2004 Players Championship

The 2004 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 25–28 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 31st Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Adam Scott, age 23, held on for his second PGA Tour title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Pádraig Harrington, who started the final round five shots behind. With a two-shot lead on the 72nd hole, Scott put his approach shot in the water then sank a 10-foot (3 m) putt for bogey to win.^[2][3]

Defending champion Davis Love III finished twelve strokes back, in a tie for 33rd place.

Scott was the youngest champion for thirteen years, until Kim Si-woo won at age 21 in 2017. Previously, it was Fred Couples, age 24 in 1984.

Venue

This was the 23rd Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).^[1]

Eligibility requirements

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the previous year's Players Championship.

Ben Crane, Mike Weir, Davis Love III, Fred Couples, Steve Flesch, David Toms, Vijay Singh, Kenny Perry, Rory Sabbatini, Jonathan Kaye, Tiger Woods, Ben Curtis, Craig Stadler, Peter Jacobsen, Shaun Micheel, Darren Clarke, Kirk Triplett, Adam Scott, Bob Tway, J. L. Lewis, Tommy Armour III, John Huston, Stuart Appleby, Shigeki Maruyama, Retief Goosen, Chad Campbell, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, John Daly, Heath Slocum, Craig Parry, Todd Hamilton

2. The top 125 finishers on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.^[4]

Brad Faxon, Charles Howell III, Jay Haas, Justin Leonard, Chris DiMarco, Scott Verplank, Nick Price, Briny Baird, Chris Riley, Robert Allenby, Tim Herron, Jerry Kelly, Fred Funk, K. J. Choi, Bob Estes, Stewart Cink, Tim Petrovic, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Robert Gamez, Woody Austin, Geoff Ogilvy, Jonathan Byrd, Frank Lickliter, Peter Lonard, Brenden Pappas, Loren Roberts, Tim Clark, Scott McCarron, Len Mattiace, Tom Pernice Jr., Duffy Waldorf, Scott Hoch, Alex Čejka, Tom Lehman, Lee Janzen, Mark Calcavecchia, Joe Durant, Kevin Sutherland, Rod Pampling, Hidemichi Tanaka, Skip Kendall, Rich Beem, Stephen Ames, Aaron Baddeley, Carl Pettersson, Hal Sutton, Steve Lowery, Matt Gogel, Billy Mayfair, Glen Day, Brett Quigley, Harrison Frazar, David Gossett, Jeff Maggert, Cliff Kresge, Paul Stankowski, Luke Donald, Brandt Jobe, Joey Sindelar, David Peoples, Carlos Franco, Sergio García, J. J. Henry, Billy Andrade, Dean Wilson, Jeff Brehaut, Craig Barlow, Jay Williamson, Todd Fischer, Arron Oberholser, Patrick Sheehan, Stephen Allan, Cameron Beckman, John Senden, Tom Byrum, Neal Lancaster, Brent Geiberger, J. P. Hayes, David Frost, Robert Damron, Pat Perez, Jesper Parnevik, Notah Begay III, Richard S. Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Kent Jones, Pat Bates, Glen Hnatiuk, Esteban Toledo

3. Members in the top 125 non-members category whose official money for the previous year equals or exceeds the amount of official money earned by the player finishing in the 125th position on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.

Pádraig Harrington, Hank Kuehne, Freddie Jacobson, Stephen Leaney, Justin Rose, Thomas Bjørn

4. PGA Tour members from the current Tournament Winners category

Steve Stricker, Matt Kuchar, Spike McRoy, Chris Smith, Gene Sauers, Bob Burns

5. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship from 1994 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. Beginning with 1998, winners will be eligible for 5 years.

Greg Norman, Steve Elkington, José María Olazábal, Nick Faldo, Corey Pavin, Mark Brooks, Craig Perks, Paul Lawrie

6. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1994–1997).

7. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

8. Winners of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in the last three years (2002–2004).

9. Winners of the WGC-NEC Invitational and WGC-American Express Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

10. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational.

Paul Casey, Colin Montgomerie, Trevor Immelman, Ian Poulter, Brian Davis

11. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 10 leaders from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational.

12. If necessary to complete a field of 144 players, PGA Tour members from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on such list.

John Riegger

13. The Players Championship committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Note: Such a player would be added to the field.)

Source:^[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Adam Scott	65	−7
T2	Kevin Sutherland	66	−6
	Duffy Waldorf
T4	Thomas Bjørn	67	−5
	Bob Burns
	K. J. Choi
T7	Ernie Els	68	−4
	Sergio García
	Pádraig Harrington
	Brandt Jobe
	Scott Verplank

Source:^[6]

Second round

Friday, March 26, 2004

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jerry Kelly	69-66=135	−9
	Kevin Sutherland	66-69=135
T3	Ernie Els	68-69=137	−7
	Adam Scott	65-72=137
T5	Pádraig Harrington	68-70=138	−6
	Vijay Singh	70-68=138
T7	Bob Burns	67-72=139	−5
	Phil Mickelson	70-69=139
	Jeff Sluman	69-70=139
	Duffy Waldorf	66-73=139

Source:^[1]

Third round

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Adam Scott	65-72-69=206	−10
T2	Frank Lickliter	69-71-68=208	−8
	Kevin Sutherland	66-69-73=208
T4	Ernie Els	68-69-72=209	−7
	Jerry Kelly	69-66-74=209
	Phil Mickelson	70-69-70=209
	Kenny Perry	69-71-69=209
	Paul Stankowski	73-70-66=209
T9	Craig Parry	74-72-64=210	−6
	Vijay Singh	70-68-72=210
	Duffy Waldorf	66-73-71=210

Source:^[7]

Final round

Sunday, March 28, 2004

Champion

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Adam Scott	65-72-69-70=276	−12	1,440,000
2	Pádraig Harrington	68-70-73-66=277	−11	864,000
T3	Frank Lickliter	69-71-68-72=280	−8	416,000
	Phil Mickelson	70-69-70-71=280
	Kenny Perry	69-71-69-71=280
T6	Jay Haas	72-73-70-66=281	−7	268,000
	Jerry Kelly	69-66-74-72=281
	Kevin Sutherland	66-69-73-73=281
9	Shaun Micheel	70-76-69-67=282	−6	232,000
T10	Bob Burns	67-72-72-72=283	−5	200,000
	Paul Casey	72-70-69-72=283
	Fred Funk	73-71-68-71=283

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	Stephen Ames	75-69-72-68=284	−4	154,666
	Craig Parry	74-72-64-74=284
	Vijay Singh	70-68-72-74=284
T16	Woody Austin	76-69-66-74=285	−3	116,000
	Tom Byrum	74-71-71-69=285
	Matt Kuchar	74-67-71-73=285
	Geoff Ogilvy	73-70-72-70=285
	Paul Stankowski	73-70-66-76=285
	Tiger Woods (c)	75-69-68-73=285
T22	Thomas Bjørn	67-76-73-70=286	−2	80,000
	Stewart Cink	70-73-74-69=286
	Glen Day	71-75-67-73=286
	J. P. Hayes	72-73-72-69=286
T26	Cameron Beckman	70-71-72-74=287	−1	56,800
	Darren Clarke	71-74-73-69=287
	Steve Elkington (c)	69-76-70-72=287
	Ernie Els	68-69-72-78=287
	John Huston	72-71-71-73=287
	Jeff Sluman	69-70-73-75=287
	Scott Verplank	68-75-73-71=287
T33	Robert Allenby	71-73-70-74=288	E	39,644
	Briny Baird	71-74-70-73=288
	Alex Čejka	69-71-73-75=288
	Davis Love III (c)	77-68-70-73=288
	Jeff Maggert	73-73-70-72=288
	Len Mattiace	74-69-74-71=288
	Jesper Parnevik	72-71-73-72=288
	Corey Pavin	74-67-74-73=288
	Ian Poulter	70-73-71-74=288
T42	Pat Bates	73-73-73-70=289	+1	24,087
	Chad Campbell	75-69-71-74=289
	K. J. Choi	67-79-69-74=289
	Brad Faxon	70-75-73-71=289
	Scott Hoch	70-71-77-71=289
	Justin Leonard (c)	75-69-72-73=289
	Colin Montgomerie	73-73-73-70=289
	David Peoples	72-72-73-72=289
	Nick Price (c)	75-69-73-72=289
	Brett Quigley	73-73-69-74=289
	Rory Sabbatini	73-68-75-73=289
T53	Sergio García	68-73-72-77=290	+2	18,432
	Matt Gogel	72-71-70-77=290
	Shigeki Maruyama	70-73-74-73=290
	Scott McCarron	76-70-69-75=290
	Tim Petrovic	71-72-74-73=290
T58	Joe Durant	74-71-72-74=291	+3	17,360
	Carlos Franco	74-70-74-73=291
	Todd Hamilton	71-72-76-72=291
	Billy Mayfair	76-70-70-75=291
	Rod Pampling	73-71-72-75=291
	Justin Rose	73-73-70-75=291
	John Senden	73-72-70-76=291
	Heath Slocum	73-73-72-73=291
T66	Mark Calcavecchia	71-72-72-77=292	+4	16,240
	Ben Crane	71-72-71-78=292
	Spike McRoy	74-71-75-72=292
	Arron Oberholser	73-73-75-71=292
	Loren Roberts	73-70-79-70=292
	Craig Stadler	70-76-74-72=292
T72	Nick Faldo	71-75-71-76=293	+5	15,600
	Tom Pernice Jr.	72-71-70-80=293
T74	Brandt Jobe	68-75-76-75=294	+6	15,200
	Joey Sindelar	73-70-73-78=294
	Duffy Waldorf	66-73-71-84=294
T77	Bernhard Langer	71-74-73-77=295	+7	14,800
	Bob Tway	69-71-78-77=295
79	John Daly	69-73-76-80=298	+10	14,560
80	Peter Jacobsen	72-73-71-83=299	+11	14,400
T81	Greg Norman (c)	72-73-77-79=301	+13	14,160
	Hidemichi Tanaka	72-71-74-84=301
83	Neal Lancaster	72-71-80-79=302	+14	13,920
CUT	Stuart Appleby	71-76=147	+3
	Lee Janzen (c)	75-72=147
	Jonathan Kaye	76-71=147
	Skip Kendall	73-74=147
	Cliff Kresge	71-76=147
	Paul Lawrie	74-73=147
	J. L. Lewis	74-73=147
	John Rollins	72-75=147
	Patrick Sheehan	74-73=147
	Kirk Triplett	71-76=147
	Jonathan Byrd	73-75=148	+4
	Ben Curtis	75-73=148
	Luke Donald	72-76=148
	Todd Fischer	72-76=148
	Brenden Pappas	77-71=148
	Pat Perez	73-75=148
	John Riegger	74-74=148
	Gene Sauers	74-74=148
	Esteban Toledo	71-77=148
	David Toms	73-75=148
	Robert Damron	76-73=149	+5
	Robert Gamez	70-79=149
	J. J. Henry	74-75=149
	Tom Lehman	74-75=149
	Craig Perks (c)	70-79=149
	Mike Weir	74-75=149
	Notah Begay III	72-78=150	+6
	Tim Clark	73-77=150
	Bob Estes	72-78=150
	Steve Flesch	76-74=150
	Charles Howell III	75-75=150
	José María Olazábal	76-74=150
	Carl Pettersson	75-75=150
	Steve Stricker	73-77=150
	Dean Wilson	75-75=150
	Stephen Allan	76-75=151	+7
	Tommy Armour III	75-76=151
	Rich Beem	71-80=151
	Brian Davis	77-74=151
	Chris DiMarco	74-77=151
	Freddie Jacobson	73-78=151
	Kent Jones	74-77=151
	Hal Sutton (c)	74-77=151
	Fred Couples (c)	74-78=152	+8
	Retief Goosen	77-75=152
	Chris Smith	77-75=152
	Jeff Brehaut	77-76=153	+9
	Mark Brooks	78-76=154	+10
	David Frost	76-78=154
	Tim Herron	76-78=154
	Hank Kuehne	72-82=154
	Stephen Leaney	78-76=154
	Steve Lowery	76-78=154
	Chris Riley	75-79=154
	Aaron Baddeley	74-81=155	+11
	Richard S. Johnson	75-80=155
	Peter Lonard	80-75=155
	Jay Williamson	77-78=155
	Billy Andrade	76-80=156	+12
	Harrison Frazar	77-79=156
	David Gossett	79-77=156
	Glen Hnatiuk	78-78=156
	Craig Barlow	81-78=159	+15
WD	Brent Geiberger	75	+3
	Trevor Immelman

Source:^[8]

Scorecard

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
Scott	−10	−11	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−12	−13	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−12
Harrington	−5	−4	−3	−4	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−10	−10	−11
Lickliter	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8
Mickelson	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8
Perry	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−8	−9	−9	−8
Sutherland	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Source:^[9]

References

External links

• The Players Championship website
• Full Leaderboard