{"id":541202,"date":"2026-03-15T03:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541202\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:31:12","slug":"fatal-shooting-delays-fan-entry-to-tpc-sawgrass-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541202\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal shooting delays fan entry to\u00a0TPC Sawgrass \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fan entrance to the Players Championship on Saturday morning (local time) was delayed due to a fatal shooting outside TPC Sawgrass.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/players-2026-ludvig-aberg-shoots-63-seizes-lead-at-players-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lethal Ludvig seizes lead at TPC Sawgrass by \u2018keeping it very simple\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The St Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported a man shot and killed two people in a Walgreens carpark near the tournament venue at 10:30pm Friday. The suspect then fled onto TPC Sawgrass property, where he encountered and spoke with PGA Tour employees and volunteers and at one point picked up a tour radio.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Rob Hardwick said the suspect committed an additional burglary and auto theft while evading police, eventually heading north of town. The stolen vehicle was later found in Nassau County after a pursuit, and he was arrested Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gates for the PLAYERS aren\u2019t opening until 9AM this morning.<\/p>\n<p>There is a suspected murderer who reportedly fled the scene of a shooting nearby and made his way onto the TPC Sawgrass grounds last night.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely insane. Story below via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wjxt4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wjxt4<\/a> \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OfpZ6dSmSf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OfpZ6dSmSf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fore Play (@ForePlayPod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForePlayPod\/status\/2032792696671146433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though no one was hurt on tournament grounds, the PGA Tour delayed gate openings Saturday morning as it assessed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to operational considerations, gates for today\u2019s third round will now open at 9am,\u201d the tour said in a statement. \u201cWe have worked closely with the St Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office and appreciate the coordination and partnership from Sheriff Rob Hardwick and his team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hospitality tents were delayed until 11am, but tee times for the third round are proceeding as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fan entrance to the Players Championship on Saturday morning (local time) was delayed due to a fatal shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,77330,755,138747,78434,44,1747,85,268136,261935],"class_list":["post-541202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-nassau-county","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-st-johns-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tpc-sawgrass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541202","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=541202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}