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.
With so many good players missing this week, it seems downright foolish to refer to the PGA Tour’s flagship event as having golf’s strongest field. Or is it?
Speaking ahead of his tour’s flagship event, the Players Championship, there were two things of substance from his remarks, and those comments were notable in who and what they addressed.
In a performance that was alternately confident and cautious, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke in front of the gathered media for the first time since last August at the Tour Championship.
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.
The 144-player field will be competing for the richest prize in on the PGA Tour. The overall purse is $US25 million with the winner taking home $US4.5 million.
The current majors rota of the Masters, US Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship has been established since 1934, when the Masters was inaugurated, and since then, there hasn’t seemed to be much appetite from fans or the golf establishment to add to that. Chamblee calls that thinking “antiquated”.
American Scottie Scheffler won the Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s flagship tournament, for the first time at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday which also marked his sixth career victory.
With a sixth victory in the past 13 months, Scheffler joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only men to hold the Masters and Players titles at the same time.
Australia’s Min Woo Lee won over golf fans with a gutsy fight back from a disastrous triple-bogey after taking the lead during the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Australian Golf Digest
