Prize pool of 25 million, here is The Players

Everything is ready in Florida for the show of The Players Championship. The richest tournament on the PGA Tour, it will offer 25 million dollars (4,500,000 will go to the winner) and will take place from tomorrow to Sunday, March 16, in Ponte Vedra Beach. At the TPC Sawgrass, 144 players will take to the field, including 48 of the best 50 in the world, with the only forced absences of two big names from the Arab Super League: Tyrrell Hatton and Bryson DeChambeau. For the rest, all the best will be there, starting with Scottie Scheffler. The American, leader of the world ranking, has made the last two editions of the event his own. In doing so, he has distinguished himself as the one who has collected the most money in this event (9,046,200) despite having played it only four times. And now the American aims to emulate Jack Nicklaus, the only one to have won the competition three times, winning in 1974 (the year of the first edition), 1976 and 1978. A gold medalist at the Paris Games, Scheffler will play alongside Rory McIlroy (champion in 2019) and Xander Schauffele (runner up in 2018 and 2024) in the first two rounds, respectively in second and third place in the world order of merit. Considered by many as a sort of "fifth" Major of men's golf, The Players has become, over the years, an iconic event on the PGA Tour. Now in its 51st edition, in 2020 it 'marked' the stop to world golf due to the Covid-19 health emergency. The competition will be held at the TPC Sawgrass, an iconic venue that features characteristic and very complicated holes. The '17' deserves a special mention considering that since 2003, a total of 1,029 balls have ended up in the water. In 2007, during the first round, there was a record of 50 against the 97 total at the end of the fourth round. On that hole, the German Bernhard Langer has made 26 birdies in his career.