2024 Players Championship

The 2024 Players Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from March 14–17. Officially, it was the 50th edition of The Players Championship tournament.^[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.

Eligibility criteria

This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2024 Players Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were eligible is indicated in parentheses.^[2][3][4][a]

1. Winners of PGA Tour events since the 2023 Players Championship

2. Top 125 from the previous season's FedEx Cup Fall Playoffs and Eligibility Points List

• Will Gordon, David Lingmerth, and Danny Willett did not play.^[4]

3. Top 125 (medical)

4. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2019–2023)

• Tiger Woods did not play.^[4][5]

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2018–2023)

• Webb Simpson

6. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2018–2023)

• Francesco Molinari

7. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023)

8. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2018–2023)

9. Recent winners of the FedEx Cup (2019–2023)

10. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2021–2023)

11. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2021)

12. Recent winners of the Genesis Invitational (2022–2024)

13. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2022–2024)

14. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2021–2023)

15. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking following the Cognizant Classic

16. Top 10 in the current season's FedEx Cup points standings after the Cognizant Classic

17. Kaulig Companies Championship champion from previous year

• Steve Stricker

18. Leading player to earn a PGA Tour card from the previous year's Race to Dubai ranking

19. Leading points winner from the Korn Ferry Tour during the previous year

• Ben Kohles

20. Remaining positions and alternates filled through current year FedEx Cup standings after the Cognizant Classic (rank in parentheses)

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 14, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024

The overnight lead was shared by Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark, who recorded scores of 65 (7 under par). McIlroy's 10 birdies tied the tournament record for most birdies in a single round.^[6] Nick Taylor and Matt Fitzpatrick both shot their career best rounds at the Stadium Course with 6-under 66s. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler began with a 5-under round of 67, as did debutant Ludvig Åberg.

Ryan Fox became the first player since records began to make back-to-back eagles at The Players Championship; doing so by scoring a three at the par-5 16th and a hole-in-one at the par-3 17th hole.^[7][8]

Play was suspended due to darkness at 7:32 p.m. EDT with 9 players yet to finish their round.^[9] Round 1 was completed on Friday morning.

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Wyndham Clark	65	−7
	Rory McIlroy
	Xander Schauffele
T4	Matt Fitzpatrick	66	−6
	Nick Taylor
T6	Ludvig Åberg	67	−5
	Jason Day
	Tyler Duncan
	Tom Hoge
	Maverick McNealy
	Scottie Scheffler

Second round

Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Wyndham Clark shot a second consecutive 65 (–7) to reach 14-under for the tournament and open a four-shot lead after 36 holes. Clark, who began the round on the 10th hole, made four straight birdies on holes 1-4 and played his back-nine in six-under.^[10]

Xander Schauffele began the round tied for the lead but made a double-bogey on the par-5 11th hole after hitting his second shot in the water. He came back with an eagle on the par-5 16th and shot three-under 67 to join Nick Taylor in a tie for second place at 10-under.

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler chipped in for birdie on the par-3 third hole (his 12th of the round) and shot 69 (–3) to finish at 8-under and in a tie for sixth place. First round co-leader and 2019 champion Rory McIlroy drove into the water on the 14th hole and made double-bogey, part of a one-over round of 73 to fall to 15th place.^[11]

The cut came at 143 (–1), after two players who didn't finish their round on Friday finished on Saturday. Notables to miss the cut included 2021 champion Justin Thomas and three-time major champion Jordan Spieth.^[12]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Wyndham Clark	65-65=130	−14
T2	Xander Schauffele	65-69=134	−10
	Nick Taylor	66-68=134
T4	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-69=135	−9
	Maverick McNealy	67-68=135
T6	Corey Conners	68-68=136	−8
	Tom Hoge	67-69=136
	Scottie Scheffler	67-69=136
	Matti Schmid	68-68=136
T10	Brian Harman	72-65=137	−7
	Pan Cheng-tsung	69-68=137
	J. T. Poston	69-68=137
	Sahith Theegala	70-67=137

Third round

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Xander Schauffele made seven birdies in a bogey-free round of 65 to take the 54-hole lead by one shot over Wyndham Clark. Schauffele began the round four shots behind Clark but tied for the lead with a birdie on the 12th. He then made a 58-foot birdie putt on the par-4 14th hole to reach 17-under and in sole possession of the lead going to the final round.

Clark also reached 17-under with a birdie on the par-5 16th hole, but his tee shot on the par-3 17th found the water hazard. He made bogey to fall one behind Schauffele and finished with a two-under round of 70.

Brian Harman made five birdies on the back-nine to shoot the lowest round of the day with a 64 (–8) and climb up to third place at 15-under, two behind Schauffele; with second and third rounds of 65 and 64, respectively, Harman recorded the lowest two-consecutive-round total in Players history, with a 129. Maverick McNealy chipped in for birdie on the 14th to get within three of the lead, but he hit his second shot on the 16th into the water and made bogey. He finished at 13-under and in a tie for fourth place with Matt Fitzpatrick. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler was one-under on his round before finishing with three straight birdies to shoot 68 (–4) and move into sixth place.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Xander Schauffele	65-69-65=199	−17
2	Wyndham Clark	65-65-70=200	−16
3	Brian Harman	72-65-64=201	−15
T4	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-69-68=203	−13
	Maverick McNealy	67-68-68=203
T6	Scottie Scheffler	67-69-68=204	−12
	Sahith Theegala	70-67-67=204
8	Nate Lashley	68-70-67=205	−11
T9	Hideki Matsuyama	69-69-68=206	−10
	Taylor Montgomery	68-70-68=206
	J. T. Poston	69-68-69=206

Final round

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler shot a bogey free 64(-8) to overcome a five shot deficit and become the first player in the history of The Players Championship to win back-to-back tournaments.

Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele and Brian Harman all had birdie putts on the 18th hole to force a playoff, but all missed.^[13]

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Scottie Scheffler (c)	67-69-68-64=268	−20	4,500,000
T2	Wyndham Clark	65-65-70-69=269	−19	1,891,667
	Brian Harman	72-65-64-68=269
	Xander Schauffele	65-69-65-70=269
5	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-69-68-69=272	−16	1,025,000
T6	Kim Si-woo (c)	70-71-68-64=273	−15	875,000
	Hideki Matsuyama	69-69-68-67=273
8	Ludvig Åberg	67-73-67-67=274	−14	781,250
T9	Maverick McNealy	67-68-68-72=275	−13	706,250
	Sahith Theegala	70-67-67-71=275

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Joel Dahmen	74-67-67-68=276	−12	606,250
	Taylor Montgomery	68-70-68-70=276
T13	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	69-70-68-70=277	−11	489,583
	Corey Conners	68-68-73-68=277
	Nate Lashley	68-70-67-72=277
T16	Doug Ghim	71-70-66-71=278	−10	406,250
	Sam Ryder	70-69-70-69=278
	Sepp Straka	68-70-70-70=278
T19	Harris English	69-69-75-66=279	−9	285,536
	Kurt Kitayama	70-71-71-67=279
	Shane Lowry	71-70-72-66=279
	Rory McIlroy (c)	65-73-69-72=279
	Alex Norén	71-70-70-68=279
	Adam Schenk	71-71-66-71=279
	Dylan Wu	69-74-69-67=279
T26	Mackenzie Hughes	70-73-69-68=280	−8	186,250
	Chris Kirk	68-70-73-69=280
	Matthew NeSmith	73-67-68-72=280
	Matti Schmid	68-68-72-72=280
	Nick Taylor	66-68-76-70=280
T31	Mark Hubbard	68-73-72-68=281	−7	152,813
	Im Sung-jae	70-72-69-70=281
	Ben Martin	72-71-71-67=281
	Taylor Moore	72-68-70-71=281
T35	Jason Day (c)	67-71-72-72=282	−6	119,286
	Tommy Fleetwood	70-72-69-71=282
	Brice Garnett	71-72-67-72=282
	Lee Hodges	69-70-72-71=282
	Denny McCarthy	71-71-71-69=282
	Aaron Rai	71-72-68-71=282
	Jimmy Stanger	69-73-71-69=282
T42	David Lipsky	73-70-69-71=283	−5	93,750
	Grayson Murray	73-69-77-64=283
	Pan Cheng-tsung	69-68-70-76=283
T45	Sam Burns	73-70-65-76=284	−4	70,063
	Austin Eckroat	71-69-68-76=284
	Tony Finau	69-72-69-74=284
	Jake Knapp	71-72-68-73=284
	Ryan Moore	70-69-73-72=284
	Collin Morikawa	71-69-70-74=284
	J. T. Poston	69-68-69-78=284
	Adam Scott	70-72-71-71=284
53	Andrew Putnam	69-74-72-70=285	−3	60,250
T54	Zac Blair	73-70-70-73=286	−2	57,500
	Emiliano Grillo	69-71-69-77=286
	Tom Hoge	67-69-75-75=286
	Martin Laird	70-73-70-73=286
	Min Woo Lee	73-70-73-70=286
	Francesco Molinari	72-69-73-72=286
	Sami Välimäki	71-72-69-74=286
	Cameron Young	70-69-73-74=286
T62	Thomas Detry	71-72-74-70=287	−1	55,000
	Viktor Hovland	73-69-71-74=287
T64	Tyler Duncan	67-75-72-74=288	E	53,500
	Max Homa	68-75-74-71=288
	Séamus Power	72-69-78-69=288
	J. J. Spaun	72-71-70-75=288
T68	Patrick Cantlay	72-70-73-75=290	+2	51,500
	Rickie Fowler (c)	74-69-76-71=290
	Chan Kim	70-71-70-79=290
	Peter Malnati	70-73-66-81=290
72	Gary Woodland	70-73-74-74=291	+3	50,250
73	Keith Mitchell	69-71-76-76=292	+4	49,750
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	72-72=144	E
	Lucas Glover	75-69=144
	Ben Griffin	73-71=144
	Ryo Hisatsune	70-74=144
	Stephan Jäger	72-72=144
	Luke List	69-75=144
	Webb Simpson (c)	73-71=144
	David Skinns	71-73=144
	Tyson Alexander	71-74=145	+1
	Hayden Buckley	71-74=145
	Ryan Fox	69-76=145
	Billy Horschel	71-74=145
	Beau Hossler	71-74=145
	Kim Seong-hyeon	74-71=145
	Patrick Rodgers	72-73=145
	Erik van Rooyen	71-74=145
	Justin Suh	76-69=145
	Justin Thomas (c)	71-74=145
	Brandon Wu	75-70=145
	Eric Cole	72-74=146	+2
	Nico Echavarría	73-73=146
	Chesson Hadley	75-71=146
	Russell Henley	73-73=146
	Matt Kuchar (c)	74-72=146
	Justin Lower	71-75=146
	Troy Merritt	73-73=146
	Greyson Sigg	75-71=146
	Ben Silverman	72-74=146
	Jordan Spieth	74-72=146
	Steve Stricker	72-74=146
	Davis Thompson	75-71=146
	Carson Young	71-75=146
	Nick Dunlap	77-70=147	+3
	Matthieu Pavon	70-77=147
	Chez Reavie	74-73=147
	Justin Rose	70-77=147
	Alex Smalley	70-77=147
	Adam Svensson	74-73=147
	Matt Wallace	73-74=147
	Kevin Yu	74-73=147
	Joseph Bramlett	77-71=148	+4
	Adam Hadwin	75-73=148
	Michael Kim	68-80=148
	Andrew Novak	74-74=148
	Davis Riley	74-74=148
	Will Zalatoris	73-75=148
	An Byeong-hun	69-80=149	+5
	Charley Hoffman	75-74=149
	Nicolai Højgaard	73-76=149
	Chad Ramey	73-76=149
	Sam Stevens	73-76=149
	Aaron Baddeley	74-76=150	+6
	Keegan Bradley	72-78=150
	Robert MacIntyre	74-76=150
	Vincent Norrman	77-73=150
	Taylor Pendrith	75-75=150
	Scott Stallings	74-76=150
	Ben Taylor	73-77=150
	Brendon Todd	74-76=150
	Yuan Yechun	74-76=150
	Harry Hall	77-74=151	+7
	Nick Hardy	74-77=151
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	75-76=151
	Robby Shelton	80-72=152	+8
Kevin Streelman	77-75=152
Ben Kohles	80-73=153	+9
Callum Tarren	75-78=153
Camilo Villegas	73-82=155	+11
Cameron Davis	79-82=161	+17
WD	Garrick Higgo[b]	73-18=91	+3
	Tom Kim[c]	–

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
Scheffler	–12	–12	–12	–14	–15	–15	–15	–16	–17	–17	–18	–19	–19	–19	–19	–20	–20	–20
Clark	–16	–17	–17	–17	–17	–17	–17	–17	–18	–17	–18	–18	–18	–17	–17	–18	–19	–19
Harman	–15	–15	–15	–15	–15	–14	–15	–16	–17	–17	–18	–18	–18	–18	–19	–19	–19	–19
Schauffele	–17	–18	–18	–17	–17	–17	–18	–18	–19	–19	–19	–20	–20	–19	–18	–19	–19	–19
Fitzpatrick	–14	–15	–15	–14	–14	–13	–13	–13	–12	–12	–12	–13	–12	–12	–13	–14	–15	–16
Kim	–7	–8	–8	–8	–8	–9	–10	–9	–10	–10	–11	–11	–11	–12	–13	–15	–15	–15
Matsuyama	–10	–11	–12	–12	–12	–12	–12	–13	–13	–13	–14	–14	–14	–15	–15	–15	–15	–15
Åberg	–9	–10	–11	–11	–11	–11	–11	–11	–11	–11	–13	–14	–14	–14	–14	–14	–14	–14
McNealy	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–14	–14	–14	–13	–13	–13	–13
Theegala	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13	–14	–14	–14	–13	–13	–13	–14	–14	–13	–13	–13	–13	–13

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Source:^[16]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• 2024 Official Media Guide