2001 Players Championship

Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh.[1] Because of bad weather, the tournament was completed on Monday, March 26. In the final pairing with 54-hole leader Jerry Kelly, Woods played the final nine holes on Monday.[2] He had also won the previous week, at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando.[3]

Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once, the Tiger Slam, as well as this Players, the unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.

Through 2020, Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year (2001), and he was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to four with Martin Kaymer in 2014.

Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).

1.Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship.

Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Stewart Cink, Hal Sutton, Robert Allenby, Carlos Franco, Jesper Parnevik, Tiger Woods, Tom Scherrer, Dennis Paulson, Notah Begay III, Loren Roberts, Brad Faxon, Michael Clark II, Ernie Els, Rocco Mediate, Scott Verplank, Rory Sabbatini, Chris DiMarco, Justin Leonard, David Duval, David Toms, Billy Andrade, John Huston, Duffy Waldorf, Steve Lowery, Mike Weir, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk, Garrett Willis, Mark Calcavecchia, Davis Love III, Joe Durant

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List.

Kirk Triplett, Tom Lehman, Steve Flesch, Nick Price, Stuart Appleby, Franklin Langham, Paul Azinger, Scott Hoch, Grant Waite, Jeff Maggert, Jonathan Kaye, Greg Chalmers, Sergio García, Dudley Hart, Scott Dunlap, Fred Couples, Jim Carter, Blaine McCallister, Skip Kendall, Kenny Perry, Frank Lickliter, Jeff Sluman, Andrew Magee, J. P. Hayes, Fred Funk, Jerry Kelly, Jean van de Velde, Len Mattiace, Lee Janzen, Stephen Ames, Carl Paulson, Tim Herron, Kevin Sutherland, Robert Damron, Brad Elder, Esteban Toledo, Paul Stankowski, Chris Riley, Steve Pate, Joel Edwards, Craig Stadler, Glen Day, Edward Fryatt, J. L. Lewis, Harrison Frazar, Matt Gogel, Greg Kraft, Jay Don Blake, Russ Cochran, Greg Norman, Brent Geiberger, Bill Glasson, Steve Jones, Bob Estes, John Cook, Mark Brooks, Brian Henninger, Joe Ogilvie, Tom Byrum, Mark Wiebe, Craig Parry, David Sutherland, Scott McCarron, Olin Browne, Brandel Chamblee, Woody Austin, Glen Hnatiuk, Brian Gay, Bradley Hughes, Shaun Micheel, Neal Lancaster, Billy Mayfair, Pete Jordan, Doug Barron, Jay Williamson, David Peoples, Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Bob Tway, Robin Freeman, Jimmy Green, Mathew Goggin, Jerry Smith, Gary Nicklaus, Brandt Jobe, Paul Goydos, Tommy Armour III, Joe Ozaki, Doug Dunakey, Bob Burns

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years (1990–1999). Beginning with the 1998 winners of these events, winners will be eligible for five years.

Nick Faldo, Ian Woosnam, Bernhard Langer, Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite, Corey Pavin, John Daly, Paul Lawrie

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998. The 1998 winner is eligible for three years.

Tom Purtzer, Fulton Allem

5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner.

6. Winners of official money World Golf Championship events in the last three years (1998–2000).

Darren Clarke

7. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational.

Lee Westwood, Colin Montgomerie, Thomas Bjørn, Pádraig Harrington, Michael Campbell, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Retief Goosen, José María Olazábal, Ángel Cabrera, Eduardo Romero

8, Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational.

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list.

10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Such player(s) would be added to the list.)

Source:[4][5]

• The Players Championship website
• Full Leaderboard