2001 Players Championship


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

Tournament summary

won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh. 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. He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational
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.
Tiger Woods, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory Mcilroy are the only three players to ever win both a Players Championship and a Masters Tournament in the same calendar year. Woods was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus and Hal Sutton ; it expanded to six with Martin Kaymer in 2014, Cameron Smith in 2022 and Scheffler in 2024
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 .

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship
  • Robert Allenby
  • Billy Andrade
  • Notah Begay III
  • Mark Calcavecchia
  • Stewart Cink
  • Michael Clark II
  • Chris DiMarco
  • Joe Durant
  • David Duval
  • Ernie Els
  • Brad Faxon
  • Carlos Franco
  • Jim Furyk
  • John Huston
  • Justin Leonard
  • Davis Love III
  • Steve Lowery
  • Rocco Mediate
  • Phil Mickelson
  • Jesper Parnevik
  • Dennis Paulson
  • Loren Roberts
  • Rory Sabbatini
  • Tom Scherrer
  • Vijay Singh
  • Steve Stricker
  • Hal Sutton
  • David Toms
  • Scott Verplank
  • Duffy Waldorf
  • Mike Weir
  • Garrett Willis
  • Tiger Woods
2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List
  • Stephen Ames
  • Stuart Appleby
  • Tommy Armour III
  • Woody Austin
  • Paul Azinger
  • Doug Barron
  • Mark Brooks
  • Olin Browne
  • Bob Burns
  • Tom Byrum
  • Jim Carter
  • Greg Chalmers
  • Brandel Chamblee
  • Russ Cochran
  • John Cook
  • Fred Couples
  • Robert Damron
  • Glen Day
  • Jay Don Blake
  • Doug Dunakey
  • Scott Dunlap
  • Joel Edwards
  • Brad Elder
  • Bob Estes
  • Steve Flesch
  • Harrison Frazar
  • Robin Freeman
  • Edward Fryatt
  • Fred Funk
  • Sergio García
  • Brian Gay
  • Brent Geiberger
  • Bill Glasson
  • Matt Gogel
  • Mathew Goggin
  • Paul Goydos
  • Jimmy Green
  • Dudley Hart
  • J. P. Hayes
  • Brian Henninger
  • Tim Herron
  • Glen Hnatiuk
  • Scott Hoch
  • Bradley Hughes
  • Lee Janzen
  • Brandt Jobe
  • Steve Jones
  • Pete Jordan
  • Jonathan Kaye
  • Jerry Kelly
  • Skip Kendall
  • Greg Kraft
  • Neal Lancaster
  • Franklin Langham
  • Tom Lehman
  • J. L. Lewis
  • Frank Lickliter
  • Andrew Magee
  • Jeff Maggert
  • Len Mattiace
  • Billy Mayfair
  • Blaine McCallister
  • Scott McCarron
  • Shaun Micheel
  • Larry Mize
  • Gary Nicklaus
  • Greg Norman
  • Joe Ogilvie
  • Mark O'Meara
  • Joe Ozaki
  • Craig Parry
  • Steve Pate
  • Carl Paulson
  • David Peoples
  • Kenny Perry
  • Nick Price
  • Chris Riley
  • Jeff Sluman
  • Jerry Smith
  • Craig Stadler
  • Paul Stankowski
  • David Sutherland
  • Kevin Sutherland
  • Esteban Toledo
  • Kirk Triplett
  • Bob Tway
  • Jean van de Velde
  • Grant Waite
  • Mark Wiebe
  • Jay Williamson
3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years
  • Ben Crenshaw
  • John Daly
  • Nick Faldo
  • Tom Kite
  • Bernhard Langer
  • Paul Lawrie
  • Corey Pavin
  • Ian Woosnam
4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998
  • Fulton Allem
  • Tom Purtzer
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
  • Darren Clarke
7. Any player, not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational
  • Thomas Bjørn
  • Ángel Cabrera
  • Michael Campbell
  • Retief Goosen
  • Pádraig Harrington
  • Miguel Ángel Jiménez
  • Colin Montgomerie
  • José María Olazábal
  • Eduardo Romero
  • Lee Westwood
8. Any player, 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, not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001
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Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001
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Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001
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Final round

Sunday, March 25, 2001
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Scorecard

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