2001 Players Championship

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.

Tournament summary

Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh.^[1] 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.^[2] He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando.^[3]

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

Through 2020, 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

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

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List^[4]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years (1990–1999)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998

5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner

6. Winners of official money World Golf Championship events in the last three years (1998–2000)

• Darren Clarke

7. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational

8. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list

10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Such player(s) would be added to the list.)

Source:^[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001

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

Source:^[6]

Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001

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

Source:^[7]

Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001

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

Source:^[8]

Final round

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

Champion

(c) = past champion

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

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Tom Lehman	71-71-72-70=284	−4	126,000
	José María Olazábal	71-76-68-69=284
	David Toms	70-77-66-71=284
T15	Michael Campbell	72-71-69-73=285	−3	102,000
	Scott Dunlap	70-73-73-69=285
	Franklin Langham	73-71-71-70=285
T18	Lee Janzen (c)	77-67-69-73=286	−2	84,000
	Jonathan Kaye	67-72-76-71=286
	Kenny Perry	71-66-74-75=286
T21	Robert Allenby	68-75-71-73=287	−1	62,400
	Jim Furyk	72-75-72-68=287
	J. P. Hayes	72-69-76-70=287
	Tim Herron	73-74-71-69=287
	Corey Pavin	73-72-69-73=287
T26	Ángel Cabrera	72-70-74-72=288	E	44,400
	Darren Clarke	75-70-72-71=288
	Brad Faxon	72-74-73-69=288
	Skip Kendall	68-78-69-73=288
	Naomichi Ozaki	77-68-72-71=288
T31	Dennis Paulson	74-70-73-72=289	+1	38,100
	Kirk Triplett	72-71-76-70=289
T33	Stuart Appleby	74-73-75-68=290	+2	31,028
	Fred Funk	70-71-77-72=290
	Pádraig Harrington	70-75-73-72=290
	Phil Mickelson	73-68-72-77=290
	Craig Parry	71-73-76-70=290
	Jeff Sluman	72-71-75-72=290
	Mark Wiebe	73-73-69-75=290
T40	Steve Flesch	70-73-76-72=291	+3	24,000
	Brian Gay	73-74-72-72=291
	Colin Montgomerie	71-71-75-74=291
	Bob Tway	72-73-74-72=291
T44	Billy Andrade	72-73-74-73=292	+4	18,140
	Tom Kite (c)	70-73-75-74=292
	Scott McCarron	71-75-77-69=292
	Paul Stankowski	72-74-73-73=292
	Scott Verplank	69-75-72-76=292
	Mike Weir	77-69-72-74=292
T50	Jay Don Blake	74-73-73-73=293	+5	14,472
	Jim Carter	69-73-75-76=293
	Nick Faldo	73-73-75-72=293
	Sergio García	73-74-74-72=293
	Steve Jones	72-71-72-78=293
T55	Tom Byrum	73-71-75-75=294	+6	13,680
	John Cook	71-72-75-76=294
	Chris DiMarco	74-73-74-73=294
T58	Greg Chalmers	71-73-72-79=295	+7	13,080
	Fred Couples (c)	71-75-70-79=295
	Glen Hnatiuk	74-70-71-80=295
	Steve Pate	72-72-76-75=295
	Chris Riley	71-75-73-76=295
	Kevin Sutherland	71-74-73-77=295
	Jay Williamson	78-69-77-71=295
T65	Mark Brooks	71-74-76-76=297	+9	12,480
	Greg Kraft	73-71-72-81=297
	Rocco Mediate	73-73-75-76=297
T68	Paul Goydos	73-74-76-75=298	+10	12,180
	Carl Paulson	74-73-76-75=298
T70	Brent Geiberger	72-75-82-70=299	+11	11,880
	Mathew Goggin	72-75-72-80=299
	Ian Woosnam	73-73-81-72=299
T73	Brad Elder	69-72-81-78=300	+12	11,520
	Robin Freeman	73-72-79-76=300
	J. L. Lewis	73-72-78-77=300
CUT	Michael Clark II	73-75=148	+4
	Robert Damron	76-72=148
	Dudley Hart	70-78=148
	Bradley Hughes	74-74=148
	Neal Lancaster	76-72=148
	Davis Love III (c)	72-76=148
	Steve Stricker	74-74=148
	Jean van de Velde	75-73=148
	Duffy Waldorf	77-71=148
	Lee Westwood	73-75=148
	Carlos Franco	73-76=149	+5
	Matt Gogel	74-75=149
	Brian Henninger	71-78=149
	Greg Norman (c)	75-74=149
	Jesper Parnevik	70-79=149
	David Peoples	71-78=149
	Brandel Chamblee	75-75=150	+6
	Bob Estes	72-78=150
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	75-75=150
	Justin Leonard (c)	74-76=150
	Jeff Maggert	70-80=150
	Tom Purtzer	71-79=150
	Tom Scherrer	76-74=150
	Fulton Allem	74-77=151	+7
	Notah Begay III	79-72=151
	Mark Calcavecchia	74-77=151
	John Daly	73-78=151
	Doug Dunakey	75-76=151
	Ernie Els	76-75=151
	Ed Fryatt	74-77=151
	Steve Lowery	73-78=151
	Blaine McCallister	77-74=151
	Esteban Toledo	74-77=151
	Doug Barron	77-75=152	+8
	Len Mattiace	80-72=152
	Shaun Micheel	73-79=152
	Joe Ogilvie	72-80=152
	Mark O'Meara	78-74=152
	Garrett Willis	74-78=152
	Stephen Ames	78-75=153	+9
	Harrison Frazar	79-74=153
	Brandt Jobe	76-77=153
	Paul Lawrie	75-78=153
	Loren Roberts	76-77=153
	Craig Stadler	78-75=153
	Grant Waite	75-78=153
	Russ Cochran	74-80=154	+10
	Glen Day	78-76=154
	Jimmy Green	76-78=154
	John Huston	75-79=154
	Andrew Magee	74-80=154
	Thomas Bjørn	76-79=155	+11
	Olin Browne	76-79=155
	Jerry Smith	77-78=155
	Ben Crenshaw	78-78=156	+12
	Retief Goosen	79-77=156
	Gary Nicklaus	79-77=156
	Woody Austin	78-79=157	+13
	Stewart Cink	78-79=157
	Pete Jordan	76-81=157
	Larry Mize	76-81=157
	Eduardo Romero	78-79=157
	Rory Sabbatini	74-84=158	+14
	Bob Burns	76-83=159	+15
Bill Glasson	77-86=163	+19
WD	Tommy Armour III
DQ	Joel Edwards	72	E

Source:^[9]

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+

Source:^[10]

References

External links

• The Players Championship website
• Full Leaderboard