1997 Players Championship | |
Dates: | March 27–30, 1997 |
Location: | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida |
Course: | TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course |
Tour: | PGA Tour |
Par: | 72 |
Yardage: | [1] |
Field: | 144 players, 76 after cut |
Cut: | 146 (+2) |
Purse: | $3.5 million |
Winners Share: | $630,000 |
Champion: | Steve Elkington |
Score: | 272 (−16) |
Map: | USA#USA Florida |
Map Relief: | yes |
Map Label: | TPC Sawgrass |
Coordinates: | 30.198°N -81.394°W |
Previous: | 1996 |
Next: | 1998 |
The 1997 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 24th Players Championship.
Steve Elkington led wire-to-wire, with all four rounds in the sixties, to win his second Players at 272 (−16), a record seven strokes ahead of runner-up Scott Hoch.[2] [3] Elkington's previous win was six years earlier in 1991.[4] [5]
In his first Players, 21-year-old Tiger Woods tied for 31st at 289 (+1);[2] two weeks later, he won the Masters by a record margin.
Defending champion Fred Couples finished thirteen strokes back, in a tie for tenth place.
See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the sixteenth Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course, and it remained at .[1]
All winners of PGA Tour events awarding official money and official victory status in the preceding 12 months, concluding with the Bay Hill Invitational and dating from the 1996 Players Championship.
Fred Couples, Paul Stankowski, Nick Faldo, Loren Roberts, Mark O'Meara, Mark Brooks, Phil Mickelson, Corey Pavin, Steve Stricker, Tom Watson, Ernie Els, Steve Jones, John Cook, D. A. Weibring, Scott Hoch, Tom Lehman, Willie Wood, Justin Leonard, Clarence Rose, Guy Boros, Dudley Hart, Ed Fiori???, Fred Funk, Michael Bradley, Tiger Woods, David Ogrin, Jeff Sluman, Steve Elkington, Stuart Appleby
The top 125 PGA Tour members from the final 1996 Official Money List.[6]
Davis Love III, Brad Faxon, David Duval, Kenny Perry, Greg Norman, Tommy Tolles, Vijay Singh, Jeff Maggert, Jim Furyk, Mark Calcavecchia, Duffy Waldorf, Lee Janzen, Woody Austin, Payne Stewart, Bob Tway, Jay Haas, John Huston, Mark McCumber, Tim Herron, Rocco Mediate, Craig Parry, Paul Goydos, Billy Andrade, Colin Montgomerie, Scott McCarron, Nick Price, Tom Purtzer, Jesper Parnevik, David Frost, Billy Mayfair, Fuzzy Zoeller, Jay Don Blake, Craig Stadler, Jerry Kelly, Andrew Magee, Greg Kraft, Russ Cochran, Lennie Clements, John Morse, Kirk Triplett, Tom Kite, Larry Mize, Scott Simpson, Kelly Gibson, Larry Nelson, Nolan Henke, Grant Waite, Glen Day, Emlyn Aubrey, Jim Gallagher Jr., Joey Sindelar, Rick Fehr, Patrick Burke, Steve Lowery, Frank Nobilo, Marco Dawson, Mike Brisky, Gil Morgan, John Adams, Brad Bryant, Robert Gamez, Joel Edwards, Ronnie Black, Len Mattiace, Mike Hulbert, Brandel Chamblee, Paul Azinger, Phil Blackmar, Brad Fabel, Chip Beck, Joe Ozaki, Olin Browne, Jim Carter, Taylor Smith, Doug Martin, Neal Lancaster, David Toms, David Edwards, Mark Wiebe, Wayne Levi, Hal Sutton, Pete Jordan, Lee Rinker, Chris Perry, John Maginnes, Hugh Royer III, John Wilson, Curtis Strange, Blaine McCallister, Scott Gump, Ben Crenshaw, Dave Stockton Jr., John Daly, Omar Uresti, Dan Forsman, Scott Dunlap, Dicky Pride
Winners in the last 10 calendar years of The Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, PGA Championship, and NEC World Series of Golf.
Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam, Bernhard Langer, Wayne Grady, Mike Reid, Fulton Allem
British Open winners since 1990.
Eight players, not otherwise eligible, designated by The Players Championship Committee as "special selections."
Costantino Rocca, Sam Torrance, Robert Allenby, Mark McNulty, Masashi Ozaki, Brian Watts
Any players, not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money winners from the 1997 Official Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational
To complete a field of 144 players, those players in order, not otherwise eligible, from the 1997 Official Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational.
Source:[7]
Robert Damron, Joe Durant, Donnie Hammond, Brian Henninger, Peter Jacobsen, Don Pooley, Ted Tryba
Thursday, March 27, 1997
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 66 | −6 | |
T2 | 67 | −5 | |
T7 | 68 | −4 | |
Naomichi Ozaki | |||
Friday, March 28, 1997
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 66-69=135 | −9 | |
2 | 68-68=136 | −8 | |
T3 | 67-70=137 | −7 | |
70-67=137 | |||
T3 | 67-71=138 | −6 | |
72-66=138 | |||
71-67=138 | |||
70-68=138 | |||
T7 | 68-71=139 | −5 | |
70-69=139 | |||
68-71=139 | |||
68-71=139 | |||
71-68=139 | |||
67-72=139 |
Saturday, March 29, 1997
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 66-69-68=203 | −13 | |
2 | 69-71-65=205 | −11 | |
T3 | 68-72-68=208 | −8 | |
68-71-69=208 | |||
5 | 71-68-70=209 | −7 | |
T6 | 72-68-70=210 | −6 | |
68-68-74=210 | |||
70-67-73=210 | |||
T9 | 68-71-72=211 | −5 | |
70-69-72=211 | |||
70-73-68=211 | |||
67-71-73=211 | |||
72-66-73=211 | |||
70-70-71=211 | |||
70-74-67=211 |
Sunday, March 30, 1997
Champion | |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Elkington (c) | 66-69-68-69=272 | −16 | 630,000 |
2 | 69-71-65-74=279 | −9 | 378,000 | |
3 | 70-74-67-69=280 | −8 | 238,000 | |
4 | 70-69-72-70=281 | −7 | 168,000 | |
5 | 68-72-68-74=282 | −6 | 140,000 | |
6 | 67-71-73-72=283 | −5 | 126,000 | |
T7 | 72-68-70-74=284 | −4 | 109,083 | |
70-70-71-73=284 | ||||
70-67-73-74=284 | ||||
T10 | 67-74-72-72=285 | −3 | 84,000 | |
Fred Couples (c) | 71-74-71-69=285 | |||
68-71-72-74=285 | ||||
71-68-70-76=285 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T14 | 71-71-70-74=286 | −2 | 54,250 | ||
72-72-71-71=286 | |||||
68-74-72-72=286 | |||||
67-70-76-73=286 | |||||
71-75-68-72=286 | |||||
68-68-74-76=286 | |||||
73-70-71-72=286 | |||||
67-72-73-74=286 | |||||
T22 | 73-69-72-73=287 | −1 | 37,800 | ||
71-67-80-69=287 | |||||
T24 | 67-75-71-75=288 | E | 27,700 | ||
71-72-73-72=288 | |||||
70-73-68-77=288 | |||||
72-71-75-70=288 | |||||
71-72-71-74=288 | |||||
Nick Price (c) | 75-68-74-71=288 | ||||
68-71-69-80=288 | |||||
T31 | 74-67-75-73=289 | +1 | 20,300 | ||
71-73-75-70=289 | |||||
74-71-70-74=289 | |||||
71-73-73-72=289 | |||||
71-69-74-75=289 | |||||
71-73-72-73=289 | |||||
T37 | 72-73-73-72=290 | +2 | 15,400 | ||
Lee Janzen (c) | 73-73-74-70=290 | ||||
72-74-73-71=290 | |||||
71-71-70-78=290 | |||||
70-68-74-78=290 | |||||
74-71-70-75=290 | |||||
T43 | 74-69-74-74=291 | +3 | 11,550 | ||
68-76-74-73=291 | |||||
71-73-69-78=291 | |||||
74-69-73-75=291 | |||||
71-70-75-75=291 | |||||
T48 | 75-71-73-73=292 | +4 | 9,345 | ||
73-69-72-78=292 | |||||
T50 | 70-76-71-76=293 | +5 | 8,610 | ||
68-71-77-77=293 | |||||
Hal Sutton (c) | 70-71-74-78=293 | ||||
T53 | 71-74-74-75=294 | +6 | 7,953 | ||
69-72-78-75=294 | |||||
71-74-70-79=294 | |||||
71-71-76-76=294 | |||||
71-72-73-78=294 | |||||
Greg Norman (c) | 71-72-72-79=294 | ||||
68-73-76-77=294 | |||||
70-71-79-74=294 | |||||
61 | 70-72-76-77=295 | +7 | 7,630 | ||
T62 | 73-72-72-79=296 | +8 | 7,490 | ||
70-71-77-78=296 | |||||
71-74-74-77=296 | |||||
T65 | 71-75-72-79=297 | +9 | 7,280 | ||
73-72-74-78=297 | |||||
68-74-74-81=297 | |||||
T68 | 72-70-77-79=298 | +10 | 7,105 | ||
71-74-71-82=298 | |||||
T70 | 72-74-75-78=299 | +11 | 6,930 | ||
Sandy Lyle (c) | 68-74-77-80=299 | ||||
73-72-76-78=299 | |||||
73 | 71-71-80-79=301 | +13 | 6,790 | ||
74 | 70-74-79-79=302 | +14 | 6,720 | ||
75 | 74-72-77-81=304 | +16 | 6,650 | ||
CUT | 74-73=147 | +3 | |||
72-75=147 | |||||
71-76=147 | |||||
75-72=147 | |||||
74-73=147 | |||||
74-73=147 | |||||
72-75=147 | |||||
75-72=147 | |||||
69-78=147 | |||||
74-73=147 | |||||
74-74=148 | +4 | ||||
73-75=148 | |||||
74-74=148 | |||||
71-77=148 | |||||
Tom Kite (c) | 75-73=148 | ||||
73-75=148 | |||||
74-74=148 | |||||
71-77=148 | |||||
78-70=148 | |||||
72-76=148 | |||||
74-74=148 | |||||
73-76=149 | +5 | ||||
74-75=149 | |||||
76-73=149 | |||||
73-76=149 | |||||
74-75=149 | |||||
73-76=149 | |||||
73-76=149 | |||||
74-75=149 | |||||
78-71=149 | |||||
78-71=149 | |||||
77-73=150 | +6 | ||||
74-76=150 | |||||
73-77=150 | |||||
77-73=150 | |||||
75-75=150 | |||||
75-75=150 | |||||
76-75=151 | +7 | ||||
75-76=151 | |||||
73-78=151 | |||||
76-75=151 | |||||
75-76=151 | |||||
Mark McCumber (c) | 77-74=151 | ||||
78-74=152 | +8 | ||||
73-79=152 | |||||
74-78=152 | |||||
77-75=152 | |||||
75-78=153 | +9 | ||||
76-77=153 | |||||
77-76=153 | |||||
77-76=153 | |||||
77-76=153 | |||||
79-75=154 | +10 | ||||
76-78=154 | |||||
74-80=154 | |||||
74-80=154 | |||||
80-75=155 | +11 | ||||
81-74=155 | |||||
78-78=156 | +12 | ||||
80-77=157 | +13 | ||||
77-80=157 | |||||
83-77=160 | +16 | ||||
81-79=160 | |||||
WD | 74 | +2 | |||
76 | +4 | ||||
76 | |||||
80 | +8 | ||||
81 | +9 | ||||
DQ | Davis Love III (c) | 72-66-73=211 | −5 |