PGA Tour - The Players Championship 

The PGA Tour is back at its home venue of TPC Sawgrass this week for the ‘unofficial 5th major’ at The Players. As always at The Players, a star field has been assembled and this year’s line-up includes the entire world’s top 10.

2016 winner and last week’s champion Jason Day tees it up, as does Rory McIlroy, world number one Dustin Johnson, number two Justin Thomas, number three Jon Rahm, number four Jordan Spieth, number five Justin Rose, The Masters champion Patrick Reed and two-time winner Tiger Woods.

Last year, 21-year-old Si Woo Kim won with a dominating display, beating Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen by three strokes.

This event has been contested over Sawgrass’ Stadium course since 1982. A Pete Dye design, originally dating from 1979, the layout was redesigned by Dye in 2006. It’s one of the most recognisable courses on the PGA Tour and has traditionally been one of the toughest tracks on the circuit.

There were some major changes to the course last year. The water hazard between the 6th and 7th holes has been expanded and the 12th has been turned into a driveable par-4, where water waits to catch any ball erring to the left.

There’s a huge prize fund this week: $11,000,000 and the best will be looking to grab a share of it. The winner’s cheque is a massive $1.98m.

Players to watch:

Jason Day – The 2016 winner was very impressive last week in his Wells Fargo win, despite some iffy driving in the final round. His putting looks back to its imperious best and he could well grind out another win this week

Rickie Fowler – Fowler won here in 2015 and was T2nd in 2012. He is in great form having finished second at Augusta and had a solid T21st last week

Rory McIlroy – The four-time major winner’s game looks close and could well peak this week at Sawgrass.

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