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McIlroy wins Players Championship
Rory McIlroy celebrated St Patrick's Day in style by becoming the first player from Northern Ireland to win the Players Championship, emerging as the last man standing to beat Jim Furyk by one stroke in Ponte Vedra, Florida Sunday. On a day when 15 (...)

18 - 03 - 2019
Rahm shoots 64 to wrest lead
Jon Rahm stormed out of the pack with an eight-under-par 64 at the Players Championship Saturday, taking a one-shot lead over Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood to set up the prospect of a compelling final-round battle between European (...)

17 - 03 - 2019
McIlroy, Fleetwood share lead
Nobody from Northern Ireland or England has won the Players Championship, but there is a fair chance that drought will end this weekend after Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood forged a three-shot halfway lead in Florida Friday. Northern Irishman (...)

16 - 03 - 2019
Oosthuizen, Stanley lead Players
Sweet-swinging South African Louis Oosthuizen and American journeyman Kyle Stanley wielded hot putters to share the halfway lead at The Players Championship Friday as Vijay Singh turned back the clock to move within three strokes. Oosthuizen matched (...)

14 - 05 - 2017
Leader Day slams ‘unplayable' course
Jason Day survived greens that were almost unplayable at times, overcoming two early double-bogeys to maintain a four-stroke lead after the third round at the $10.5 million Players Championship here Saturday. The world No. 1 was not the only player (...)

16 - 05 - 2016
Day sets 36-hole record; Spieth misses cut
Jason Day set the 36-hole record Saturday morning at the Players Championship and built a four-shot lead going into the weekend of golf's richest tournament. 
Day rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt when he resumed the second round, and he finished by (...)

15 - 05 - 2016
Kuchar holds off rivals to clinch Players title
American Matt Kuchar won the Players Championship Sunday by two shots to secure the biggest win of his career and a $1.71 million pay check. To the delight of his watching family, Kuchar shot a final round two-under 70 to finish 13-under for the (...)

15 - 05 - 2012
Na snatches lead at Players
Kevin Na drained a 15-foot birdie putt on the last hole to snatch the outright lead from Matt Kuchar after the third round of the Players Championship Saturday as Rickie Fowler made his move with a six-under par 66, the best round of the day. Na, (...)

14 - 05 - 2012
McIlroy misses cut at Players
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the Players Championship after shooting a four-over-par 76 in Friday's second round which ended with a trio of Americans sharing the lead. Zach Johnson, Kevin Na and Matt Kuchar were knotted at eight-under (...)

13 - 05 - 2012
Johnson grabs lead, McIlroy set to miss cut
World NO. 1 Rory McIlroy is almost certain to miss the cut at the Players Championship after a four-over 76 Friday while American Zach Johnson stormed into the early clubhouse lead. McIlroy has had a miserable record at the TPC Sawgrass course, (...)

12 - 05 - 2012
Poulter takes early lead
Ian Poulter has birdied all of the par 5s on the TPC Sawgrass for a 7-under 65 and the early lead at The Players Championship Thursday. Poulter ran off four straight birdies around the turn — two of them on par 5s — and wound up with a one-shot (...)

11 - 05 - 2012
Clark seizes 1st US win with Players triumph
South African Tim Clark finally ended eight frustrating years of close calls on the PGA Tour by charging past overnight leader Lee Westwood to win his maiden title at the Players Championship Sunday. An electrifying run of five birdies in six holes (...)

11 - 05 - 2010
Westwood takes early lead at Players tourney
Lee Westwood ran off three straight birdies to start his back nine on his way to a 7-under 65 to build a one-shot lead among the early starters at The Players Championship on Friday. “As you get older, it gets harder to peak all the time when you (...)

08 - 05 - 2010
Holmes in front; Woods level
hitting American JB Holmes set the early pace at the Players Championship Thursday as late starter Tiger Woods parred his first five holes. Holmes took advantage of surprisingly calm conditions to fire a flawless, six-under-par 66 in the opening (...)

07 - 05 - 2010
Golf's fallen hero faces the public
A total hush fell over the darkened room at the PGA club house and all eyes turned to a break in the heavy blue drapes. A lone helicopter buzzed loudly overhead as Tiger Woods stalked into the room, his eyes searching for the microphone like a (...)

20 - 02 - 2010
Stenson wins Players Championship
Sweden's Henrik Stenson kept his cool in 90 degree heat to win the Players Championship by four shots, as a frustrated Tiger Woods crashed out of contention at the TPC Sawgrass course on Sunday. The unflappable Swede carded the only bogey-free (...)

12 - 05 - 2009
Cejka keeps lead but Tiger on the move
Players Championship leader Alex Cejka of Germany made two bogeys in his opening nine holes as he slipped to 10 under par, while world number one Tiger Woods started to move up the leaderboard. Cejka birdied the fifth at TPC Sawgrass but then (...)

10 - 05 - 2009
Crane grabs lead as Tiger's putting lets him down
Alex Cejka ran off three straight birdies as he shot 5-under 67 to build a four-shot lead midway through the second round of The US Players Championship on Friday. Tiger Woods was among the late starters in steaming conditions at TPC Sawgrass, but (...)

09 - 05 - 2009
Mallinger, Johnson lead in Florida
American John Mallinger and Swede Richard S. Johnson shared the clubhouse lead midway through the first round of the Players Championship on Thursday after making six under-par rounds of 66. World number one Tiger Woods was five shots off the lead (...)

08 - 05 - 2009
Wozniacki wins Florida tournament
Second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark beat Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-2 Sunday to win the WTA claycourt tournament here. Denmark's Wozniacki made just 14 unforced errors and won 84 percent of points on her first serve to lift the (...)

13 - 04 - 2009
Wozniak upsets Petrova to enter final
Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak upset top-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the MPS Group Championships on Saturday and will meet second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the final. Wozniacki beat unseeded Elena Vesnina of Russia in the other semifinal (...)

12 - 04 - 2009
Petrova advances in Ponte Vedra
seeded Nadia Petrova breezed through her first round match with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Olga Govortsova of Belarus at The MPS Group Championships on Tuesday. The 10th-ranked Petrova was ahead 4-2 in the second set, with wind gusting to 48kph, when (...)

08 - 04 - 2009
14-year-old Keys wins on WTA debut
Fourteen-year-old Madison Keys made her WTA Tour debut a memorable one, upsetting Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva 7-5, 6-4 on Monday in the opening round of The MPS Group Championships. The American fell behind 5-2 in the first set but used powerful (...)

07 - 04 - 2009
Garcia wins Players in a playoff
Sergio Garcia won the biggest title of his career, and his first on the PGA Tour in three years, with a playoff victory over American Paul Goydos at the Players Championship on Sunday. The Spaniard, who began the final round three strokes off the (...)

13 - 05 - 2008
Goydos stays one-shot ahead
American journeyman Paul Goydos stayed on track for a surprise victory by preserving a one-shot lead midway through the Players Championship final round on Sunday. A stroke in front overnight, the former substitute teacher reached the turn in (...)

12 - 05 - 2008
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