2023 Players Championship

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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]

Venue

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.[2][3]

Eligibility criteria

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

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 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
1 United States Chad Ramey 64 −8
2 United States Collin Morikawa 65 −7
T3 United States Ben Griffin 67 −5
Canada Taylor Pendrith
T5 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68 −4
United States Sam Burns
Australia Min Woo Lee
United States Denny McCarthy
United States Scottie Scheffler
United States Justin Suh
Canada Adam Svensson

Second round

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
1 Canada Adam Svensson 68-67=135 −9
2 United States Scottie Scheffler 68-69=137 −7
T3 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68-70=138 −6
United States Ben Griffin 67-71=138
Australia Min Woo Lee 68-70=138
United States Collin Morikawa 65-73=138
T7 Australia Cameron Davis 69-70=139 −5
United States Chad Ramey 64-75=139
T9 Australia Jason Day 70-70=140 −4
United States Will Gordon 73-67=140
Norway Viktor Hovland 69-71=140
United States Nate Lashley 69-71=140
Sweden David Lingmerth 72-68=140
United States Denny McCarthy 68-72=140
Canada Taylor Pendrith 67-73=140
United States Brendon Todd 71-69=140

Third round

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
Par 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 5
United States Hoge +2 +1 E E E −1 −2 −2 −3 −3 −4 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8
Place Player Score To par
1 United States Scottie Scheffler 68-69-65=202 −14
2 Australia Min Woo Lee 68-70-66=204 −12
3 Australia Cameron Davis 69-70-67=206 −10
T4 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68-70-69=207 −9
England Tommy Fleetwood 72-70-65=207
England Aaron Rai 73-69-65=207
United States Chad Ramey 64-75-68=207
T8 United States Tom Hoge 78-68-62=208 −8
South Korea Im Sung-jae 75-69-64=208
Sweden David Lingmerth 72-68-68=208

Final round

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 ($)
1 United States Scottie Scheffler 68-69-65-69=271 −17 4,500,000
2 England Tyrrell Hatton 72-71-68-65=276 −12 2,725,000
T3 United States Tom Hoge 78-68-62-70=278 −10 1,475,000
Norway Viktor Hovland 69-71-70-68=278
5 Japan Hideki Matsuyama 74-70-67-68=279 −9 1,025,000
T6 Australia Cameron Davis 69-70-67-74=280 −8 736,607
United States Max Homa 72-72-67-69=280
South Korea Im Sung-jae 75-69-64-72=280
Australia Min Woo Lee 68-70-66-76=280
Sweden David Lingmerth 72-68-68-72=280
England Justin Rose 69-73-67-71=280
United States Justin Suh 68-73-69-70=280
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
T13 South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68-70-69-74=281 −7 447,916
United States Rickie Fowler (c) 72-70-68-71=281
Canada Adam Hadwin 71-70-69-71=281
United States Denny McCarthy 68-72-69-72=281
United States Collin Morikawa 65-73-72-71=281
Canada Adam Svensson 68-67-75-71=281
T19 United States Patrick Cantlay 72-70-68-72=282 −6 275,000
Australia Jason Day (c) 70-70-70-72=282
United States Tony Finau 73-72-66-71=282
United States Russell Henley 72-74-66-70=282
England Aaron Rai 73-69-65-75=282
United States Xander Schauffele 72-73-69-68=282
United States Jordan Spieth 69-75-66-72=282
United States Brandon Wu 73-69-69-71=282
T27 United States Wyndham Clark 69-73-69-72=283 −5 167,656
United States Eric Cole 73-73-69-68=283
England Tommy Fleetwood 72-70-65-76=283
New Zealand Ryan Fox 74-68-70-71=283
South Korea Kim Si-woo (c) 69-74-68-72=283
United States Chad Ramey 64-75-68-76=283
United States Brendon Todd 71-69-74-69=283
England Danny Willett 72-71-71-69=283
T35 South Korea An Byeong-hun 71-70-70-73=284 −4 114,166
United States Sam Burns 68-74-72-70=284
United States Ben Griffin 67-71-72-74=284
United States Mark Hubbard 71-72-70-71=284
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 77-69-68-70=284
United States Keith Mitchell 72-74-68-70=284
United States Taylor Moore 70-75-65-74=284
United States Austin Smotherman 73-72-69-70=284
United States Dylan Wu 69-73-68-74=284
T44 United States Chesson Hadley 71-73-72-69=285 −3 75,035
United States Brian Harman 73-71-70-71=285
United States Kramer Hickok 73-70-69-73=285
South Africa Garrick Higgo 70-73-68-74=285
Germany Stephan Jäger 74-72-69-70=285
United States Taylor Montgomery 70-73-66-76=285
United States Sam Ryder 73-72-69-71=285
T51 United States Lucas Glover 69-74-71-72=286 −2 61,416
South Korea Tom Kim 74-72-71-69=286
United States Cameron Young 71-73-68-74=286
T54 United States Tyler Duncan 73-69-70-75=287 −1
United States Will Gordon 73-67-73-74=287
United States Jerry Kelly 74-72-69-72=287
United States Ben Martin 71-74-72-70=287
Austria Matthias Schwab 75-70-72-70=287
United States Gary Woodland 72-70-71-74=287
T60 United States Joel Dahmen 73-71-73-71=288 E 55,250
United States Nate Lashley 69-71-73-75=288
United States Maverick McNealy 74-71-70-73=288
Italy Francesco Molinari 73-71-68-76=288
United States Justin Thomas (c) 73-73-71-71=288
T65 United States Patton Kizzire 74-71-74-70=289 +1 53,250
United States Alex Smalley 71-75-69-74=289
Austria Sepp Straka 74-72-74-69=289
68 United States Davis Thompson 70-73-69-79=291 +3 52,250
T69 Canada Taylor Pendrith 67-73-72-80=292 +4 51,500
United States Scott Stallings 71-74-72-75=292
71 Australia Adam Scott (c) 72-73-77-71=293 +5 50,750
72 Australia Aaron Baddeley 73-72-74-76=295 +7 50,250
73 United States Will Zalatoris 74-71-74-77=296 +8 49,750
74 United States Sahith Theegala 70-75-78-75=298 +10 49,250
75 United States Kevin Kisner 72-73-73-81=299 +11 48,750
CUT United States Hayden Buckley 73-74=147 +3
Belgium Thomas Detry 78-69=147
Australia Harrison Endycott 70-77=147
England Matt Fitzpatrick 76-71=147
Argentina Emiliano Grillo 70-77=147
United States Luke List 77-70=147
United States Troy Merritt 74-73=147
United States Ryan Palmer 69-78=147
United States Scott Piercy 71-76=147
United States Andrew Putnam 73-74=147
United States J. J. Spaun 72-75=147
United States Kevin Streelman 71-76=147
England Matt Wallace 72-75=147
United States Keegan Bradley 70-78=148 +4
United States Chris Kirk 73-75=148
United States Matt Kuchar (c) 70-78=148
United States Peter Malnati 72-76=148
United States Chez Reavie 72-76=148
United States Davis Riley 71-77=148
United States Patrick Rodgers 73-75=148
United States Adam Schenk 74-74=148
United States Kevin Tway 75-73=148
United States Joseph Bramlett 71-78=149 +5
United States Harris English 78-71=149
United States James Hahn 73-76=149
United States Kurt Kitayama 73-76=149
South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon 73-76=149
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy (c) 76-73=149
Sweden Alex Norén 77-72=149
Canada Nick Taylor 74-75=149
United States Michael Thompson 77-72=149
United States Erik Barnes 74-76=150 +6
Canada Corey Conners 75-75=150
Colombia Nico Echavarría 71-79=150
United States Nick Hardy 77-73=150
United States J. T. Poston 75-75=150
Republic of Ireland Séamus Power 74-76=150
United States Robby Shelton 72-78=150
England Callum Tarren 73-77=150
United States Ryan Armour 72-79=151 +7
South Africa Dylan Frittelli 72-79=151
Canada Mackenzie Hughes 75-76=151
United States Justin Lower 74-77=151
United States Greyson Sigg 74-77=151
United States Robert Streb 78-73=151
United States Ryan Brehm 72-80=152 +8
United States Billy Horschel 73-79=152
United States Beau Hossler 76-76=152
Scotland Russell Knox 75-77=152
United States Doc Redman 78-74=152
United States Webb Simpson (c) 76-76=152
Venezuela Jhonattan Vegas 78-74=152
United States Tyson Alexander 77-76=153 +9
United States Stewart Cink 72-81=153
United States Lee Hodges 76-77=153
South Korea Kim Seong-hyeon 77-76=153
United States Adam Long 75-78=153
United States Doug Ghim 80-74=154 +10
United States Andrew Novak 79-75=154
United States Matthew NeSmith 77-78=155 +11
United States Kelly Kraft 80-76=156 +12
United States David Lipsky 76-80=156
United States Trey Mullinax 71-85=156
United States Aaron Wise 80-76=156
Scotland Martin Laird 76-81=157 +13
United States Max McGreevy 69-89=158 +14
United States Nick Watney 79-79=158
Australia Lucas Herbert 82-85=167 +23
WD Spain Jon Rahm 71 −1

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 −14 −14 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −14 −15 −16 −17 −18 −18 −17 −17 −17 −17 −17
England Hatton −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −5 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −9 −10 −11 −12
United States Hoge −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −10
Norway Hovland −6 −7 −6 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10
Japan Matsuyama −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −10 −11 −12 −10 −10 −10 −10 −9
United States Homa −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −8 −8
Australia Lee −13 −13 −13 −10 −10 −10 −11 −10 −10 −10 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −9 −8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+

Notes

  1. ^ The FedEx Cup Playoffs and Eligibility Points List was introduced during the 2021–22 PGA Tour season and replaced the FedEx Cup Standings as a criterion; the new list did not include players suspended by the tour, such as those who had joined LIV Golf.[4] After the end of the 2021–22 regular season, a further six players who had joined LIV Golf (Lahiri, Leishman, Neimann, Smith, Tringale and Varner) were removed from the list, moving Wallace, Smotherman, Lower, Redman, Willett and Kraft (the players ranked 126 to 131 in the points list as of August 7, 2022) into the top-125.[5][6]
  2. ^ Ryan Armour replaced Lanto Griffin.[8]

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