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Six things I learned from tour pros at the 2024 Players Championship
It was a quick in-and-out for the author – Monday-through-Wednesday – but still enough time to glean a few tips from the top of the sport that the rest of us can use.
Callaway wrap: Xander Schauffele’s complete performance falls short in Players Championship runner-up
A hot week in every statistical category wasn’t enough for Callaway star Xander Schauffele to get over the line at the Players Championship, although a tie for second at TPC Sawgrass shows promise of the upcoming Masters.
Players 2024: Welcome to the age of Scottie Scheffler
The unerring style of his game and his stolid appearance can’t help but attach an aura of inescapable dominance to the Scheffler experience.
Players Championship: On the putt, and the man, that didn’t drop
PONTE VEDRA BEACH—Wyndham Clark began to chase, but something deep inside signaled doubt, his left foot defying physics by freezing the rest of his body in place to corroborate what he was about to do was not premature. Either momentum or conviction or being on the precipice of the sensational overruled because the chase for Read more…
Players 2024: The clubs Scottie Scheffler used to win at TPC Sawgrass
Although Scheffler putted well enough to post positive strokes gained/putting numbers, the entire body of work was more quintessential Scheffler as he ranked first in strokes gained/off the tee.
Players Championship: Buoyed by green pants on St. Paddy’s Day, Scottie Scheffler holes out from fairway for eagle
Scottie Scheffler has put in a gritty performance at TPC Sawgrass this week. He came out of blocks flying on Thursday but early Friday his neck seized up and he’s been playing injured since, clubbing up with his irons and struggling to hit draws off the tee. Yet somehow the World No. 1 has hung Read more…
Players 2024: This scary Max Homa fan video will keep you from standing too close to tour pros hitting shots
We can only imagine the panic that the fan with the camera had to be feeling at this moment (and for that matter, Homa).
Players Championship: ‘You got to pick’—Kevin Kisner explains how Xander hit one of the toughest shots in golf
Unlike the rest of us, tour pros aren’t worried about bunker shots—in fact, they often prefer them. Given that they can control the spin on short greenside bunker shots, they are often an easier shot than from the rough. The lone exception? When you get in that no man’s land, around 40 to 50 yards Read more…
Players Championship: How to spot when a player is about to blow it on golf’s scariest tee shot
The famed par-3 17th hole is the toast of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, and by extension, the Players Championship. But for as spooky as that tee shot is, most players admit it’s one that comes on the next hole that is the most terrifying. On the 17th, players at least have the comfort Read more…
Players Championship: Xander Schauffele is done with golf’s nonsense and finding joy in the work
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — The ball stopped three feet short and Xander Schauffele couldn’t stop smiling. It was unclear if the smirk was because the putt had looked so good for 45 feet until it wasn’t, or that he thought he had killed it and the ball still didn’t reach the cup, or if it Read more…
Players 2024: Wyndham Clark emerges as major threat in game’s biggest events
If he can finish the job at the Players on the weekend, it will further cement the narrative of Clark rising for the big events heading into major season.
Players Championship: Finding the worst avid golfer at TPC Sawgrass
The idea for the Search for America’s Worst Avid Golfer originated in the grillroom at Winged Foot in 1984 when a couple of editors were discussing how the average golfer would play the West Course as it had been prepared for that year’s U.S. Open. After a couple of beers, it turned to this question: Read more…
Players 2024: Byeong Hun An eviscerates Twitter troll after ‘broomstick’ putter jab
If you come at a PGA Tour pro, you best not miss. They’re better at golf than you are. Because they’re better at golf than you are, they make more money than you do. Because they make more money than you do, their wife is more attractive, their garage holds more cars and they get Read more…
Players 2024: The ridiculous reason why Matt Fitzpatrick struggled with his driver
Fitzpatrick’s unlikely story unfolded gradually, under a volley of questions.
Players 2024: This Justin Thomas dart from the rough was so good even he couldn’t believe it
You don’t want to start the Players Championship the way Justin Thomas started his on Thursday, feet clinging to the edge of a fairway bunker, ball buried in the TPC Sawgrass Bermuda, needing to dig out a heck of an iron shot to just make par. But that’s precisely what Thomas did, uncorking a beauty Read more…
Players 2024: Xander Schauffele’s wonder shot secures bogey-free 65, share of first-round lead
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — When asked how many times he could pull off his seventh hole recovery if he tried 100 times, Xander Schauffele thought for a moment before delivering his verdict. “About 30,” he said. “Ish.” At seven under for the day, Schauffele came to the seventh hole (late on his back nine) needing Read more…
Players 2024: When caddies take their biggest swing of the year
On Sunday, the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass is where fortunes are decided for the contenders at the Players Championship. On Wednesday, however, it’s also where their caddies hit their most important (read: only?) shot of the year.
Players Championship picks 2024: The Justin Thomas bet our experts love
It’s been a weird year betting golf. Scottie Scheffler finally broke the long run of longshot winners with his dominant performance at Bay Hill. But as a heavy favorite last week, it’s unlikely most golf bettors were dipping into the Scheffler outright market. Before that, the lowest odds for a champion was Jake Knapp (40-1) Read more…
Players Championship DFS picks 2024: To Scheffler or not to Scheffler?
After a thrilling week in Orlando where the PGA Tour finally received a much-needed infusion of star power, we now head north to Ponte Vedra Beach for The Players Championship. The “fifth major” remains the flagship event of the PGA Tour season, and it now features the largest purse in golf, a whopping $25 million, Read more…
Player Blog: Adam Scott
Twenty years ago, Adam Scott announced his arrival on golf’s biggest stage by winning the Players Championship at the Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the PGA Tour’s flagship, US$25 million tournament this week, Scott reflects on his famous victory and what it means in his illustrious career which includes 14 PGA Tour titles.
