The Skins Game on Amazon Prime: Field, Format, Stakes and Predictions

Here's everything you need to know about the revamped Skins Game, featuring Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Xander Schauffele and Keegan Bradley.

Andy Roberts

25 Nov 2025

After 17 years in hibernation, one of golf’s most iconic exhibitions roars back to life this Black Friday, and it isn’t tiptoeing in quietly.

The Skins Game returns with $4 million on the line, four elite players primed for fireworks, and a format designed to produce drama on nearly every hole.

The action begins Friday 28 November at 9 a.m. ET, streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

This reboot isn’t just about competition — it’s about charisma.

Trash talk, carryovers, and million-dollar swings are set to collide at Panther National, the new South Florida playground co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and Justin Thomas, adding even more intrigue to a field already brimming with personality.

Who is playing?

The 2025 edition features a marquee fourball:

Tommy Fleetwood – reigning FedExCup champion and current betting favourite
Shane Lowry – three-time PGA Tour winner and 2019 Open champion
Xander Schauffele – two-time major champion
Keegan Bradley – eight-time PGA Tour winner and recent US Ryder Cup captain

Originally slated to compete, Justin Thomas withdrew earlier this month following a microdiscectomy, clearing the way for Lowry to join the lineup.

Trash talk already flowing

Before a single shot has been struck, the spirit of the old Skins Game — the unfiltered banter, the personality clashes, the on-course laughter — is already simmering.

Lowry quipped that Bradley has paid him and Fleetwood not to bring up the Ryder Cup. Bradley insists he’ll be swapping his Ryder Cup walkie-talkie for something more effective: “a golf club — my chance to get back at these two maniacs.”

Schauffele, robbed of his carefully prepared material for Justin Thomas, joked he may need to “ask ChatGPT” for new ammunition.

And the entire group seems intrigued — or terrified — by the prospect of polite-to-a-fault Fleetwood unleashing unexpected trash talk.

For Bradley, the event brings back childhood memories of watching Nicklaus, Trevino, Woods and Couples light up the early editions — the first time fans ever heard players mic’d up and trading jabs mid-round.

The Format: Simple, brutal, unpredictable

The essence of the Skins Game remains intact:

Each hole is worth a skin
Ties carry over, building pressure and jackpots
Momentum can flip on a single swing

But this reboot adds a bold wrinkle — the reverse purse.

Each player starts with $1 million already on the board, and their totals rise or fall with every skin won or lost.

The result? A constant, visible pressure that could leave someone walking away with little to show for a day’s work.

This format thrives on volatility. Expect multi-skin holes, big-money swings, and at least one moment that shifts the entire match.

Fleetwood will make his 15th straight appearance in Dubai

Predictions

The bookamakers see this as a tightly contested four-way battle:

Fleetwood: 5/2
Schauffele: 13/5
Lowry: 3/1
Bradley: 10/3

Fleetwood is the clear form player, riding a FedExCup victory and a win at the DP World India Championship.

The Skins format is known for its unpredictability, but current performance matters — and right now no one in this foursome is matching the Englishman.

GolfMagic’s pick: Fleetwood wins - at 5/2, he’s the value play in a volatile setup.