1988 Players Championship Explained

1988 Players Championship
Dates:March 24–27, 1988
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:144 players, 72 after cut
Cut:146 (+2)
Purse:$1.25 million
Winners Share:$225,000
Champion: Mark McCumber
Score:273 (−15)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:1987
Next:1989

The 1988 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 fifteenth Players Championship and the first without "Tournament" in the title.

Local resident Mark McCumber opened with 65 and won with 273 (−15), four strokes ahead of runner-up Mike Reid.[2] [3] [4] McCumber's score at the Stadium Course set a record; it was equaled in 1992 and broken in 1993.

Jay Haas was disqualified on Thursday after playing with a bent putter.[5] Davis Love III had a similar occurrence on Friday, while Curtis Strange reported that he signed an incorrect (Strange won the next two U.S. Opens.)

Weather delays on Saturday caused the leaders to complete only a few holes of the third round; play was resumed early on Sunday morning.[6]

Defending champion Sandy Lyle missed the 36-hole cut by six strokes, and the purse was increased 25% this year to $1.25 million.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the seventh Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .[1]

Field

Fulton Allem, Isao Aoki, Paul Azinger, Seve Ballesteros, Dave Barr, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, Ronnie Black, Phil Blackmar, Jay Don Blake, Ken Brown, George Burns, Curt Byrum, Tom Byrum, Mark Calcavecchia, Jim Carter, Chen Tze-chung, Bobby Clampett, Keith Clearwater, Lennie Clements, Russ Cochran, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Rodger Davis, Mike Donald, Ed Dougherty, Bob Eastwood, Danny Edwards, David Edwards, Dave Eichelberger, Steve Elkington, Brad Fabel, Nick Faldo, Brad Faxon, Rick Fehr, Ed Fiori, Raymond Floyd, Dan Forsman, David Frost, Buddy Gardner, Bob Gilder, Bill Glasson, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Ken Green, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Dan Halldorson, Donnie Hammond, Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Vance Heafner, Lon Hinkle, Scott Hoch, Mike Hulbert, John Huston, John Inman, Hale Irwin, David Ishii, Peter Jacobsen, Steve Jones, Tom Kite, Kenny Knox, Gary Koch, Billy Kratzert, Bernhard Langer, Wayne Levi, Bruce Lietzke, Bob Lohr, Davis Love III, Mark Lye, Sandy Lyle, Andrew Magee, John Mahaffey, Roger Maltbie, Dick Mast, Blaine McCallister, Mike McCullough, Mark McCumber, Pat McGowan, Rocco Mediate, Johnny Miller, Larry Mize, Gil Morgan, Jodie Mudd, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Larry Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Andy North, Mac O'Grady, Mark O'Meara, David Ogrin, Akiyoshi Ohmachi, Steve Pate, Corey Pavin, Calvin Peete, Chris Perry, Kenny Perry, Dan Pohl, Don Pooley, Nick Price, Tom Purtzer, Sam Randolph, Mike Reid, Jack Renner, Larry Rinker, Loren Roberts, Bill Rogers, Clarence Rose, Dave Rummells, Bill Sander, Gene Sauers, Tom Sieckmann, Tony Sills, Scott Simpson, Tim Simpson, Joey Sindelar, Jeff Sluman, J. C. Snead, Craig Stadler, Payne Stewart, Ray Stewart, Curtis Strange, Mike Sullivan, Hal Sutton, Doug Tewell, Leonard Thompson, Bob Tway, Howard Twitty, Bobby Wadkins, Lanny Wadkins, Fred Wadsworth, Denis Watson, Tom Watson, D. A. Weibring, Mark Wiebe, Willie Wood, Ian Woosnam, Robert Wrenn, Fuzzy Zoeller, Richard Zokol

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 24, 1988

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 65 −7
T2 66 −6
T4 67 −5
Fuzzy Zoeller
T10 68 −4
Source:[5]

Second round

Friday, March 25, 1988

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 71-65=136 −8
T2 65-72=137 −7
68-69=137
T4 67-71=138 −6
70-68=138
69-69=138
T7 66-73=139 −5
69-70=139
70-69=139
T7 73-67=140 −4
69-71=140
67-73=140
67-73=140
70-70=140
66-74=140
Source:[7]

Third round

Saturday, March 26, 1988
Sunday, March 27, 1988

Due to weather delays, McCumber completed the last fourteen holes of his third round on Sunday morning and went to his nearby home between rounds.[3]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 65-72-67=204 −12
2 67-71-68=206 −10
3 71-65-71=207 −9
T4 66-73-69=208 −8
66-74-68=208
69-69-70=208
T7 73-67-69=209 −7
69-71-69=209
67-73-69=209
70-72-67=209
Source:[1] [2]

Final round

Sunday, March 27, 1988

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Mark McCumber 65-72-67-69=273 −15 225,000
2 68-69-73-67=277 −11 135,000
T3 73-72-65-68=278 −10 65,000
66-73-69-70=278
67-71-68-72=278
T6 69-70-71-69=279 −9 43,437
Lanny Wadkins (c) 70-72-67-70=279
T8 70-71-71-68=280 −8 36,250
69-69-70-72=280
71-65-71-73=280
[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: PGA Players . Toledo Blade . (Ohio). Associated Press . March 28, 1988 . 27 .
  2. News: McCumber wins emotional 'major' . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). Associated Press . March 28, 1988 . 2B.
  3. News: McCumber brings TPC home . Chicago Tribune . Hanley . Reid . March 28, 1988 . 5, sec. 3.
  4. Mark him well . Sports Illustrated . Diaz . Jaime . April 4, 1988 . 32.
  5. News: Haas disqualified for using bent putter . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). March 25, 1988 . 2B.
  6. News: Pohl has 1-shot lead in rain-delayed TPC . Chicago Tribune . Hanley . Reid . March 27, 1988 . 12, sec. 3.
  7. News: Last-hole eagle puts Stewart up . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon). Associated Press . March 26, 1988 . 7C.
  8. Web site: Past Results 1974 – present . PGA Tour . March 1, 2020 . September 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200901175049/https://www.theplayers.com/past-results.html . dead .

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