{"id":525169,"date":"2026-03-07T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:28:16","slug":"pairings-for-the-first-and-second-round-at-tpc-sawgrass-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525169\/","title":{"rendered":"Pairings for the first and second round at TPC Sawgrass \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-seven of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the field as the PGA Tour holds the 52nd edition of the Players Championship, tournament officials revealing the field on Friday afternoon. Leading the charge is defending champion Rory McIlroy, who picked up his second Players title a year ago with a Monday playoff win over J.J. Spaun at TPC Sawgrass to go with his 2019 victory. He, along with World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (winner in 2023 and 2024), are both trying to become the first golfers to win the Players title three times at TPC Sawgrass, and join Jack Nicklaus as the only three-time winner of the event.<\/p>\n

All told, seven past Players champions are competing: McIlroy, Scheffler, Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler, Jason Day, Si Woo Kim and Justin Thomas. Scott will be playing in the event for the 25th time, the most of anyone competing.<\/p>\n

The field right now has 121 players in it, with Brooks Koepka including for the first time since 2022. The former LIV Golf was granted access to the event as part of the terms of return to PGA Tour competition. His addition allows for two more players to compete. The two spots are being held open for the winners of this weekend\u2019s Arnold Palmer Invitational and Puerto Rico Open. If the winners are already in the Players field, two players will come off the alternate list to fill out the 123 spots. The last two names will be formally announced at 12 noon on Monday.<\/p>\n

Below is the current 121 player field. Tee times for the first and second rounds at TPC Sawgrass have not yet been released and are expected to go live on Tuesday. We\u2019ll update this post with the officials tee times when they become available.<\/p>\n

More Players Championship Preview stories \"\"\/ FAQ Players 2026: Everything you need to know about the PGA Tour\u2019s flagship event at TPC Sawgrass \"\"\/ Ranking Players Championship picks 2026: Our 13 best bets to win at TPC Sawgrass \"\"\/ Analysis Players 2026: Behind the scenes of the PGA Tour\u2019s renewed pursuit of major status for the Players <\/p>\n

Ludvig Aberg<\/p>\n

Zach Bauchou<\/p>\n

Daniel Berger<\/p>\n

Christiaan Bezuidenhout<\/p>\n

Akshay Bhatia<\/p>\n

Keegan Bradley<\/p>\n

Michael Brennan<\/p>\n

Jacob Bridgeman<\/p>\n

Sam Burns<\/p>\n

Brian Campbell<\/p>\n

Patrick Cantlay<\/p>\n

Ricky Castillo<\/p>\n

Bud Cauley<\/p>\n

Wyndham Clark<\/p>\n

Eric Cole<\/p>\n

Corey Conners<\/p>\n

Pierceson Coody<\/p>\n

1 \/ 8 \"TPC <\/p>\n

Dom Furore \/ Golf Digest<\/p>\n

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Dom Furore \/ Golf Digest<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of TPC Sawgrass<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of TPC Sawgrass<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of TPC Sawgrass<\/p>\n

8 \/ 8 \"2017-51-TPC-Sawgrass-Stadium-Course-Hole-16.jpg\"\/ Previous Next Pause Play false Public TPC Sawgrass: Stadium Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 4.6 26 Panelists <\/p>\n

100 Greatest
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TPC\u2019s stadium concept was the idea of then-PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman. The 1980 design was pure Pete Dye, who set out to test the world\u2019s best golfers by mixing the demands of distance with target golf. Most greens are ringed by random lumps, bumps and hollows, what Dye called his \u201cgrenade attack architecture.\u201d His ultimate target hole is the heart-pounding sink-or-swim island green 17th, which offers no bailout, perhaps unfairly in windy Atlantic coast conditions. The 17th has spawned over a hundred imitation island greens in the past 40 years. To make the layout even more exciting during tournament play, Steve Wenzloff of PGA Tour Design Services later remodeled several holes, most significantly the 12th, which he turned into a drivable par-4, something Dye was never a fan of. View Course <\/p>\n

Joel Dahmen<\/p>\n

Cam Davis<\/p>\n

Jason Day<\/p>\n

Zecheng Dou<\/p>\n

Nico Echavarria<\/p>\n

Harris English<\/p>\n

A.J. Ewart<\/p>\n

Tony Finau<\/p>\n

Steven Fisk<\/p>\n

Matt Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood<\/p>\n

Rickie Fowler<\/p>\n

Ryan Fox<\/p>\n

Ryan Gerard<\/p>\n

Lucas Glover<\/p>\n

Chris Gotterup<\/p>\n

Max Greyserman<\/p>\n

Ben Griffin<\/p>\n

Emiliano Grillo<\/p>\n

Harry Hall<\/p>\n

Brian Harman<\/p>\n

Russell Henley<\/p>\n

Garrick Higgo<\/p>\n

Joe Highsmith<\/p>\n

Ryo Hisatsune<\/p>\n

Lee Hodges<\/p>\n

Rico Hoey<\/p>\n

Tom Hoge<\/p>\n

Nicolai Hojgaard<\/p>\n

Rasmus Hojgaard<\/p>\n

Max Homa<\/p>\n

Viktor Hovland<\/p>\n

Mark Hubbard<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Hughes<\/p>\n

Sungjae Im<\/p>\n

Stephan Jaeger<\/p>\n

Takumi Kanaya<\/p>\n

Johnny Keefer<\/p>\n

Michael Kim<\/p>\n

S.H. Kim<\/p>\n

Si Woo Kim<\/p>\n

Chris Kirk<\/p>\n

Kurt Kitayama<\/p>\n

Jake Knapp<\/p>\n

Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n

More Players Championship Preview stories \"\"\/ What-If History 11 ways golf would be different if the Players Championship was a major all along \"\"\/ Golf Digest Logo Players 2026: The first step to hitting TPC Sawgrass\u2019 island green? According to our test, it\u2019s using a tee \"\"\/ Course Strategy Players 2026: 3 weird spots you see players miss at TPC Sawgrass <\/p>\n

Min Woo Lee<\/p>\n

Haotong Li<\/p>\n

Shane Lowry<\/p>\n

Robert MacIntyre<\/p>\n

Hideki Matsuyama<\/p>\n

Denny McCarthy<\/p>\n

Matt McCarty<\/p>\n

Max McGreevy<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n

Maverick McNealy<\/p>\n

Mac Meissner<\/p>\n

Keith Mitchell<\/p>\n

Taylor Moore<\/p>\n

Collin Morikawa<\/p>\n

William Mouw<\/p>\n

Alex Noren<\/p>\n

Andrew Novak<\/p>\n

Thorbjorn Olesen<\/p>\n

Matthieu Pavon<\/p>\n

Taylor Pendrith<\/p>\n

Marco Penge<\/p>\n

Chandler Phillips<\/p>\n

J.T. Poston<\/p>\n

More Players Championship Preview stories \"\"\/ Course Strategy Players 2026: The 8 most underrated shots at TPC Sawgrass \"\"\/ Golf Digest Logo What would you shoot at TPC Sawgrass under Players Championship conditions? \"\"\/ Crunching the Numbers 52 fun stats for 52 years of the Players Championship <\/p>\n

Aldrich Potgieter<\/p>\n

Andrew Putnam<\/p>\n

Aaron Rai<\/p>\n

Chad Ramey<\/p>\n

Kristoffer Reitan<\/p>\n

Davis Riley<\/p>\n

Patrick Rodgers<\/p>\n

Justin Rose<\/p>\n

Kevin Roy<\/p>\n

Xander Schauffele<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n

Adam Schenk<\/p>\n

Matti Schmid<\/p>\n

Adam Scott<\/p>\n

Alex Smalley<\/p>\n

Jordan Smith<\/p>\n

Austin Smotherman<\/p>\n

J.J. Spaun<\/p>\n

Jordan Spieth<\/p>\n

Sam Stevens<\/p>\n

Sepp Straka<\/p>\n

Nick Taylor<\/p>\n

Sahith Theegala<\/p>\n

Justin Thomas<\/p>\n

Davis Thompson<\/p>\n

Michael Thorbjornsen<\/p>\n

Sami Valimaki<\/p>\n

Erik van Rooyen<\/p>\n

Jhonattan Vegas<\/p>\n

Karl Vilips<\/p>\n

Danny Walker<\/p>\n

Vince Whaley<\/p>\n

Gary Woodland<\/p>\n

Sudarshan Yellamaraju<\/p>\n

Cameron Young<\/p>\n

Kevin Yu<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-seven of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the field as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,44,85],"class_list":["post-525169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}