2004 Players Championship Explained

2004 Players Championship
Dates:March 25–28, 2004
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:148 players, 83 after cut
Cut:146 (+2)
Purse:$8.0 million
Winners Share:$1.44 million
Champion: Adam Scott
Score:276 (−12)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:2003
Next:2005

The 2004 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 31st Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Adam Scott, age 23, held on for his second PGA Tour title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Pádraig Harrington, who started the final round five shots behind. With a two-shot lead on the 72nd hole, Scott put his approach shot in the water then sank a 10feet putt for bogey to win.[2] [3]

Defending champion Davis Love III finished twelve strokes back, in a tie for 33rd place.

Scott was the youngest champion for thirteen years, until Kim Si-woo won at age 21 in 2017. Previously, it was Fred Couples, age 24 in 1984.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the 23rd Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .[1]

Eligibility requirements

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

Ben Crane, Mike Weir, Davis Love III, Fred Couples, Steve Flesch, David Toms, Vijay Singh, Kenny Perry, Rory Sabbatini, Jonathan Kaye, Tiger Woods, Ben Curtis, Craig Stadler, Peter Jacobsen, Shaun Micheel, Darren Clarke, Kirk Triplett, Adam Scott, Bob Tway, J. L. Lewis, Tommy Armour III, John Huston, Stuart Appleby, Shigeki Maruyama, Retief Goosen, Chad Campbell, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, John Daly, Heath Slocum, Craig Parry, Todd Hamilton

2. The top 125 finishers on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.[4]

Brad Faxon, Charles Howell III, Jay Haas, Justin Leonard, Chris DiMarco, Scott Verplank, Nick Price, Briny Baird, Chris Riley, Robert Allenby, Tim Herron, Jerry Kelly, Fred Funk, K. J. Choi, Bob Estes, Stewart Cink, Tim Petrovic, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Robert Gamez, Woody Austin, Geoff Ogilvy, Jonathan Byrd, Frank Lickliter, Peter Lonard, Brenden Pappas, Loren Roberts, Tim Clark, Scott McCarron, Len Mattiace, Tom Pernice Jr., Duffy Waldorf, Scott Hoch, Alex Čejka, Tom Lehman, Lee Janzen, Mark Calcavecchia, Joe Durant, Kevin Sutherland, Rod Pampling, Hidemichi Tanaka, Skip Kendall, Rich Beem, Stephen Ames, Aaron Baddeley, Carl Pettersson, Hal Sutton, Steve Lowery, Matt Gogel, Billy Mayfair, Glen Day, Brett Quigley, Harrison Frazar, David Gossett, Jeff Maggert, Cliff Kresge, Paul Stankowski, Luke Donald, Brandt Jobe, Joey Sindelar, David Peoples, Carlos Franco, Sergio García, J. J. Henry, Billy Andrade, Dean Wilson, Jeff Brehaut, Craig Barlow, Jay Williamson, Todd Fischer, Arron Oberholser, Patrick Sheehan, Stephen Allan, Cameron Beckman, John Senden, Tom Byrum, Neal Lancaster, Brent Geiberger, J. P. Hayes, David Frost, Robert Damron, Pat Perez, Jesper Parnevik, Notah Begay III, Richard S. Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Kent Jones, Pat Bates, Glen Hnatiuk, Esteban Toledo

3. Members in the top 125 non-members category whose official money for the previous year equals or exceeds the amount of official money earned by the player finishing in the 125th position on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.

Pádraig Harrington, Hank Kuehne, Freddie Jacobson, Stephen Leaney, Justin Rose, Thomas Bjørn

4. PGA Tour members from the current Tournament Winners category

Steve Stricker, Matt Kuchar, Spike McRoy, Chris Smith, Gene Sauers, Bob Burns

5. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship from 1994 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. Beginning with 1998, winners will be eligible for 5 years.

Greg Norman, Steve Elkington, José María Olazábal, Nick Faldo, Corey Pavin, Mark Brooks, Craig Perks, Paul Lawrie

6. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1994–1997).

7. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

8. Winners of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in the last three years (2002–2004).

9. Winners of the WGC-NEC Invitational and WGC-American Express Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

10. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational.

Paul Casey, Colin Montgomerie, Trevor Immelman, Ian Poulter, Brian Davis

11. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 10 leaders from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational.

12. If necessary to complete a field of 144 players, PGA Tour members from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on such list.

John Riegger

13. The Players Championship committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Note: Such a player would be added to the field.)

Source:[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 25, 2004

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Adam Scott65−7
align=center rowspan="2"T2 Kevin Sutherland66−6
Duffy Waldorf
align=center rowspan="3"T4 Thomas Bjørn67−5
Bob Burns
K. J. Choi
align=center rowspan="5"T7 Ernie Els68−4
Sergio García
Pádraig Harrington
Brandt Jobe
Scott Verplank
Source:[6]

Second round

Friday, March 26, 2004

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
align=center rowspan="2"T1 Jerry Kelly69-66=135−9
Kevin Sutherland66-69=135
align=center rowspan="2"T3 Ernie Els68-69=137−7
Adam Scott65-72=137
align=center rowspan="2"T5 Pádraig Harrington68-70=138−6
Vijay Singh70-68=138
align=center rowspan="4" align=centerT7 Bob Burns67-72=139−5
Phil Mickelson70-69=139
Jeff Sluman69-70=139
Duffy Waldorf66-73=139
Source:[1]

Third round

Saturday, March 27, 2004

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 65-72-69=206 −10
T2 69-71-68=208 −8
66-69-73=208
T4 68-69-72=209−7
69-66-74=209
70-69-70=209
69-71-69=209
73-70-66=209
T9 74-72-64=210 −6
70-68-72=210
66-73-71=210
Source:[7]

Final round

Sunday, March 28, 2004

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Adam Scott 65-72-69-70=276 −12 1,440,000
2 68-70-73-66=277 −11 864,000
T3 69-71-68-72=280 −8 416,000
70-69-70-71=280
69-71-69-71=280
T6 72-73-70-66=281 −7 268,000
69-66-74-72=281
66-69-73-73=281
9 70-76-69-67=282 −6 232,000
T10 67-72-72-72=283 −5 200,000
72-70-69-72=283
73-71-68-71=283
[8]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par453444435454344534
Scott −10 −11 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −13 −13 −12 −13 −14 −14 −13 −13 −13 −13 −12
Harrington −5 −4 −3 −4 −3 −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8 −10 −10 −11
Lickliter −7 −7 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8
Mickelson −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8
Perry −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −9 −8 −9 −9 −8
Sutherland −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7 −7
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
EagleBirdieBogey
Source:[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Players Championship . Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina) . March 27, 2004 . 2C.
  2. News: Tiger Twin . Sports Illustrated . Van Sickle . Gary . April 6, 2004 . 22.
  3. News: Scott survives shaky finish at TPC . Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina) . Associated Press . March 29, 2004 . 1C.
  4. Web site: Official Money – 2003 . PGA Tour . 2023-04-06.
  5. Web site: 2004 PGA Tour Media Guide . PGA Tour . 331.
  6. News: Players Championship . Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina) . March 26, 2004 . 2C.
  7. News: The Players Championship . Sunday Star-News . (Wilmington, North Carolina) . March 29, 2004 . 2C.
  8. 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 .
  9. News: The Players Championship . Golf Channel . 22 September 2018.

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