PGA TOUR
What: The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Course: TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course). Yardage: 7,189. Par: 72
Purse: $10.5 million (First place: $1,890,000)
Schedule (TV): Thursday-Friday (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday (Ch. 11)
Defending champion: Jason Day
Next week: AT&T Byron Nelson.
LPGA TOUR
Next week: Kingsmill Championship.
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
Next week: Regents Tradition.
NOTES
PGA: No one has ever won back-to-back at The Players Championship since it began in 1974. ... Brandt Snedeker and Thomas Pieters are the only two players from the top 50 in the world ranking who are not playing. ... Bernhard Langer is playing for the third straight year having won the Senior Players Championship. ... Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, never has finished better than a tie for 28th in this tournament. ... Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1978), Hal Sutton (1983), Tiger Woods (2001) and Martin Kaymer (2014) are the only players to win a major and The Players Championship in the same year.
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