The PGA Tour's own championship, played every March at TPC Sawgrass for the largest purse in golf.
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The Players Championship is the PGA Tour's flagship tournament, run by the tour itself at a course the tour built, beside its own headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach. Deane Beman created it in 1974 and moved it in 1982 to the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, a Pete Dye design conceived as a spectator amphitheatre with mounding built around the holes so that crowds could see. That idea, ordinary now, was new then.
The field is 120 players, the strongest non-major field of the year by world ranking, and the purse of USD 25,000,000 is the largest in golf. Everything funnels toward the closing stretch: the par-three 17th, with its green on an island in a man-made lake, produces a running tally of balls in the water that the tour publishes as the week goes on, and the long 18th follows it with water down the entire left side.
01Почему это важно
This is the tour's own showpiece and it is usually the first week of the year when the whole field is present and playing seriously. In our reading it is a golf tournament rather than a social occasion: the surrounding week belongs to northeast Florida rather than to any international calendar, and the reason to come is the course and the closing holes.
02Неделя вокруг мероприятия
Ponte Vedra Beach is a quiet coastal suburb between Jacksonville and St Augustine, and the tournament is by a wide margin its largest week of the year.
The tour's own hospitality operation is extensive and concentrated on the 16th, 17th and 18th holes, and the corporate presence is drawn from national sponsors rather than from a local business community.
03Когда прибыть
Practice and pro-am days from Monday to Wednesday are cheap, quiet and the only comfortable way to stand at the 17th. Thursday and Friday give both halves of the draw.
04Где остановиться
The Ponte Vedra resort corridor along A1A is closest, with the largest property adjoining the course, and it is where most of the tournament's own traffic stays; it books early and prices accordingly.
05Доступ и гостеприимство
The PGA Tour sells tickets directly through the tournament site and its ticketing partner, by day and for the week, with practice-round tickets cheaper and separately sold; the platform lists individual competition days by date well ahead.
06Где происходит светская активность
On the course, the public gathering points are the grandstands and mounding around the 16th, 17th and 18th, the spectator village, and the merchandise pavilion; the hospitality venues along the closing holes are closed.
07Как добраться
08Практические сведения
09История
Deane Beman, as commissioner, created the tournament in 1974 as an event owned and run by the players rather than by a sponsor or a governing body, and it moved between Florida venues for its first eight years.
10Кто присутствует
A largely American golf crowd with a strong Florida and southeastern core, the PGA Tour's national sponsors and their corporate guests, the golf industry in full given the tour's headquarters next door, and a modest international contingent, mostly players' followings and travelling golf groups.
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4 Mar → Mar 7, 2027Amelia Island · United States · Автомобильный The AmeliaПримечательное
Сезон продолжается
Часть: Golf Majors Circuit
Даты в базе
| Издание | Даты | Статус |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | ПодтвержденоThe tournament week runs 8 to 14 March 2027 at TPC Sawgrass, with the four competitive rounds on 11 to 14 March; the official ticketing platform carries a dated Friday session for 12 March 2027, which fixes the round order. The field is listed at 120 players. | |
| 2026 | ЗавершеноPlayed 12 to 15 March 2026 on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass with a field of 123 and a purse of USD 25,000,000, of which USD 4,500,000 went to the champion. Seventy-four players made the cut. |
Связанные события
Источники
- The Players Championship, Wikipedia encyclopedia открыт 6 September 2026
- 2026 Players Championship, Wikipedia encyclopedia открыт 6 September 2026
- THE PLAYERS Championship 2027 at TPC Sawgrass, Florida's Historic Coast tourism открыт 6 September 2026
- 2027 The Players Championship - Friday, AXS official открыт 6 September 2026