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Players Championship gives Scottie Scheffler a shot at history

AP photo by Eric Gay / Scottie Scheffler hits from the 17th tee of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass during the final round of The Players Championship on March 12, 2023, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Scheffler will attempt to become the first repeat champion in the event's history when the 50th edition of the tournament tees off Thursday.
AP photo by Eric Gay / Scottie Scheffler hits from the 17th tee of the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass during the final round of The Players Championship on March 12, 2023, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Scheffler will attempt to become the first repeat champion in the event's history when the 50th edition of the tournament tees off Thursday.

By DOUG FERGUSON / The Associated Press 7 min read

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods never did it. Neither did Jack Nicklaus, even before The Players Championship found its home in a former swamp now known as TPC Sawgrass.

This is the 50th edition of the PGA Tour’s premier event, and no one has ever repeated as tournament champion. Scottie Scheffler will be the latest to try when competition begins Thursday, and the odds are as much in his favor as any of the previous winners.

That includes Woods, who got only one crack at it — in 2002 — didn’t break 70 and tied for 14th.

“I just think it’s a golf course where you don’t see a lot of repeat winners in general,” Scheffler said. “There’s not a guy that you have seen win on this golf course a bunch.”

Only five players have won twice on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Nicklaus won The Players Championship three times, but that was before it moved permanently to this Pete Dye arena of endless thrills and that one (mostly) island green for the par-3 17th hole.