1999 Players Championship

1999 Players Championship
Tournament information
Dates	March 25–28, 1999
Location	Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida; 30°11′53″N 81°23′38″W / 30.198°N 81.394°W
Course(s)	TPC Sawgrass,; Stadium Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,093 yards (6,486 m)
Field	145 players, 79 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	$5.0 million
Winner's share	$900,000
Champion
	David Duval
	285 (−3)
Location map
	TPC Sawgrass Location in the United States TPC Sawgrass Location in Florida
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The 1999 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 26th Players Championship.

David Duval won his only Players Championship, two strokes head of runner-up Scott Gump.^[2] The victory moved him to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, ahead of Tiger Woods,^[3] who finished six strokes back in a tie for tenth place.^[4]^[5]

Duval's father Bob, age 52, won the same day at the Emerald Coast Classic near Pensacola for his first victory on the Senior Tour. Both led entering the final round.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Duval's winning score of 285 (−3) remains the highest at the Stadium Course, the venue since 1982. The lowest is 264 (−24) by Greg Norman in 1994.

Defending champion Justin Leonard finished nine strokes back, in a tie for 23rd place.

Venue

This was the 18th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course; its 1999 setup measured 7,093 yards (6,486 m),^[1] an increase of 143 yards (131 m).

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 1998 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 1998 Official Money List^[6]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open (only since 1990), and PGA Championship in the last 10 years (1989-1998)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1989-1998)

5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner

6. Winner of the World Golf Championship events in the last three years, beginning with the 1999 winners

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

8. Any players, not otherwise eligibility, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 1999 Official Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 1999 Official Money List below the 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their position on the money list

Carlos Franco

10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame

Seve Ballesteros

Source:^[7]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 25, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Bob Estes	68	−4
T1	Brian Watts	68	−4
T3	David Duval	69	−3
	Joe Ozaki
	Hal Sutton
T6	Dudley Hart	70	−2
	Bradley Hughes
	Skip Kendall
	Davis Love III
	Billy Mayfair
	Chris Perry
	Jeff Sluman
	Kirk Triplett
	Tiger Woods

Second round

Friday, March 26, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Joe Ozaki	69-68=137	−7
2	David Duval	69-69=138	−6
3	Bruce Lietzke	71-68=139	−5
T4	Ernie Els	73-67=140	−4
	Davis Love III	70-70=140
	Curtis Strange	71-69=140
T7	Fulton Allem	74-67=141	−3
	Fred Funk	72-69=141
	Frank Lickliter	71-70=141
	Nick Price	74-67=141
	Tiger Woods	70-71=141

Source:^[8]

Third round

Saturday, March 27, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	David Duval	69-69-74=212	−4
T2	Skip Kendall	70-73-70=213	−3
T2	Phil Mickelson	71-71-71=213	−3
T4	Scott Hoch	72-70-73=215	−1
	Colin Montgomerie	72-70-73=215
	Nick Price	74-67-74=215
T7	Scott Gump	72-74-70=216	E
	Mark O'Meara	72-73-71=216
	Payne Stewart	72-70-74=216
	Steve Stricker	73-73-70=216
	Hal Sutton	69-74-73=216
	Tiger Woods	70-71-75=216

Source:^[9]

Final round

Sunday, March 28, 1999

Champion
(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	David Duval	69-69-74-73=285	−3	900,000
2	Scott Gump	72-74-70-71=287	−1	540,000
3	Nick Price (c)	74-67-74-73=288	E	340,000
T4	Fred Couples (c)	77-71-73-68=289	+1	220,000
T4	Hal Sutton (c)	69-74-73-73=289	+1	220,000
T6	Scott Hoch	72-70-73-75=290	+2	161,875
	Mark O'Meara	72-73-71-74=290
	Steve Stricker	73-73-70-74=290
	Lee Westwood	73-69-75-73=290
T10	Mark Brooks	71-77-71-72=291	+3	107,142
	Mark Calcavecchia	76-70-72-73=291
	Skip Kendall	70-73-70-78=291
	Davis Love III (c)	70-70-78-73=291
	Naomichi Ozaki	69-68-81-73=291
	Joey Sindelar	72-71-74-74=291
	Tiger Woods	70-71-75-75=291

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T17	Ernie Els	73-67-80-72=292	+4	75,000
	Jim Furyk	71-76-73-72=292
	Duffy Waldorf	71-71-75-75=292
T20	John Huston	75-72-73-73=293	+5	60,333
	Vijay Singh	77-70-74-72=293
	David Toms	73-75-74-71=293
T23	Brad Fabel	73-70-80-71=294	+6	40,166
	Justin Leonard (c)	72-72-75-75=294
	Frank Lickliter	71-70-76-77=294
	Larry Mize	73-71-73-77=294
	Colin Montgomerie	72-70-73-79=294
	Jesper Parnevik	71-73-74-76=294
	Payne Stewart	72-70-74-78=294
	Curtis Strange	71-69-78-76=294
	Esteban Toledo	73-75-72-74=294
T32	Gabriel Hjertstedt	73-72-74-76=295	+7	27,666
	Franklin Langham	71-75-75-74=295
	Bruce Lietzke	71-68-80-76=295
	Phil Mickelson	71-71-71-82=295
	Chris Perry	70-74-73-78=295
	Scott Verplank	76-71-73-75=295
T38	Steve Elkington (c)	71-73-78-74=296	+8	20,000
	Fred Funk	72-69-76-79=296
	Paul Goydos	71-74-76-75=296
	Dudley Hart	70-74-76-76=296
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	76-69-79-72=296
	Bernhard Langer	73-72-77-74=296
	Kirk Triplett	70-75-76-75=296
	Brian Watts	68-74-78-76=296
T46	Chris DiMarco	74-72-76-75=297	+9	13,600
	Brad Faxon	72-75-79-71=297
	Brent Geiberger	74-71-78-74=297
	Jeff Maggert	73-71-76-77=297
	Jeff Sluman	70-72-79-76=297
	Tommy Tolles	72-73-76-76=297
T52	Doug Barron	72-73-77-76=298	+10	11,600
	Robert Damron	74-72-76-76=298
	Dan Forsman	76-70-78-74=298
	David Frost	74-72-74-78=298
	Jeff Gallagher	71-73-77-77=298
	José María Olazábal	78-70-76-74=298
T58	Jay Don Blake	77-71-79-72=299	+11	11,050
	Barry Cheesman	73-74-73-79=299
	John Cook	78-69-78-74=299
	Steve Pate	74-74-72-79=299
T62	Billy Andrade	73-74-81-72=300	+12	10,500
	Bob Estes	68-74-80-78=300
	Bob Friend	74-69-87-70=300
	Bradley Hughes	70-74-78-78=300
	Greg Kraft	71-74-82-73=300
	Craig Stadler	72-70-80-78=300
	Tom Watson	75-71-79-75=300
69	Craig Parry	75-73-73-80=301	+13	10,100
70	Tom Byrum	76-72-80-74=302	+14	10,000
T71	Jim Carter	76-72-76-80=304	+16	9,700
	Darren Clarke	77-70-79-78=304
	Russ Cochran	76-70-79-79=304
	Frank Nobilo	72-71-80-81=304
	Corey Pavin	74-74-82-74=304
76	Joe Durant	74-74-78-79=305	+17	9,400
T77	Fulton Allem	74-67-83-82=306	+18	9,250
T77	Tom Kite (c)	76-72-79-79=306	+18	9,250
CUT	Stuart Appleby	77-72=149	+5
	Paul Azinger	76-73=149
	Brandel Chamblee	78-71=149
	Stewart Cink	74-75=149
	Lee Janzen (c)	75-74=149
	Tom Lehman	75-74=149
	Doug Martin	72-77=149
	Billy Mayfair	70-79=149
	Rocco Mediate	71-78=149
	Greg Norman (c)	72-77=149
	Mike Reid	75-74=149
	Loren Roberts	77-72=149
	Scott Simpson	76-73=149
	Paul Stankowski	74-75=149
	Kevin Sutherland	75-74=149
	Ted Tryba	78-71=149
	Michael Bradley	77-73=150	+6
	Ben Crenshaw	76-74=150
	Bill Glasson	77-73=150
	Tim Herron	72-78=150
	Neal Lancaster	74-76=150
	Steve Lowery	77-73=150
	Scott McCarron	79-71=150
	Larry Rinker	77-73=150
	David Sutherland	73-77=150
	Kevin Wentworth	73-77=150
	Clark Dennis	75-76=151	+7
	Lee Rinker	74-77=151
	Bob Tway	75-76=151
	Mark Wiebe	78-73=151
	Ben Bates	74-78=152	+8
	Trevor Dodds	75-77=152
	Carlos Franco	78-74=152
	Brandt Jobe	73-79=152
	Steve Jones	74-78=152
	J. L. Lewis	75-77=152
	Ian Woosnam	80-72=152
	Olin Browne	79-74=153	+9
	Harrison Frazar	80-73=153
	Tom Purtzer	75-78=153
	Wayne Grady	77-77=154	+10
	Mike Hulbert	77-77=154
	Tom Pernice Jr.	79-75=154
	Phil Tataurangi	78-76=154
	Andrew Magee	81-74=155	+11
	Len Mattiace	76-79=155
	Blaine McCallister	78-77=155
	Lee Porter	78-77=155
	Mike Springer	78-77=155
	Grant Waite	82-73=155
	Willie Wood	77-78=155
	Fuzzy Zoeller	76-79=155
	Glen Day	79-77=156	+12
	Steve Flesch	78-78=156
	Jay Haas	82-74=156
	Tommy Armour III	81-76=157	+13
	Seve Ballesteros	76-81=157
	J. P. Hayes	81-76=157
	Peter Jacobsen	75-82=157
	Omar Uresti	78-79=157
	Brian Henninger	79-79=158	+14
	Jerry Kelly	80-78=158
	Shigeki Maruyama	74-84=158
	Nolan Henke	85-76=161	+17
WD	Kenny Perry	82	+10
WD	John Daly	83	+11
DQ	Nick Faldo	71-75-83=229	+13

Source:^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "1999 Players Championship results". ESPN. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Diaz, Jaime (April 5, 1999). "Like father, like son". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Brown, Clifton (March 29, 1999). "Golf; Duval is supreme, and his dad's a winner too". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Duvals a pride-filled pair". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. (Philadelphia Inquirer). March 29, 1999. p. C3.
^ ^a ^b "A Duval daily double". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. March 29, 1999. p. 7C.
^ "Official Money – 1998 Season". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
^ "1999 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 3-37.
^ "PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). March 27, 1999. p. 4D.
^ "TPC delivers a knockout punch in third round". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. March 28, 1999. p. 3F.
^ "Past Results 1974 – present". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.

External links

The Players Championship website

[dbg99plyr-1] "1999 Players Championship results". ESPN. Retrieved September 19, 2015.

[sivfls-2] Diaz, Jaime (April 5, 1999). "Like father, like son". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 28, 2017.

[nytduvl-3] Brown, Clifton (March 29, 1999). "Golf; Duval is supreme, and his dad's a winner too". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2016.

[dapfpr-4] "Duvals a pride-filled pair". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. (Philadelphia Inquirer). March 29, 1999. p. C3.

[advlddbl-5] "A Duval daily double". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. March 29, 1999. p. 7C.

[6] "Official Money – 1998 Season". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 28, 2023.

[7] "1999 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 3-37.

[secredsco-8] "PGA Tour". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). March 27, 1999. p. 4D.

[knckotp-9] "TPC delivers a knockout punch in third round". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. March 28, 1999. p. 3F.

[tpcpr-10] "Past Results 1974 – present". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020.

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