Arnold Palmer Invitational 2025: When and where to watch, prize money and live stream details

This week, the PGA Tour will host one of it’s most prestigious events, the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Renamed in the honor of late great Arnold Palmer, a limited field will try to get their hands on this signature title.

Like always, the tournament will be played at the Bay Hill & Lodge in Orlando, Florida. This prestigious event has attracted some of the biggest names in golf. This year would be no different as the best players on the tour will compete in this iconic tournament.

This event is one of the eight signature events on the PGA Tour schedule. It is also just the third signature event to feature a cut after the Genesis Invitational and the Memorial Tournament. This means that after the second round, only the top 50 players and ties and anyone within 10 shots of the lead will be allowed to continue playing.

Lets delve a bit deeper and find out more about details regarding this event.

When and where to watch Arnold Palmer Invitational 2025?

The Arnold Palmer Invitational is scheduled to be played this week. The event will take place from it’s iconic home of the Bay Hill & Lodge in Orlando Florida from Thursday, 6th March, 2025 to Sunday 9th March, 2025.

The fourth Signature Event of the 2025 FedEx Cup season will go alongside the Puerto Rico Open, the first Additional Event of the season. These alternate events are hosted for those golfers who do not qualify for this signature events. It gives them a chance to earn FedEx Cup points and move upwards in the rankings to give them a chance to qualify for future signature events.

While this alternate events rolls on, fans can catch the action of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard at Golf Channel, NBC/Peacock, NBC Sports App and ESPN+ in the United States.

In the United Kingdom, fans can watch the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Sky Sports Golf while talkSPORT 2 will provide live commentary.

Here is the schedule for the event for US viewers:

• Thursday, March 6: 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel/NBC Sports app)
• Friday, March 7: 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel/NBC Sports app)
• Saturday, March 8: 12:30-2:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel/NBC Sports app); 2:30-6 p.m. ET (NBC/Peacock)
• Sunday, March 9: 12:30-2:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel/NBC Sports app); 2:30-6 p.m. ET (NBC/Peacock)

Here is the schedule for the event for UK viewers:

• Thursday, March 6: 7-11 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf)
• Friday, March 7: 7-11 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf)
• Saturday, March 8: 5-7:30 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf); 7:30-11 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf)
• Sunday, March 9: 5-7:30 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf); 7:30-11 p.m. GMT (Sky Sports Golf)

Arnold Palmer Invitational Prize Money payout

The PGA Tour signature events are known for their high money payout. With the Arnold Palmer Invitational also being a signature event, there is a huge cheque waiting for the winner from a large money pool.

Unlike non-elevated PGA Tour events, the money involved in this tournament is huge. The Arnold Palmer Invitational has a prize pool of a whopping $20,000,000.

So the winner will not only go home with a shining trophy, but also with a winning cheque of $4,000,000. Last year, Scottie Scheffler took home $4 million from this event and then next week claimed another huge cheque of $4.5 million from winning The Players Championship. The winner this year will also earn 700 valuable FedEx Cup points.

Arnold Palmer Invitational 2025: Which players are playing and tee timings

The Arnold Palmer Invitational 2025 event will feature some major names from golf. With LIV Golfers banned from the tournament, do not expect the likes of Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau to appear in this.

Top PGA Tour stars will battle it out in this signature event. Scottie Scheffler will enter as the defending champion and hope to make it back-to-back on this course. Meanwhile, Xander Schauffele, the World No.3 will return to the greens after a rib injury which forced him out for two months.

Stars like Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry, all will be competing in this event. Meanwhile stars like, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and 8-time winner of this event, Tiger Woods are not in the playing field.

1st round tee timings and pairings:

• 7:40 a.m.: Brian Campbell, Jacob Bridgeman
• 7:50 a.m.: Tom Kim, Min Woo Lee
• 8:00 a.m.: J.J. Spaun, Aldrich Potgieter
• 8:10 a.m.: Aaron Rai, Sungjae Im
• 8:20 a.m.: Max Homa, Adam Hadwin
• 8:30 a.m.: Taylor Pendrith, Sahith Theegala
• 8:40 a.m.: Billy Horschel, Jason Day
• 8:50 a.m.: Tommy Fleetwood, Cameron Young
• 9:05 a.m.: Akshay Bhatia, Matthieu Pavon
• 9:15 a.m.: Davis Thompson, Eric Cole
• 9:25 a.m.: Austin Eckroat, Byeong Hun An
• 9:35 a.m.: Cam Davis, Si Woo Kim
• 9:45 a.m.: Ludvig Aberg, Scottie Scheffler
• 9:55 a.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Viktor Hovland
• 10:05 a.m.: Keegan Bradley, Collin Morikawa
• 10:20 a.m.: Andrew Novak, Max McGreevy
• 10:30 a.m.: Daniel Berger, Ben Griffin
• 10:40 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Michael Kim
• 10:50 a.m.: Isaiah Salinda, Jackson Koivun
• 11:00 a.m.: Maverick McNealy, Mackenzie Hughes
• 11:10 a.m.: Nick Taylor, Sam Stevens
• 11:20 a.m.: J.T. Poston, Brian Harman
• 11:35 a.m.: Thomas Detry, Adam Scott
• 11:45 a.m.: Robert MacIntyre, Matt Fitzpatrick
• 11:55 a.m.: Denny McCarthy, Max Greyserman
• 12:05 p.m.: Stephan Jaeger, Corey Conners
• 12:15 p.m.: Nick Dunlap, Will Zalatoris
• 12:25 p.m.: Chris Kirk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
• 12:35 p.m.: Sepp Straka, Tony Finau
• 12:50 p.m.: Russell Henley, Tom Hoge
• 1:00 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry
• 1:10 p.m.: Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas
• 1:20 p.m.: Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns
• 1:30 p.m.: Joe Highsmith, Patrick Cantlay
• 1:40 p.m.: Justin Rose, Patrick Rodgers
• 1:50 p.m.: Harris English, Rafael Campos