Here’s how the $25 million purse will be paid out Sunday at the PGA Tour’s flagship event, The Players Championship.
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Sunday will mark the first time Ludvig Åberg and Michael Thorbjornsen will be paired together at The Players Championship, but not at TPC Sawgrass.
The 26-year-old Åberg, searching for what would be his third – and easily most consequential – title of his young PGA Tour career, leads The Players Championship by three shots over Michael Thorbjornsen.
Here’s a look at tee times and pairings for the final round of the PGA Tour’s flagship event, The Players Championship, as well as the Sunday weather forecast.
Matt Fitzpatrick is climbing up the leaderboard at the The Players Championship, thanks in large part to precision tee shots like he had here on the 17th hole. Fitzpatrick birdie putt to climb into a tie for second place with Cameron Young.
Scottie Scheffler was honest about his chances to contend for a third Players Championship on Sunday where he’ll enter the final round facing a big deficit. The No. 1-ranked player did like the third round he put together at TPC Sawgrass though.
Scottie Scheffler shot a bogey-free 67 on Saturday at TPC Sawgrass to move up the leaderboard at the 2026 Players Championship. The two-time Players champion chuckled when asked if he was having more fun after making the cut. He called the round “less stressful.”
Golf Channel anchor Damon Hack, in a case for making golf more compelling from an entertainment perspective, referenced two popular forms of entertainment in a discussion on “Live from The Players.” Hack wants consequential Fridays with “juice,” and spoke how about satisfying that need is “chess not checkers.”
Ludvig Åberg is being chased by Xander Schauffele and Cameron Young at The Players Championship. Here’s how to watch third-round coverage Saturday on Golf Channel.
Two people were killed in a Friday night shooting at a Walgreens located about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The suspect fled onto the golf course and caused an early morning lockdown Saturday, Golf Channel’s Rex Hoggard reports. The suspect was arrested an hour north in Nassau County, Fla. Third-round play was not impacted by the incident.
The gates to The Players Championship did not open until 9 a.m. ET because of “operational considerations.”