The Players 422


                    This Week is The Players Championship

 

 

 

Held at TPC Sawgrass

Stadium Course 7245 yards Par 72

 

Ponte Vedra Beach

 

 

Defending Champion is Scottie Scheffler

 

 

Didn’t we just see this?

 

 

In the TH Last Year the Winner Was . . .

We are pausing this feature for a week to realign winners with events

Think of it as Daylight Savings Time for the TH

 

 

 

 

This week we have an extra-premium event . . . (extra-premium?? sort of like more better??)  This is a limited field with no cut and a $25 million purse . . . with the winner getting $4.5 million.  Is it any wonder Scottie got a big hug last year?

This event was conceived by the PGA Tour as a big money event that they owned . . . as opposed to the Four Majors, none of which they own or control.   First played in 1974, as the Tournament Players Championship at the Atlanta Country Club.  The first winner was Jack.  It moved around a bit on the calendar and on the schedule finally settling at Sawgrass in 1982.  Always a big purse, Jack got $50K in ’74 . . . so it’s good to see the tournament has kept up with inflation.

 

In 2020, it was at this tournament the PGA Tour shut down for COVID.  The first round was played and Hideki Matsuyama was in the lead shooting 63.  After it was cancelled, half the purse was paid out in equal parts to everyone in the field.

 

FUN FACT:  This event has never had a defending champion win

 

NOT SO FUN FACT:  In 2005, during the final round, Bob Tway put four in the water at #17 on his way to carding a 12.

 

 

 

 

 

Four and the usual Alt

 

 

SlingerPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4AlternateTOTAL
ChevyScheffler -30Thomas MC4CLARKE (3) -19Schauffele -19Zaataris MC2-61
TafScheffler -30Matsuyama -15Zalatoris MC4Schauffele -19THOMAS MC2-60
MX2Scheffler -30Thomas MC4Matsuyama -15Lowry -9HOVLAND -1-50
MetroMcIlroy -9SCHEFFLER -20Matsuyama -15Finau -4T Kim WD-48
JJScheffler -30Thomas MC4Hovland -1Schauffele -19-46
HedgeLowry -9Spieth MC4Scheffler -20Schauffele -19CANTLAY 2-44
ScrumsScheffler -30Homa 0SCHAUFFELE (3) -19Thomas MC4Hovland --42
WendyThomas MC4Zalatoris MC4Scheffler -20Schauffele -19LOWRY -9-31
PhilSchauffele -19Homa 0Henley MC4Lowry-9SCHEFFLER -20-24
RadarScheffler -30Cantlay 2HOMA (3) 0Thomas MC4Hovland --21
MaxHovland -1Im -7Burns -4Cantlay 2SCHEFFLER -20-10
EMCDay -6Spieth MC4Burns -4Horschel MC4TAYLOR -8-2

 

 

 

 

“Anyone who has never made a mistake . . .  has never tried anything new”

 

~Albert Einstein