Tournament information | |
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Dates | March 9–12, 2023 |
Location | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W |
Course(s) | TPC Sawgrass (Stadium Course) |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Field | 144 players, 75 after cut |
Cut | 146 (+2) |
Prize fund | US$25,000,000 |
Winner's share | US$4,500,000 |
Champion | |
Scottie Scheffler | |
271 (−17) | |
Location map | |
The 2023 Players Championship was the 49th playing of the Players Championship, having been played at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from March 9–12.
The winner was Scottie Scheffler, who shot a 69 in the final round to finish at 271 (−17) to win his first Players Championship, five strokes ahead of runner-up Tyrrell Hatton.
Defending champion Cameron Smith became the first player since 2014 not to defend the title, being one of many players ineligible to compete having been suspended by the PGA Tour after joining LIV Golf. Other ineligible players included both the runner-up and third-place finishers from 2022, Anirban Lahiri and Paul Casey.[1]
The field consists of 144 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships, The Players and World Golf Championships, and leading players in the FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons.[2][3]
This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2023 Players Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were eligible is indicated in parentheses.
1. Winners of PGA Tour events since the 2022 Players Championship
2. Top 125 from the previous season's FedEx Cup Playoffs and Eligibility Points List[a]
3. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2018–2022)
4. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2017–2022)
5. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2017–2022)
6. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2022)
7. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2017–2022)
8. Recent winners of the FedEx Cup (2019/20–2021/22)
9. Recent winners of the WGC Championship (2020–2021)
10. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2019–2022)
11. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2019–2021)
12. Recent winners of the WGC-HSBC Champions (2019)
13. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2020–2023)
14. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2019–2022)
15. Recent winners of the Genesis Invitational (2020–2023)
16. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking following The Honda Classic
17. Top 10 in the current season's FedEx Cup points standings after The Honda Classic
18. Senior Players champion from previous year
19. Leading points winners from the Korn Ferry Tour and Korn Ferry Tour Finals during the previous year
20. Top 125 (medical extension)
21. Remaining positions and alternates filled through current year FedEx Cup standings following The Honda Classic
The following players met criteria but, having joined LIV Golf, were suspended by the PGA Tour and ineligible to compete:
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Friday, March 10, 2023
Due to lack of daylight, play was suspended at 6:30 pm EST Thursday with 21 players yet to complete their opening rounds.
Chad Ramey, ranked 225 in the Official World Golf Ranking and making his Players Championship debut, recorded a bogey-free round of 64 (8 under par) to take the first-round lead. He birdied the par-5 16th hole to tie for the lead, before hitting his tee shot on the 17th hole to within two feet, setting up another birdie and moving him atop the leaderboard.[10]
Collin Morikawa also did not make a bogey in a seven-under par round of 65, that included an eagle on the par-5 second hole. He finished alone in second place, one stroke behind Ramey.[11]
The top-three players in the world rankings: Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McIlroy; were drawn together, but only Scheffler made his way into the top-10 at the end of the round. After beginning his round with nine straight pars, Scheffler birdied three of his final four holes to finish at four-under par (68). Rahm did not make a birdie on his back-nine that included a bogey on the par-3 eighth hole, his 17th, finishing at one-under par (71). McIlroy, the 2019 champion, double-bogeyed his opening hole in a round of 76 (4 over par).[12][13]
Hayden Buckley made a hole-in-one on the 17th during his round of 73 (1 over par).[14]
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Chad Ramey | 64 | −8 |
2 | Collin Morikawa | 65 | −7 |
T3 | Ben Griffin | 67 | −5 |
Taylor Pendrith | |||
T5 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 68 | −4 |
Sam Burns | |||
Min Woo Lee | |||
Denny McCarthy | |||
Scottie Scheffler | |||
Justin Suh | |||
Adam Svensson |
Friday, March 10, 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Adam Svensson birdied the par-5 ninth hole, the last of his round, after getting a free drop from the hospitality tent on his second shot to finish off a five-under round of 67 and take a two-shot lead through 36 holes at nine-under.[15]
Scottie Scheffler made three birdies on his back-nine and shot 69 (−3) to move into second place at seven-under. Christiaan Bezuidenhout shared the lead with Svensson when play was suspended but bogeyed two of his final three holes on Saturday morning to fall back to a share of third place at six-under, three behind.[16]
Overnight leader Chad Ramey birdied two of his first three holes and led by as many as three shots early in his round before putting two balls in the water on the par-3 17th, leading to a quadruple-bogey. He ended up at five-under, four back, after a round of 75 (+3).[17]
Jerry Kelly became the oldest player to make the cut in Players Championship history, surpassing Arnold Palmer, who had held the record for making the cut in the 1985 Tournament Players Championship at 55 years, 6 months and 19 days. Kelly was 56 years, 3 months and 16 days old.[18]
The cut came in at 146 (+2), with 75 players making it to the weekend. Notables to miss the cut included 2019 champion Rory McIlroy, 2018 champion Webb Simpson, and 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick. World No. 1 Jon Rahm withdrew before the start of his second round due to illness.[19][20]
Due to heavy rain and thunderstorms, play was suspended at 4:27 pm EST Friday. It was the second year in a row that the second round play was not completed on the Friday due to severe weather. The PGA Tour announced that play would resume on Saturday at 7:00 am, with the third round starting around 10:45, with players in groups of three, instead of the usual two, and commencing from both the first and tenth tees.
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Adam Svensson | 68-67=135 | −9 |
2 | Scottie Scheffler | 68-69=137 | −7 |
T3 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 68-70=138 | −6 |
Ben Griffin | 67-71=138 | ||
Min Woo Lee | 68-70=138 | ||
Collin Morikawa | 65-73=138 | ||
T7 | Cameron Davis | 69-70=139 | −5 |
Chad Ramey | 64-75=139 | ||
T9 | Jason Day | 70-70=140 | −4 |
Will Gordon | 73-67=140 | ||
Viktor Hovland | 69-71=140 | ||
Nate Lashley | 69-71=140 | ||
David Lingmerth | 72-68=140 | ||
Denny McCarthy | 68-72=140 | ||
Taylor Pendrith | 67-73=140 | ||
Brendon Todd | 71-69=140 |
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Scottie Scheffler moved into the lead with a birdie on his first hole followed by chipping in for eagle on the second. He made five more birdies during the rest of his round for a round of 65 (7 under par) which gave him a two-shot lead through 54 holes at 14 under par.[21]
Min Woo Lee began his round by holing out from 112 yards on the first hole for an eagle. He joined Scheffler in the lead with a birdie on the 11th hole, then moved one ahead with another birdie on the 12th, before falling behind again over the final six holes. His round of 66 (6 under par) put him at 12 under par, two strokes behind Scheffler.[22]
Aaron Rai made a hole-in-one on the 17th hole in a seven-under round of 65, moving him into a tie for fourth place. With Hayden Buckley in the first round, it marked the first time in Players Championship history two players had made a hole-in-one on the 17th hole in the same tournament.[23]
Tom Hoge, who had made the cut on the number, set a tournament record with a round of 62; he made ten birdies during his round, ending with a 10-foot putt on the ninth hole, his last. He moved from a tie for 65th place at the start of the round up to a tie for eighth.[24]
Second-round leader Adam Svensson was even-par on his round before a triple-bogey on the par-4 14th hole dropped him back to six-under and 14th place.[25]
The scoring average for the round was 69.57, the lowest in Players Championship history.[26]
Scorecard of Tom Hoge
Hole | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
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Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Hoge | +2 | +1 | E | E | E | −1 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −8 |
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | Scottie Scheffler | 68-69-65=202 | −14 |
2 | Min Woo Lee | 68-70-66=204 | −12 |
3 | Cameron Davis | 69-70-67=206 | −10 |
T4 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 68-70-69=207 | −9 |
Tommy Fleetwood | 72-70-65=207 | ||
Aaron Rai | 73-69-65=207 | ||
Chad Ramey | 64-75-68=207 | ||
T8 | Tom Hoge | 78-68-62=208 | −8 |
Im Sung-jae | 75-69-64=208 | ||
David Lingmerth | 72-68-68=208 |
Sunday, March 12, 2023
After a birdie on the first hole by Min Woo Lee and a bogey by Scottie Scheffler on the third hole, the two players were tied for the lead at 13 under par. On the fourth hole, Lee made a triple-bogey having hit his third shot into the water; he dropped further behind as the round went on and finished in a tie for sixth at eight under par.[27] Starting the day at five under par, Hideki Matsuyama was seven under par for his round through 13 holes, and one stroke behind at 12 under par, before he made a double bogey on the 14th hole; a further dropped shot on the final hole meant he finished at 9 under par, good enough for fifth place on his own.[28]
Through the middle of the round, Scheffler made five consecutive birdies to reach 18 under par and open a six stroke lead over the rest of the field. He made one bogey and five pars over the closing six holes to finish with a round of 69 (3 under par), and at 17 under par, win his first Players Championship title by five strokes.[29][30]
Tyrrell Hatton began the round nine shots off the lead, in a tie for 26th place; he was even-par on the front-nine before making seven birdies in taking 29 strokes to play the back-nine, tying the tournament record, for a round of 65 (7 under par) to finish alone in second place at 12 under par.[31][32] Tom Hoge and Viktor Hovland finished with rounds of 70 and 68 respectively to finish tied for third place. Max Homa went birdie-eagle-birdie on the 10th, 11th and 12th holes to reach 10-under and move into a tie for second; after a run of pars, he made a double-bogey on the 17th hole after his tee shot found the water to fall back to eight under par.[33][34][28] Finishing alongside Homa and Lee in a tie for sixth place were Cameron Davis, Im Sung-jae, David Lingmerth, Justin Rose and Justin Suh.
Alex Smalley made a hole-in-one on the 17th hole; the first time there had been three holes-in-one recorded at the same hole during a tournament in Players Championship history.[35]
Champion |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | Scottie Scheffler | 68-69-65-69=271 | −17 | 4,500,000 |
2 | Tyrrell Hatton | 72-71-68-65=276 | −12 | 2,725,000 |
T3 | Tom Hoge | 78-68-62-70=278 | −10 | 1,475,000 |
Viktor Hovland | 69-71-70-68=278 | |||
5 | Hideki Matsuyama | 74-70-67-68=279 | −9 | 1,025,000 |
T6 | Cameron Davis | 69-70-67-74=280 | −8 | 736,607 |
Max Homa | 72-72-67-69=280 | |||
Im Sung-jae | 75-69-64-72=280 | |||
Min Woo Lee | 68-70-66-76=280 | |||
David Lingmerth | 72-68-68-72=280 | |||
Justin Rose | 69-73-67-71=280 | |||
Justin Suh | 68-73-69-70=280 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T13 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 68-70-69-74=281 | −7 | 447,916 | |
Rickie Fowler (c) | 72-70-68-71=281 | ||||
Adam Hadwin | 71-70-69-71=281 | ||||
Denny McCarthy | 68-72-69-72=281 | ||||
Collin Morikawa | 65-73-72-71=281 | ||||
Adam Svensson | 68-67-75-71=281 | ||||
T19 | Patrick Cantlay | 72-70-68-72=282 | −6 | 275,000 | |
Jason Day (c) | 70-70-70-72=282 | ||||
Tony Finau | 73-72-66-71=282 | ||||
Russell Henley | 72-74-66-70=282 | ||||
Aaron Rai | 73-69-65-75=282 | ||||
Xander Schauffele | 72-73-69-68=282 | ||||
Jordan Spieth | 69-75-66-72=282 | ||||
Brandon Wu | 73-69-69-71=282 | ||||
T27 | Wyndham Clark | 69-73-69-72=283 | −5 | 167,656 | |
Eric Cole | 73-73-69-68=283 | ||||
Tommy Fleetwood | 72-70-65-76=283 | ||||
Ryan Fox | 74-68-70-71=283 | ||||
Kim Si-woo (c) | 69-74-68-72=283 | ||||
Chad Ramey | 64-75-68-76=283 | ||||
Brendon Todd | 71-69-74-69=283 | ||||
Danny Willett | 72-71-71-69=283 | ||||
T35 | An Byeong-hun | 71-70-70-73=284 | −4 | 114,166 | |
Sam Burns | 68-74-72-70=284 | ||||
Ben Griffin | 67-71-72-74=284 | ||||
Mark Hubbard | 71-72-70-71=284 | ||||
Shane Lowry | 77-69-68-70=284 | ||||
Keith Mitchell | 72-74-68-70=284 | ||||
Taylor Moore | 70-75-65-74=284 | ||||
Austin Smotherman | 73-72-69-70=284 | ||||
Dylan Wu | 69-73-68-74=284 | ||||
T44 | Chesson Hadley | 71-73-72-69=285 | −3 | 75,035 | |
Brian Harman | 73-71-70-71=285 | ||||
Kramer Hickok | 73-70-69-73=285 | ||||
Garrick Higgo | 70-73-68-74=285 | ||||
Stephan Jäger | 74-72-69-70=285 | ||||
Taylor Montgomery | 70-73-66-76=285 | ||||
Sam Ryder | 73-72-69-71=285 | ||||
T51 | Lucas Glover | 69-74-71-72=286 | −2 | 61,416 | |
Tom Kim | 74-72-71-69=286 | ||||
Cameron Young | 71-73-68-74=286 | ||||
T54 | Tyler Duncan | 73-69-70-75=287 | −1 | ||
Will Gordon | 73-67-73-74=287 | ||||
Jerry Kelly | 74-72-69-72=287 | ||||
Ben Martin | 71-74-72-70=287 | ||||
Matthias Schwab | 75-70-72-70=287 | ||||
Gary Woodland | 72-70-71-74=287 | ||||
T60 | Joel Dahmen | 73-71-73-71=288 | E | 55,250 | |
Nate Lashley | 69-71-73-75=288 | ||||
Maverick McNealy | 74-71-70-73=288 | ||||
Francesco Molinari | 73-71-68-76=288 | ||||
Justin Thomas (c) | 73-73-71-71=288 | ||||
T65 | Patton Kizzire | 74-71-74-70=289 | +1 | 53,250 | |
Alex Smalley | 71-75-69-74=289 | ||||
Sepp Straka | 74-72-74-69=289 | ||||
68 | Davis Thompson | 70-73-69-79=291 | +3 | 52,250 | |
T69 | Taylor Pendrith | 67-73-72-80=292 | +4 | 51,500 | |
Scott Stallings | 71-74-72-75=292 | ||||
71 | Adam Scott (c) | 72-73-77-71=293 | +5 | 50,750 | |
72 | Aaron Baddeley | 73-72-74-76=295 | +7 | 50,250 | |
73 | Will Zalatoris | 74-71-74-77=296 | +8 | 49,750 | |
74 | Sahith Theegala | 70-75-78-75=298 | +10 | 49,250 | |
75 | Kevin Kisner | 72-73-73-81=299 | +11 | 48,750 | |
CUT | Hayden Buckley | 73-74=147 | +3 | ||
Thomas Detry | 78-69=147 | ||||
Harrison Endycott | 70-77=147 | ||||
Matt Fitzpatrick | 76-71=147 | ||||
Emiliano Grillo | 70-77=147 | ||||
Luke List | 77-70=147 | ||||
Troy Merritt | 74-73=147 | ||||
Ryan Palmer | 69-78=147 | ||||
Scott Piercy | 71-76=147 | ||||
Andrew Putnam | 73-74=147 | ||||
J. J. Spaun | 72-75=147 | ||||
Kevin Streelman | 71-76=147 | ||||
Matt Wallace | 72-75=147 | ||||
Keegan Bradley | 70-78=148 | +4 | |||
Chris Kirk | 73-75=148 | ||||
Matt Kuchar (c) | 70-78=148 | ||||
Peter Malnati | 72-76=148 | ||||
Chez Reavie | 72-76=148 | ||||
Davis Riley | 71-77=148 | ||||
Patrick Rodgers | 73-75=148 | ||||
Adam Schenk | 74-74=148 | ||||
Kevin Tway | 75-73=148 | ||||
Joseph Bramlett | 71-78=149 | +5 | |||
Harris English | 78-71=149 | ||||
James Hahn | 73-76=149 | ||||
Kurt Kitayama | 73-76=149 | ||||
Lee Kyoung-hoon | 73-76=149 | ||||
Rory McIlroy (c) | 76-73=149 | ||||
Alex Norén | 77-72=149 | ||||
Nick Taylor | 74-75=149 | ||||
Michael Thompson | 77-72=149 | ||||
Erik Barnes | 74-76=150 | +6 | |||
Corey Conners | 75-75=150 | ||||
Nico Echavarría | 71-79=150 | ||||
Nick Hardy | 77-73=150 | ||||
J. T. Poston | 75-75=150 | ||||
Séamus Power | 74-76=150 | ||||
Robby Shelton | 72-78=150 | ||||
Callum Tarren | 73-77=150 | ||||
Ryan Armour | 72-79=151 | +7 | |||
Dylan Frittelli | 72-79=151 | ||||
Mackenzie Hughes | 75-76=151 | ||||
Justin Lower | 74-77=151 | ||||
Greyson Sigg | 74-77=151 | ||||
Robert Streb | 78-73=151 | ||||
Ryan Brehm | 72-80=152 | +8 | |||
Billy Horschel | 73-79=152 | ||||
Beau Hossler | 76-76=152 | ||||
Russell Knox | 75-77=152 | ||||
Doc Redman | 78-74=152 | ||||
Webb Simpson (c) | 76-76=152 | ||||
Jhonattan Vegas | 78-74=152 | ||||
Tyson Alexander | 77-76=153 | +9 | |||
Stewart Cink | 72-81=153 | ||||
Lee Hodges | 76-77=153 | ||||
Kim Seong-hyeon | 77-76=153 | ||||
Adam Long | 75-78=153 | ||||
Doug Ghim | 80-74=154 | +10 | |||
Andrew Novak | 79-75=154 | ||||
Matthew NeSmith | 77-78=155 | +11 | |||
Kelly Kraft | 80-76=156 | +12 | |||
David Lipsky | 76-80=156 | ||||
Trey Mullinax | 71-85=156 | ||||
Aaron Wise | 80-76=156 | ||||
Martin Laird | 76-81=157 | +13 | |||
Max McGreevy | 69-89=158 | +14 | |||
Nick Watney | 79-79=158 | ||||
Lucas Herbert | 82-85=167 | +23 | |||
WD | Jon Rahm | 71 | −1 |
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey+ |