PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – In less than one week, you can be sitting right outside the ropes along the iconic island green at TPC Sawgrass and watch the best golfers in the world compete at one of the biggest tournaments on tour.
The Players Championship is back for another year and the field was officially announced Friday.
March 11 through 16, 144 of the best golfers in the world will compete in Ponte Vedra Beach. Unfortunately, Tiger Woods is not one of them. Though, 48 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings are featured including representation from 24 countries.
The Players champions will be competing, including two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler who is looking to become the first player to win The Players three times since Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978). Scheffler is also looking to become the first player to win a PGA Tour event three consecutive years since Steve Stricker won the John Deere Classic in 2009-2011.
It will be bittersweet for 24 players who are making their tournament debut.
Even if you’re not an avid golf fan, you can still enjoy The Players Championship. There’s so much to do and see. This year there are upgrades for spectators. The Players Championship executive director Lee Smith said his team listened to what you wanted and they delivered.
“Next week we look forward to welcoming hundreds of thousands of fans and 144 of the greatest players in the world to TPC Sawgrass and The Players Stadium Course,” Smith said. “It’s intentional what we create outside the ropes. You don’t even have to love golf. We love the core golf fan and we think the product inside the ropes is second to none for that person, but for those just want to come out and network business or for those that just want to have a family community activity, there’s a lot to do outside the ropes.”
THE PLAYERS Championship field list is as follows:
- Åberg, Ludvig
- An, Byeong Hun
- Berger, Daniel
- Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
- Bhatia, Akshay
- Bradley, Keegan
- Bridgeman, Jacob
- Burns, Sam
- Campbell, Brian
- Campos, Rafael
- Canter, Laurie
- Cantlay, Patrick
- Capan III, Frankie
- Cauley, Bud
- Chandler, Will
- Clark, Wyndham
- Cole, Eric
- Conners, Corey
- Dahmen, Joel
- Davis, Cam
- Day, Jason
- Detry, Thomas
- Dunlap, Nick
- Echavarria, Nico
- Eckroat, Austin
- English, Harris
- Finau, Tony
- Fishburn, Patrick
- Fitzpatrick, Matt
- Fleetwood, Tommy
- Fowler, Rickie
- Fox, Ryan
- Garnett, Brice
- Gerard, Ryan
- Ghim, Doug
- Glover, Lucas
- Gordon, Will
- Gotterup, Chris
- Greyserman, Max
- Griffin, Ben
- Griffin, Lanto
- Grillo, Emiliano
- Hadwin, Adam
- Hall, Harry
- Harman, Brian
- Henley, Russell
- Highsmith, Joe
- Hisatsune, Ryo
- Hodges, Lee
- Hoey, Rico
- Hoffman, Charley
- Hoge, Tom
- Højgaard, Nicolai
- Højgaard, Rasmus
- Homa, Max
- Horschel, Billy
- Hossler, Beau
- Hovland, Viktor
- Hubbard, Mark
- Hughes, Mackenzie
- Im, Sungjae
- Jaeger, Stephan
- Kim, Chan
- Kim, Michael
- Kim, Si Woo
- Kim, Tom
- Kirk, Chris
- Kitayama, Kurt
- Kizzire, Patton
- Knapp, Jake
- Kohles, Ben
- Kuchar, Matt
- Lashley, Nate
- Lee, K.H.
- Lee, Min Woo
- Lipsky, David
- List, Luke
- Lower, Justin
- Lowry, Shane
- MacIntyre, Robert
- Malnati, Peter
- Matsuyama, Hideki
- McCarthy, Denny
- McCarty, Matt
- McGreevy, Max
- McIlroy, Rory
- McNealy, Maverick
- Meissner, Mac
- Mitchell, Keith
- Moore, Taylor
- Morikawa, Collin
- Mullinax, Trey
- Norlander, Henrik
- Novak, Andrew
- Pan, C.T.
- Pavon, Matthieu
- Pendrith, Taylor
- Perez, Victor
- Phillips, Chandler
- Poston, J.T.
- Potgieter, Aldrich
- Power, Seamus
- Putnam, Andrew
- Rai, Aaron
- Ramey, Chad
- Riley, Davis
- Rodgers, Patrick
- Rose, Justin
- Roy, Kevin
- Ryder, Sam
- Salinda, Isaiah
- Schauffele, Xander
- Scheffler, Scottie
- Schenk, Adam
- Schmid, Matti
- Scott, Adam
- Sigg, Greyson
- Silverman, Ben
- Skinns, David
- Smalley, Alex
- Spaun, J.J.
- Spieth, Jordan
- Springer, Hayden
- Stevens, Sam
- Straka, Sepp
- Suber, Jackson
- Svensson, Adam
- Svensson, Jesper
- Taylor, Nick
- Theegala, Sahith
- Thomas, Justin
- Thompson, Davis
- Tosti, Alejandro
- Valimaki, Sami
- van Rooyen, Erik
- Vegas, Jhonattan
- Ventura, Kris
- Villegas, Camilo
- Whaley, Vince
- Woodland, Gary
- Young, Cameron
- Young, Carson
- Yu, Kevin
- Zalatoris, Will