First round Thursday, March 13, 2025Friday, March 14, 2025 The overnight lead was shared by
Lucas Glover,
J. J. Spaun and
Camilo Villegas, who recorded scores of 66 (6 under par).
Chandler Phillips became the first player to record three eagles in one round at The Players Championship. Play was suspended due to darkness at 7:34 p.m. EDT with 5 players yet to finish their round. Round 1 was completed on Friday morning.
Second round Friday, March 14, 2025 2021 winner
Justin Thomas tied the
TPC at Sawgrass course record of 62 set by
Tom Hoge.
Wyndham Clark withdrew due to a neck injury after playing the ninth hole.
Third round Saturday, March 15, 2025 On the fifth hole,
Akshay Bhatia and
Min Woo Lee found themselves in the bushes and decided to take a penalty stroke and drop their ball in the back of the driving range across a small lake.
Final round Sunday, March 16, 2025 Before play was scheduled to begin Sunday morning, tee times were moved up three hours and players were grouped in threes due to impending storms. Play was suspended at 1:15 p.m. EDT due to an expected line of thunderstorms. At the time of the weather delay,
Rory McIlroy held the sole lead, with
J. J. Spaun in second and
Tom Hoge,
Akshay Bhatia and
Danny Walker tied for third. Play resumed at 5:15 p.m. EDT. McIlroy began the final round four shots off the lead but moved within one after making eagle on the par-5 second hole. He moved into sole possession of the lead with another birdie on the 11th before play was suspended. Overnight leader Spaun made two bogeys on the front nine and did not make a birdie until the ninth hole as he fell from atop the leaderboard. Once play resumed, he hit into a bunker on the par-5 11th and made another bogey to fall three shots back of McIlroy. He then hit his approach on the 14th hole to within a foot and tapped in for birdie. He got up-and-down on the par-5 16th for another birdie and moved back into a tie with McIlroy, who made bogey on the 14th after driving into the trees and being forced to chip out into the fairway. McIlroy parred his last four holes to finish at 12-under, while Spaun had a 30-foot putt for birdie on the 18th green to win the championship but came up just short, forcing a Monday three-hole playoff.
Akshay Bhatia birdied three of his first four holes and was tied for the lead until two bogeys on the eighth and tenth holes. He parred his last eight holes to finish at 10-under, two shots out of the playoff.
Tom Hoge made four birdies on his front-nine and shot a six-under 66 to tie Bhatia for third place, along with
Lucas Glover.
Bud Cauley, who began the round a shot behind Spaun, was three-over through his first eight holes and ended up with a two-over 74 to fall back to sixth place.
Scorecard Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par : :
Playoff The three-hole aggregate playoff began on the par-5 16th hole. McIlroy found the green on his second shot and two-putted from 33 feet for birdie, while Spaun couldn't get up-and-down from a greenside bunker and settled for par. On the par-3 17th, Spaun hit his tee shot over the island green into the water hazard and ended up with a triple bogey, while McIlroy three-putted for bogey and took a three-shot lead into the final hole. Both players had to chip out into the fairway after hitting their tee shots into the trees on the right. McIlroy then hit his third shot to 17 feet and two-putted for a bogey to secure his second Players Championship title. This was the first playoff since
2015.
Scorecard ==Notes==