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A year ago, only a 72nd-hole lip-out denied Wyndham Clark a chance to win The Players Championship. In 2025, Clark didn't even make it to the weekend. Clark withdrew from The Players Championship ...

James Martin Symons was born on May 7, 1937, the first-born child of Stella Pauline Barton and James Lyndall Symons. Jim grew up in Murrayville, Illinois, a small, midwestern town surrounded by ...

Rory McIlroy won the 2025 Players Championship after a playoff against J.J. Spaun. The tournament concluded on Monday following a weather delay on Sunday. McIlroy took home $4.5 million of the $25 ...

Starting early this month, he played the Cognizant Classic, followed by the Arnold Palmer Invitational, followed by this week’s Players Championship. “My wife is upset that I’ve only been ...

Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun will face off in a three-hole playoff for The Players Championship title after finishing tied at 12-under. PONTE VEDRA BEACH — Rory McIlroy feels like he should have ...

Lamine Yamal (left) and Dani Olmo (right) were key players in Spain's 2024 European Cup title run. / IMAGO/Jan Huebner The FIFA international break offers little to no recovery time for the most ...

On Sunday, Rory McIlroy had to come from behind to get himself into a playoff at The Players Championship. On Monday, he won the playoff with relative ease over J.J. Spaun to win golf's so-called ...

The tennis players’ association that was co-founded by Novak Djokovic has filed multiple lawsuits around the world against the sport’s tours and governing bodies. The suit filed in the United ...

The Players Championship not only features one of the most interesting golf courses in the sport — but it also boasts a unique playoff format that highlights three of its most exciting holes.

The biggest purse and winner’s share of the 2025 PGA Tour season is up for grabs on Sunday at the Players Championship. The Players purse is a whopping $25 million, the third straight year it ...

Scottie Scheffler, Players Championship winner in 2023 and 2024, stood 5 under through two rounds Scheffler closed his round six shots behind Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia No golfer has won The ...