The Players Championship 2023: Everything you need to know

The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass is known in the golf world as the unofficial fifth major. 

That title is perhaps a little bit off the mark this year given that the defending champion, Cameron Smith, was banned from playing. 

Smith captured the Players in simply epic fashion last year by flirting with a watery grave at the famous par-3 17th. 

He eventually did find the water at the 72nd hole but mustered one of the most incredible up-and-downs in recent memory to close out the win. 

That up-and-down perhaps wasn't as good as the one Smith found on the famous Road Hole at St. Andrews on the way to lifting the Claret Jug. 

Then Smith bolted to the LIV Golf League for north of $100m and got himself banned from the PGA Tour. 

Smith joked he might turn up to TPC Sawgrass this week as a spectator anyway. "Might be funny," Smith said. 

Nevertheless, the 2023 Players Championship promises to be one of the standout events of the year. 

GolfMagic has decided to write this handy guide giving you all the information you need to know. 

Scottie Scheffler will take a two-shot lead going into the final round here. 

If he were to win, he would become only the third player in history to hold the Masters and the Players title at the same time. 

The other two? Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. 

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• Jon Rahm withdraws through illness
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The Players 2023, Round Four tee times and pairings:

All times ET

Tee No. 1

7:40 a.m. – Sahith Theegala

7:44 a.m. – Sepp Straka, Adam Scott

7:53 a.m. – Patton Kizzire. Aaron Baddeley

8:02 a.m. – Kevin Kisner, Will Zalatoris

8:11 a.m. – Justin Thomas, Tom Kim

8:20 a.m. – Scott Stallings, Ben Martin

8:29 a.m. – Joel Dahmen, Matthias Schwab

8:38 a.m. – Eric Cole, Chesson Hadley

8:47 a.m. – Alex Smalley, Jerry Kelly

8:56 a.m. – Maverick McNealy, Stephan Jaeger

9:11 a.m. – Shane Lowry, Keith Mitchell

9:20 a.m. – Austin Smotherman, Brendon Todd

9:29 a.m. – Sam Ryder, Sam Burns

9:38 a.m. – Brian Harman, Xander Schauffele

9:47 a.m. – Lucas Glover, Danny Willett

9:56 a.m. – Nate Lashley, Will Gordon

10:05 a.m. – Mark Hubbard, Gary Woodland

10:15 a.m. – Taylor Pendrith, Russell Henley

10:25 a.m. – Kramer Hickok, Tyler Duncan

10:35 a.m. – Cameron Young, Ryan Fox

10:50 a.m. – Francesco Molinari, Davis Thompson

11:00 a.m. – Tony Finau, Byeong Hun An

11:10 a.m. – Brandon Wu, Wyndham Clark

11:20 a.m. – Garrick Higgo, Hideki Matsuyama

11:30 a.m. – Tyrrell Hatton, Max Homa

11:40 a.m. – Ben Griffin, Si Woo Kim

11:50 a.m. – Collin Morikawa, Adam Svensson

12:00 p.m. – Jason Day, Viktor Hovland

12:10 p.m. – Taylor Moore, Justin Suh

12:20 p.m. – Dylan Wu, Adam Hadwin

12:35 p.m. – Rickie Fowler, Patrick Cantlay

12:45 p.m. – Denny McCarthy, Jordan Spieth

12:55 p.m. – Taylor Montgomery, Justin Rose

1:05 p.m. – David Lingmerth, Tom Hoge

1:15 p.m. – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Sungjae Im

1:25 p.m. – Aaron Rai, Chad Ramey

1:35 p.m. – Cam Davis, Tommy Fleetwood

1:45 p.m. – Scottie Scheffler, Min Woo Lee

The Players 2023 field:

Alexander, Tyson

An, Byeong Hun

Armour, Ryan

Baddeley, Aaron

Barnes, Erik

Bezuidenhout, Christiaan

Bradley, Keegan

Bramlett, Joseph

Brehm, Ryan

Buckley, Hayden

Burns, Sam

Cantlay, Patrick

Cink, Stewart

Clark, Wyndham

Cole, Eric

Conners, Corey

Dahmen, Joel

Davis, Cam

Day, Jason

Detry, Thomas

Duncan, Tyler

Echavarria, Nico

Endycott, Harrison

English, Harris

Finau, Tony

Fitzpatrick, Matt

Fleetwood, Tommy

Fowler, Rickie

Fox, Ryan

Frittelli, Dylan

Ghim, Doug

Glover, Lucas

Gordon, Will

Griffin, Ben

Griffin, Lanto

Grillo, Emiliano

Hadley, Chesson

Hadwin, Adam

Hahn, James

Hardy, Nick

Harman, Brian

Hatton, Tyrrell

Henley, Russell

Herbert, Lucas

Hickok, Kramer

Higgo, Garrick

Hodges, Lee

Hoge, Tom

Homa, Max

Horschel, Billy

Hossler, Beau

Hovland, Viktor

Hubbard, Mark

Hughes, Mackenzie

Im, Sungjae

Jaeger, Stephan

Kelly, Jerry

Kim, S.H.

Kim, Si Woo

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kisner, Kevin

Kitayama, Kurt

Kizzire, Patton

Knox, Russell

Kraft, Kelly

Kuchar, Matt

Laird, Martin

Lashley, Nate

Lee, K.H.

Lee, Min Woo

Lingmerth, David

Lipsky, David

List, Luke

Long, Adam

Lower, Justin

Lowry, Shane

Malnati, Peter

Martin, Ben

Matsuyama, Hideki

McCarthy, Denny

McGreevy, Max

McIlroy, Rory

McNealy, Maverick

Merritt, Troy

Mitchell, Keith

Molinari, Francesco

Montgomery, Taylor

Moore, Taylor

Morikawa, Collin

Mullinax, Trey

NeSmith, Matthew

Noren, Alex

Novak, Andrew

Palmer, Ryan

Pendrith, Taylor

Piercy, Scott

Poston, J.T.

Power, Seamus

Putnam, Andrew

Rahm, Jon

Rai, Aaron

Ramey, Chad

Reavie, Chez

Redman, Doc

Riley, Davis

Rodgers, Patrick

Rose, Justin

Ryder, Sam

Schauffele, Xander

Scheffler, Scottie

Schenk, Adam

Schwab, Matthias

Scott, Adam

Shelton, Robby

Sigg, Greyson

Simpson, Webb

Smalley, Alex

Smotherman, Austin

Spaun, J.J.

Spieth, Jordan

Stallings, Scott

Straka, Sepp

Streb, Robert

Streelman, Kevin

Suh, Justin

Svensson, Adam

Tarren, Callum

Taylor, Nick

Theegala, Sahith

Thomas, Justin

Thompson, Davis

Thompson, Michael

Todd, Brendon

Tway, Kevin

Vegas, Jhonattan

Wallace, Matt

Watney, Nick

Willett, Danny

Wise, Aaron

Woodland, Gary

Wu, Brandon

Wu, Dylan

Young, Cameron

Zalatoris, Will 

The Players 2023 prize purse, payout info

Total prize purse: $25m

WIN - $4,500,000

2. $2,725,000

3. $1,725,000

4. $1,225,000

5. $1,025,000

6. $906,250

7.$843,750

8. $781,250

9. $731,250

10. $681,250

11. $631,250

12. $581,250

13. $531,250

14. $481,250

15. $456,250

16. $431,250

17. $406,250

18. $381,250

19. $356,250

20. $331,250

21. $306,250

22. $281,250

23. $261,250

24. $241,250

25. $221,250

26. $201,250

27. $193,750

28. $186,250

29. $178,750

30. $171,250

31. $163,750

32. $156,250

33. $148,750

34. $142,500

35. $136,250

36. $130,000

37. $123,750

38. $118,750

39. $113,750

40. $108,750

41. $103,750

42. $98,750

43. $93,750

44. $88,750

45. $83,750

46. $78,750

47. $73,750

48. $69,750

49. $66,250

50. $64,250

51. $62,750

52. $61,250

53. $60,250

54. $59,250

55. $58,750

56. $58,250

57. $57,750

58. $57,250

59. $56,750

60. $56,250

61. $55,750

62. $55,250

63. $54,750

64. $54,250

65. $53,750

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