1992 Players Championship Explained

1992 Players Championship
Dates:March 26–29, 1992
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:144 players, 73 after cut
Cut:144 (E)
Purse:$1.8 million
Winners Share:$324,000
Champion: Davis Love III
Score:273 (−15)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:1991
Next:1993

The 1992 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 26–29 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Tournament summary

It was the 19th Players Championship and was won by Davis Love III, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ian Baker-Finch, Phil Blackmar, Nick Faldo, and Tom Watson.[2] [3] [4]

Playing in his seventh consecutive event on tour,[5] top-ranked Fred Couples carded a course record 63 (−9) in the third round.[6] He broke his own course record which he originally set in 1984.[7] [8] However, he followed it up with a two-over-par 74 and finished eight strokes back.

Defending champion Steve Elkington missed the 36-hole cut by two strokes.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the eleventh Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Eligibility requirements

1. The top 125 PGA Tour members from Final 1991 Official Money List.[9]

Corey Pavin, Craig Stadler, Fred Couples, Tom Purtzer, Andrew Magee, Steve Pate, Nick Price, Davis Love III, Paul Azinger, Russ Cochran, Mark Brooks, Lanny Wadkins, Ian Baker-Finch, Billy Andrade, Rocco Mediate, Chip Beck, John Daly, Jim Gallagher Jr., Bruce Lietzke, Mark O'Meara, Jay Don Blake, D. A. Weibring, Jeff Sluman, Mike Hulbert, Steve Elkington, John Cook, Nolan Henke, Ted Schulz, Ian Woosnam, Payne Stewart, Kenny Knox, Hale Irwin, Brad Faxon, David Peoples, Blaine McCallister, Gene Sauers, David Edwards, Tom Kite, John Huston, Bob Lohr, Fuzzy Zoeller, José María Olazábal, Kenny Perry, Tom Watson, Billy Ray Brown, Hal Sutton, Curtis Strange, Jim Hallet, Mark Calcavecchia, Scott Simpson, Bob Tway, Greg Norman, Rick Fehr, Bill Britton, Loren Roberts, Robert Gamez, Larry Mize, Tom Sieckmann, Gary Hallberg, Dillard Pruitt, Peter Jacobsen, Ken Green, Bob Gilder, Brian Claar, Jeff Maggert, Keith Clearwater, Gil Morgan, Fulton Allem, Lee Janzen, Fred Funk, Howard Twitty, Ben Crenshaw, Phil Blackmar, Dan Forsman, Dave Rummells, Scott Gump, Bobby Wadkins, Ed Dougherty, Buddy Gardner, Jay Haas, Tim Simpson, Duffy Waldorf, Wayne Levi, Andy Bean, Billy Mayfair, Neal Lancaster, Mike Springer, Mark McCumber, David Frost, Joey Sindelar, Dan Pohl, Larry Nelson, Dan Halldorson, Mike Reid, Brad Bryant, Jay Delsing, Mike Smith, Jodie Mudd, Brad Fabel, Mark Lye, Bob Estes, Lance Ten Broeck, Bob Wolcott, Dave Barr, Robert Wrenn, Bill Sander, Doug Tewell, Kirk Triplett, Ronnie Black, Peter Persons, Stan Utley, Bobby Clampett, Nick Faldo, Wayne Grady, David Canipe, Dudley Hart, Ed Humenik, Ed Fiori, Bart Bryant, John Adams

2. Designated players.

Leonard Thompson, Phil Mickelson

3. Any foreign player meeting the requirements of a designated player, whether or not he is a PGA Tour member.

Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle

4. Winners in the last 10 calendar years of The Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, PGA Championship, and World Series of Golf.

Jerry Pate, Calvin Peete, Andy North, Roger Maltbie, Hubert Green, John Mahaffey

5. British Open winners since 1990.

6. Six players, not otherwise eligible, designated by The Players Championship Committee as "special selections."

Rodger Davis, Mike Harwood, Mark McNulty, Colin Montgomerie, Craig Parry, Chris Perry

7. To complete a field of 144 players those players in order, not otherwise eligible, from the 1992 Official Money List, as of the completion of the Nestle Invitational.

Tom Lehman, David Toms, Mark Wiebe, Jim Woodward, Chris Tucker, Larry Rinker

Source:[10]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 26, 1992

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 64 −8
T2 67 −5
T8 68 −4
Source:[5]

Second round

Friday, March 27, 1992

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 69-65=134 −10
64-70=134
T3 67-68=135 −9
67-68=135
T5 67-69=136 −8
68-68=136
T7 70-67=137 −7
67-70=137
67-70=137
69-68=137
68-69=137
Source:[11]

Third round

Saturday, March 28, 1992

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 68-68-67=203 −13
2 67-69-68=204 −12
3 70-67-68=205 −11
4 67-68-71=206 −10
T5 67-70-70=207 −9
73-71-63=207
71-67-69=207
Mike Smith 69-72-66=207
T9 67-68-73=208 −8
69-69-70=208
68-70-70=208
Source:[6]

Final round

Sunday, March 29, 1992

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Davis Love III 67-68-71-67=273 −15 324,000
T2 70-67-68-72=277 −11 118,800
67-69-68-73=277
68-68-67-74=277
68-70-70-69=277
T6 67-68-73-70=278 −10 62,550
71-72-67-68=278
8 71-67-69-72=279 −9 55,800
T9 67-70-70-73=280 −8 46,800
John Mahaffey (c) 71-71-69-69=280
69-65-75-71=280
69-69-74-68=280
[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Players Championship . Wilmington Morning Star . (North Carolina). Associated Press . March 30, 1992 . 8B.
  2. News: Rich TPC locates champion in Love . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Knight-Ridder . March 30, 1992 . C1.
  3. News: Love fights off Blackmar and Faldo for win . Wilmington Morning Star . (North Carolina). Associated Press . Green . Bob . March 30, 1992 . 9B.
  4. News: Love Story . Sports Illustrated . Reilly . Rick . Rick Reilly . April 6, 1992 . 22.
  5. News: Brown buoyed by birdie run . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . March 27, 1992 . 2B.
  6. News: Couples rallies, Faldo leads . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . March 29, 1992 . 3E.
  7. News: March 31, 1984 . Couples grabs TPC lead . 20 . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) .
  8. News: March 31, 1984 . Couples takes advantage of a dying wind with a 64 . 7C . Eugene Register-Guard . Associated Press . (Oregon) .
  9. Web site: Golf Stat and Records PGA TOUR . 2023-04-21 . www.pgatour.com.
  10. Web site: 1992 PGA Tour Media Guide . live . PGA Tour . 353. https://web.archive.org/web/20200927064941/https://pgatourmedia.pgatourhq.com/static-assets/page/header/files/1992_pgatour.pdf . 2020-09-27 .
  11. News: Olazabal 'drops' into a tie . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . March 28, 1992 . 7C.
  12. 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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