The Players Championship Tickets

The Players Championship

The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour, which is established in 1974 and located in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1976. The event relocated to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida in the beginning of 1977, first being played at Sawgrass Country Club's Oceanside Course, and since 1982 it has been played across the road from Sawgrass Country Club, on the Stadium Course at the "Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass".

The field usually includes the top fifty golfers in the world rankings, but unlike the three majors which are staged in the U.S., it does not count as an official event on the European Tour, which has the Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe, although it is an imperfect parallel. The Players Championship had been played in late March for most of its existence, two weeks before The Masters, and in 2007 it was moved to mid-May, as part of a restructuring of the PGA Tour. The winner receives a fixed allocation of 40 points towards his Official World Golf Ranking, which is the most allocated to any event apart from the majors, in which winners earn 50 points, and a 5 year exemption on the PGA Tour, a 3 year invitation to The Masters, a 3 year exemption for the British Open, and an exemption to the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship for that year.