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Wyndham Clark finished five shots back at 10 under. Shane Lowry was solo third at 9 under. He won this event by five strokes last year. McIlroy won The Players in but fell out of contention last Sunday at Bay Hill with a 4-over round and ranked just 55th out of the 58 players who made the cut for Strokes Gained: Approach. Justin Thomas won The Players in and looks like he is starting to find his game again.
Also at is Xander Schauffele, who finished runner-up in Homa was sixth here last year. Hideki Matsuyama has three career finishes of eighth or better here and is already a tour winner with that Sunday 62 at Riviera last month. The event eventually moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Open and Cameron Smith , Open.
The field contains a full golfers this week with the top 65 and ties making it through the hole cutline to play the weekend. The course was designed by the legendary late Pete Dye in with a Steve Wenzloff and Pete Dye redesign in and it hosted its first Players in The two-month date change from May to March has had such a dramatic effect on how the course has been played that it does not make sense to take much of the pre results into account.
With coastal winds gustier in March, scoring is more random, and the course plays longer, thanks to the softer fairways. It ranks as the 11th-toughest scoring course on tour. The track is a par of 7, yards. The layout features 92 Scottish-style bunkers fifth most on tour , 16 water holes most on tour , including the famous island green on the 17th, and a variety of waste areas.
The course is unique in that no consecutive holes play in the same direction and there are both left and right doglegs throughout. The fairways and rough 3. In the past, the greens have been Bermudagrass overseeded with Poa and Velvet Bentgrass. They still have a Bermuda base, but the Bentgrass is gone for an exclusive Poa overseed.
Tee shots on the angled fairways are well-designed and encourage golfers to hit toward the trouble for the least obstructed approach shots into the demanding greens. Players championship ofds Three of the par-3s are under yards, including the infamous 17th-hole island green, which has a double-bogey rate of nearly 8 percent. Though they average among the shortest length on tour, each plays over par with water in the equation on every one.
Three of them play under yards and three more are over yards. The toughest five are also the longest. The par-5s at TPC Sawgrass average only yards in length. It is here where scoring becomes crucial as three of them are reachable in two shots. Water is present on holes 9, 11 and 16, which requires players to find the fairway with the driver to have any chance of successfully going for the green.
He enters off a T21 finish at Bay Hill, where he fell off the pace with a final-round Missing the cut in his next three starts, he rallied with last year to cash T TPC Sawgrass might be the perfect tonic. Looking for his first top 10 of , the world No. Posting under across his last two visits, highlighted by T3 last year, he ran his streak of consecutive rounds under par to five in a row and seven of his previous eight.
Lingering T10 after 36 holes last week at Bay Hill, he showed signs of life before fading in the blustery breezes of the weekend to T After easing his way into the early days of , the former Wake Forest star has ramped up the reps with the results to match. Nobody hit more fairways last week, and he was second in Scrambling. Confoundingly, he has turned those fantastic starts into exactly one top payday.
On familiar grass at Riviera, his opening 36 holes resulted in T4 after on the weekend.