2021 Players Championship

The field consists of 154 players meeting various criteria; they include tournament winners on the PGA Tour since the previous Players Championship, recent winners of major championships, The Players and World Golf Championships, and leading players in the FedEx Cup standings from the current and preceding seasons.^[5][6] The field was expanded from the usual 144 with the late decision to include the top 125 players from the 2019–20 FedEx Cup standings.^[7]

This list details the eligibility criteria for the 2021 Players Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were eligible is indicated in parentheses.

1. Winners of official PGA Tour events since the last completed Players Championship (2019)

• Harris English (15,17),^[a] Brooks Koepka (5,6,10,15,17),^[b] Matthew Wolff (15,17)^[c] and Tiger Woods (2,7,15) did not play.

2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2016–2020)

• Danny Willett did not play.^[d]

3. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2015–2019)

4. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2015–2019)

5. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2015–2020)

6. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2015–2020)

7. Recent winners of the Tour Championship (2017–2018)

8. Recent winners of the WGC Championship (2018–2021)

9. Recent winners of the WGC Match Play (2018–2019)

10. Recent winners of the WGC Invitational (2017–2020)

• Hideki Matsuyama (15,17)

11. Recent winners of the WGC-HSBC Champions (2017–2019)

• Justin Rose (17) did not play.^[e]

12. Recent winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (2018–2021)

13. Recent winners of the Memorial Tournament (2017–2020)

14. Recent winners of the Genesis Invitational (2020–2021)

15. The top 125 players who earned the most FedEx Cup points from the start of the 2019–20 season to February 29, 2021

• Zac Blair and Bud Cauley did not play.^[13]

16. The top 125 players who fulfilled the terms of a major medical extension

17. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 1, 2021

18. The Senior Players champion from the previous year

19. Remaining positions and alternates are filled through the current season's FedEx Cup standings as of March 1, 2021

20. The top 125 players in the 2019–20 FedEx Cup regular season standings^[f]

Thursday, March 11, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021

Sergio García, champion in 2008, took the first round lead with a 7-under-par 65, two strokes ahead of Brian Harman. Defending champion (2019) Rory McIlroy was 14 strokes back at 79. Play was suspended due to darkness, with 21 players on the course.^[14]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Sergio García	65	−7
2	Brian Harman	67	−5
T3	Corey Conners	68	−4
	Matt Fitzpatrick
	Shane Lowry
T6	Bryson DeChambeau	69	−3
	Tom Hoge
	Denny McCarthy
	Rory Sabbatini
	Lee Westwood

Source:^[3]

Friday, March 12, 2021
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Lee Westwood led with a 9-under-par score of 135, a stroke ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick. The first round leader, Sergio García, had a 72 and was tied for third place with Chris Kirk who had a second round 65. Play was again suspended due to darkness, with 8 players still to complete their second rounds.^[15] 71 players scoring even par or better, made the cut.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Lee Westwood	69-66=135	−9
2	Matt Fitzpatrick	68-68=136	−8
T3	Sergio García	65-72=137	−7
	Chris Kirk	72-65=137
T5	Bryson DeChambeau	69-69=138	−6
	Doug Ghim	71-67=138
	Brian Harman	71-67=138
	Charley Hoffman	70-68=138
	Im Sung-jae	72-66=138
	Denny McCarthy	69-69=138

Source:^[3]

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Lee Westwood had a third round of 68 to lead by two strokes over Bryson DeChambeau. The previous week, the two had played together in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, DeChambeau beating Westwood by a stroke. Justin Thomas shot a third round 64 to be tied for third place with Doug Ghim.^[16]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Lee Westwood	69-66-68=203	−13
2	Bryson DeChambeau	69-69-67=205	−11
T3	Doug Ghim	71-67-68=206	−10
	Justin Thomas	71-71-64=206
T5	Paul Casey	73-67-67=207	−9
	Brian Harman	71-67-69=207
	Jon Rahm	72-68-67=207
T8	Matt Fitzpatrick	68-68-72=208	−8
	Sergio García	65-72-71=208
	Chris Kirk	72-65-71=208

Source:^[3]

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Justin Thomas had a final round four-under-par 68 to finish with a score of 274, 14-under-par, to win by a stroke over Lee Westwood. Thomas was four shots behind Westwood after a bogey at the 8th hole. He then went birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie from the 9th to the 12th holes to take a two stroke lead. Westwood had a birdie at the 14th but made a three-putt bogey at the short 17th to drop two behind Thomas, level with his playing partner Bryson DeChambeau, who had eagled the 16th hole. Westwood had a birdie at the final hole to finish runner-up, with DeChambeau tied for third place with Brian Harman.^[2]

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Justin Thomas	71-71-64-68=274	−14	2,700,000
2	Lee Westwood	69-66-68-72=275	−13	1,635,000
T3	Bryson DeChambeau	69-69-67-71=276	−12	885,000
	Brian Harman	67-71-69-69=276
T5	Paul Casey	73-67-67-70=277	−11	579,375
	Talor Gooch	71-68-71-67=277
7	Corey Conners	68-72-72-66=278	−10	506,250
8	Shane Lowry	68-74-69-68=279	−9	468,750
T9	Daniel Berger	74-68-71-67=280	−8	339,375
	Matt Fitzpatrick	68-68-72-72=280
	Sergio García (c)	65-72-71-72=280
	Charles Howell III	73-70-71-66=280
	Kim Si-woo (c)	72-70-67-71=280
	Jason Kokrak	70-72-71-67=280
	Victor Perez	73-71-69-67=280
	Jon Rahm	72-68-67-73=280

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T17	Charley Hoffman	70-68-76-67=281	−7	221,250
	Im Sung-jae	72-66-77-66=281
	Ryan Palmer	70-72-68-71=281
	Cameron Smith	71-73-65-72=281
21	Will Zalatoris	70-71-70-71=282	−6	183,750
T22	Abraham Ancer	72-70-68-73=283	−5	135,964
	Dylan Frittelli	71-68-76-68=283
	Tom Hoge	69-71-71-72=283
	Adam Long	70-74-67-72=283
	Tyler McCumber	72-69-72-70=283
	J. T. Poston	76-68-69-70=283
	Patrick Reed	70-72-70-71=283
T29	Keegan Bradley	70-72-73-69=284	−4	96,125
	Doug Ghim	71-67-68-78=284
	Adam Hadwin	74-69-71-70=284
	Harry Higgs	71-73-67-73=284
	Joaquín Niemann	73-71-70-70=284
	Cameron Percy	73-70-73-68=284
T35	Jason Day (c)	70-71-71-73=285	−3	73,125
	Lanto Griffin	73-71-68-73=285
	Patton Kizzire	70-69-72-74=285
	Phil Mickelson (c)	71-72-71-71=285
	Ryan Moore	75-69-71-70=285
	Brendon Todd	74-69-71-71=285
T41	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	70-72-71-73=286	−2	53,250
	James Hahn	76-67-74-69=286
	Zach Johnson	75-68-72-71=286
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	72-71-71-72=286
	Collin Morikawa	71-73-76-66=286
	Louis Oosthuizen	73-69-74-70=286
	Brendan Steele	72-72-71-71=286
T48	Lucas Glover	75-69-72-71=287	−1	38,036
	Dustin Johnson	73-70-73-71=287
	Chris Kirk	72-65-71-79=287
	Adam Scott (c)	72-71-73-71=287
	Jordan Spieth	70-74-68-75=287
	Nick Taylor	70-74-72-71=287
	Michael Thompson	71-73-72-71=287
T55	Ryan Armour	74-68-71-75=288	E	34,950
	Matt Jones	73-71-70-74=288
	Denny McCarthy	69-69-75-75=288
T58	Kramer Hickok	74-68-72-75=289	+1	34,050
	Billy Horschel	71-73-71-74=289
	Brian Stuard	74-68-72-75=289
T61	Scott Brown	71-70-72-77=290	+2	33,000
	Scott Harrington	72-71-77-70=290
	Harold Varner III	70-73-71-76=290
	Jhonattan Vegas	73-71-72-74=290
T65	Patrick Rodgers	74-70-73-74=291	+3	32,100
	Aaron Wise	73-71-72-75=291
T67	Russell Knox	71-73-72-76=292	+4	31,500
	Rory Sabbatini	69-75-74-74=292
T69	Martin Laird	73-71-76-73=293	+5	30,900
	Scott Piercy	73-70-71-79=293
71	Nate Lashley	74-69-75-76=294	+6	30,450
CUT	Brice Garnett	74-71=145	+1
	Emiliano Grillo	71-74=145
	Tyrrell Hatton	76-69=145
	Mark Hubbard	78-67=145
	Marc Leishman	71-74=145
	Luke List	73-72=145
	Hideki Matsuyama	76-69=145
	Sebastián Muñoz	71-74=145
	Scottie Scheffler	74-71=145
	Adam Schenk	72-73=145
	Bernd Wiesberger	75-70=145
	Stewart Cink	76-70=146	+2
	Joel Dahmen	72-74=146
	Tommy Fleetwood	75-71=146
	Bo Hoag	74-72=146
	Max Homa	73-73=146
	Viktor Hovland	72-74=146
	Danny Lee	72-74=146
	Peter Malnati	76-70=146
	Pat Perez	77-69=146
	Andrew Putnam	74-72=146
	Doc Redman	73-73=146
	Robby Shelton	75-71=146
	Webb Simpson (c)	71-75=146
	Kevin Streelman	73-73=146
	Bubba Watson	76-70=146
	Gary Woodland	70-76=146
	Tony Finau	78-69=147	+3
	Branden Grace	74-73=147
	Mackenzie Hughes	75-72=147
	Andrew Landry	72-75=147
	Tom Lewis	73-74=147
	Robert MacIntyre	74-73=147
	Graeme McDowell	73-74=147
	Francesco Molinari	76-71=147
	Sam Ryder	72-75=147
	Scott Stallings	76-71=147
	Robert Streb	76-71=147
	Steve Stricker	70-77=147
	Cameron Tringale	73-74=147
	Cameron Champ	75-73=148	+4
	Jason Dufner	73-75=148
	Russell Henley	75-73=148
	Alex Norén	78-70=148
	Ian Poulter	77-71=148
	Chez Reavie	73-75=148
	Xander Schauffele	76-72=148
	Patrick Cantlay	74-75=149	+5
	Keith Mitchell	76-73=149
	Carlos Ortiz	73-76=149
	Brandt Snedeker	74-75=149
	Sepp Straka	74-75=149
	Austin Cook	77-73=150	+6
	Cameron Davis	76-74=150
	Rickie Fowler (c)	77-73=150
	Kevin Kisner	75-75=150
	Anirban Lahiri	78-72=150
	Vaughn Taylor	76-74=150
	Kristoffer Ventura	74-76=150
	Matt Kuchar (c)	76-75=151	+7
	Troy Merritt	74-77=151
	Richy Werenski	80-71=151
	Wyndham Clark	79-73=152	+8
	Beau Hossler	74-78=152
Jerry Kelly	73-79=152
Pan Cheng-tsung	78-74=152
Charl Schwartzel	77-75=152
Zhang Xinjun	76-76=152
Tyler Duncan	80-73=153	+9
Matthew NeSmith	81-72=153
Brian Gay	80-74=154	+10
Rory McIlroy (c)	79-75=154
Henrik Norlander	80-74=154
Hudson Swafford	82-73=155	+11
Sam Burns	81-76=157	+13
Kang Sung-hoon	76-81=157
Maverick McNealy	80-77=157
Jimmy Walker	83-74=157
Jim Herman	81-77=158	+14
Henrik Stenson (c)	85-74=159	+15
An Byeong-hun	83-79=162	+18
Kyle Stanley	83-84=167	+23
WD	Kevin Na	81	+9

Source:^[3]

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4
Thomas	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−13	−14	−14	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14
Westwood	−14	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−12	−13
DeChambeau	−11	−11	−11	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−10	−10	−12	−12	−12
Harman	−9	−10	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12
Casey	−9	−10	−10	−9	−8	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Gooch	−5	−6	−6	−7	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Conners	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
Lowry	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[3]

• Official website
• Official Media Guide