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2001 Players Championship

This article is about the golf tournament. For the curling tournament, see 2001 Players' Championship.

The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–26 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.

2001 Players Championship
Tournament information
DatesMarch 22–26, 2001
LocationPonte Vedra Beach, Florida
30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W / 30.198; -81.394
Course(s)TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length7,093 yards (6,486 m)
Field142 players, 75 after cut
Cut147 (+3)
Prize fund$6.0 million
Winner's share$1.08 million
Champion
United States Tiger Woods
274 (−14)
Location map
TPC Sawgrass is located in the United States
TPC Sawgrass
TPC Sawgrass
Location in the United States
TPC Sawgrass is located in Florida
TPC Sawgrass
TPC Sawgrass
Location in Florida
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Tournament summary

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Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh.[1] Because of bad weather, the tournament was completed on Monday, March 26. In the final pairing with 54-hole leader Jerry Kelly, Woods played the final nine holes on Monday.[2] He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando.[3]

Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once, the Tiger Slam, as well as this Players, the unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.

Through 2020, Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year (2001), and he was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to four with Martin Kaymer in 2014.

Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

Venue

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Main article: TPC at Sawgrass

This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).

Field

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1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List[4]

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

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998

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

6. Winners of official money World Golf Championship events in the last three years (1998–2000)

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 player(s), not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2001 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 list.)

Source:[5]

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, March 22, 2001

Place Player Score To par
1   Paul Azinger 66 −6
T2   Scott Hoch 67 −5
  Jonathan Kaye
  Vijay Singh
T5   Robert Allenby 68 −4
  Skip Kendall
  Billy Mayfair
T8   Jim Carter 69 −3
  Brad Elder
  Jerry Kelly
  Scott Verplank

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Second round

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Friday, March 23, 2001

Place Player Score To par
1   Jerry Kelly 69-66=135 −9
2   Paul Azinger 66-70=136 −8
T3   Scott Hoch 67-70=137 −7
  Kenny Perry 71-66=137
  Vijay Singh 67-70=137
6   Jonathan Kaye 67-72=139 −5
7   Billy Mayfair 68-72=140 −4
T8   Brad Elder 69-72=141 −3
  Fred Funk 70-71=141
  J. P. Hayes 72-69=141
  Bernhard Langer 73-68=141
  Phil Mickelson 73-68=141
  Tiger Woods 72-69=141

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Third round

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Saturday, March 24, 2001

Place Player Score To par
1   Jerry Kelly 69-66-70=205 −11
T2   Vijay Singh 67-70-70=207 −9
  Tiger Woods 72-69-66=207
4   Scott Hoch 67-70-71=208 −8
5   Bernhard Langer 73-68-68=209 −7
T6   Paul Azinger 66-70-74=210 −6
  Billy Mayfair 68-72-70=210
T8   Kenny Perry 71-66-74=211 −5
  Hal Sutton 72-71-68=211
10   Michael Campbell 71-72-69=212 −4

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Final round

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Sunday, March 25, 2001
Monday, March 26, 2001

Champion
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1   Tiger Woods 72-69-66-67=274 −14 1,080,000
2   Vijay Singh 67-70-70-68=275 −13 648,000
3   Bernhard Langer 73-68-68-67=276 −12 408,000
4   Jerry Kelly 69-66-70-73=278 −10 288,000
T5   Billy Mayfair 68-72-70-71=281 −7 228,000
  Hal Sutton (c) 72-71-68-70=281
T7   Paul Azinger 66-70-74-72=282 −6 187,000
  Scott Hoch 67-70-71-74=282
  Frank Lickliter 72-72-70-68=282
T10   Joe Durant 73-73-67-70=283 −5 156,000
  Nick Price (c) 70-74-71-68=283

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Scorecard

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Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 3 4
  Woods −10 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −11 −11 −12 −13 −13 −14 −14 −14 −14 −15 −15 −14
  Singh −9 −10 −9 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −11 −11 −12 −12 −13 −10 −10 −12 −13 −13
  Langer −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −9 −10 −11 −10 −11 −10 −11 −11 −12
  Kelly −11 −12 −12 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −10
  Mayfair −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −8 −8 −7
  Sutton −4 −4 −4 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7
  Azinger −6 −6 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −5 −6 −5 −6 −6 −6
  Hoch −8 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −5 −6 −6 −6
  Lickliter −2 −3 −4 −4 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double Bogey Triple Bogey+

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References

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  1. ^ Ferguson, Doug (March 27, 2001). "Tiger on the prowl". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. p. C2.
  2. ^ Ferguson, Doug (March 26, 2001). "Tiger storms to head of the pack". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. p. 2C.
  3. ^ Ferguson, Doug (March 19, 2001). "All is right in the world of Woods after one-shot win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1E.
  4. ^ "Official Money – 2000". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  5. ^ "2001 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 3-39.
  6. ^ "Golf: Thursday's results". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 23, 2001. p. B9.
  7. ^ "Players Championship - Second round". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. March 24, 2001. p. 3C.
  8. ^ "Golf: PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). March 25, 2001. p. 6G.
  9. ^ "Past Results 1974 – present". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  10. ^ "The Players Championship". ESPN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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