THE PLAYERS Championship announces field for 2025

THE PLAYERS Championship recently announced the field for the 2025 event, which returns to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass from March 11-16.

The 144-player field features 48 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and representation from 24 countries. Other notes on the field include:

• Eight PLAYERS Champions: Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024), Justin Thomas (2021), Rory McIlroy (2019), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Matt Kuchar (2012) and Adam Scott (2004).

• Two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler is looking to become the first player to win THE PLAYERS three times since Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978), and the first player to win a PGA Tour event three consecutive years since Steve Stricker (John Deere Classic, 2009-11).

• Justin Rose and Matt Kuchar will each make their 20th career appearance at THE PLAYERS. Adam Scott has the most appearances of any player in the field with 23.

• 24 players in the field are making their tournament debut, highlighted by five PGA Tour winners (in bold): Jacob Bridgeman, Brian Campbell, Rafa Campos, Laurie Canter, Frankie Capan III, Will Chandler, Patrick Fishburn, Ryan Gerard, Chris Gotterup, Max Greyserman, Joe Highsmith, Rico Hoey, Rasmus Højgaard, Mac Meissner, Matt McCarty, Chandler Phillips, Aldrich Potgieter, Kevin Roy, Isaiah Salinda, Hayden Springer, Jackson Suber, Jesper Svensson, Alejandro Tosti and Vince Whaley.

• The last man in the field as of 5 p.m. March 7 was Bud Cauley (No. 112 in the FedExCup standings through the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches) and the first alternate is Danny Walker (No. 114).

• There are four eligible players not committed: Ernie Els, Alex Noren, Brendon Todd and Tiger Woods.

If not otherwise exempt, the winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and the Puerto Rico Open will qualify for THE PLAYERS.

THE PLAYERS Championship field list as of Friday, March 7:

Ludvig Åberg, Byeong Hun An, Daniel Berger, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Akshay Bhatia, Keegan Bradley, Jacob Bridgeman, Sam Burns, Brian Campbell, Rafael Campos, Laurie Canter, Patrick Cantlay, Frankie Capan III, Bud Cauley, Will Chandler, Wyndham Clark, Eric Cole, Corey Conners,

Joel Dahmen, Cam Davis, Jason Day, Thomas Detry, Nick Dunlap, Nico Echavarria, Austin Eckroat, Harris English, Tony Finau, Patrick Fishburn, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler, Ryan Fox, Brice Garnett, Ryan Gerard, Doug Ghim, Lucas Glover, Will Gordon, Chris Gotterup,

Max Greyserman, Ben Griffin, Lanto Griffin, Emiliano Grillo, Adam Hadwin, Harry Hall, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Joe Highsmith, Ryo Hisatsune, Lee Hodges, Rico Hoey,Charley Hoffman, Tom Hoge, Nicolai Højgaard, Rasmus Højgaard, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Beau Hossler,

Viktor Hovland, Mark Hubbard, Mackenzie Hughes, Sungjae Im, Stephan Jaeger, Chan Kim, Michael Kim, Si Woo Kim, Tom Kim, Chris Kirk, Kurt Kitayama, Patton Kizzire, Jake Knapp, Ben Kohles, Matt Kuchar, Nate Lashley, K.H. Lee, Min Woo Lee, David Lipsky, Luke List, Justin Lower, Shane Lowry,

Robert MacIntyre, Peter Malnati, Hideki Matsuyama, Denny McCarthy, Matt McCarty, Max McGreevy, Rory McIlroy, Maverick McNealy, Mac Meissner, Keith Mitchell, Taylor Moore, Collin Morikawa, Trey Mullinax, Henrik Norlander, Andrew Novak, C.T. Pan, Matthieu Pavon,

Taylor Pendrith, Victor Perez, Chandler Phillips, J.T. Poston, Aldrich Potgieter, Seamus Power, Andrew Putnam, Aaron Rai, Chad Ramey, Davis Riley, Patrick Rodgers, Justin Rose, Kevin Roy, Sam Ryder, Isaiah Salinda, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Adam Schenk, Matti Schmid,

Adam Scott, Greyson Sigg, Ben Silverman, David Skinns, Alex Smalley, J.J. Spaun, Jordan Spieth, Hayden Springer, Sam Stevens, Sepp Straka, Jackson Suber, Adam Svensson, Jesper Svensson, Nick Taylor, Sahith Theegala, Justin Thomas, Davis Thompson, Alejandro Tosti, Sami Valimaki,

Erik van Rooyen, Jhonattan Vegas, Kris Ventura, Camilo Villegas, Vince Whaley, Gary Woodland, Cameron Young, Carson Young, Kevin Yu and Will Zalatoris.