2000 Players Championship Explained

2000 Players Championship
Dates:March 23–27, 2000
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1] [2]
Field:144 players, 80 after cut
Cut:150 (+6)
Purse:$6.0 million
Winners Share:$1.08 million
Champion: Hal Sutton
Score:278 (−10)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:1999
Next:2001

The 2000 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 27th Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Hal Sutton, the champion seventeen years earlier in 1983, led by a stroke after each round and won his second Players, a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods.[3] Both carded scores of 71 (−1) in the final round, and Sutton hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation. Because of thunderstorms and heavy rain, the final round was completed on Monday, March 27. In the last pairing, Sutton and Woods were on the twelfth hole when play was suspended on Sunday night.[1] [4]

Late in the third round on Saturday, Sutton had gone 25 holes without making a bogey. At the par-3 17th hole, he hit his tee shot in the water and took a triple-bogey six, which trimmed his lead over Woods to just one stroke.[5]

Traditionally the richest event in golf, this was the first Players with a seven-figure winner's share, at $1.08 million. Sutton's win in 1983 was the first Players with a six-figure first prize. Woods won the event the following year.

Defending champion David Duval finished nine strokes back, in a tie for thirteenth place.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the 19th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .[1]

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 1999 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 1999 Official Money List[6]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last 10 years (1990-1999)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990-98Tom Purtzer, Fulton Allem

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

6. Winners of 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 eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2000 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2000 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions 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. (Such player(s) would be added to the field.)

Source:[7]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 23, 2000
Friday, March 24, 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69 −3
T2 70 −2
T10 71 −1
Source:[8]

Second round

Friday, March 24, 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69-69=138 −6
T2 71-68=139 −5
71-68=139
4 75-65=140 −4
T5 73-69=142 −2
70-72=142
71-71=142
T8 73-70=143 −1
70-73=143
T10 70-74=144 E
72-72=144
75-69=144
73-71=144
70-74=144
72-72=144
70-74=144
75-69=144
73-71=144
Source:[9]

Third round

Saturday, March 25, 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69-69-69=207 −9
2 71-71-66=208 −8
3 71-68-72=211 −5
4 75-71-66=212 −4
T5 70-73-70=213 −3
70-74-69=213
T7 75-69-70=214 −2
78-70-66=214
73-70-71=214
73-69-72=214
75-69-70=214
Source:[10]

Final round

Sunday, March 26, 2000
Monday, March 27, 2000

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Hal Sutton (c) 69-69-69-71=278 −10 1,080,000
2 71-71-66-71=279 −9 648,000
T3 78-70-66-70=284 −4 270,600
73-70-71-70=284
77-68-71-68=284
75-69-70-70=284
Nick Price (c) 73-71-73-67=284
8 71-68-72-74=285 −3 186,000
T9 71-75-69-71=286 −2 156,000
Lee Janzen (c) 70-73-70-73=286
70-72-73-71=286
75-74-70-67=286
[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Sutton holds off Woods, wins TPC . Spokesman-Review . (Spokane, Washington) . Associated Press . March 28, 2000 . C2 .
  2. Web site: The Players Championship breakdown . ESPN . September 19, 2015.
  3. Punched out . Sports Illustrated . Shipnuck . Alan . April 3, 2000 . April 28, 2017.
  4. News: Storm stops Sutton, Woods . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . March 27, 2000 . 1B .
  5. News: Feared 17th sinks Sutton . Tuscaloosa News . (Alabama) . Associated Press . March 26, 2000 . 4C .
  6. Web site: Official Money – 1999 Season . 2023-03-31 . PGA Tour.
  7. Web site: 2000 PGA Tour Media Guide . PGA Tour . 338.
  8. News: Golf: Players Championship. Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . March 24, 2000 . C61.
  9. News: Golf: Players Championship . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . Associated Press . March 25, 2000 . C4 .
  10. News: Golf: Players Championship . Tuscaloosa News . Alabama . March 26, 2000 . 2C .
  11. 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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