2014 Players Championship
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The 2014 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held May 8–11 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 41st Players Championship.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | May 8–11, 2014 |
Location | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 30.198°N 81.394°W / 30.198; -81.394 |
Course(s) | TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,215 yards (6,597 m) |
Field | 144 players, 82 after cut (71 after second cut) |
Cut | 144 (Even), 218 (+2) |
Prize fund | $10.0 million |
Winner's share | $1.80 million |
Champion | |
Martin Kaymer | |
275 (−13) | |
Location map | |
Martin Kaymer opened with a 63, led after each round, and won his first Players, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jim Furyk.[1] It was the first to feature an eight-figure purse,[2] with a winner's share of $1.8 million.
With defending champion and world number one Tiger Woods out of competition due to back surgery in late March,[3] four entered this Players Championship with an opportunity to ascend to the top of the world rankings. World number two Adam Scott needed a 16th-place finish, third-ranked Henrik Stenson a top-six finish, number four Bubba Watson a solo runner-up, and fifth-ranked Matt Kuchar a win.[4] They finished at T38, T34, T48, and T17, respectively, and Woods remained number one.[5][6][7]
Due to 82 players making the halfway cut (top 70 and ties), a second cut was initiated after the third round.
This was the first year for the new playoff format, a three-hole aggregate beginning on the 16th hole,[8] which was not necessary. After a 90-minute rain delay late in the final round, Kaymer finished with a par in near-darkness.[1] If he had bogeyed the final hole, the playoff would have begun on Monday morning.
Kaymer was the fourth European to win the Players, following Sandy Lyle, Sergio García, and Henrik Stenson. A month later he won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst and became the fourth to win the Players and a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978, Open), Hal Sutton (1983, PGA), and Woods (2001, Masters).