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The Players Championship

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The Players Championship
Tournament information
Location Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Established 1974
Course(s) TPC at Sawgrass
Par 72
Tour PGA Tour
Month Played May
Defunct No
Tournament Record Score
Flag of Australia Greg Norman -24
Current Champion
Flag of Canada Stephen Ames
Major Championships
The Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship
PGA Championship


The Players Championship (often styled THE PLAYERS Championship) is a prestigious annual golf tournament for professional male golfers which takes place every March on the PGA Tour. The inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1976. Beginning in 1977, the event relocated to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, first being played at Sawgrass Country Club's Oceanside Course (a combination of the "East" and "West" 9-hole courses). Since 1982 it has been played across the road from Sawgrass Country Club, on the Stadium Course at the "Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass" (usually referred to as the TPC at Sawgrass; it is not uncommon for "TPC" in this context to be conflated with "The Players Championship" because they happen to have the same initials).

The Players Championship offers the highest prize fund of any tournament in golf ($8 million in 2004, 2005 and 2006; 2007 purse not yet known), and is sometimes referred to by the media as the "Fifth Major", but it does not have official major status. The field usually includes virtually all of the top few dozen ranked golfers in the world, but unlike the three majors which are staged in the United States, it does not count as an official event on the European Tour, which has the Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe, although it is an imperfect parallel. The winner receives a fixed allocation of 40 points towards his Official World Golf Ranking, which is the most allocated to any event apart from the majors, in which winners earn 50 points. For comparison, the winners of the three individual World Golf Championships generally receive between 35 and 39 points. Winners of The Players Championship also receives a 5 year exemption on the PGA Tour, 3 year invitation to The Masters, 3 year exemption to The Open Championship, and a PGA Championship and U.S. Open invitation for that year.

The Players Championship is best known for featuring what may be the single most famous hole in professional golf, the Stadium Course's Par 3, 137-yard #17, instantly recognizable to golf fans worldwide as "the Island Green" and what has become TPC Sawgrass' signature hole.

In 2007, The Players Championship will be moved to May, as part of a restructuring of the PGA Tour which also involves the introduction of the FedEx Cup and an earlier Tour Championship. This means that the PGA Tour will have a marquee event in five consecutive months (The Masters in April, the U.S. Open in June, The Open Championship in July and the PGA Championship in August). [1] Also, the course is undergoing major renovation.

[edit] Winners

The Players Championship
2006 Stephen Ames Flag of Canada Canada
2005 Fred Funk Flag of United States United States
2004 Adam Scott Flag of Australia Australia
2003 Davis Love III Flag of United States United States
2002 Craig Perks Flag of New Zealand New Zealand
2001 Tiger Woods Flag of United States United States
2000 Hal Sutton Flag of United States United States
1999 David Duval Flag of United States United States
1998 Justin Leonard Flag of United States United States
1997 Steve Elkington Flag of Australia Australia
1996 Fred Couples Flag of United States United States
1995 Lee Janzen Flag of United States United States
1994 Greg Norman Flag of Australia Australia
1993 Nick Price Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
1992 Davis Love III Flag of United States United States
1991 Steve Elkington Flag of Australia Australia
1990 Jodie Mudd Flag of United States United States
1989 Tom Kite Flag of United States United States
1988 Mark McCumber Flag of United States United States
Tournament Players Championship
1987 Sandy Lyle Scotland
1986 John Mahaffey Flag of United States United States
1985 Calvin Peete Flag of United States United States
1984 Fred Couples Flag of United States United States
1983 Hal Sutton Flag of United States United States
1982 Jerry Pate Flag of United States United States
1981 Raymond Floyd Flag of United States United States
1980 Lee Trevino Flag of United States United States
1979 Lanny Wadkins Flag of United States United States
1978 Jack Nicklaus Flag of United States United States
1977 Mark Hayes Flag of United States United States
1976 Jack Nicklaus Flag of United States United States
1975 Al Geiberger Flag of United States United States
1974 Jack Nicklaus Flag of United States United States

[edit] Multiple winners

Five men have won The Players Championship more than once through 2006.


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PGA Tour Events
Major championships in playing order: The Masters | U.S. Open | The Open Championship (British Open) | PGA Championship
Other FedEx Cup tournaments in playing order: Mercedes-Benz Championship | Sony Open in Hawaii | Bob Hope Chrysler Classic | Buick Invitational | FBR Open | AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am | Nissan Open | WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship | Mayakoba Classic at Riviera Maya | Honda Classic | PODS Championship | Arnold Palmer Invitational | WGC-CA Championship | Shell Houston Open | Verizon Heritage | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | EDS Byron Nelson Championship | Wachovia Championship | The Players Championship | AT&T Classic | Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial | Memorial Tournament | Stanford St. Jude Championship | Travelers Championship | Buick Open | AT&T National | John Deere Classic | U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee | Bell Canadian Open | WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | Reno-Tahoe Open | Wyndham Championship
FedEx Cup playoff events: The Barclays | Deutsche Bank Championship | BMW Championship | The Tour Championship
Fall Series in playing order: Turning Stone Resort Championship | Viking Classic | Valero Texas Open | Frys.com Open in Las Vegas | Fry's Electronics Open | Running Horse Golf Championship | Walt Disney World Resort Classic
Team events (played alternate years): Presidents Cup | Ryder Cup
Challenge season events (unofficial money): Merrill Lynch Shootout | ADT Skills Challenge | Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge | LG Skins Game | WGC-World Cup | Target World Challenge
Former PGA Tour events: Western Open | Doral Open | North and South Open | B.C. Open | 84 Lumber Classic | Booz Allen Classic (aka Kemper Open) | The International

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