2001 Players Championship
golf tournament
The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–26 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.
Tournament summary
Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh. Because of bad weather, the tournament was completed on Monday, March 26. In the final pairing with 54-hole leader Jerry Kelly, Woods played the final nine holes on Monday. He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando.
Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once, the Tiger Slam, as well as this Players, the unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.
Tiger Woods (2001), Scottie Scheffler (2024), and Rory McIlroy (2025) are the only three players to ever win both a Players Championship and a Masters Tournament in the same calendar year. Woods was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to six with Martin Kaymer in 2014, Cameron Smith in 2022 and Scheffler in 2024.
Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.
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