2021 Players Championship

48th Players Championship

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The 2021 Players Championship was the 47th Players Championship and was played March 11–14 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It was the fortieth edition held at the Stadium Course; the 2020 tournament was abandoned before the first round was completed, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Justin Thomas shot a four-under 68 in the final round for 274 (−14) to win his first Players, one stroke ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood, the 54-hole leader. [2] Defending champion Rory McIlroy (2019) missed the 36-hole cut.[3]

Venue

Course layout

The 2021 Players Championship
Tee Rating/Slope 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Par 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 5 36 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 36 72
Round 1 417 544 184 394 463 378 436 224 586 3,626 404 565 341 188 461 457 515 143 468 3,542 7,168
Round 2 439 536 165 386 474 393 448 213 574 3,628 430 534 368 168 480 452 537 146 453 3,568 7,196
Round 3 420 525 173 374 459 382 451 231 591 3,606 407 558 289 192 472 478 508 121 472 3,497 7,103
Round 4 431 539 155 382 472 389 437 244 572 3,621 423 535 308 151 483 450 521 133 444 3,448 7,069

Source:[4]

Field

The field consists of 154 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.[5][6] The field was expanded from the usual 144 with the late decision to include the top 125 players from the 2019–20 FedEx Cup standings.[7]

Eligibility criteria

This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2021 Players Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were eligible is indicated in parentheses.

1. Winners of official PGA Tour events since the last completed Players Championship (2019)

2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2016–2020)

3. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2015–2019)

4. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2015–2019)

5. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2015–2020)

6. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2015–2020)

  • Jimmy Walker

7. Recent winners of the Tour Championship (2017–2018)

8. Recent winners of the WGC Championship (2018–2021)

9. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2018–2019)

10. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2017–2020)

11. Recent winners of the WGC-HSBC Champions (2017–2019)

12. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2018–2021)

13. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2017–2020)

14. Recent winners of the Genesis Invitational (2020–2021)

15. The top 125 players who earned the most FedEx Cup points from the start of the 2019–20 season to February 29, 2021

16. The top 125 players who fulfilled the terms of a major medical extension

17. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 1, 2021

18. The Senior Players champion from the previous year

19. Remaining positions and alternates are filled through the current season's FedEx Cup standings as of March 1, 2021

20. The top 125 players in the 2019–20 FedEx Cup regular season standings[f]

Notes

  1. ^ a b English withdrew on the morning of the first round; Ventura replaced him in the field.[8]
  2. ^ a b Koepka withdrew on the Sunday prior to the start of the tournament due to a knee injury; Lahiri replaced him in the field.[9]
  3. ^ a b Wolff withdrew with a hand injury; Vegas replaced him in the field.[10]
  4. ^ a b Willett withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19; Hickok replaced him in the field.[11]
  5. ^ a b Rose withdrew on the morning of the first round due to a back injury; Stricker replaced him in the field.[12]
  6. ^ Unlike other categories, any player qualifying via this criterion would not have been replaced should they have withdrawn prior to the start of the tournament.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 11, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021

Sergio García, champion in 2008, took the first round lead with a 7-under-par 65, two strokes ahead of Brian Harman. Defending champion (2019) Rory McIlroy was 14 strokes back at 79. Play was suspended due to darkness, with 21 players on the course.[14]

Place Player Score To par
1 Spain Sergio García 65 −7
2 United States Brian Harman 67 −5
T3 Canada Corey Conners 68 −4
England Matt Fitzpatrick
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry
T6 United States Bryson DeChambeau 69 −3
United States Tom Hoge
United States Denny McCarthy
Slovakia Rory Sabbatini
England Lee Westwood
Source:[3]

Second round

Friday, March 12, 2021
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Lee Westwood led with a 9-under-par score of 135, a stroke ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick. The first round leader, Sergio García, had a 72 and was tied for third place with Chris Kirk who had a second round 65. Play was again suspended due to darkness, with 8 players still to complete their second rounds.[15] 71 players scoring even par or better, made the cut.

Place Player Score To par
1 England Lee Westwood 69-66=135 −9
2 England Matt Fitzpatrick 68-68=136 −8
T3 Spain Sergio García 65-72=137 −7
United States Chris Kirk 72-65=137
T5 United States Bryson DeChambeau 69-69=138 −6
United States Doug Ghim 71-67=138
United States Brian Harman 71-67=138
United States Charley Hoffman 70-68=138
South Korea Im Sung-jae 72-66=138
United States Denny McCarthy 69-69=138
Source:[3]

Third round

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Lee Westwood had a third round of 68 to lead by two strokes over Bryson DeChambeau. The previous week, the two had played together in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, DeChambeau beating Westwood by a stroke. Justin Thomas shot a third round 64 to be tied for third place with Doug Ghim.[16]

Place Player Score To par
1 England Lee Westwood 69-66-68=203 −13
2 United States Bryson DeChambeau 69-69-67=205 −11
T3 United States Doug Ghim 71-67-68=206 −10
United States Justin Thomas 71-71-64=206
T5 England Paul Casey 73-67-67=207 −9
United States Brian Harman 71-67-69=207
Spain Jon Rahm 72-68-67=207
T8 England Matt Fitzpatrick 68-68-72=208 −8
Spain Sergio García 65-72-71=208
United States Chris Kirk 72-65-71=208
Source:[3]

Final round

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Justin Thomas had a final round four-under-par 68 to finish with a score of 274, 14-under-par, to win by a stroke over Lee Westwood. Thomas was four shots behind Westwood after a bogey at the 8th hole. He then went birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie from the 9th to the 12th holes to take a two stroke lead. Westwood had a birdie at the 14th but made a three-putt bogey at the short 17th to drop two behind Thomas, level with his playing partner Bryson DeChambeau, who had eagled the 16th hole. Westwood had a birdie at the final hole to finish runner-up, with DeChambeau tied for third place with Brian Harman.[2]

Champion
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 United States Justin Thomas 71-71-64-68=274 −14 2,700,000
2 England Lee Westwood 69-66-68-72=275 −13 1,635,000
T3 United States Bryson DeChambeau 69-69-67-71=276 −12 885,000
United States Brian Harman 67-71-69-69=276
T5 England Paul Casey 73-67-67-70=277 −11 579,375
United States Talor Gooch 71-68-71-67=277
7 Canada Corey Conners 68-72-72-66=278 −10 506,250
8 Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 68-74-69-68=279 −9 468,750
T9 United States Daniel Berger 74-68-71-67=280 −8 339,375
England Matt Fitzpatrick 68-68-72-72=280
Spain Sergio García (c) 65-72-71-72=280
United States Charles Howell III 73-70-71-66=280
South Korea Kim Si-woo (c) 72-70-67-71=280
United States Jason Kokrak 70-72-71-67=280
France Victor Perez 73-71-69-67=280
Spain Jon Rahm 72-68-67-73=280
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
T17 United States Charley Hoffman 70-68-76-67=281 −7 221,250
South Korea Im Sung-jae 72-66-77-66=281
United States Ryan Palmer 70-72-68-71=281
Australia Cameron Smith 71-73-65-72=281
21 United States Will Zalatoris 70-71-70-71=282 −6 183,750
T22 Mexico Abraham Ancer 72-70-68-73=283 −5 135,964
South Africa Dylan Frittelli 71-68-76-68=283
United States Tom Hoge 69-71-71-72=283
United States Adam Long 70-74-67-72=283
United States Tyler McCumber 72-69-72-70=283
United States J. T. Poston 76-68-69-70=283
United States Patrick Reed 70-72-70-71=283
T29 United States Keegan Bradley 70-72-73-69=284 −4 96,125
United States Doug Ghim 71-67-68-78=284
Canada Adam Hadwin 74-69-71-70=284
United States Harry Higgs 71-73-67-73=284
Chile Joaquín Niemann 73-71-70-70=284
Australia Cameron Percy 73-70-73-68=284
T35 Australia Jason Day (c) 70-71-71-73=285 −3 73,125
United States Lanto Griffin 73-71-68-73=285
United States Patton Kizzire 70-69-72-74=285
United States Phil Mickelson (c) 71-72-71-71=285
United States Ryan Moore 75-69-71-70=285
United States Brendon Todd 74-69-71-71=285
T41 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 70-72-71-73=286 −2 53,250
United States James Hahn 76-67-74-69=286
United States Zach Johnson 75-68-72-71=286
South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon 72-71-71-72=286
United States Collin Morikawa 71-73-76-66=286
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 73-69-74-70=286
United States Brendan Steele 72-72-71-71=286
T48 United States Lucas Glover 75-69-72-71=287 −1 38,036
United States Dustin Johnson 73-70-73-71=287
United States Chris Kirk 72-65-71-79=287
Australia Adam Scott (c) 72-71-73-71=287
United States Jordan Spieth 70-74-68-75=287
Canada Nick Taylor 70-74-72-71=287
United States Michael Thompson 71-73-72-71=287
T55 United States Ryan Armour 74-68-71-75=288 E 34,950
Australia Matt Jones 73-71-70-74=288
United States Denny McCarthy 69-69-75-75=288
T58 United States Kramer Hickok 74-68-72-75=289 +1 34,050
United States Billy Horschel 71-73-71-74=289
United States Brian Stuard 74-68-72-75=289
T61 United States Scott Brown 71-70-72-77=290 +2 33,000
United States Scott Harrington 72-71-77-70=290
United States Harold Varner III 70-73-71-76=290
Venezuela Jhonattan Vegas 73-71-72-74=290
T65 United States Patrick Rodgers 74-70-73-74=291 +3 32,100
United States Aaron Wise 73-71-72-75=291
T67 Scotland Russell Knox 71-73-72-76=292 +4 31,500
Slovakia Rory Sabbatini 69-75-74-74=292
T69 Scotland Martin Laird 73-71-76-73=293 +5 30,900
United States Scott Piercy 73-70-71-79=293
71 United States Nate Lashley 74-69-75-76=294 +6 30,450
CUT United States Brice Garnett 74-71=145 +1
Argentina Emiliano Grillo 71-74=145
England Tyrrell Hatton 76-69=145
United States Mark Hubbard 78-67=145
Australia Marc Leishman 71-74=145
United States Luke List 73-72=145
Japan Hideki Matsuyama 76-69=145
Colombia Sebastián Muñoz 71-74=145
United States Scottie Scheffler 74-71=145
United States Adam Schenk 72-73=145
Austria Bernd Wiesberger 75-70=145
United States Stewart Cink 76-70=146 +2
United States Joel Dahmen 72-74=146
England Tommy Fleetwood 75-71=146
United States Bo Hoag 74-72=146
United States Max Homa 73-73=146
Norway Viktor Hovland 72-74=146
New Zealand Danny Lee 72-74=146
United States Peter Malnati 76-70=146
United States Pat Perez 77-69=146
United States Andrew Putnam 74-72=146
United States Doc Redman 73-73=146
United States Robby Shelton 75-71=146
United States Webb Simpson (c) 71-75=146
United States Kevin Streelman 73-73=146
United States Bubba Watson 76-70=146
United States Gary Woodland 70-76=146
United States Tony Finau 78-69=147 +3
South Africa Branden Grace 74-73=147
Canada Mackenzie Hughes 75-72=147
United States Andrew Landry 72-75=147
England Tom Lewis 73-74=147
Scotland Robert MacIntyre 74-73=147
Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 73-74=147
Italy Francesco Molinari 76-71=147
United States Sam Ryder 72-75=147
United States Scott Stallings 76-71=147
United States Robert Streb 76-71=147
United States Steve Stricker 70-77=147
United States Cameron Tringale 73-74=147
United States Cameron Champ 75-73=148 +4
United States Jason Dufner 73-75=148
United States Russell Henley 75-73=148
Sweden Alex Norén 78-70=148
England Ian Poulter 77-71=148
United States Chez Reavie 73-75=148
United States Xander Schauffele 76-72=148
United States Patrick Cantlay 74-75=149 +5
United States Keith Mitchell 76-73=149
Mexico Carlos Ortiz 73-76=149
United States Brandt Snedeker 74-75=149
Austria Sepp Straka 74-75=149
United States Austin Cook 77-73=150 +6
Australia Cameron Davis 76-74=150
United States Rickie Fowler (c) 77-73=150
United States Kevin Kisner 75-75=150
India Anirban Lahiri 78-72=150
United States Vaughn Taylor 76-74=150
Norway Kristoffer Ventura 74-76=150
United States Matt Kuchar (c) 76-75=151 +7
United States Troy Merritt 74-77=151
United States Richy Werenski 80-71=151
United States Wyndham Clark 79-73=152 +8
United States Beau Hossler 74-78=152
United States Jerry Kelly 73-79=152
Taiwan Pan Cheng-tsung 78-74=152
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 77-75=152
China Zhang Xinjun 76-76=152
United States Tyler Duncan 80-73=153 +9
United States Matthew NeSmith 81-72=153
United States Brian Gay 80-74=154 +10
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy (c) 79-75=154
Sweden Henrik Norlander 80-74=154
United States Hudson Swafford 82-73=155 +11
United States Sam Burns 81-76=157 +13
South Korea Kang Sung-hoon 76-81=157
United States Maverick McNealy 80-77=157
United States Jimmy Walker 83-74=157
United States Jim Herman 81-77=158 +14
Sweden Henrik Stenson (c) 85-74=159 +15
South Korea An Byeong-hun 83-79=162 +18
United States Kyle Stanley 83-84=167 +23
WD United States Kevin Na 81 +9
Source:[3]

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 Thomas −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −9 −10 −11 −13 −14 −14 −13 −13 −14 −14 −14
England Westwood −14 −13 −13 −12 −12 −12 −12 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −13 −13 −12 −13
United States DeChambeau −11 −11 −11 −9 −9 −9 −10 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −10 −10 −12 −12 −12
United States Harman −9 −10 −9 −10 −10 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12
England Casey −9 −10 −10 −9 −8 −9 −10 −10 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11
United States Gooch −5 −6 −6 −7 −6 −6 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11
Canada Conners −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10
Republic of Ireland Lowry −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[3]

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