Winners of The Players Championship: Full List Plus Playoffs
Sometimes called "the fifth major," The Players Championship is always played on the same golf course: The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. That is the site of golf's most-famous island green.
The tournament was first played in 1974, and TPC Sawgrass has been the home course every year since 1982. Before that, The Players took place at Atlanta Country Club (1974); Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas (1975); Inverrary Country Club in Florida (1976); and Sawgrass Country Club in Florida (1977-81).
Players Championship Winners and Scores
Jack Nicklaus holds The Players Championship tournament record for most wins with three, all before the tournament moved to TPC Sawgrass.
2024 — Scottie Scheffler, 268
2023 — Scottie Scheffler, 271
2022 — Cameron Smith, 275
2021 — Justin Thomas, 274
2020 — Tournament canceled
2019 — Rory McIlroy, 272
2018 — Webb Simpson, 270
2017 — Si Woo Kim, 278
2016 — Jason Day, 273
2015 — Rickie Fowler, 276
2014 — Martin Kaymer, 275
2013 — Tiger Woods, 275
2012 — Matt Kuchar, 275
2011 — K.J. Choi, 275
2010 — Tim Clark, 272
2009 — Henrik Stenson, 276
2008 — Sergio Garcia, 283
2007 — Phil Mickelson, 277
2006 — Stephen Ames, 274
2005 — Fred Funk, 279
2004 — Adam Scott, 276
2003 — Davis Love III, 271
2002 — Craig Perks, 280
2001 — Tiger Woods, 274
2000 — Hal Sutton, 278
1999 — David Duval, 285
1998 — Justin Leonard, 278
1997 — Steve Elkington, 272
1996 — Fred Couples, 270
1995 — Lee Janzen, 283
1994 — Greg Norman, 264
1993 — Nick Price, 270
1992 — Davis Love III, 273
1991 — Steve Elkington, 276
1990 — Jodie Mudd, 278
1989 — Tom Kite, 279
1988 — Mark McCumber, 273
1987 — Sandy Lyle, 274
1986 — John Mahaffey, 275
1985 — Calvin Peete, 274
1984 — Fred Couples, 277
1983 — Hal Sutton, 283
1982 — Jerry Pate, 280
1981 — Raymond Floyd, 285
1980 — Lee Trevino, 278
1979 — Lanny Wadkins, 283
1978 — Jack Nicklaus, 289
1977 — Mark Hayes, 289
1976 — Jack Nicklaus, 269
1975 — Al Geiberger, 270
1974 — Jack Nicklaus, 272
The 2020 Players Championship was canceled after the first round was played in the very early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Playoffs at The Players Championship
The Players Championship used a sudden-death playoff format through 2013. Beginning in 2014, the playoff format changed to a three-hole aggregate (16th, 17th, 18th holes). If the golfers are still tied after three holes, it reverts to sudden-death.- 1981 — The first playoff in The Players Championship was also the last time the tournament was played somewhere other than TPC Sawgrass. Raymond Floyd won this sudden-death playoff over Curtis Strange and Barry Jaeckel on the first playoff hole at Sawgrass Country Club.
- 1987 — Sandy Lyle won the first playoff that took place at TPC Sawgrass. He beat Jeff Sluman on the third sudden-death hole.
- 2008 — On the first sudden-death hole, which was the island green No. 17, Paul Goydos hit into the water, giving Sergio Garcia the victory.
- 2011 — The last playoff using the sudden-death format. K.J. Choi defeated David Toms on the first extra hole.
- 2015 — This was the first three-hole aggregate playoff at The Players Championship, but it had to continue into sudden-death. Rickie Fowler and Kevin Kisner finished the three holes still tied at 1-under par. The third man in the playoff, Sergio Garcia, was at even-par and knocked out after the three holes. Fowler and Kisner continued into sudden death, and Fowler birdied that first additional hole (fourth hole overall) to win.
