Players Championship Features Some Monster Pairings
The Players Championship might not be a major, just don't tell that to anyone that plays on the PGA Tour.
Regularly called "The Unofficial Fifth Major", The Players Championship held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL is the strongest full field PGA Tour event on the season. Like the European Tour's equivalence of the BMW PGA Championship, The Players Championship is the flagship event on the PGA Tour, held on the grounds of the PGA Tour's offices, and features the largest prize purse of any Tour event.
One of the other things the event does is give us some of the best pairings of the calendar year for Thursday and Friday and 2015 is no exception. In fact, Finchem and Co have given us some absolute monster pairings that will certainly wet the appetite of even the most casual golf fan.
By far the pairing that is getting the most talk is the group of Rory Mcllroy, Jordan Spieth, and Jason Day. Mcllroy, the Palm Beach Gardens resident just won the WGC-Cadillac Match Play this past weekend, while Spieth is the reigning Masters Champion. Oh yea, they also just happened to be ranked 1st and 2nd respectively in the World Golf Rankings and are expected to be the two biggest rivals of the next decade in golf. Throw in Jason Day, who in addition to his Farmers Insurance Open win earlier in 2015, is still only 27 and is expected to contend with Rory and Jordan for years to come and you have a whopper of a pairing.
While those three are going off in the morning on Thursday and the afternoon on Friday, on the other half of the draw you have the group of Martin Kaymer, Adam Scott, and Tiger Woods. Though Woods' old caddie Stevie Williams is no longer Scott's caddie, that does not take any of the luster out of this grouping. Kaymer is the defending Players Champion, and while Scott and Woods by their own lofty standards are down this year, there is still great golf to be played out of these major winners. In fact, between the three of them, they have a combined 17 major championships.
If those two marquee groups aren't enough to get you ready for this weekend's tournament, click here for a full list of pairings and tee times.
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