2001 Players Championship

The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–26 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.

This article is about the golf tournament. For the curling tournament, see 2001 Players' Championship.
2001 Players Championship
Tournament information
DatesMarch 22–26, 2001
LocationPonte Vedra Beach, Florida
30.198°N 81.394°W / 30.198; -81.394
Course(s)TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length7,093 yards (6,486 m)
Field142 players, 75 after cut
Cut147 (+3)
Prize fund$6.0 million
Winner's share$1.08 million
Champion
Tiger Woods
274 (−14)
Location map
TPC Sawgrass
Location in the United States
TPC Sawgrass
Location in Florida

Tournament summary

Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh.[1] 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.[2] He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando.[3]

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.

Through 2020, Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year (2001), and he 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 four with Martin Kaymer in 2014.

Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

Venue
Main article: TPC at Sawgrass

This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).

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[4]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years (1990–1999)

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 (1998–2000)

7. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational

8. Any player(s), 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(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Such player(s) would be added to the list.)

Source:[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Paul Azinger66−6
T2 Scott Hoch67−5
Jonathan Kaye
Vijay Singh
T5 Robert Allenby68−4
Skip Kendall
Billy Mayfair
T8 Jim Carter69−3
Brad Elder
Jerry Kelly
Scott Verplank

Source:[6]

Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Jerry Kelly69-66=135−9
2 Paul Azinger66-70=136−8
T3 Scott Hoch67-70=137−7
Kenny Perry71-66=137
Vijay Singh67-70=137
6 Jonathan Kaye67-72=139−5
7 Billy Mayfair68-72=140−4
T8 Brad Elder69-72=141−3
Fred Funk70-71=141
J. P. Hayes72-69=141
Bernhard Langer73-68=141
Phil Mickelson73-68=141
Tiger Woods72-69=141

Source:[7]

Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Jerry Kelly69-66-70=205−11
T2 Vijay Singh67-70-70=207−9
Tiger Woods72-69-66=207
4 Scott Hoch67-70-71=208−8
5 Bernhard Langer73-68-68=209−7
T6 Paul Azinger66-70-74=210−6
Billy Mayfair68-72-70=210
T8 Kenny Perry71-66-74=211−5
Hal Sutton72-71-68=211
10 Michael Campbell71-72-69=212−4

Source:[8]

Final round

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

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Tiger Woods72-69-66-67=274−141,080,000
2 Vijay Singh67-70-70-68=275−13648,000
3 Bernhard Langer73-68-68-67=276−12408,000
4 Jerry Kelly69-66-70-73=278−10288,000
T5 Billy Mayfair68-72-70-71=281−7228,000
Hal Sutton (c)72-71-68-70=281
T7 Paul Azinger66-70-74-72=282−6187,000
Scott Hoch67-70-71-74=282
Frank Lickliter72-72-70-68=282
T10 Joe Durant73-73-67-70=283−5156,000
Nick Price (c)70-74-71-68=283

Source:[9]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par453444435454344534
Woods−10−12−12−12−12−12−11−11−12−13−13−14−14−14−14−15−15−14
Singh−9−10−9−10−11−11−12−12−11−11−12−12−13−10−10−12−13−13
Langer−8−8−8−8−9−9−9−9−10−9−10−11−10−11−10−11−11−12
Kelly−11−12−12−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−10
Mayfair−7−8−8−9−9−9−9−9−8−7−8−8−8−8−7−8−8−7
Sutton−4−4−4−6−6−6−5−5−5−5−4−5−5−5−5−6−7−7
Azinger−6−6−5−5−4−4−4−4−4−5−5−4−5−6−5−6−6−6
Hoch−8−9−8−8−8−8−8−7−7−7−7−7−7−6−5−6−6−6
Lickliter−2−3−4−4−3−3−4−5−5−6−5−5−6−5−5−6−6−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double Bogey Triple Bogey+

Source:[10]

References
  1. Ferguson, Doug (March 27, 2001). "Tiger on the prowl". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. p. C2.
  2. Ferguson, Doug (March 26, 2001). "Tiger storms to head of the pack". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. p. 2C.
  3. Ferguson, Doug (March 19, 2001). "All is right in the world of Woods after one-shot win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1E.
  4. "Official Money – 2000". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  5. "2001 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 3-39.
  6. "Golf: Thursday's results". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 23, 2001. p. B9.
  7. "Players Championship - Second round". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. March 24, 2001. p. 3C.
  8. "Golf: PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). March 25, 2001. p. 6G.
  9. "Past Results 1974 – present". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  10. "The Players Championship". ESPN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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