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2024 The Players Championship
PGA Tour
TPC at Sawgrass
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA
14-17 March 2024
The 2024 Players Championship is poised to take place in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA between 14 and 17 March.
What to know about the tournament
Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship, it began in 1974 and its renowned host course is the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course.
Despite not being a major, it has been promoted as such by the tour, dubbed the fifth major, and is often regarded as the next most prestigious tournament in golf.
News
The 2024 Players Championship's 144-player field is officially set with 46 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking among the top contenders.
Two-time Players Championship winner Tiger Woods will not play in next week's tournament as he continues to recover from fusion surgery.
Favourites
Nine Players Champions: Scottie Scheffler (2023), Justin Thomas (2021), Rory McIlroy (2019), Webb Simpson (2018), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Matt Kuchar (2012) and Adam Scott (2004) will be part of the 2024 field.
Defending champion Scheffler enters the week as World No. 1, the first player to do so since Rory McIlroy in 2020 (event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
What Is At Stake
The Players Championship offers the highest purse of any PGA Tour tournament, set at $25 million.
The winner's share is $4,500,000, which is the same as the 2023 event.
Quotes
"Our goal is to continue to grow the tournament and the profile of the tournament nationally and even globally this year. We’re going to have 15 different international broadcast partners on site, which will be the most we’ve ever had," The Players Championship’s new executive director Lee Smith said.
"We’re bringing international influencers from some of those countries who coordinate with a lot of our athletes in Sweden and Norway that have rarely been a part of this tournament, but now they have an athlete to follow and so we’re excited about how the profile continues to grow."
The last five Players Championship winners
2018 - Webb Simpson (USA)
2019 - Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)
2021 - Justin Thomas (USA)
2022 - Cameron Smith (Australia)
2023 - Scottie Scheffler (USA)
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