golf tournament? Let's take a look.

How many players make the cut at The American Express?

As mentioned, unlike your traditional event on the PGA Tour, The American Express guarantees its field at least one round on each of its three courses during the first three days of the tournament. All 156 players in this year's field will play a round at La Quinta, the PGA West Stadium Course, and the Nicklaus Tournament Course, before a cut to the top 65 players and ties is made after 54 holes of action.

For a second consecutive week, a full-field event will have a cut to the top 65 and ties, however, what makes The American Express unique amongst all events on the schedule now, aside from its three-course rotation, is that it is now the only event on the PGA Tour to implement a cut after 54 holes; a distinction it earned after the Pebble Beach Pro-Am became a signature event for the first time last season.

The American Express historic cut line: What was the cut at last year's tournament?

Unlike the majority of events on the PGA Tour calendar that still implement some form of a cut at the halfway point, The American Express has a history of producing some historically low cut lines. In 2024, the cut line was -13 in an event that was won by Nick Dunlap at 29-under par. Here is a look at what the cut line at The American Express has been in each event over the last five seasons.

While The American Express has a history of producing some low cut lines, last year's tournament produced the lowest mark in any of the last five editions of the event. That was a three-stroke increase from the mark at the 2023 American Express which saw its cut line land on the 10-under par mark. The outlier came at the 2021 American Express when the cut was made at a more common 4-under par. With a large majority of this year's field already at 3-under or better after one round of play, it's likely that this year's The American Express sees a cut more in line with the past two editions of the event as opposed to the outlier of 2021.