2001 Players Championship

2001 Players Championship
Tournament information
Dates March 22–26, 2001
Location Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course(s) TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Statistics
Par 72
Length 7,093 yards (6,486 m)
Field 142 players, 75 after cut
Cut 147 (+3)
Prize fund $6.0 million
Winner's share $1.08 million
Champion
United States Tiger Woods
274 (−14)
TPC Sawgrass
Location in the United States
TPC Sawgrass
Location in Florida

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.

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]

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, an unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.

Through 2016, 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

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

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

PlayerCountryYear(s) wonR1R2R3R4TotalTo parFinish
Hal Sutton United States1983, 200072716870281−7T5
Nick Price Zimbabwe199370747168283−5T10
Lee Janzen United States199577676973286−2T18
Tom Kite United States198970737574292+4T44
Fred Couples United States1984, 199671757079295+7T58

Source:[1]

Missed the cut

PlayerCountryYear wonR1R2TotalTo par
Davis Love III United States19927276148+4
Greg Norman Australia19947574149+5
Justin Leonard United States19987476150+6

Source:[3]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Paul Azinger United States66−6
T2Scott Hoch United States67−5
Jonathan Kaye United States
Vijay Singh Fiji
T5Robert Allenby Australia68−4
Skip Kendall United States
Billy Mayfair United States
T8Jim Carter United States69−3
Brad Elder United States
Jerry Kelly United States
Scott Verplank United States

Source:[4]

Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jerry Kelly United States69-66=135−9
2Paul Azinger United States66-70=136−8
T3Scott Hoch United States67-70=137−7
Kenny Perry United States71-66=137
Vijay Singh Fiji67-70=137
6Jonathan Kaye United States67-72=139−5
7Billy Mayfair United States68-72=140−4
T8Brad Elder United States69-72=141−3
Fred Funk United States70-71=141
J. P. Hayes United States72-69=141
Bernhard Langer Germany73-68=141
Phil Mickelson United States73-68=141
Tiger Woods United States72-69=141

Source:[3]

Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jerry Kelly United States69-66-70=205−11
T2Vijay Singh Fiji67-70-70=207−9
Tiger Woods United States72-69-66=207
4Scott Hoch United States67-70-71=208−8
5Bernhard Langer Germany73-68-68=209−7
T6Paul Azinger United States66-70-74=210−6
Billy Mayfair United States68-72-70=210
T8Kenny Perry United States71-66-74=211−5
Hal Sutton United States72-71-68=211
10Michael Campbell New Zealand71-72-69=212−4

Source:[5]

Final round

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

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney ($)
1Tiger Woods United States72-69-66-67=274−141,080,000
2Vijay Singh Fiji67-70-70-68=275−13648,000
3Bernhard Langer Germany73-68-68-67=276−12408,000
4Jerry Kelly United States69-66-70-73=278−10288,000
T5Billy Mayfair United States68-72-70-71=281−7228,000
Hal Sutton United States72-71-68-70=281
T7Paul Azinger United States66-70-74-72=282−6187,000
Scott Hoch United States67-70-71-74=282
Frank Lickliter United States72-72-70-68=282
T10Joe Durant United States73-73-67-70=283−5156,000
Nick Price Zimbabwe70-74-71-68=283

Source:[1]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par453444435454344534
United States Woods−10−12−12−12−12−12−11−11−12−13−13−14−14−14−14−15−15−14
Fiji Singh−9−10−9−10−11−11−12−12−11−11−12−12−13−10−10−12−13−13
Germany Langer−8−8−8−8−9−9−9−9−10−9−10−11−10−11−10−11−11−12
United States Kelly−11−12−12−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−10
United States Mayfair−7−8−8−9−9−9−9−9−8−7−8−8−8−8−7−8−8−7
United States Sutton−4−4−4−6−6−6−5−5−5−5−4−5−5−5−5−6−7−7
United States Azinger−6−6−5−5−4−4−4−4−4−5−5−4−5−6−5−6−6−6
United States Hoch−8−9−8−8−8−8−8−7−7−7−7−7−7−6−5−6−6−6
United States 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+

Source:[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 "Players Championship - Second round". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Florida. March 24, 2001. p. 3C.
  4. ↑ "Golf: Thursday's results". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 23, 2001. p. B9.
  5. ↑ "Golf: PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. March 25, 2001. p. 6G.
  6. ↑ "THE PLAYERS Championship". ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2018.

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