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42-531: 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. This is because of the characteristics it shares with the majors, such as the high class field, challenging course conditions, and its large purse. It also has a renowned host course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course at which

84-656: A PGA Tour card from the previous year's Race to Dubai ranking 19. Leading points winner from the Korn Ferry Tour during the previous year 20. Remaining positions and alternates filled through current year FedEx Cup standings after the Cognizant Classic (rank in parentheses) The following players met criteria but, having joined LIV Golf , were suspended by the PGA Tour and ineligible to compete: Thursday, March 14, 2024 Friday, March 15, 2024 The overnight lead

126-602: A five-year exemption on the PGA Tour (formerly ten years), a three-year invitation to the Masters Tournament , and three-year exemptions for the U.S. Open , The Open Championship , and the PGA Championship . The winner earns 600 FedEx Cup points, if a PGA Tour member. The field consists of 144 players consisting of the following criteria: The Players Championship was conceived by the PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman ;

168-462: A new name. Since Florida had been under Spanish rule, they looked on an old map and found the name Pontevedra on the Atlantic coast of Spain at "approximately" the same latitude as Mineral City. (Pontevedra, Spain, however, is over 800 miles farther north at about the same latitude as Boston .) The Galician name of the town was derived from a Roman bridge ("pontis vetera" or "old bridge") that spanned

210-491: A one-over round of 73 to fall to 15th place. The cut came at 143 (–1), after two players who didn't finish their round on Friday finished on Saturday. Notables to miss the cut included 2021 champion Justin Thomas and three-time major champion Jordan Spieth . Saturday, March 16, 2024 Xander Schauffele made seven birdies in a bogey-free round of 65 to take the 54-hole lead by one shot over Wyndham Clark . Schauffele began

252-409: A second consecutive 65 (–7) to reach 14-under for the tournament and open a four-shot lead after 36 holes. Clark, who began the round on the 10th hole, made four straight birdies on holes 1-4 and played his back-nine in six-under. Xander Schauffele began the round tied for the lead but made a double-bogey on the par-5 11th hole after hitting his second shot in the water. He came back with an eagle on

294-462: A two-under round of 70. Brian Harman made five birdies on the back-nine to shoot the lowest round of the day with a 64 (–8) and climb up to third place at 15-under, two behind Schauffele; with second and third rounds of 65 and 64, respectively, Harman recorded the lowest two-consecutive-round total in Players history, with a 129. Maverick McNealy chipped in for birdie on the 14th to get within three of

336-510: Is 41.8. The Ponte Vedra area is known for being a very affluent area of North Florida, and boasts one of the best school districts in Florida. Ponte Vedra Beach was 50th on the list of 100 finalists for CNN and Money Magazine's 2005 List of the Best Places to Live. It was the first place in Florida to be named in that year and one of only four areas in the state to make the cut. As of April 1, 2024

378-586: Is a wealthy unincorporated community and suburb of Jacksonville, Florida in St. Johns County, Florida , United States. Located in the Jacksonville metropolitan area , 18 miles (29 km) southeast of downtown Jacksonville and 26 miles (42 km) north of St. Augustine , it is part of the Jacksonville Beaches area, and is situated on San Pablo Island . The area is known for its seaside resorts , including

420-635: Is six years ( Steve Elkington : 1991, 1997). Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records. Source: Six players have won the tournament more than once: Each of Nicklaus' three victories were at different courses but none were at the Stadium Course, where the other multiple winners won both their titles. Scottie Scheffler is the only back-to-back winner by virtue of his wins in 2023 and 2024 . 30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W  /  30.198°N 81.394°W  / 30.198; -81.394 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Ponte Vedra Beach

462-602: The Atlanta Classic in 1974, the Colonial National Invitational in 1975 and the Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic in 1976, which each returned to the schedule the following year. In 1976 the PGA Tour agreed a multi-year deal to play the event up the coast at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach in mid-March, beginning in 1977 . Since 1982 , it has been played across the road to

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504-540: The FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons. This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2024 Players Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were eligible is indicated in parentheses. 1. Winners of PGA Tour events since the 2023 Players Championship 2. Top 125 from the previous season's FedEx Cup Fall Playoffs and Eligibility Points List 3. Top 125 (medical) 4. Recent winners of

546-765: The Genesis Invitational (2022–2024) 13. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2022–2024) 14. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2021–2023) 15. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking following the Cognizant Classic 16. Top 10 in the current season's FedEx Cup points standings after the Cognizant Classic 17. Kaulig Companies Championship champion from previous year 18. Leading player to earn

588-564: The Masters Tournament (2019–2023) 5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2018–2023) 6. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2018–2023) 7. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023) 8. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2018–2023) 9. Recent winners of the FedEx Cup (2019–2023) 10. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2021–2023) 11. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2021) 12. Recent winners of

630-429: The PGA Tour , held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from March 14–17. Officially, it was the 50th edition of The Players Championship tournament. The field consists of 144 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships , The Players and World Golf Championships , and leading players in

672-733: The Ponte Vedra Inn and Club , the Lodge and Club, and the Marriott at Sawgrass. It lies within St. Johns County, which is the wealthiest county in Florida. Ponte Vedra Beach is an upper-income tourist resort area best known for its association with golf and is home to the PGA Tour and the Players Championship , hosted at TPC Sawgrass . The area remained sparsely populated through the late 19th century, even as other seaside communities began to develop to

714-528: The Atlantic and Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve ), Sawgrass , and Palm Valley . In June 2006, the U.S. Postal Service designated an area to the south and southwest of the 32082 area as Ponte Vedra (as distinct from Ponte Vedra Beach ) and assigned it the ZIP code 32081. Median household income in Ponte Vedra Beach is $ 150,646 and median family income is $ 109,181. The median age

756-875: The PGA Tour a marquee event in six consecutive months (The Masters in April, The Players in May, the U.S. Open in June, The Open Championship in July, the PGA Championship in August, and the Tour Championship in September). With the rearrangement of 2007, the final round of The Players Championship was usually on the second Sunday of May, Mother's Day in the United States. To mark this, most players wore pink shirts or accessories on Sunday, and many in

798-451: The area to be similar to The Cloister in Sea Island, Georgia . Colonel Joseph C. Stehlin, who had been with the company in St. Louis, arrived on January 1, 1929, to manage development. The company wanted a more impressive name than Mineral City for its resort, so Colonel Stehlin and his wife, Elizabeth ( née Morton), went to the library in St. Augustine to research various possibilities for

840-597: The area, that real estate became the foundation of the Ponte Vedra Club. Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co. , a local developer, became the owner of the Ponte Vedra Corporation in July 1934. During World War II the German submarine U-584 debarked four saboteurs at Ponte Vedra as part of the failed Operation Pastorius . The four German spies, all of whom had previously lived in the United States, came ashore on

882-561: The area. The Ponte Vedra Palm Valley-Rawlings Elementary School serves as one of the primary, public elementary schools (K-5) in the area, as well as Ocean Palms Elementary School. Ponte Vedra offers private education (K-8) at the Palmer Catholic Academy. Also, the Bolles School has one of their two lower school campuses in Ponte Vedra Beach, and offers education from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade before transferring students to

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924-407: The average house costs around $ 898,000. Public primary and secondary schools in Ponte Vedra Beach are administered by the St. Johns County School District . Ponte Vedra High School , which was constructed to relieve the overcrowding of Allen D. Nease High School , serves as the public high school in the Ponte Vedra Beach. Alice B. Landrum Middle School is the primary, public middle school in

966-439: The championship was played in mid- to late March, several weeks before The Masters . (Three weeks prior for the first six seasons ( 1977 – 1982 ), then two weeks prior in 1983 .) It was moved to May in 2007, to the weekend including the second Saturday, as part of a restructuring of the PGA Tour. This restructuring involved the introduction of the lucrative FedEx Cup , which concludes with The Tour Championship . The change gave

1008-400: The first player since records began to make back-to-back eagles at The Players Championship; doing so by scoring a three at the par-5 16th and a hole-in-one at the par-3 17th hole. Play was suspended due to darkness at 7:32 p.m. EDT with 9 players yet to finish their round. Round 1 was completed on Friday morning. Friday, March 15, 2024 Saturday, March 16, 2024 Wyndham Clark shot

1050-465: The galleries also joined them in donning pink garb. (The two exceptions were in 2011 and 2016 , when the final round was on Sunday, May 15.) In August 2017, it was announced that The Players would return to March beginning in 2019 , due to a realignment of the golf season that moves the PGA Championship from August to May. The playoff format was sudden-death through 2013 , lately starting at

1092-589: The headquarters of the PGA Tour . The Sawgrass Stadium Course has been the permanent home of The Players Championship since 1982. Ponte Vedra Beach is wholly located east of the Intracoastal Waterway , south of the Duval County line, and north of Vilano Beach . The South Ponte Vedra Beach community is commonly considered to be a part of Ponte Vedra Beach. The Ponte Vedra area includes Ponte Vedra, Ponte Vedra Beach, South Ponte Vedra Beach (an area between

1134-629: The inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia , concluding on Labor Day weekend in early September. It moved to Texas in 1975 , at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth in August, and then to south Florida in 1976 at Inverrary Country Club in Lauderhill , at its East Course in late February. In these first three years the event replaced existing events,

1176-419: The lead, but he hit his second shot on the 16th into the water and made bogey. He finished at 13-under and in a tie for fourth place with Matt Fitzpatrick . Defending champion Scottie Scheffler was one-under on his round before finishing with three straight birdies to shoot 68 (–4) and move into sixth place. Sunday, March 17, 2024 Defending champion Scottie Scheffler shot a bogey free 64 (−8) to overcome

1218-618: The mid-1970s, Deane Beman , the Commissioner of the PGA golf tour, was looking for a permanent home for the Tournament Players Championship. Many places in northern Florida were being considered. In an attempt to bring positive attention to the area, developer Paul Fletcher offered a 400-acre (1.6 km ) tract of land to Beman for $ 1. Beman could not refuse this one dollar deal for the future home of The Players Championship and

1260-495: The middle and high schools located in Jacksonville, Florida . Additionally, the St Johns County Public Library System has a Ponte Vedra Beach Branch library. Famous past and present residents of Ponte Vedra: 30°14′N 81°23′W  /  30.233°N 81.383°W  / 30.233; -81.383 2024 Players Championship The 2024 Players Championship was a golf tournament on

1302-571: The nearby Lérez River centuries earlier. Colonel Stehlin submitted the name to the National Lead board for approval and Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. In the early 1920s, the National Lead Company built a nine-hole golf course designed by Herbert Bertram Strong , one of the founders of the PGA , plus a 12-room clubhouse constructed of logs for the use of its employees. After the company left

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1344-452: The night of June 16, 1942 carrying explosives and American money. After landing they strolled up the beach to Jacksonville Beach , where they caught a city bus to Jacksonville and departed by train for Cincinnati and Chicago. The invaders were captured before they could do any damage. They were tried by a military tribunal and executed. In 1972, real estate developers broke ground on the 1,100-acre (4.5 km ) Sawgrass development. In

1386-473: The north. Minerals were discovered in 1914, and a community known as Mineral City grew around the mining operations. These minerals, mostly titanium ( ilmenite ), zircon , and rutile were recovered from beach sands by the Buckman and Pritchard Mining Company. The National Lead Company bought Buckman and Pritchard in 1921 and discontinued mining as demand dropped after World War I . In 1929 it began to develop

1428-430: The other player was eliminated after three holes. It went to sudden-death at 17 and became the first playoff at the Players to end with a birdie. Scottie Scheffler (2024) is the only player to successfully defend the title. Jack Nicklaus won three of the first five events, but in alternating years on different courses. Since moving to TPC Sawgrass in 1982, five players have won twice, but the shortest span between victories

1470-404: The par-3 17th hole. The format was changed to a three-hole aggregate in 2014 , similar to the PGA Championship , played over the final three holes, in order. If still tied, the playoff goes to sudden-death on the same three holes, but starts at the 17th. Since moving to the Stadium Course in 1982, only four playoffs have been necessary ( 1987 , 2008 , 2011 , 2015 ). The 1987 playoff started at

1512-458: The par-5 16th and shot three-under 67 to join Nick Taylor in a tie for second place at 10-under. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler chipped in for birdie on the par-3 third hole (his 12th of the round) and shot 69 (–3) to finish at 8-under and in a tie for sixth place. First round co-leader and 2019 champion Rory McIlroy drove into the water on the 14th hole and made double-bogey, part of

1554-409: The par-5 16th and went to a third extra hole at the par-4 18th, with three pars by the winner; the next two ended at the first extra hole (17), also with pars by the victors. (The only playoff prior to the Stadium Course was in 1981 ; it also ended on the first hole with a par by the winner.) The 2015 playoff was the first for the three-hole aggregate and included three participants; two birdied 17 and

1596-408: The round four shots behind Clark but tied for the lead with a birdie on the 12th. He then made a 58-foot birdie putt on the par-4 14th hole to reach 17-under and in sole possession of the lead going to the final round. Clark also reached 17-under with a birdie on the par-5 16th hole, but his tee shot on the par-3 17th found the water hazard. He made bogey to fall one behind Schauffele and finished with

1638-456: The tournament has been played since 1982 , home of the iconic par-3 No. 17 "Island Green"). As of 2023, the victor receives $ 4.5 million, the winner's share (18%) of the largest purse in golf ($ 25 million), and receives 80 points towards his world ranking , the largest share aside from the majors, for which winners earn 100 points. For comparison, the winners of other leading tournaments receive between 65 and 70 points. The winner also receives

1680-410: The west, at the Stadium Course at TPC at Sawgrass . The word "Tournament" was dropped from the title following the 1987 event. Following the 2006 event, the course underwent a major renovation, which received very positive reviews from the players in 2007 . Included in the renovation was a new 77,000-square-foot (7,150 m) Mediterranean Revival -style clubhouse. The 2020 Players Championship

1722-501: Was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Six players have won The Players and a major championship in the same calendar year: Jack Nicklaus ( 1978 , Open ), Hal Sutton ( 1983 , PGA ), Tiger Woods ( 2001 , Masters ), Martin Kaymer ( 2014 , U.S. Open ), Cameron Smith ( 2022 , Open ), and Scottie Scheffler ( 2024 , Masters ). For the first thirty years at Ponte Vedra Beach,

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1764-452: Was shared by Rory McIlroy , Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark , who recorded scores of 65 (7 under par). McIlroy's 10 birdies tied the tournament record for most birdies in a single round. Nick Taylor and Matt Fitzpatrick both shot their career best rounds at the Stadium Course with 6-under 66s. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler began with a 5-under round of 67, as did debutant Ludvig Åberg . Ryan Fox became

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