{"id":477545,"date":"2026-03-15T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:21:08","slug":"the-players-championship-live-action-from-sawgrass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477545\/","title":{"rendered":"The Players Championship LIVE: Action from Sawgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping the ropespublished at 20:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>20:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Players Championship\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ec773a24-ae12-461d-9416-58946537c31c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1018\" height=\"572\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll have a bit of a throwback scene at Sawgrass later on, with PGA Tour boss Brian Rolapp confirming they&#8217;ll drop the ropes and let the fans on 18 walk up behind the final group of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about it,\u201d said Rolapp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to really lean into the history of The Players and be fan-friendly and capture what the fans want, we\u2019re going to drop the ropes on 18 when the final group comes up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThis is so the fans can actually experience that championship feeling with the leader and hopefully the eventual champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s a tradition that I\u2019ve heard many fans want back, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The way things are going right now though the winner won&#8217;t be coming from our final group out on the course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dropping the ropespublished at 20:45 GMT 20:45 GMT Image source, Getty Images We&#8217;ll have a bit of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}