The Players Championship

Rory McIlroy looks to win his second Players Championship in the biggest PGA Tour tournament in 2023 so far. A winner in 2019, the Northern Irishman will be ...

(6.07pm) -- J.J. (12.56pm) -- K.H. (12.45pm) -- J.T. (5.56pm) -- K.H. (5.45pm) -- J.T. While a repeat winner is rare, with Tiger Woods (2013) the only player to win multiple times since 2013. (5.01pm) -- Adam Long, Hayden Buckley, Taylor Montgomery (1.07pm) -- J.J. (4.50pm) -- David Lipsky, S.H. So if we ignore the big hitters at the top of the list of odds, we like Jason Day, given his return to form and big win here in 2016, not to mention T6 in 2011, T5 in 2018 and T8 in 2019. Subscribers can stream the event via the Sky Go app or player. (12.01pm) -- Adam Long, Hayden Buckley, Taylor Montgomery

The PGA Tour's largest purse of the year is on the line at TPC Sawgrass, where most of the world's best players are gathered for The Players Championship.

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Golf Channel and NBC will be the television homes of the 2023 Players Championship. It's a beautiful Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass and the first wave of players is already well underway in their opening round. — Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of The Players Championship 2023! Rahm is at -2, Scheffler is at even and McIlroy is struggling a bit at +2 right now. — Another bogey for McIlroy drops him all the way down to +4 and close to the very bottom of the leaderboard. — What a round Morikawa has going! They'll be the marquee group as the first round winds down in Ponte Vedra. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, drops yet another shot to finish the day with a 76 (+4). — Ramey makes a solid par on the last hole to finish with a round of -8 (64). The Sporting News will be tracking live scores and highlights from Thursday's Round 1 leaderboard. — Disaster for Thomas at the 4th hole as he pitches it into the water from just off the green. That doesn't mean the field will be missing all its previous winners.

The Northern Irishman had arrived at the PGA Tour's flagship event seeking a return to the world number one spot, but little went right for him on day one after ...

Australian Min Woo Lee put himself among the early front-runners after six birdies in his opening 13 holes but he finished on four under after closing with back-to-back bogeys. He followed up with successive birdies on the 18th and first to briefly move to five under par but he later fell away and signed for a one-over 73 after double bogeys on the sixth and eighth. The Northern Irishman had arrived at the PGA Tour’s flagship event seeking a return to the world number one spot, but little went right for him on day one after beginning with a double bogey.

The Northern Irishman was the odd man out in the marquee group of the first two rounds as Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, the only two players ahead of him in ...

“I feel like this is as penal as I’ve seen it out of the rough for a long time. He arrived holding the lead at six under but he hit his tee shot into the lake surrounding the green and only managed to escape with a bogey courtesy of a brilliant pitch shot from the drop zone. “Last week I kind of lost it, I didn’t know where the ball was going and I think this score showed I knew where the ball was going and that gave me a lot of freedom to play golf,” he told Sky Sports. “I hit a lot of putts and just kept burning edges to go to one that looked like it was going in. Ramey, the 30-year-old from Mississippi whose only PGA Tour win came a year ago in his maiden season, had six birdies in his first 11 holes but turned on the style at the end as he birdied the par-five 16th and then hit it to a foot at the famous 17th to take the outright lead. It’s golf.”

Following an interesting and industry-shaping press conference on Tuesday in which McIlroy discussed the future of the PGA Tour and professional golf, he was ...

McIlroy will play late on Friday alongside Rahm and Scottie Scheffler as he tries to shoot something silly to play his way inside the cut and perhaps back into the tournament a bit. This was not helped by the fact that he left a shot in the bunker on that same closing hole. That's why his number ballooned right past even par to 4 over, one of the worst scores in the morning wave. He bounced back with birdie at the par-5 11th, but even his biggest highlight on his first nine (the back nine on the course) wasn't actually a highlight. McIlroy made just one putt longer than 4 feet, and it came on the last hole for bogey to avoid shooting 77. (He played the par-5s at even par, a horrible number for him.)

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy hits a four-over-par 76 to finish 12 shots behind early clubhouse leader Chad Ramey in round one of the Players ...

"I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw and didn't capitalise on that. "I feel like this is as penal as I've seen it out of the rough for a long time. Another pushed drive on the par-five 16th left McIlroy with a tough 200-yard second shot from the pine straw, with water waiting for anything leaked further right. A run of seven pars followed before he dropped his solitary shot on the par-three eighth. His third bounced through the green into a bunker and McIlroy would take three more from there. His opening shot will be a 28-foot eagle putt on the par-five 16th.

Rory McIlroy posted an opening 76 at the Players Championship due to some wayward driving, his worst competitive score in nearly two years.

I need to regroup and try to shoot a good one tomorrow and be here for the weekend.” Unsurprisingly, McIlroy was seen battering drives down the range long after his round had concluded. There’s obviously a part of it that’s the user, as well. “They were testing drivers at Riviera but I just didn’t even want to take the chance. “That’s the reason the score is what it is.” McIlroy said: “I went to that new driver in Riviera, and it’s just not … After all, a bounce is precisely what McIlroy needs during round two in order to survive for the weekend.

Rory McIlroy is in need of a bounce if he is to survive the cut at the Players Championship and he is sharp enough to understand the irony of such an ...

'I just couldn't really get anything going,' added McIlroy, whose hadn't hit such a high score since the first round of the 2021 Masters. 'These driver heads are so finicky that it's hard to get one exactly the same. 'I can't because if you use a driver for so long, it just wouldn't pass the test.

The 2023 Players Championship is officially underway with a relatively unknown on top. Chad Ramey fired a bogey free 8-under 64 on Thursday to command the ...

- 11:50 a.m. - 7:56 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. - 7:34 a.m. - 7:23 a.m. - 7:12 a.m. - 7:01 a.m. - 6:50 a.m. All times Eastern Both Scheffler and Rahm look to apply pressure on Ramey with strong Friday showings while McIlroy attempts to climb towards the cutline from 4 over at 12:56 p.m. Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa was terrific in the first round en route to a 7-under 65. Chad Ramey fired a bogey free 8-under 64 on Thursday to command the solo lead.

The 2019 champion at Sawgrass went off with Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, in a marquee group consisting of the three best players in the world, with top spot ...

From there he did well to limit the damage by getting up-and-down from 70 yards, though that damage was a sextuple-bogey ten as he carded an eight-over-par round of 80. “I feel like this is as penal as I’ve seen it out of the rough for a long time. The 33-year-old hit only six of 14 fairways.

Rory McIlroy went straight from the final green to the driving range after slumping to an opening round of 76 at The Players Championship.

The intimidating sight of Collin Morikawa is looming large in Ramey’s mirrors. “I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw there and didn’t capitalise on that, and making bogey on one and bogey on three … - T6. - T3. - 2. - 1.

The Northern Irishman was the odd man out in the marquee group of the first two rounds as Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, the only two players ahead of him in ...

“I feel like this is as penal as I’ve seen it out of the rough for a long time. He arrived holding the lead at six under but he hit his tee shot into the lake surrounding the green and only managed to escape with a bogey courtesy of a brilliant pitch shot from the drop zone. “Last week I kind of lost it, I didn’t know where the ball was going and I think this score showed I knew where the ball was going and that gave me a lot of freedom to play golf,” he told Sky Sports. “I hit a lot of putts and just kept burning edges to go to one that looked like it was going in. Ramey, the 30-year-old from Mississippi whose only PGA Tour win came a year ago in his maiden season, had six birdies in his first 11 holes but turned on the style at the end as he birdied the par-five 16th and then hit it to a foot at the famous 17th to take the outright lead. It’s golf.”

The Northern Irishman had arrived at the PGA Tour's flagship event seeking a return to the world number one spot, but little went right for him on day one after ...

Australian Min Woo Lee put himself among the early front-runners after six birdies in his opening 13 holes but he finished on four under after closing with back-to-back bogeys. He followed up with successive birdies on the 18th and first to briefly move to five under par but he later fell away and signed for a one-over 73 after double bogeys on the sixth and eighth. The Northern Irishman had arrived at the PGA Tour’s flagship event seeking a return to the world number one spot, but little went right for him on day one after beginning with a double bogey.

Until this week, journeyman Chad Ramey had never before played the Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass but certainly found it to his liking, ...

"It's probably about like I thought it would be." "I believe I can beat them," said Ramey who welcomed his first child last week. "It kind of means you care. "Not easy. "I might have made it look that way but it wasn't easy at all. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

Collin Morikawa roared out the gates Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass, firing a bogey free 7-under 65 to sit one stroke off Chad Ramey's lead. Coming into this ...

Spieth got it going on the second nine with one of the filthiest shots of the day on No. got a taste of Spieth's manic way of life (on the course). But interesting to see him point to that when his work on the greens seems to be a more consistent concern in recent weeks. Driving the ball well is almost always a prerequisite to playing good golf at this championship, but that's going to be especially true this time around, it seems. "I feel like this is as penal as I've seen it out of the rough for a long time," said McIlroy. Data Golf noted that Morikawa is one of the best in the world at pairing a great putting week with a great ball-striking week, which is what it looks like he's going to do this week. Lee, who owns the most scintillating mustache in all of sports, shared the lead for a bit before kicking it away with bogeys at the last two holes. This is a microcosm of his wisdom, but add it up over 18 or 72 holes -- and combine it with his ball-striking talent -- and you start to see why he wins so many golf tournaments. On Thursday, Morikawa gained right at a stroke on the greens, but he led the field in iron play and tee-to-green play overall. "I would say, for the most part, I'm back to playing how I used to." The stat that gets cited (that I've cited) during runs of good play like this is his putting prowess. Yet he is not the only young major champion to play himself into the mix at the PGA Tour's flagship event as the reigning Player of the Year has as well.

Ramey had a one-shot lead over two-time major champion Collin Morikawa in mild conditions. Roughly half the field was at par or better.

Kelly Kraft hit two into the water on his way to a quadruple-bogey 7. But he followed with an eagle on the 11th and added three other birdies to get back to 72. The 17th hole had a front pin, typically not seen until Saturday's round, and delivered plenty of excitement, good and bad. He has missed the cut in five of his last seven appearances. His signature shot was a 4-iron to 3 feet for eagle on the par-5 second hole, his 11th of the day, and it came during an eight-hole stretch he played in 6-under par. I´m not even in the top 10.´ That´s just the way this tournament has been for me,' he said. Otherwise, it was an eclectic mix of players at 69 or better, which is not unusual for the Players Stadium Course. He was part of the marquee group that featured the top three players in the world - Jon Rahm at No. All of them have a chance to end up at No. He believes he belongs and can beat anyone, even the strongest field of the year so far. 1 had a 71 and McIlroy is at No. Rory McIlroy had his highest score in just over a year.

The American signed for a sizzling eight-under 64 around the iconic TPC Sawgrass, just one shot off the course record. Ramey, the 30-year-old from ...

"The three-putt on 16 was probably the one that sort of stopped any momentum. "I just kept plodding along and fortunately I saw some putts go in. "I feel like this is as penal as I've seen it out of the rough for a long time. It's golf." "I might have made it look that way but it wasn't easy at all. "Last week I kind of lost it, I didn't know where the ball was going and I think this score showed I knew where the ball was going and that gave me a lot of freedom to play golf," he told Sky Sports.