PGA Tour Brunch | The PLAYERS | Wrap-Up
PGA Tour Brunch | The PLAYERS | Wrap-Up
Recap of the 2023 PLAYERS Championship from TPC Sawgrass
By TERRY LYONS
PONTE VEDRA BEACH - Reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year Scottie Scheffler won The PLAYERS Championship, earning his sixth career PGA Tour title overall and second of the season. All six of Scheffler’s victories have come in his last 27 starts.
Scheffler returned to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking with the victory as he became the ninth player to win The PLAYERS and the Masters Tournament and only the third to hold both titles at the same time, joining Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Tyrrell Hatton (2nd) birdied the final five holes and tied the back-nine scoring record at TPC Sawgrass (29).
Tom Hoge (T-3) became the first player to record a (78) or higher in the first round of a PGA Tour event and finish in the Top Five since Jose Maria Olazabal at the 2007 PLAYERS Championship.
The PLAYERS | Final Leaderboard
Scottie Scheffler 68-69-65-69—271 (-17)
Tyrrell Hatton 72-71-68-65—276 (-12)
Viktor Hovland 69-71-70-68—278 (-10)
Tom Hoge 78-68-62-70—278 (-10)
Hideki Matsuyama 74-70-67-68—279 (-9)
What They Wrote | The PLAYERS
Scottie Scheffler’s Not Sneaking Up Anymore (PGATourCom)
Scheffler is Back to No. 1 (ESPN/Associated Press)
He’s “Better than Most” (Golf.Com)
Great Scottie (Golf Week/USA Today)
What They’re Saying | Sporting Goods, Golf Industry
TOUR Confidential (Golf.com)
What’s in Scottie Scheffler’s Golf Bag? (PGATourCom)
Prize Money from The PLAYERS (Golf Week/USA Today)
On This Day in Golf History
March 13, 1960 - Arnold Palmer won for the third consecutive week, winning the Pensacola Open, his 17th PGA TOUR title. The previous two Sundays, Palmer won the Texas Open and the Baton Rouge Open. He won eight events during the year, including his second Masters title and his first and only U.S. Open title. - Courtesy of Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
Parting Putt
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