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PGSF FedEx Cup Week 19 The Players Championship

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    Past champions Rickie Fowler and Jason Day help to make up a strong field at the 2017 edition of THE PLAYERS Championship. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
• COURSE: TPC Sawgrass (PLAYERS Stadium), 7,189 yards, par 72. Already lauded as a course that plays no favorites and deftly tests all parts of a player’s game, the Stadium Course offers two new tests this year for the game’s best players. The narrow water hazard between Nos. 6 and 7 has been expanded into a rectangular lake, removing several trees in the vicinity. More significant is No. 12, which has been turned into a drivable par-4 with both fairway and green sloping toward a new water hazard on the left. What hasn’t changed is the hole that receives the most attention – the iconic 17th, measuring 137 yards over water to a green connected only by narrow rear pathway.

• FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 600 points.

• CHARITY: More than 300 Northeast Florida charities receive assistance from THE PLAYERS Championship, among them Wolfson Children’s Hospital, American Cancer Society and Epilepsy Foundation of Florida. Last year’s event raised a record $8.5 million for charity, bringing its total to more than $84 million since the event first arrived outside Jacksonville in 1977.

• FIELD WATCH: World No. 1 Dustin Johnson and newlywed No. 2 Rory McIlroy join defending champion Jason Day to headline what is annually the year’s strongest roster. The lineup features 24 of the top 25 in the current world rankings and 55 of the top 60. ... Bernhard Langer, 59, is the oldest player in THE PLAYERS field for the third consecutive year. The Hall of Famer will make his 26th start at TPC Sawgrass, getting in by virtue of last year’s victory at the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. … One additional berth is available for the winner of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, if he hasn’t already qualified.

• 72-HOLE RECORD: 264, Greg Norman (1994).

• 18-HOLE RECORD: 63, Fred Couples (3rd round, 1992), Greg Norman (1st round, 1994), Roberto Castro (1st round, 2013), Martin Kaymer (1st round, 2014); Jason Day (1st round, 2016); Colt Knost (2nd round, 2016).


• LAST YEAR: Day tied the Stadium Course record with an opening 63 and hardly looked back, becoming just the fifth wire-to-wire winner in the event’s history as he completed a four-shot triumph. Day’s total of 15-under-par 273 was the lowest score at TPC Sawgrass in 10 editions since THE PLAYERS moved to a May date. The chase pack never got closer than two shots in the final round, after Day’s bogey at the par-5 ninth hole. The Aussie birdied two of his next three, though, to post his third victory in a nine-week span, alongside wins at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. Kevin Chappell used late birdies at Nos. 16 and 17 to take runner-up honors, matching their 1-2 finish at Bay Hill.

• STORYLINES: Johnson, owner of three straight wins before the Wells Fargo Championship, could use an uptick at TPC Sawgrass. Before last year’s share of 28th, his previous seven starts had yet to yield a top-30 finish. Johnson has broken 70 just once in an opening round – a 68 in 2014. … New Masters Tournament champion Sergio Garcia, the 2008 PLAYERS winner, makes his first start since Augusta National. It’s been 14 years since he missed a cut at TPC Sawgrass – but the past two Masters winners (Jordan Spieth, Danny Willett) missed THE PLAYERS cut after slipping on the green jacket. … McIlroy tees it up in competition for the first time as a married man, wedding Erica Stoll in a lavish affair 2 ½ weeks ago at Ashford Castle in Ireland. The reigning FedExCup champion has finished outside the top 10 just once anywhere since East Lake, failing short of knockout play at the WGC Dell Technologies Match Play.

• SHORT CHIPS: A total of 36 balls found the water surrounding No. 17 last year, slightly below average (39.5) since the PGA TOUR began keeping count 14 years ago. Two years earlier produced the all-time low of 28 splashdowns. The record is 93, when the event first moved to May in 2007. … Paul Azinger (1987) is the only man to birdie No. 17 in all four regulation rounds. Rickie Fowler birdied it three times in a day, during the final round and playoff of his 2015 triumph. … Day became just the second of the past 10 champions who managed to close the deal after holding the 54-hole lead. Martin Kaymer was the other, holding off Jim Furyk after a rain delay in 2014.

• TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 2-7 p.m. (NBC).

• PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. (featured groups), 9 a.m.-7 p.m. (17th hole). Saturday-Sunday, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. (featured groups), noon-7 p.m. (17th hole).

• RADIO: Thursday-Friday, noon-7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-7 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com).

For more on all the courses in the TPC network, visit TPC.com.

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We arrive back in Floirda for the Players. Such a good decision to move this tournament to May. Always a fun tourney...

Congratulations to last weeks winner
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Bobcat holding strong in first place

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good luck to everyone this week
 
Brooks Koepka has played the 17th seven times. Five times he has put the tee shot in the water including today's round. Quoting Faldo, "That's not a good percentage". Ya think?
 
How did that guy even get on the course? Don't players have to submit some sort of evidence like a verified handicap they can play at a pro type level?

An amateur has to have a certified handicap index below a certain (very low) level - somewhere around 2.
I believe anyone who's met the qualifications to be a PGA pro can enter. Note, that doesn't mean PGA Tour Pro; there are a number of different levels of PGA pro, including the guys at the local club or driving range. I'm not sure exactly which of these are eligible, but I think it's most of them.

If you enter & play really badly (shoot more than 12 over the "course rating"), you may get barred from future entry unless you can submit evidence that you can play competitively enough to have a reasonable chance to qualify. I'd imagine that guy's letter indicating such has already been mailed.
 
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An amateur has to have a certified handicap index below a certain (very low) level - somewhere around 2.
I believe anyone who's met the qualifications to be a PGA pro can enter. Note, that doesn't mean PGA Tour Pro; there are a number of different levels of PGA pro, including the guys at the local club or driving range. I'm not sure exactly which of these are eligible, but I think it's most of them.

If you enter & play really badly (shoot more than 12 over the "course rating"), you may get barred from future entry unless you can submit evidence that you can play competitively enough to have a reasonable chance to qualify. I'd imagine that guy's letter indicating such has already been mailed.

That must have been an ordeal as well for whoever played with this guy.
 
Looks like BFT and I had the reverse jinxes with Sergio and Kaymer both making the cuts after terrible starts yesterday.
 
At least I can say it was a good thing I did not pick Spieth. He sure doesn't like that course.
 
What in the world is happening to John Rahm today? +9 after 13 holes! From -4 to +5 on moving day.

He moved alright. The wrong way. I know he dumped one into the water on 17. He was totally off on his game Saturday.
 
Is this going to be another best of the worst as far as our pool goes?
Certainly seems like it. I actually picked Kim in a tournament earlier this year. He's a playa, but if he's already having back problems at age 21, that certainly doesn't bode well for his future.
 
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Strange couple days of golf, some big name players didnt just play poorly, they balloned up to huge numbers to take themselves out of the running.
Nice day by Kim, played mistake free golf to get a big win for a 21 year old pro.

Not a great week for the PGSF group,
SeaPa with the quality Molinari pick out duels a couple other players to take the victory

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will post updated leader board shortly
 
That was some pretty horrible golf yesterday. Everybody was throwing up on themselves...
 
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