2020 Players Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 12–15, 2020
Location	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W / 30.198; -81.394
Course(s)	TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,189 yards (6,574 m)
Field	144 players
Prize fund	$15 million
Winner's share	$2.7 million
Champion
No winner
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The 2020 Players Championship was the 47th edition of The Players Championship, scheduled for March 12–15 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It was canceled by the PGA Tour prior to the second round in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; the tour had earlier announced that the tournament would proceed behind closed doors for the remaining three days.

Hideki Matsuyama held a two stroke lead after the first round having equaled the course record of 63, nine under par.^[1] Defending champion Rory McIlroy was at even par (72), tied for 83rd place.^[2] Half of the $15 million purse was split equally among the 144 competing players, at $52,000 each.

The event was not included in the revised schedule announced in early April 2020.^[3]

Venue

Course layout

Field

The field consists of 144 players meeting the following criteria:^[4]

1. Winners of PGA Tour events since last Players

• Pan Cheng-tsung (2) and Tiger Woods (2,4,6,9) did not play.^[5]

2. Top 125 from previous season's FedEx Cup points list

• Jonas Blixt and Kelly Kraft did not play.

3. Top 125 (medical)

4. Major champions from the past five years

5. Players Championship winners from the past five years

6. The Tour Championship winners from 2017 and 2018; FedEx Cup champion for 2018–19 season

7. World Golf Championship winners from the past three years

8. Memorial Tournament and Arnold Palmer Invitational winners from the past three years

9. Top 50 from the Official World Golf Ranking

• Shugo Imahira and Lee Westwood did not play.

10. Senior Players champion from prior year

11. Korn Ferry Tour points leader from prior season

12. Points leader during the Korn Ferry Tour Finals

13. Top 10 current year FedEx Cup points leaders

14. Remaining positions and alternates filled through current year FedEx Cup standings

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Hideki Matsuyama tied the course record with a score of 63 (−9).^[7] Following the round, the PGA Tour canceled the remainder of the event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hideki Matsuyama	63	−9
T2	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	65	−7
	Harris English
	Kim Si-woo
T5	Patrick Cantlay	67	−5
	Marc Leishman
T7	Daniel Berger	68	−4
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello
	Cameron Champ
	Corey Conners
	Jason Dufner
	Jim Herman
	Viktor Hovland
	Nate Lashley
	Graeme McDowell
	Keith Mitchell
	Collin Morikawa
	Rory Sabbatini
	Scottie Scheffler
	Webb Simpson
	Michael Thompson

• Note: Four players only completed 17 holes, with the lowest scorer on 1 under par when play was cancelled.

Source:^[2]

Scorecard of Hideki Matsuyama

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Par	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	5
Matsuyama	−1	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7	−7	−9

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[2]