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2024 Players Championship
Tournament information
DatesMarch 14–17, 2024
LocationPonte Vedra Beach, Florida
30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W / 30.198; -81.394
Course(s)TPC Sawgrass
(Stadium Course)
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Field144 players, 73 after cut
Cut143 (–1)
Prize fundUS$25,000,000
Winner's shareUS$4,500,000
Champion
United States Scottie Scheffler
268 (–20)
Location map
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The 2024 Players Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from March 14–17. Officially, it was the 50th edition of The Players Championship tournament.

Venue

Main article: TPC at Sawgrass

Field

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.

Eligibility criteria

This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2024 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 2023 Players Championship

2. Top 125 from the previous season's FedEx Cup Fall Playoffs and Eligibility Points List

3. Top 125 (medical)

4. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2019–2023)

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2018–2023)

6. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2018–2023)

7. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023)

8. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2018–2023)

9. Recent winners of the FedEx Cup (2019–2023)

10. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2021–2023)

11. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2021)

12. Recent winners of the Genesis Invitational (2022–2024)

13. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2022–2024)

14. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2021–2023)

15. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking following the Cognizant Classic

16. Top 10 in the current season's FedEx Cup points standings after the Cognizant Classic

17. Kaulig Companies Championship champion from previous year

18. Leading player to earn a PGA Tour card from the previous year's Race to Dubai ranking

19. Leading points winner from the Korn Ferry Tour during the previous year

20. Remaining positions and alternates filled through current year FedEx Cup standings after the Cognizant Classic (rank in parentheses)

Ineligible players

The following players met criteria but, having joined LIV Golf, were suspended by the PGA Tour and ineligible to compete:

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 14, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024

The overnight lead was shared by Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark, who recorded scores of 65 (7 under par). McIlroy's 10 birdies tied the tournament record for most birdies in a single round. Nick Taylor and Matt Fitzpatrick both shot their career best rounds at the Stadium Course with 6-under 66s. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler began with a 5-under round of 67, as did debutant Ludvig Åberg.

Ryan Fox became the first player since records began to make back-to-back eagles at The Players Championship; doing so by scoring a three at the par-5 16th and a hole-in-one at the par-3 17th hole.

Play was suspended due to darkness at 7:32 p.m. EDT with 9 players yet to finish their round. Round 1 was completed on Friday morning.

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Wyndham Clark 65 −7
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
United States Xander Schauffele
T4 England Matt Fitzpatrick 66 −6
Canada Nick Taylor
T6 Sweden Ludvig Åberg 67 −5
Australia Jason Day
United States Tyler Duncan
United States Tom Hoge
United States Maverick McNealy
United States Scottie Scheffler

Second round

Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Wyndham Clark shot a second consecutive 65 (–7) to reach 14-under for the tournament and open a four-shot lead after 36 holes. Clark, who began the round on the 10th hole, made four straight birdies on holes 1-4 and played his back-nine in six-under.

Xander Schauffele began the round tied for the lead but made a double-bogey on the par-5 11th hole after hitting his second shot in the water. He came back with an eagle on the par-5 16th and shot three-under 67 to join Nick Taylor in a tie for second place at 10-under.

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler chipped in for birdie on the par-3 third hole (his 12th of the round) and shot 69 (–3) to finish at 8-under and in a tie for sixth place. First round co-leader and 2019 champion Rory McIlroy drove into the water on the 14th hole and made double-bogey, part of a one-over round of 73 to fall to 15th place.

The cut came at 143 (–1), after two players who didn't finish their round on Friday finished on Saturday. Notables to miss the cut included 2021 champion Justin Thomas and three-time major champion Jordan Spieth.

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Wyndham Clark 65-65=130 −14
T2 United States Xander Schauffele 65-69=134 −10
Canada Nick Taylor 66-68=134
T4 England Matt Fitzpatrick 66-69=135 −9
United States Maverick McNealy 67-68=135
T6 Canada Corey Conners 68-68=136 −8
United States Tom Hoge 67-69=136
United States Scottie Scheffler 67-69=136
Germany Matti Schmid 68-68=136
T10 United States Brian Harman 72-65=137 −7
Taiwan Pan Cheng-tsung 69-68=137
United States J. T. Poston 69-68=137
United States Sahith Theegala 70-67=137

Third round

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Xander Schauffele made seven birdies in a bogey-free round of 65 to take the 54-hole lead by one shot over Wyndham Clark. Schauffele began the round four shots behind Clark but tied for the lead with a birdie on the 12th. He then made a 58-foot birdie putt on the par-4 14th hole to reach 17-under and in sole possession of the lead going to the final round.

Clark also reached 17-under with a birdie on the par-5 16th hole, but his tee shot on the par-3 17th found the water hazard. He made bogey to fall one behind Schauffele and finished with a two-under round of 70.

Brian Harman made five birdies on the back-nine to shoot the lowest round of the day with a 64 (–8) and climb up to third place at 15-under, two behind Schauffele; with second and third rounds of 65 and 64, respectively, Harman recorded the lowest two-consecutive-round total in Players history, with a 129. Maverick McNealy chipped in for birdie on the 14th to get within three of the lead, but he hit his second shot on the 16th into the water and made bogey. He finished at 13-under and in a tie for fourth place with Matt Fitzpatrick. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler was one-under on his round before finishing with three straight birdies to shoot 68 (–4) and move into sixth place.

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Xander Schauffele 65-69-65=199 −17
2 United States Wyndham Clark 65-65-70=200 −16
3 United States Brian Harman 72-65-64=201 −15
T4 England Matt Fitzpatrick 66-69-68=203 −13
United States Maverick McNealy 67-68-68=203
T6 United States Scottie Scheffler 67-69-68=204 −12
United States Sahith Theegala 70-67-67=204
8 United States Nate Lashley 68-70-67=205 −11
T9 Japan Hideki Matsuyama 69-69-68=206 −10
United States Taylor Montgomery 68-70-68=206
United States J. T. Poston 69-68-69=206

Final round

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler shot a bogey free 64 (−8) to overcome a five shot deficit and become the first player in the history of The Players Championship to win back-to-back tournaments.

Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele and Brian Harman all had birdie putts on the 18th hole to force a playoff, but all missed.

Champion
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 United States Scottie Scheffler (c) 67-69-68-64=268 −20 4,500,000
T2 United States Wyndham Clark 65-65-70-69=269 −19 1,891,667
United States Brian Harman 72-65-64-68=269
United States Xander Schauffele 65-69-65-70=269
5 England Matt Fitzpatrick 66-69-68-69=272 −16 1,025,000
T6 South Korea Kim Si-woo (c) 70-71-68-64=273 −15 875,000
Japan Hideki Matsuyama 69-69-68-67=273
8 Sweden Ludvig Åberg 67-73-67-67=274 −14 781,250
T9 United States Maverick McNealy 67-68-68-72=275 −13 706,250
United States Sahith Theegala 70-67-67-71=275
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
T11 United States Joel Dahmen 74-67-67-68=276 −12 606,250
United States Taylor Montgomery 68-70-68-70=276
T13 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 69-70-68-70=277 −11 489,583
Canada Corey Conners 68-68-73-68=277
United States Nate Lashley 68-70-67-72=277
T16 United States Doug Ghim 71-70-66-71=278 −10 406,250
United States Sam Ryder 70-69-70-69=278
Austria Sepp Straka 68-70-70-70=278
T19 United States Harris English 69-69-75-66=279 −9 285,536
United States Kurt Kitayama 70-71-71-67=279
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 71-70-72-66=279
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy (c) 65-73-69-72=279
Sweden Alex Norén 71-70-70-68=279
United States Adam Schenk 71-71-66-71=279
United States Dylan Wu 69-74-69-67=279
T26 Canada Mackenzie Hughes 70-73-69-68=280 −8 186,250
United States Chris Kirk 68-70-73-69=280
United States Matthew NeSmith 73-67-68-72=280
Germany Matti Schmid 68-68-72-72=280
Canada Nick Taylor 66-68-76-70=280
T31 United States Mark Hubbard 68-73-72-68=281 −7 152,813
South Korea Im Sung-jae 70-72-69-70=281
United States Ben Martin 72-71-71-67=281
United States Taylor Moore 72-68-70-71=281
T35 Australia Jason Day (c) 67-71-72-72=282 −6 119,286
England Tommy Fleetwood 70-72-69-71=282
United States Brice Garnett 71-72-67-72=282
United States Lee Hodges 69-70-72-71=282
United States Denny McCarthy 71-71-71-69=282
England Aaron Rai 71-72-68-71=282
United States Jimmy Stanger 69-73-71-69=282
T42 United States David Lipsky 73-70-69-71=283 −5 93,750
United States Grayson Murray 73-69-77-64=283
Taiwan Pan Cheng-tsung 69-68-70-76=283
T45 United States Sam Burns 73-70-65-76=284 −4 70,063
United States Austin Eckroat 71-69-68-76=284
United States Tony Finau 69-72-69-74=284
United States Jake Knapp 71-72-68-73=284
United States Ryan Moore 70-69-73-72=284
United States Collin Morikawa 71-69-70-74=284
United States J. T. Poston 69-68-69-78=284
Australia Adam Scott 70-72-71-71=284
53 United States Andrew Putnam 69-74-72-70=285 −3 60,250
T54 United States Zac Blair 73-70-70-73=286 −2 57,500
Argentina Emiliano Grillo 69-71-69-77=286
United States Tom Hoge 67-69-75-75=286
Scotland Martin Laird 70-73-70-73=286
Australia Min Woo Lee 73-70-73-70=286
Italy Francesco Molinari 72-69-73-72=286
Finland Sami Välimäki 71-72-69-74=286
United States Cameron Young 70-69-73-74=286
T62 Belgium Thomas Detry 71-72-74-70=287 −1 55,000
Norway Viktor Hovland 73-69-71-74=287
T64 United States Tyler Duncan 67-75-72-74=288 E 53,500
United States Max Homa 68-75-74-71=288
Republic of Ireland Séamus Power 72-69-78-69=288
United States J. J. Spaun 72-71-70-75=288
T68 United States Patrick Cantlay 72-70-73-75=290 +2 51,500
United States Rickie Fowler (c) 74-69-76-71=290
United States Chan Kim 70-71-70-79=290
United States Peter Malnati 70-73-66-81=290
72 United States Gary Woodland 70-73-74-74=291 +3 50,250
73 United States Keith Mitchell 69-71-76-76=292 +4 49,750
CUT United States Akshay Bhatia 72-72=144 E
United States Lucas Glover 75-69=144
United States Ben Griffin 73-71=144
Japan Ryo Hisatsune 70-74=144
Germany Stephan Jäger 72-72=144
United States Luke List 69-75=144
United States Webb Simpson (c) 73-71=144
England David Skinns 71-73=144
United States Tyson Alexander 71-74=145 +1
United States Hayden Buckley 71-74=145
New Zealand Ryan Fox 69-76=145
United States Billy Horschel 71-74=145
United States Beau Hossler 71-74=145
South Korea Kim Seong-hyeon 74-71=145
United States Patrick Rodgers 72-73=145
South Africa Erik van Rooyen 71-74=145
United States Justin Suh 76-69=145
United States Justin Thomas (c) 71-74=145
United States Brandon Wu 75-70=145
United States Eric Cole 72-74=146 +2
Colombia Nico Echavarría 73-73=146
United States Chesson Hadley 75-71=146
United States Russell Henley 73-73=146
United States Matt Kuchar (c) 74-72=146
United States Justin Lower 71-75=146
United States Troy Merritt 73-73=146
United States Greyson Sigg 75-71=146
Canada Ben Silverman 72-74=146
United States Jordan Spieth 74-72=146
United States Steve Stricker 72-74=146
United States Davis Thompson 75-71=146
United States Carson Young 71-75=146
United States Nick Dunlap 77-70=147 +3
France Matthieu Pavon 70-77=147
United States Chez Reavie 74-73=147
England Justin Rose 70-77=147
United States Alex Smalley 70-77=147
Canada Adam Svensson 74-73=147
England Matt Wallace 73-74=147
Taiwan Kevin Yu 74-73=147
United States Joseph Bramlett 77-71=148 +4
Canada Adam Hadwin 75-73=148
United States Michael Kim 68-80=148
United States Andrew Novak 74-74=148
United States Davis Riley 74-74=148
United States Will Zalatoris 73-75=148
South Korea An Byeong-hun 69-80=149 +5
United States Charley Hoffman 75-74=149
Denmark Nicolai Højgaard 73-76=149
United States Chad Ramey 73-76=149
United States Sam Stevens 73-76=149
Australia Aaron Baddeley 74-76=150 +6
United States Keegan Bradley 72-78=150
Scotland Robert MacIntyre 74-76=150
Sweden Vincent Norrman 77-73=150
Canada Taylor Pendrith 75-75=150
United States Scott Stallings 74-76=150
England Ben Taylor 73-77=150
United States Brendon Todd 74-76=150
China Yuan Yechun 74-76=150
England Harry Hall 77-74=151 +7
United States Nick Hardy 74-77=151
South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon 75-76=151
United States Robby Shelton 80-72=152 +8
United States Kevin Streelman 77-75=152
United States Ben Kohles 80-73=153 +9
England Callum Tarren 75-78=153
Colombia Camilo Villegas 73-82=155 +11
Australia Cameron Davis 79-82=161 +17
WD South Africa Garrick Higgo 73-18=91 +3
South Korea Tom Kim

Scorecard

Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 3 4
United States Scheffler –12 –12 –12 –14 –15 –15 –15 –16 –17 –17 –18 –19 –19 –19 –19 –20 –20 –20
United States Clark –16 –17 –17 –17 –17 –17 –17 –17 –18 –17 –18 –18 –18 –17 –17 –18 –19 –19
United States Harman –15 –15 –15 –15 –15 –14 –15 –16 –17 –17 –18 –18 –18 –18 –19 –19 –19 –19
United States Schauffele –17 –18 –18 –17 –17 –17 –18 –18 –19 –19 –19 –20 –20 –19 –18 –19 –19 –19
England Fitzpatrick –14 –15 –15 –14 –14 –13 –13 –13 –12 –12 –12 –13 –12 –12 –13 –14 –15 –16
South Korea Kim –7 –8 –8 –8 –8 –9 –10 –9 –10 –10 –11 –11 –11 –12 –13 –15 –15 –15
Japan Matsuyama –10 –11 –12 –12 –12 –12 –12 –13 –13 –13 –14 –14 –14 –15 –15 –15 –15 –15
Sweden Åberg –9 –10 –11 –11 –11 –11 –11 –11 –11 –11 –13 –14 –14 –14 –14 –14 –14 –14
United States McNealy –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –14 –14 –14 –13 –13 –13 –13
United States Theegala –13 –13 –13 –13 –13 –14 –14 –14 –13 –13 –13 –14 –14 –13 –13 –13 –13 –13

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey
Source:

Notes

  1. The player handbook and the "Inside the Field" page list the categories in different orders, but the players eligible are the same.
  2. Higgo withdrew on Friday morning due to a wrist injury; he had completed 4 holes of his second round.
  3. Kim withdrew on Thursday morning due to illness; he had completed 8 holes of his first round.

References

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  2. "2024 PGA Tour Player Handbook and Tournament Regulations" (PDF). PGA Tour. pp. 28–29. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  3. "Inside the Field: The Players Championship". PGA Tour. March 8, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
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  5. Ferguson, Doug (March 8, 2024). "Tiger Woods to skip the Players Championship as the Masters nears". Associated Press News. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  6. Martin, Sean (March 14, 2024). "Rory McIlroy ties The Players record with 10 birdies in opening 65". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
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  11. Hoggard, Rex (March 15, 2024). "Scottie Scheffler fights through neck injury to stay in contention at The Players". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  12. Berhow, Josh (March 15, 2024). "Players Championship cut: These stars missed the weekend at TPC Sawgrass". Golf Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
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