2003 Players Championship Explained

2003 Players Championship
Dates:March 27–30, 2003
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:144 players, 72 after cut
Cut:144 (Even)
Purse:$6.5 million
Winners Share:$1.17 million
Champion: Davis Love III
Score:271 (−17)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:2002
Next:2004

The 2003 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 30th Players Championship.

Davis Love III shot a final round 64 in cool and blustery conditions to handily win his second Players title, six strokes ahead of runners-up Jay Haas and Pádraig Harrington, the 54-hole co-leaders.[2] [3] Love won eleven years earlier in 1992,[4] and started the final round two strokes back.

Defending champion Craig Perks finished twelve strokes back, in a tie for seventeenth place.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the 22nd Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .

Field

Fulton Allem, Robert Allenby, Stephen Ames, Billy Andrade, Stuart Appleby, Paul Azinger, Briny Baird, Craig Barlow, Pat Bates, Cameron Beckman, Rich Beem, Notah Begay III, David Berganio Jr., Mark Brooks, Olin Browne, Bob Burns, Jonathan Byrd, Tom Byrum, Ángel Cabrera, Mark Calcavecchia, Chad Campbell, Michael Campbell, Jim Carter, Greg Chalmers, K. J. Choi, Stewart Cink, Tim Clark, Darren Clarke, José Cóceres, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crane, John Daly, Robert Damron, Glen Day, Chris DiMarco, Luke Donald, Joe Durant, David Duval, Joel Edwards, Steve Elkington, Bob Estes, Nick Faldo, Niclas Fasth, Brad Faxon, Steve Flesch, Dan Forsman, Carlos Franco, Harrison Frazar, Fred Funk, Jim Furyk, Robert Gamez, Sergio García, Brian Gay, Brent Geiberger, Matt Gogel, Retief Goosen, David Gossett, Jay Haas, Pádraig Harrington, Dudley Hart, J. P. Hayes, J. J. Henry, Tim Herron, Glen Hnatiuk, Charles Howell III, John Huston, Trevor Immelman, Lee Janzen, Brandt Jobe, Per-Ulrik Johansson, Steve Jones, Jonathan Kaye, Jerry Kelly, Skip Kendall, Matt Kuchar, Neal Lancaster, Bernhard Langer, Paul Lawrie, Stephen Leaney, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Thomas Levet, J. L. Lewis, Frank Lickliter, Peter Lonard, Davis Love III, Steve Lowery, Andrew Magee, Jeff Maggert, Shigeki Maruyama, Len Mattiace, Billy Mayfair, Scott McCarron, Spike McRoy, Rocco Mediate, Shaun Micheel, Colin Montgomerie, Greg Norman, Mark O'Meara, Geoff Ogilvy, José María Olazábal, Rod Pampling, Jesper Parnevik, Craig Parry, Carl Paulson, Corey Pavin, David Peoples, Pat Perez, Craig Perks, Tom Pernice Jr., Kenny Perry, Tim Petrovic, Nick Price, Chris Riley, Loren Roberts, John Rollins, Eduardo Romero, Justin Rose, Rory Sabbatini, Gene Sauers, Adam Scott, John Senden, Joey Sindelar, Vijay Singh, Heath Slocum, Jeff Sluman, Chris Smith, Paul Stankowski, Steve Stricker, Kevin Sutherland, Hal Sutton, Hidemichi Tanaka, Phil Tataurangi, Esteban Toledo, David Toms, Kirk Triplett, Bob Tway, Scott Verplank, Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir, Jay Williamson, Garrett Willis, Tiger Woods

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 27, 2003
Friday, March 28, 2003

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
align=center rowspan="2"T1 Fred Couples67−5
Pádraig Harrington
align=center rowspan="7"T3 Niclas Fasth68−4
Jay Haas
Steve Jones
Skip Kendall
Rocco Mediate
Craig Perks
Bob Tway
align=center rowspan="6"T10 Jim Carter69−3
Stewart Cink
Tim Clark
Tom Lehman
Adam Scott
Kevin Sutherland

Second round

Friday, March 28, 2003
Saturday, March 29, 2003

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Pádraig Harrington67-68=135−9
align=center rowspan="3"T2 Skip Kendall68-69=137−7
Davis Love III70-67=137
Craig Perks68-69=137
align=center rowspan="5" align=centerT5 Chad Campbell72-66=138−6
Fred Couples67-71=138
Jay Haas68-70=138
Rocco Mediate68-70=138
Adam Scott69-69=138
align=center rowspan="5"T10 Glen Day72-67=139−5
Bob Estes71-68=139
Steve Flesch71-68=139
Geoff Ogilvy71-68=139
Corey Pavin70-69=139
Source:[5] [6]

Third round

Saturday, March 29, 2003

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 68-70-67=205 −11
67-68-70=205
T3 67-71-69=207 −9
70-67-70=207
68-69-70=207
T6 71-70-67=208 −8
70-69-69=208
T8 72-66-71=209 −7
71-68-70=209
73-68-68=209
71-70-68=209
Source:[6]

Final round

Sunday, March 30, 2003

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Davis Love III (c) 70-67-70-64=271 −17 1,170,000
T2 68-70-67-72=277 −11 572,000
67-68-70-72=277
T4 70-71-72-65=278 −10 286,000
73-68-68-69=278
T6 72-66-71-70=279 −9 225,875
71-70-67-71=279
T8 72-70-71-67=280 −8 195,000
71-72-68-69=280
10 Fred Couples (c) 67-71-69-74=281 −7 175,500
[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: PGA Tour . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . (scores) . March 31, 2003 . E4.
  2. Love Machine . Sports Illustrated . Van Sickle . Gary . April 8, 2003 . April 29, 2003.
  3. News: Love blisters field on a blustery day . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . Ferguson . Doug . March 31, 2003 . E1.
  4. News: Love Story . Sports Illustrated . Reilly . Rick . Rick Reilly . April 6, 1992 . 22.
  5. News: Players Championship . Wilmington Morning Star. Wilmington, North Carolina . March 29, 2003 . 2C.
  6. News: Players Championship . Sunday Star-News . (Wilmington, North Carolina) . March 30, 2003 . 2C.
  7. 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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