Does the Zurich Classic of New Orleans 2025 have a cut? Format and more explored

Modified Apr 22, 2025 19:02 GMT

PGA: Zurich Classic of New Orleans - Final Round - Source: Imagn

After the Signature Event in South Carolina, the PGA Tour heads to Louisiana for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

The team event will be played at the 18-hole golf course, TPC Louisiana in Avondale from April 24 to April 27. The purse of the PGA Tour event goes up from $8,900,000 to $9,200,000 this year. The field will consist of 80 teams, two golfers in each team.

PGA: Zurich Classic of New Orleans 2024- Source: Imagn

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry's team, who won the Zurich Classic at their debut last year, will return to Avondale to defend their title.

This year, the tournament will include both Four-Ball and Foursomes format. While the players will play the Four-Ball format during the first and third rounds of the event, the Foursomes will be implemented for the second and fourth rounds.

This means that during the four-ball rounds, each player on the team will play with their own ball while the best score is recorded for each hole at the end of the round. Whereas, the players will play the tee shots in rotation between odd and even numbered holes in the foursomes format.

Expand Tweet

The 2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans will feature a cut at the end of the second round. The top 33 teams and ties will advance to take part in the final two rounds.

The PGA Tour event has been played under the current name since 2005. However, the team format came into existence only in 2017 as opposed to the single player format that was there initially.

Top teams to lookout for at Zurich Classic of New Orleans

The defending champions, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, are among the favorites this year at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. They won with a 25-under-par score after defeating the team of Chad Ramey and Martin Trainer in a playoff. McIlroy and Lowry's team will enter the tournament with the winning odds of +360 (per Sportsline). This team will have a lot of eyes on them especially after McIlroy's win at The 2025 Masters.

The 2023 winners, Nick Hardy and Davis Riley will look to play for the title again. They have the odds of +9000 to win at the event this week.

Collin Morikawa returns with his teammate Kurt Kitayama to compete at the event with the odds of +1200.

Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama at Zurich Classic of New Orleans 2024- Source: Imagn

While the Fitzpatrick brothers, Alex and Matt enter with +4500 odds to win the title, the twin brothers Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard have the odds of +2800.

Billy Horschel, who's won at the tournament twice, once on his own and once in a pair, will team up with Tom Hoge. Their team too, has +2800 odds.

About the author

Started out as a Golf Listener, soon got her bearing as a writer.

As an established Content Writer, Anusha aspires to be a Sports Journalist and joining Sportskeeda is the first step she's taken in that direction. From little to no golf knowledge, she now hopes to cover a PGA Tour event live, one day.

She graduated Bachelors of Arts with triple majors- Journalism, Psychology and English Literature. The two subjects, Psychology and literature, greatly influenced her writing, one by assisting in readers' perspective and one by improving language & vocabulary.
This gives her an edge while framing articles, as she knows what you want readers want and how to engage with them without all the huff and fluff. She strives not only to bring you genuine news stories, but to deliver perfection!

Besides golf, Anusha follows tennis and cricket avidly. She has even published several tennis news articles in one of her previous roles. This role nudged her towards Sports writing and reporting, and she decided to pursue MA in Sports Journalism in the future to nourish this dream.
Anusha has dabbled in different fields before she came back to her true passion. From travel blogs and B2B content to digital marketing and scripting digital ads, she has worked in various areas, and has a takeaway from each of those roles.

Outside journalism, Anusha either binges Mystery thrillers or writes poems, occasionally picks up a book and buries her face until she finishes it. In short, she is
A Potterhead with an eye like Sherlock, be it for content or errors!

Know More

Edited by Tushar Bahl