2011 Players Championship pin flag K. J. Choi TPC at Sawgrass pga open british

Description

The Players Championship
(commonly known as simply
The Players
, stylized by the PGA Tour as
The PLAYERS Championship
) is an annual golf tournament on the
PGA Tour
. Originally known as the
Tournament Players Championship
, it began in
1974
.
[2]
For many years, the Players Championship offered the highest prize fund of any tournament in golf (.5 million in
2016
) until it was overtaken in 2017 by the
U.S. Open
, which offered a million purse.
[3]
The field usually includes the top 50 players in the
world rankings
, but unlike the three
major championships
or two
World Golf Championships
events staged in the
United States
, it is not an official event on the
European Tour
.
The Players has often been considered the unofficial "fifth major" due to its prestige, its host course in
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
(the
TPC at Sawgrass
Stadium Course at which the tournament has been played since
1982
, home of the iconic par-3 No. 17 "Island Green"), and its large purse
2011
K. J. Choi
South Korea
275
−13
Playoff
David Toms
1,710,000
9,500,000