2001 Players Championship

2001 Players Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 22–26, 2001
Location	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course(s)	TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,093 yards (6,486 m)
Field	142 players, 75 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	$6.0 million
Winner's share	$1.08 million
Champion
Tiger Woods
274 (−14)

TPC Sawgrass

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Location in the United States

TPC Sawgrass

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Location in Florida

The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–26 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.

Tiger Woods 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.

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, an unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.

Through 2016, Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year (2001), and he was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to four with Martin Kaymer in 2014.

Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

Venue

Main article: TPC at Sawgrass

This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Hal Sutton	United States	1983, 2000	72	71	68	70	281	−7	T5
Nick Price	Zimbabwe	1993	70	74	71	68	283	−5	T10
Lee Janzen	United States	1995	77	67	69	73	286	−2	T18
Tom Kite	United States	1989	70	73	75	74	292	+4	T44
Fred Couples	United States	1984, 1996	71	75	70	79	295	+7	T58

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Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Davis Love III	United States	1992	72	76	148	+4
Greg Norman	Australia	1994	75	74	149	+5
Justin Leonard	United States	1998	74	76	150	+6

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Paul Azinger	United States	66	−6
T2	Scott Hoch	United States	67	−5
	Jonathan Kaye	United States
	Vijay Singh	Fiji
T5	Robert Allenby	Australia	68	−4
	Skip Kendall	United States
	Billy Mayfair	United States
T8	Jim Carter	United States	69	−3
	Brad Elder	United States
	Jerry Kelly	United States
	Scott Verplank	United States

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Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jerry Kelly	United States	69-66=135	−9
2	Paul Azinger	United States	66-70=136	−8
T3	Scott Hoch	United States	67-70=137	−7
	Kenny Perry	United States	71-66=137
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67-70=137
6	Jonathan Kaye	United States	67-72=139	−5
7	Billy Mayfair	United States	68-72=140	−4
T8	Brad Elder	United States	69-72=141	−3
	Fred Funk	United States	70-71=141
	J. P. Hayes	United States	72-69=141
	Bernhard Langer	Germany	73-68=141
	Phil Mickelson	United States	73-68=141
	Tiger Woods	United States	72-69=141

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Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jerry Kelly	United States	69-66-70=205	−11
T2	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67-70-70=207	−9
	Tiger Woods	United States	72-69-66=207
4	Scott Hoch	United States	67-70-71=208	−8
5	Bernhard Langer	Germany	73-68-68=209	−7
T6	Paul Azinger	United States	66-70-74=210	−6
	Billy Mayfair	United States	68-72-70=210
T8	Kenny Perry	United States	71-66-74=211	−5
	Hal Sutton	United States	72-71-68=211
10	Michael Campbell	New Zealand	71-72-69=212	−4

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Final round

Sunday, March 25, 2001
Monday, March 26, 2001

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Tiger Woods	United States	72-69-66-67=274	−14	1,080,000
2	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67-70-70-68=275	−13	648,000
3	Bernhard Langer	Germany	73-68-68-67=276	−12	408,000
4	Jerry Kelly	United States	69-66-70-73=278	−10	288,000
T5	Billy Mayfair	United States	68-72-70-71=281	−7	228,000
	Hal Sutton	United States	72-71-68-70=281
T7	Paul Azinger	United States	66-70-74-72=282	−6	187,000
	Scott Hoch	United States	67-70-71-74=282
	Frank Lickliter	United States	72-72-70-68=282
T10	Joe Durant	United States	73-73-67-70=283	−5	156,000
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	70-74-71-68=283

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Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4
Woods	−10	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−14
Singh	−9	−10	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−10	−10	−12	−13	−13
Langer	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−10	−11	−10	−11	−10	−11	−11	−12
Kelly	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−10
Mayfair	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−7
Sutton	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7
Azinger	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−5	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6
Hoch	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6
Lickliter	−2	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double Bogey

Triple Bogey+

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External links

• The Players Championship website
• Full Leaderboard