2007 Players Championship

2007 Players Championship

Tournament information
Dates	May 10–13, 2007
Location	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course(s)	TPC Sawgrass
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,215 yards (6,597 m)
Field	145 players, 79 after cut
Cut	149 (+5)
Prize fund	$9.0 million
Winner's share	$1.61 million
Champion
Phil Mickelson
277 (−11)
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TPC Sawgrass

Location in the United States

The 2007 Players Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held May 10–13 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It was the 34th Players Championship and was won by Phil Mickelson, two strokes ahead of runner-up Sergio García.^[1]

With the new PGA Tour season arrangement in 2007, the tournament was played in May for the first time and concluded on Mother's Day. Previous tournaments were typically played in late March, two weeks before the Masters Tournament.

Venue

This was the 26th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The renovated course was lengthened 117 yards (107 m) from the previous year to 7,215 yards (6,597 m).

Course layout

The 2007 Players Championship

Tee	Rating/Slope	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yardage	n/a	423	532	177	384	471	393	442	237	583	3,642	424	558	358	181	481	449	523	137	462	3,573	7,215
Par		4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	5	36	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	36	72

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Adam Scott	Australia	2004	74	71	70	67	282	−6	T6
Steve Elkington	Australia	1991, 1997	73	71	70	70	284	−4	T12
Tiger Woods	United States	2001	75	73	73	67	288	E	T37
Davis Love III	United States	1992, 2003	77	71	73	74	295	+7	T75

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Justin Leonard	United States	1998	78	72	150	+6
Craig Perks	New Zealand	2002	75	76	151	+7
Fred Funk	United States	2005	80	73	153	+9
Stephen Ames	Canada	2006	77	79	156	+12

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Phil Mickelson	United States	67	−5
	Rory Sabbatini	South Africa
3	Chris DiMarco	United States	68	−4
4	Peter Lonard	Australia	69	−3
T5	Jason Gore	United States	70	−2
	Tom Lehman	United States
	Rod Pampling	Australia
	Carl Pettersson	Sweden
T9	Rich Beem	United States	71	−1
	K. J. Choi	South Korea
	Brian Davis	England
	Jim Furyk	United States
	Retief Goosen	South Africa
	Nathan Green	Australia
	J. P. Hayes	United States
	Jeff Quinney	United States

Source^[2]

Second round

Friday, May 11, 2007

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-72=139	−5
2	Nathan Green	Australia	71-69=140	−4
T3	Peter Lonard	Australia	69-72=141	−3
	Sean O'Hair	United States	72-69=141
	Rod Pampling	Australia	70-71=141
	Carl Pettersson	Sweden	70-71=141
T7	Chris DiMarco	United States	68-74=142	−2
	Tom Pernice, Jr.	United States	74-68=142
T9	Stewart Cink	United States	74-69=143	−1
	José Cóceres	Argentina	73-70=143
	Jim Furyk	United States	71-72=143
	Mathew Goggin	Australia	72-71=143
	Tom Lehman	United States	70-73=143
	Rocco Mediate	United States	72-71=143
	Kirk Triplett	United States	75-68=143

Source^[3]

Third round

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Sean O'Hair	United States	72-69-66=207	−9
2	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-72-69=208	−8
T3	Peter Lonard	Australia	69-72-68=209	−7
	Jeff Quinney	United States	71-74-64=209
T5	Aaron Baddeley	Australia	72-72-67=211	−5
	José Cóceres	Argentina	73-70-68=211
	Chris DiMarco	United States	68-74-69=211
	Luke Donald	England	74-72-65=211
	Carl Pettersson	Sweden	70-71-70=211
T10	Tim Clark	South Africa	73-72-67=212	−4
	J. P. Hayes	United States	71-73-68=212
	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	74-71-67=212

Source:^[4]

Final round

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Phil Mickelson won his first Players Championship after shooting a final round 69 to pass 54-hole leader Sean O'Hair. Mickelson birdied his first two holes and made his lone bogey at the 18th hole after the tournament was locked up. O'Hair was two strokes behind Mickelson as they headed to the infamous par-3 17th hole, but he hit two balls in the water going after the tucked pin on the island green for a quadruple bogey. O'Hair also bogeyed the final hole, and the mistakes dropped him from second to eleventh place, costing him $747,000 in prize money.^[1]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-72-69-69=277	−11	1,610,000
2	Sergio García	Spain	73-73-67-66=279	−9	972,000
T3	Stewart Cink	United States	74-69-71-66=280	−8	522,000
	José María Olazábal	Spain	78-66-69-67=280
5	José Cóceres	Argentina	73-70-68-70=281	−7	360,000
T6	J. P. Hayes	United States	71-73-68-70=282	−6	281,700
	Robert Karlsson	Sweden	77-68-71-66=282
	Peter Lonard	Australia	69-72-68-73=282
	Adam Scott	Australia	74-71-70-67=282
	Jeff Quinney	United States	71-74-64-73=282

Source:^[1]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4
Mickelson	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11
García	−3	−4	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−9
Cink	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8
Olazábal	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8
Cóceres	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7
O'Hair	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−6	−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[5]

References

1. Ferguson, Doug (May 14, 2007). "Lefty's all right". Star-News. Wilmington, North Carolina. Associated Press. p. 1C.
2. "Brash Sabbatini scores with gusto at gusty TPC". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. May 11, 2007. p. C2.
3. Ferguson, Doug (May 12, 2007). "Phil's riding dry and high". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. p. B2.
4. Ferguson, Doug (May 13, 2007). "Scare at No. 17 doesn't faze O'Hair". Star-News. Wilmington, North Carolina. Associated Press. p. 1C.
5. "THE PLAYERS Championship". ESPN. Retrieved September 14, 2015.

External links

• The Players Championship website

Coordinates: 30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W