1999 Players Championship Explained

1999 Players Championship
Dates:March 25–28, 1999
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:145 players, 79 after cut
Cut:148 (+4)
Purse:$5.0 million
Winners Share:$900,000
Champion: David Duval
Score:285 (−3)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:1998
Next:2000

The 1999 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 26th Players Championship.

David Duval won his only Players Championship, two strokes head of runner-up Scott Gump.[2] The victory moved him to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, ahead of Tiger Woods,[3] who finished six strokes back in a tie for tenth place.[4] [5]

Duval's father Bob, age 52, won the same day at the Emerald Coast Classic near Pensacola for his first victory on the Senior Tour. Both led entering the final round.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Duval's winning score of 285 (−3) remains the highest at the Stadium Course, the venue since 1982. The lowest is by Greg Norman in 1994.

Defending champion Justin Leonard finished nine strokes back, in a tie for 23rd place.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the 18th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course; its 1999 setup measured,[1] an increase of .

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 1998 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 1998 Official Money List[6]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open (only since 1990), and PGA Championship in the last 10 years (1989-1998)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1989-1998)

5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner

6. Winner of the World Golf Championship events in the last three years, beginning with the 1999 winners

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 players, not otherwise eligibility, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 1999 Official Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 1999 Official Money List below the 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their position 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

Source:[7]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 25, 1999

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 Bob Estes68−4
Brian Watts
T3 David Duval69−3
Joe Ozaki
Hal Sutton
T6 Dudley Hart70−2
Bradley Hughes
Skip Kendall
Davis Love III
Billy Mayfair
Chris Perry
Jeff Sluman
Kirk Triplett
Tiger Woods

Second round

Friday, March 26, 1999

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Joe Ozaki69-68=137−7
2 David Duval69-69=138−6
3 Bruce Lietzke71-68=139−5
T4 Ernie Els73-67=140−4
Davis Love III70-70=140
Curtis Strange71-69=140
T7 Fulton Allem74-67=141−3
Fred Funk72-69=141
Frank Lickliter71-70=141
Nick Price74-67=141
Tiger Woods70-71=141
Source:[8]

Third round

Saturday, March 27, 1999

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69-69-74=212 −4
T2 70-73-70=213 −3
71-71-71=213
T4 72-70-73=215 −1
72-70-73=215
74-67-74=215
T7 72-74-70=216 E
72-73-71=216
72-70-74=216
73-73-70=216
69-74-73=216
70-71-75=216
Source:[9]

Final round

Sunday, March 28, 1999

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 David Duval 69-69-74-73=285 −3 900,000
2 72-74-70-71=287 −1 540,000
3 Nick Price (c) 74-67-74-73=288 E 340,000
T4 Fred Couples (c) 77-71-73-68=289 +1 220,000
Hal Sutton (c) 69-74-73-73=289
T6 72-70-73-75=290 +2 161,875
72-73-71-74=290
73-73-70-74=290
73-69-75-73=290
T10 71-77-71-72=291 +3 107,142
76-70-72-73=291
70-73-70-78=291
Davis Love III (c) 70-70-78-73=291
69-68-81-73=291
72-71-74-74=291
70-71-75-75=291
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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1999 Players Championship results . ESPN . September 19, 2015.
  2. News: Like father, like son . Sports Illustrated . Diaz . Jaime . April 5, 1999 . April 28, 2017.
  3. Web site: Golf; Duval is supreme, and his dad's a winner too . The New York Times . March 29, 1999 . May 12, 2016 . Brown . Clifton.
  4. News: Duvals a pride-filled pair . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . (Philadelphia Inquirer). March 29, 1999 . C3 .
  5. News: A Duval daily double . Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . Associated Press . March 29, 1999 . 7C .
  6. Web site: Official Money – 1998 Season . 2023-03-28 . PGA Tour.
  7. Web site: 1999 PGA Tour Media Guide . PGA Tour . 337.
  8. News: PGA Tour . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . March 27, 1999 . 4D .
  9. News: TPC delivers a knockout punch in third round . Eugene Register-Guard . Oregon . Associated Press . March 28, 1999 . 3F .
  10. 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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