The Players 422

                    This Week is The Players Championship

Held at TPC Sawgrass

Stadium Course 7245 yards Par 72

Ponte Vedra Beach

Defending Champion is Scottie Scheffler

Didn’t we just see this?

In the TH Last Year the Winner Was . . .

We are pausing this feature for a week to realign winners with events

Think of it as Daylight Savings Time for the TH

This week we have an extra-premium event . . . (extra-premium?? sort of like more better??)  This is a limited field with no cut and a $25 million purse . . . with the winner getting $4.5 million.  Is it any wonder Scottie got a big hug last year?

This event was conceived by the PGA Tour as a big money event that they owned . . . as opposed to the Four Majors, none of which they own or control.   First played in 1974, as the Tournament Players Championship at the Atlanta Country Club.  The first winner was Jack.  It moved around a bit on the calendar and on the schedule finally settling at Sawgrass in 1982.  Always a big purse, Jack got $50K in ’74 . . . so it’s good to see the tournament has kept up with inflation.

In 2020, it was at this tournament the PGA Tour shut down for COVID.  The first round was played and Hideki Matsuyama was in the lead shooting 63.  After it was cancelled, half the purse was paid out in equal parts to everyone in the field.

FUN FACT:  This event has never had a defending champion win

NOT SO FUN FACT:  In 2005, during the final round, Bob Tway put four in the water at #17 on his way to carding a 12.

Four and the usual Alt

“Anyone who has never made a mistake . . .  has never tried anything new”

~Albert Einstein