2000 Players Championship

Hal Sutton, the champion seventeen years earlier in 1983, led by a stroke after each round and won his second Players, a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods.^[3] Both carded scores of 71 (−1) in the final round, and Sutton hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation. Because of thunderstorms and heavy rain, the final round was completed on Monday, March 27. In the last pairing, Sutton and Woods were on the twelfth hole when play was suspended on Sunday night.^[1][4]

Late in the third round on Saturday, Sutton had gone 25 holes without making a bogey. At the par-3 17th hole, he hit his tee shot in the water and took a triple-bogey six, which trimmed his lead over Woods to just one stroke.^[5]

Traditionally the richest event in golf, this was the first Players with a seven-figure winner's share, at $1.08 million. Sutton's win in 1983 was the first Players with a six-figure first prize. Woods won the event the following year.

Defending champion David Duval finished nine strokes back, in a tie for thirteenth place.

This was the 19th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).^[1]

Summarize Timeline Fact Check

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 1999 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 1999 Official Money List^[6]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last 10 years (1990-1999)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990-98

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

6. Winners of World Golf Championship events in the last three years, beginning with the 1999 winners

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

8. Any players, not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2000 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2000 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 field.)

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