2001 Players Championship


The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh. Because of bad weather, the tournament was completed on Monday, March 26. In the final pairing with 54-hole leader Jerry Kelly, Woods played the final nine holes on Monday. He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational
Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once, the Tiger Slam, as well as this Players, the unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.
Tiger Woods, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory Mcilroy are the only three players to ever win both a Players Championship and a Masters Tournament in the same calendar year. Woods was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to six with Martin Kaymer in 2014, Cameron Smith in 2022 and Scheffler in 2024
Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

Venue

This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship
2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List
3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years
4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998
5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner
6. Winners of official money World Golf Championship events in the last three years
7. Any player, not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational
8. Any player, not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational
9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list
10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player, not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001
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Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001
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Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001
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Final round

Sunday, March 25, 2001
''Monday, March 26, 2001''

Scorecard

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