Players Championship

The PGA Tour's largest purse of the year is on the line at TPC Sawgrass, where most of the world's best players are gathered for The Players Championship.

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"The Island Green" -- three words that have struck fear into the hearts of even the most talented golfers.

The fairytale continued as Buckley birdied the subsequent par-four, making him the first player on record at The Players Championship to follow up a hole-in-one at the 17th with a birdie at the 18th, according to the PGA Tour. 107 and is chasing his first PGA Tour title, it marked the second hole-in-one of his PGA Tour career following his first at the Shriners Children’s Open in 2021 – coincidentally, also at the 17th hole. For Buckley, who arrived in Florida as world No.

Hayden Buckley made an ace on the island green 17th at TPC Sawgrass during the first round of the 2023 Players Championship on Thursday.

Live leaderboard scores, analysis, updates and highlights from Round 1 at The Players.

A reminder that everybody on the Tour hits it good, but the top players in the world hit it a little differently. [pic.twitter.com/UcgT5MpKlR] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/M6nejAQQLZ] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/b6ZmbQpuql] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/ktnlGRBWbv] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/eiZe7HhcSd] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/98PPdhED1K] [March 9, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/TFHEtiYOQW] [March 9, 2023] With par 5s in the final stretches of each nine, the course average should trickle down but may be something to monitor with Chez Reavaie and Justin Lower being 3 under roughly halfway through. What will go down at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday? Add it all up, and The Players is going to rock from Thursday morning onward. The PGA Tour hosts its biggest event of the season Thursday as the 2023 Players Championship gets underway at TPC Sawgrass ...

The Sporting News is tracking live scores and highlights from the Players Championship. Follow for results from the first day of the tournament.

Golf Channel and NBC will be the television homes of the 2023 Players Championship. It's a beautiful Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass and the first wave of players is already well underway in their opening round. — Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of The Players Championship 2023! Rahm is at -2, Scheffler is at even and McIlroy is struggling a bit at +2 right now. — Another bogey for McIlroy drops him all the way down to +4 and close to the very bottom of the leaderboard. — What a round Morikawa has going! They'll be the marquee group as the first round winds down in Ponte Vedra. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, drops yet another shot to finish the day with a 76 (+4). — Ramey makes a solid par on the last hole to finish with a round of -8 (64). The Sporting News will be tracking live scores and highlights from Thursday's Round 1 leaderboard. — Disaster for Thomas at the 4th hole as he pitches it into the water from just off the green. That doesn't mean the field will be missing all its previous winners.

Following an interesting and industry-shaping press conference on Tuesday in which McIlroy discussed the future of the PGA Tour and professional golf, he was ...

McIlroy will play late on Friday alongside Rahm and Scottie Scheffler as he tries to shoot something silly to play his way inside the cut and perhaps back into the tournament a bit. This was not helped by the fact that he left a shot in the bunker on that same closing hole. That's why his number ballooned right past even par to 4 over, one of the worst scores in the morning wave. He bounced back with birdie at the par-5 11th, but even his biggest highlight on his first nine (the back nine on the course) wasn't actually a highlight. McIlroy made just one putt longer than 4 feet, and it came on the last hole for bogey to avoid shooting 77. (He played the par-5s at even par, a horrible number for him.)

Keep up to date with everything happening at TPC Sawgrass with our live coverage from The Players Championship.

The Mississippi native, No. 225 in the world, had never played the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course until this week.

After a 76 Thursday, Rory McIlroy said he feared his old driver might fail a USGA speed test at Riviera and he hasn't found its replacement.

Chad Ramey didn't look like a PLAYERS Championship rookie on Thursday as he cruised around TPC Sawgrass in a flawless 8-under 64 to take the lead after the ...

Hardest hole: Two holes later, the par-4 18th hole was the most difficult hole of the first round, playing to a stroke average of 4.36. After a double bogey to start, he made birdie on his second hole and felt like he was able to get back into the round on the par-5 16th hole (his seventh of the day), but he three-putted for par. 9, the longest hit on any hole Thursday. 363: The distance of Cameron Young’s drive on No. Andre Stolz made 11 on 18 during the second round in 2005. and the second round will begin as scheduled. 10: The number of strokes it took Aaron Wise to complete the 18th hole after hitting three balls in the water off the tee. His putting held him back immensely as he lost nearly 2.5 strokes on the greens. [Rory Has Work to Do](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2023/03/09/rory-mcilroy-struggles-to-opening-round-76-at-the-players-championship-tpc-sawgrass__;!!EuSotcx3mN0!MPqVqvvzDFl8hAEierKFWTqX0tmxXr0ZtYFNj4IauxGqGBuodKgqpbsV19F087OF4k7urGxH0nZR51rlO22nGe0$): Not much went right for the world No. Ramey led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting, gaining more than five strokes on the greens. He then made birdie on the 18th hole, making him the only player in PLAYERS history to go 1-3 on 17 and 18. The 30-year-old from Mississippi, who won the 2022 Corales Puntacana Championship, birdied six of his first 11 holes to sprint out of the blocks, then birdied Nos.

Hayden Buckley, 27, is still searching for his first PGA Tour victory, but he did something only 10 golfers have done at TPC Sawgrass since 1991.

Since 1991, only 10 players have aced the par-3 No. 17 during the Players Championship. 17 Thursday, took off jogging in celebration and threw his cap into the air.

Chad Ramey, playing in his first Players Championship, had a one-shot lead over two-time major champ Collin Morikawa after the opening round Thursday.

[Kelly Kraft](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/6689/kelly-kraft) hit two into the water on his way to a quadruple-bogey 7. [Taylor Pendrith](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9658/taylor-pendrith) and [Ben Griffin](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/440499/ben-griffin) were at 67, while [Justin Suh](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10583/justin-suh) also was at 5 under with three holes to finish before darkness suspended play. [Scottie Scheffler](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9478/scottie-scheffler) led the group at 68. He was part of the marquee group that featured the top three players in the world -- [Jon Rahm](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9780/jon-rahm) at No. [Rory McIlroy](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3470/rory-mcilroy) had his highest score in just over a year. The 17th hole had a front pin, typically not seen until Saturday's round, and delivered plenty of excitement, good and bad. But he followed with an eagle on the 11th and added three other birdies to get back to 72. I'm not even in the top 10.' That's just the way this tournament has been for me," he said. His signature shot was a 4-iron to 3 feet for eagle on the par-5 second hole, his 11th of the day, and it came during an eight-hole stretch he played in 6-under par. [Hayden Buckley](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/436475/hayden-buckley) made an ace on the famed island green at the 17th, a hole he had only seen on TV until he arrived this week for his Players Championship debut. [Aaron Wise](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10577/aaron-wise) lost four balls in a span of two holes -- in the water on the 17th and then three straight tee shots in the drink left of the 18th fairway, where he closed with a 10, one short of the record for highest score on the closing hole. He believes he belongs and can beat anyone, even the strongest field of the year so far.

The Northern Irishman had arrived at the PGA Tour's flagship event seeking a return to the world number one spot, but little went right for him on day one after ...

On a fiery TPC Sawgrass course with treacherous greens, Morikawa went out and shot a bogey-free opening-round 65. His seven-under total left him one shot behind ...

As managing producer for GOLF.com, Cunningham edits, writes and publishes stories on GOLF.com, and manages the brand’s e-newsletters, which reach more than 1.4 million subscribers each month. 8:51 a.m. 8:40 a.m. [PGA Tour Live on ESPN+](https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/3208296/931309/9070), which will have exclusive coverage beginning at 6:45 a.m. 7:12 a.m. 7:01 a.m. 6:50 a.m. You can stream the second round of the Players Championship via [PGA Tour Live on ESPN+](https://go.web.plus.espn.com/c/3208296/931309/9070) beginning at 6:45 a.m. ET on Friday. Pricing may vary. His seven-under total left him one shot behind first-round leader Chad Ramey. [Rickie Fowler](https://golf.com/news/rickie-fowler-tpc-scottsdales-16th-crowd/) and [Adam Scott](https://golf.com/gear/irons/adam-scott-miura-irons-players-championship/).

On Thursday at the Players Championship, the PGA Tour's middle class sent a message to the elite. We'll see how the weekend goes at TPC Sawgrass.

The next-lowest winner was [Si Woo Kim](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/7081/si-woo-kim) (75th) in 2017. "The calf was a random thing, just out of nowhere," Lee said. He had four birdies on both the front and back and didn't card a bogey in 18 holes. The only thing I will be thinking on today is a couple wedge shots, about three or four of them out there, that not only didn't I hit them close, some of them I missed the green completely." [Rory McIlroy](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3470/rory-mcilroy) and defending U.S. You have a little bit of Bermuda in there, and then with the overseed, it's extremely thick." "It gives me the confidence, and deep down I believe I belong out here," Ramey said. Open champion [Matt Fitzpatrick](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9037/matt-fitzpatrick) each carded a 4-over 76 and were 12 shots behind Ramey. 114 in the world, is 3 shots back, along with [Ben Griffin](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/440499/ben-griffin) and [Justin Suh](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10583/justin-suh), who are Nos. Canada's [Taylor Pendrith](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9658/taylor-pendrith), No. [Chad Ramey](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10057/chad-ramey), who is ranked No. [Collin Morikawa](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/10592/collin-morikawa), [Scottie Scheffler](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9478/scottie-scheffler) and [Sam Burns](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9938/sam-burns), it might be difficult for anyone other than diehard golf fans to recognize players inside the top 10.

Jon Rahm, who shot a 1-under 71 in the first round at the Players Championship, withdrew from the event Saturday because of a stomach illness.

McIlroy was 4 over after the first round and was in danger of missing the cut. 1 ranking if he finishes in the top five, according to the OWGR. According to the OWGR, McIlroy or Scheffler would move to No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking if he plays well this weekend. [Rory McIlroy](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3470/rory-mcilroy) and [Scottie Scheffler](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9478/scottie-scheffler) for the second straight day. It ended his streak of 10 straight top-10 finishes in worldwide starts and was his worst finish since tying for 55th at the Genesis Scottish Open in July.

Jon Rahm was announced as a late WD ahead of his second round tee time Friday at TPC Sawgrass.

A victory this week would have given Rahm the most wins this early in a tour year since Jack Burke, Jr. Rahm had entered TPC Sawgrass on a heater, winning three times and finishing T-7 or better in six of seven starts this season. 1 player in the world was announced as a late WD ahead of his second round tee time Friday at TPC Sawgrass.

Big stakes and big money will be on the line at the PGA Tour's flagship event.

The top 41 finishers of the Players Championship will collect at least six figures with the eventual winner taking home $4.5 million. The size of the purse at the 2023 Players Championship cannot be overlooked. Totaling $25 million, it fund will surely be on the minds of players in the waning moments of this championship as those who have quality showings at TPC Sawgrass will be taken care of handsomely even if they are to leave without a trophy.

Will Gordon, Jason Day and Viktor Hovland have also completed 36 holes and are all at 4 under. First-round leader Chad Ramey is early in his second round.

Take a little bit off of it, and then the wind kind of switches more left to right and almost into, and I didn't hit the best of shots, but I thought for sure it was going to be on the green, just a little short right. On Friday he made five birdies and is in contention. Yeah, barely covered, hit the planks and barely stayed on the green, so it was a little too much drama there.” He’s a 4 under and only two shots off the clubhouse lead. 1 had already moved from 112 to 43 in the OWGR and is 20th in FedExCup standings. I'm just happy to be in the position that I'm in to make a charge this weekend and hopefully finish on top.” Hovland said: “When we were standing on 17, the wind was down and off the left, so I just figured I don't even need to hit a full 50-degree. His ball bounced hard off the bulkhead in front of the green, went flying high into the air and ended in the fringe in the back of the green a foot from the water. He was cruising in his second round, standing on the 18th tee 3 under on the day, but he blew his drive on the last hole well right, had to punch out and made double bogey. Ben Griffin is the leader in the clubhouse after shooting 71 in the morning wave Friday at THE PLAYERS. [Rahm WDs Before Round 2](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2023/03/10/jon-rahm-withdraws-from-the-players-championship-due-to-illness-fedexcup-world-no-1__;!!EuSotcx3mN0!PrGp6595726NKLY7d6JYcrkB1iCy_ycbSRKUasPVz7AaXBOqrt4HPHFHoNq_1XpRhYxG3hqcxhW6PwvoPb6i8-Y$): The world No. I'm not going to be the first guy to make a double there,” Griffin said.

If you're just now looking at the 2023 Players Championship leaderboard, you would see Jordan Spieth sitting well inside the cut line at even after 36 holes ...

He continued: "A lot of times, I kind of feel bad about that and don't focus on the next shot, but I hit a 3-wood exactly where I wanted to and hit a chip exactly where I wanted to, so I'm very happy about rebounding from that. "It was going in one of the waters, and I guess it hit the cart path and short-hopped off the guy's knee and then went out in the fairway forward," said Spieth after his round. "The way for it to go off of him, it also then went off his knee, up in the air, over some of the water. Needing to probably birdie to make the cut, I can't really birdie having to drop it over in the right rough over there after hitting my third. Instead it hit a fan and bounced back into play with Spieth making an eagle to go from 2 over to even par. But it almost went quite differently for Spieth at the end of his second round on Friday.

A wild day at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, was cut short by inclement weather. The second round of the Players Championship has been ...

The projected cut line is at 2 over at the time of the suspension. After the cut is made (the line is currently 2 over) and the field will be sent out in threesomes, off Nos. Golf Channel and Peacock will have live TV and streaming coverage, respectively, of the resumption of the second round. Golf Central’s Live from the Players will come on after the second round. 2 will have a 17-foot eagle putt on the par-5 11th when play resumes. The second round of the Players Championship has been suspended at 4:27 p.m.

Jordan Spieth gave him a golf glove. After some thought, he said he deserved more. “Literally whatever,” to be specific. “Only looking forward now, ...

[A ricochet off a man’s knee](https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1634266502588162048)? [Did we have a chip-in](https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1634258963280568335)? [A wild slice off the tee](https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1634266205858025474)? “Yeah, my left foot grabbed as I was transitioning, like pain, and I backed off and I thinned one, and I thinned it into the wind, and it was right, which there’s water left and right,” he began. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. I don’t know what it can hit off of over there except for a person.” And when he’s not writing about ways to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native is probably playing the game, hitting the ball left, right and short, and drinking a cold beer to wash away his score. Spieth finished at even par for 36 holes, and the cut was looking to be one-over when he finished. Then all of a sudden they were like — Instead, I ended up making a three. Did all of that get him into the weekend? Spieth’s closing-hole dramatics were a hoot.

First-round leader Chad Ramey, whose quintuple bogey on the 17th hole cost him a 3-shot lead, was among many who struggled at TPC Sawgrass in the second ...

[Will Gordon](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/456548/will-gordon) (67) and the resurgent [Jason Day](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/1680/jason-day) (70), a former world No. The other player who shot 89 was [Michael Campbell](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/67/michael-campbell) in the first round in 2003. That puts his ranking in jeopardy, as [Scottie Scheffler](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9478/scottie-scheffler) and [Rory McIlroy](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3470/rory-mcilroy) can overtake him. [Ben Griffin](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/440499/ben-griffin) was the clubhouse leader. [Max McGreevy](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/11383/max-mcgreevy), who was 20 shots worse than his opening round. Spieth hit 3-wood to the collar of the green and chipped in for eagle. [Christiaan Bezuidenhout](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9243/christiaan-bezuidenhout) of South Africa and [Adam Svensson](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9127/adam-svensson) of Canada shared the lead at 8-under par, both doing what it takes to stay in front on this course. He was 4 under with eight holes left in his round. [Viktor Hovland](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/436487/viktor-hovland) was 5 under for his round through 11 holes, even getting a break when his tee shot on the par-3 17th bounced off the wooden frame of the island and onto the green. [Jon Rahm](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9780/jon-rahm) missed all of this. McIlroy, meanwhile, took a double bogey on the sixth hole and was at 6 over for the tournament. That depends on the pace of play, and some of that depends on Sawgrass.

The Players Championship is still expected to have a Sunday finish despite being suspended Friday due to dangerous weather conditions.

[tied for the lead](https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/golf/pga-tour/2023/03/10/the-players-championship-leaders-after-fridays-second-round-finish-postponed/69995892007/) at 8-under par when play resumes at 7 a.m. The field has been able to play 21 hours and 17 minutes of golf in the first two days, with 73 finishing their second rounds. Ben Griffin (71) is the leader among players who finished their second round, at 6-under par 138. 1 and 10, beginning around 10:40 a.m. The most holes a group has left are Aaron Baddeley, David Lingmerth and Ben Martin with 11. [Dangerous weather conditions delay the second round at TPC Sawgrass](https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/pga/2023/03/10/the-players-pga-tour-postponed-tpc-second-round-rain-chad-ramey-collin-morikawa-benjamin-griffin/69995178007/)

Utahn and PGA Tour golfer Tony Finau opened his play at THE PLAYERS Championship with a Day 1 round above par for the course.

“We got to know the crew because it was the same people. “They were everywhere,” Finau said. Finau is a five-time PGA Tour champion and has finished in the top five of each of golf’s major championships. Adam Svensson (-4) He finished the opening day shooting one over par for a score of 73. The tournament runs from Thursday, March 9 to Sunday, March 12.