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Final Leaderboard

Pos.        Player                                    R1           R2           R3           R4           Total

1              Joe Highsmith                     65           72           64           64           265 (-19) – Transcript attached

T2           Jacob Bridgeman                68           68           67           64           267 (-17)

T2           J.J. Spaun                              64           70           67           66           267 (-17)

T4           Max McGreevy                   69           68           64           67           268 (-16)

T4           Ben Griffin                            68           65           66           69           268 (-16)

Leading Aussie/Asian Scores

T11         Min Woo Lee                       71           65           68           67           271 (-13)

T25         Rico Hoey                             66           69           68           70           273 (-11)

T39         Karl Vilips                             68           67           68           72           275 (-9)

T48         Rikuya Hoshino                   70           67           65           75           277 (-7)

Joe Highsmith (1st/-19)

• First PGA TOUR win in his 34th start at the age of 24 years, 10 months, 11 days (previous best finish: 5th/2024 World Wide Technology Championship)
• Becomes the first player on TOUR to win after making the cut on the number (5-under) since Brandt Snedeker (2016 Farmers Insurance Open); sixth player to accomplish this since 2003
• Largest final-round comeback (4 strokes) of the season (previous: 2 strokes; two times); largest on TOUR since 2024 PLAYERS Championship (5 strokes/Scottie Scheffler)
• Cards his low 72-hole score (265) on TOUR (previous low: 267/2024 Black Desert Championship)
• Cards the low 72-hole score since the Cognizant Classic moved to PGA National (The Champion) in 2007; one stroke shy of the Cognizant Classic 72-hole record (264/Justin Leonard/Country Club at Mirasol (Sunset)/2003)
• Cards the low final 36 holes (128) in Cognizant Classic history (previous: 129/Blaine McCallister/TPC Eagle Trace/1989)
• Becomes the first left-handed winner on TOUR since Matt McCarty (2024 Black Desert Championship)
• 17th player to earn his first PGA TOUR win at the Cognizant Classic; fifth in the last seven years
• Third first-time winner of the 2025 season (Brian Campbell/Mexico Open at VidantaWorld; Thomas Detry/WM Phoenix Open)
• At 24 years, 10 months, 11 days, becomes the youngest winner of the season in the ninth event of 2025
• Earns 500 FedExCup points and moves up to No. 10 in the FedExCup standings; extends his PGA TOUR eligibility through 2027
• Moves to No. 59 in the Official World Golf Ranking after starting the week at No. 170
• Earns a spot in the five remaining Signature Events of 2025, the 2025 Masters Tournament, 2025 PGA Championship and 2026 Sentry

Miscellaneous notes

• Jacob Bridgeman matched the low round of the day (64) to finish T2 at 17-under; earns his first top-10 finish on TOUR in his 37th start (previous best finish: T11/2024 Sanderson Farms Championship)
• J.J. Spaun earns his second top-three of the season in seven starts with a T2 finish (previous: T3/Sony Open in Hawaii)
• Jake Knapp, who held the solo lead after each of the first three rounds, closes with 1-over 72 including triple bogey on the par-4 11th, to finish T6 at 15-under
• 2014 Cognizant Classic winner Russell Henley finished T6 at 15-under; his fourth top-10 finish at this event in 11 starts; third top-10 of the 2025 season in five starts on TOUR
• Two days after reaching 20 points to earn PGA TOUR membership via PGA TOUR University Accelerated, amateur Luke Clanton closes with 69 to finish T18 at 9-under; earns his sixth top-25 finish in 12 PGA TOUR starts.