Final 2025 Rocket Classic payouts after Aldrich Potgieter wins marathon playoff

lt took more holes than he would have liked, but 20-year-old Aldrich Potgieter can now call himself a PGA Tour winner after surviving a lengthy playoff to take the title at the 2025 Rocket Classic.

Holding a two-shot advantage heading into Sunday's final round at Detroit Golf Club, the South African got off to a strong start, opening with a birdie at the first, but quickly saw his lead disappear with two bogeys over his next four holes.

He righted the ship with consecutive birdies at Nos. 7 and 8 and made the turn at 1-under following a par at the ninth.

Meanwhile, Potgeiter's playing partner for the day, Max Greyserman, matched his 20-under overall total by firing a 3-under 33 on the front nine. Playing two groups ahead, Chris Kirk was also 20-under at the halfway point, shooting a 33 of his own.

While several others kept themselves in the mix for a while, the tournament ultimately came down to these three, all of whom carded a 2-under 34 on the back nine.

With Kirk in the clubhouse at 22-under, Greyserman missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th to win outright, tapping in for par to tie, while Potgieter holed a five-foot par putt at the last to force a three-man playoff.

Replaying the 18th, the entire trio made par on the first extra hole, moving the action to the par-3 15th, where Kirk was eliminated after a three-putt bogey.

Potgieter and Greyserman moved on to the par-4 16th, each making par, and extended the match by each making birdie at the par-5 14th.

Once again playing the 15th as the fifth extra hole, Potgieter held the honor and hit his tee shot just under 18 feet from the hole, while Greyserman came up far shorter, leaving himself nearly twice that distance.

And after Greyserman blew his birdie effort a few feet past the cup, Potgieter found the bottom of it, draining his putt dead center to become the youngest South African ever to win on the PGA Tour.

With his maiden victory, the Petoria native took the $1.728 million winner's share of the $9.6 million purse, also earning 500 FedEx Cup points and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

Technically tying for second, Greyserman and Kirk each collected $854,400.

2025 Rocket Classic payouts

Here are the final payouts for every player who made the cut at the 2025 Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club.

1. Aldrich Potgieter: $1,728,000

T2. Max Greyserman, Chris Kirk: $854,400

T4. Michael Thorbjornsen, Jake Knapp: $432,000

T6. Nico Echavarria, Jackson Suber: $336,000

T8. Kevin Roy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Thriston Lawrence, Andrew Putnam: $261,600

T13. Min Woo Lee, Hideki Matsuyama, Chandler Phillips, Ben Griffin, Harry Hall, Mark Hubbard: $172,000

T19. Sami Valimaki, Matt McCarty, Chan Kim, Cameron Champ, Doug Ghim: $117,984

T24. Harry Higgs, Nicolai Hojgaard: $88,800

T26. Akshay Bhatia, Michael Kim, Matthew Riedel, Jacob Bridgeman, Chris Gotterup, Chad Ramey: $70,080

T32. Vince Whaley, Patrick Cantlay: $58,560

T34. Kris Ventura, Joe Highsmith, Philip Knowles, Hayden Springer, Lee Hodges, William Mouw, Davis Thompson: $47,931.43

T41. Keegan Bradley, Luke List, Thorbjorn Olesen, Ryan Gerard, Peter Malnati: $36,000

T46. Matt Wallace, Takumi Kunaya, Gary Woodland, Cameron Young, Justin Lower: $27,091.20

T51. Victor Perez, Nick Hardy, Henrik Norlander, Lanto Griffin, Aaron Wise, Webb Simpson, Thomas Rosenmueller, Will Gordon, Kurt Kitayama: $22,709.33

T60. Byeong Hun An, Austin Eckroat, Luke Clanton, Isaiah Salinda, Ryo Hisatsune, Beau Hossler, Paul Peterson: $21,024

T67. Davis Riley, David Skinns, Gordon Sargent, Camilo Villegas, Ben Silverman, Brett White: $19,776

T73. James Piot, Antoine Rozner, Kaito Onishi, Emiliano Grillo, Kevin Velo: $18,720

T78. Quade Cummins, Erik van Rooyen, Ben Kohles, Adam Hadwin: $17,856

T82. Harrison Endycott, Zach Johnson: $17,280

84. Si Woo Kim: $16,992

85. Mason Andersen: $16,800

86. Cristobal Del Solar: $16,608

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