Forty-eight of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the field as the PGA Tour holds the 51st edition of the Players Championship, tournament officials revealing the field on Friday afternoon. Leading the charge is World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who a year ago became the golfer ever to repeat as Players Championship winner. He thus arrives at TPC Sawgrass with a chance at an unprecedented three-peat, which would also allow him to join Jack Nicklaus as the only three-time winners of the event.
Seven other past Players champions are competing: Adam Scott, Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler, Jason Day, Si Woo Kim, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas. Scott will be playing in the event for the 24th time, the most of anyone competing. Kuchar will be playing for the 20th time in his career, as will Justin Rose.
Mind you, there is one notable missing past champion: Tiger Woods, a two-time winner of the event who has not played in it, however, since 2019, was one of four eligible players (along with Ernie Els, Alex Noren and Brendon Todd) who did not commit to play. Woods has been competing so far in 2025 in his TGL golf simulator league who acknowledged earlier this week that the recent death of his mother, Tida, and his involvement in the negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund, has prevented him from concentrating on a return to action. Woods has not played in an official PGA Tour event since the Open Championship last July at Royal Troon, or since having back surgery in September.
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There will be 24 golfers making their debut appearance at the Players, including five tour winners (Brian Campbell, Rafa Campos, Chris Gotterup, Joe Highsmith and Matt McCarty). One other first timer with an interesting storyline is Laurie Canter. The Englishman is a former LIV Golf League member who has since returned to playing the DP World Tour on a full-time basis and has won two times since last summer. That allowed him to move his way into the top 50 in the OWGR and qualify, becoming the first LIV golfer to play in a non-major PGA Tour solo-sanctioned event.
Two more players could qualify for the championship over the weekend, the winner of the Arnold Palmer Championship and the Puerto Rico Open both guaranteed a spot if they’re not otherwise exempt. The last player into the field currently is Bub Cauley (No. 112 on the FedEx Cup points list) with Danny Walker (No. 114) as the first alternate.
Below is the entire 144 player field. Tee times for the first and second rounds at TPC Sawgrass have not yet been released and are expected to go live on Tuesday. We’ll update this post with the officials tee times when they become available.
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Daniel Berger
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Akshay Bhatia
Keegan Bradley
Jacon Bridgeman
Sam Burns
Brian Campbell
Rafael Campos
Laurie Canter
Patrick Cantlay
Frankie Capan III
Bud Cauley
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TPC’s stadium concept was the idea of then-PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman. The 1980 design was pure Pete Dye, who set out to test the world’s best golfers by mixing demands of distance with target golf. Most greens are ringed by random lumps, bumps and hollows, what Dye calls his “grenade attack architecture.” His ultimate target hole is the heart-pounding sink-or-swim island green 17th, which offers no bailout, perhaps unfairly in windy Atlantic coast conditions. The 17th has spawned over a hundred imitation island greens in the past 40 years. To make the layout even more exciting during tournament play, Steve Wenzloff of PGA Tour Design Services recently remodeled several holes, most significantly the 12th, which is now a drivable par 4. View Course
Will Chandler
Wyndham Clark
Eric Cole
Corey Conners
Joel Dahmen
Cam Davis
Jason Day
Thomas Detry
Nick Dunlap
Nico Echavarria
Austin Eckroat
Harris English
Tony Finau
Patrick Fishburn
Matt Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
Rickie Fowler
Ryan Fox
Brice Garnett
Ryan Gerard
Doug Ghim
Lucas Glover
Will Gordon
Chris Gotterup
Max Greyserman
Ben Griffin
Lanto Griffin
Emiliano Grillo
Adam Hadwin
Harry Hall
Brian Harman
Russell Henley
Joe Highsmith
Ryo Hisatsune
Lee Hodges
Rico Hoey
Charley Hoffman
Tom Hoge
Nicolai Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard
Max Homa
Billy Horschel
Beau Hossler
Viktor Hovland
Mark Hubbard
Mackenzie Hughes
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Sungjae Im
Stephen Jaeger
Chan Kim
Michael Kim
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama
Patton Kizzire
Jake Knapp
Ben Kohles
Matt Kuchar
Nate Lashley
K.H. Lee
Min Woo Lee
David Lipsky
Luke List
Justin Lower
Shane Lowry
Robert MacIntyre
Peter Malnati
Hideki Matsuyama
Denny McCarthy
Matt McCarty
Max McGreevy
Rory McIlroy
Maverick McNealy
Mac Meissner
Keith Mitchell
Taylor Moore
Collin Morikawa
Trey Mullinax
Henrik Norlander
Andrew Novak
C.T. Pan
Matthieu Pavon
Taylor Pendrith
Victor Perez
Chandler Phillips
J.T. Poston
Aldrich Potgieter
Seamus Power
Andrew Putnam
Aaron Rai
Chad Ramey
Davis Riley
Patrick Rodgers
Justin Rose
Kevin Roy
Sam Ryder
Isaiah Salinda
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Adam Schenk
Matti Schmid
Adam Scott
Greyson Sigg
Ben Silverman
David Skinns
Alex Smalley
J.J. Spaun
Jordan Spieth
Hayden Springer
Sam Stevens
Sepp Straka
Jackson Suber
Adam Svensson
Jesper Svensson
Nick Taylor
Sahith Theegala
Justin Thomas
Davis Thompson
Alejandro Tosti
Sami Valimaki
Erik van Rooyen
Jhonattan Vegas
Kris Ventura
Camilo Villegas
Vince Whaley
Gary Woodland
Cameron Young
Carson Young
Kevin Yu
Will Zalatoris
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