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Akshay Bhatia withdraws from Valspar
Akshay Bhatia has withdrawn from this week's Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort's Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Fla.,No reason was given for Bhatia's withdrawal from Valspar.,The 23-year-old American tied for third place Sunday at the 2025 Players Championship, finishing just two shots be...
Rory McIlroy defeats J.J. Spaun in playoff for second Players title
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrated St. Patrick's Day by winning a three-hole aggregate playoff against J.J. Spaun to capture his second title at The Players Championship on Monday morning at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.,McIlroy took a one-shot lead when he birdied the par-5 16th ...
Rory McIlroy, J.J. Spaun headed for Monday playoff at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- World No. 2 Rory McIlroy and overnight leader J.J. Spaun will take The Players Championship into a Monday playoff after they both ended a weather-delayed final round Sunday level at 12-under-par 276.,It is the ninth time The Players has spilled over into a Monday finish, a...
Lightning suspends play during final round at The Players
With the leaders midway through their final round Sunday, play was suspended at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., due to lightning in the area.,Heavy rain also started to fall in the final round, which saw starting times moved up and the bottom portion of the leaderboard forced to...
Keegan Bradley aces 13 at Players for 2nd hole-in-one of season
Keegan Bradley doubled his season total for holes-in-one on Sunday after recording an ace on the par-3 13th hole at The Players Championship in Ponte Verda Beach, Fla.,Amid a smattering of rain, Bradley used a 7-iron to launch his tee shot onto the green at TPC Sawgrass. His ball bounced a couple of...
J.J. Spaun sets sail toward 1-shot lead at The Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - It was a case of damage limitation in difficult, wind-swept conditions Saturday at The Players Championship where J.J. Spaun emerged with a one-shot lead after the third round.,The 34-year-old Californian, who earned his first PGA Tour win at the 2022 Valero Texas Open afte...
Min Woo Lee, Akshay Bhatia share second-round lead at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Min Woo Lee of Australia and Akshay Bhatia upstaged the biggest names in the game as they surged into a tie for the second-round lead at The Players Championship on Friday.,On another day of ideal scoring conditions at a sunbathed and relatively calm TPC Sawgrass, Lee and ...
Justin Thomas ties course record at TPC Sawgrass
Justin Thomas came one par away from breaking the course record at TPC Sawgrass on Friday at The Players Championship -- but a water ball on the final hole led to a bogey and the two-time major champion settled for a 10-under-par 62 and a share of the mark.,Tom Hoge shot the first-ever 62 at Sawgras...
Wyndham Clark withdraws from The Players
Wyndham Clark withdrew from The Players Championship in the middle of his second round.,Clark had just finished closing out his front nine of the second round with a 4-over 40 when he was shown shaking the hands of playing partners Jordan Spieth and Danny Walker on the Golf Channel broadcast. No imm...
Collin Morikawa fans flames with media after nine-birdie second round
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Collin Morikawa shot 65 and carded nine birdies in the second round on Friday, squarely in contention at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. ,But before shifting his focus to the final 36, he squared with media calling him out for not being available after losing a t...
'It's pretty gross': Xander Schauffele blunt about state of his game
Xander Schauffele is likely to extend his PGA Tour-best streak of cuts made to 59 consecutive tournaments, but the two-time major winner was blunt about the state of his game after the second round of The Players Championship on Friday.,"It's pretty gross, to be completely honest," Schauffele told r...
Lucas Glover among leading trio, Rory McIlroy 1 back at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Lucas Glover, J.J. Spaun and Camilo Villegas formed a tie for the lead with World No. 2 Rory McIlroy lurking one stroke off the pace after Thursday's opening round of The Players Championship.,Former U.S. Open champion Glover, fellow American Spaun and Colombian Villegas e...
Lucas Glover sets early pace with opening 66 at The Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover finished with a flourish, making birdie on each of his last four holes to seize an early two-shot lead in the opening round of The Players Championship on Thursday.,Enjoying a new lease of life since he switched to a long putter in 20...
Jordan Spieth has chaotic start at The Players Championship
Jordan Spieth endured a topsy-turvy start to The Players Championship on Thursday, collecting two eagles, two birdies, two bogeys and one double bogey -- and that was just over his first nine holes.,Spieth added one more birdie and a bogey over his final nine holes to finish at 2-under-par 70 on the...
Jason Day (illness) WDs from The Players Championship
Jason Day withdrew from The Players Championship one hour before he was scheduled to tee off on Thursday morning due to an illness.,Danny Walker replaced Day, who is ranked No. 33 in the world and has a 2016 Players Championship title among his 13 PGA Tour victories. He finished 35th in the event in...
2025 The Players Championship: Preview, Props & Best Bets
The unofficial "fifth major" of the 2025 PGA Tour season kicks off on Thursday with the first round of The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.,Contested on the famed Stadium Course, one of the year's deepest fields will vie for one of the tour's most coveted trophies. Can Scottie Scheffl...
Rory McIlroy: Pit best golfers head-to-head monthly 'if not more'
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Whether negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund result in a reunification of professional golf or not, Rory McIlroy said he believes that competition at the highest level of the game needs to be more global.,The World No. 2 said he would...
Scottie Scheffler tees up three-peat chance at The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Compelling storylines are in great supply ahead of The Players Championship this week, where World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is bidding for an unprecedented third successive victory and third-ranked Xander Schauffele looks to bounce back from a recent rib injury.,World No. ...
Adam Scott: PGA-LIV merger 'may not be ultimately possible'
Adam Scott remains hopeful that negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund result in a reunification of professional golf, but the former major champion is also realistic that the talks could fizzle out.,As a player director on the tour's Player Advisory Council, the 44-year-ol...
Players 3-peat? Scottie Scheffler says 'it's a new tournament'
After becoming the first golfer to win The Players Championship in back-to-back years in 2024, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler returns this week for a shot at the unprecedented three-peat.,While Scheffler is already used to making history on the course, he is focused on this week's event in Ponte Vedr...