Watch: The Players Championship 2013, Golf PGA Tour live_ in Florida!

The Players Championship requires place on May 9 -- May 13, 2013 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida. Known as the 'Fifth Major', the TPC at Sawgrass hosts the World's finest players and is one of the golfing highlights on the PGA Excursion.

The Players Championship offers the greatest prize fund of any contest in golf ($9. 5 trillion since_ 2008), and is sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Major, " but it not have official major status. The field usually includes the top fifty golfers on earth rankings, but unlike the three majors which are staged in the US, it does not count as a possible official event on the Eu Tour. The winner receives a restricted allocation of 80 points in the direction of his Official World Golf Rating, which is the most allocated to any event aside from the majors, in which winners gain 100 points. For comparison, the winners of the three individual World Golf Championships held through the PGA Tour regular season typically receive between 70 and seventy eight points. The Players Championship success also receives a 5-year exemption within the PGA Tour, a three-year invitation towards Masters Tournament, 3-year exemptions for your Open Championship and for your U. S. Open, and an exemption towards PGA Championship for that yr.

Golf Tournament Details:
Event: THE PLAYERS Championship_ 2013
Category: PGA Tour
Date: May 9- May 12, 2013.
Purse: $9,500,000
Winning Share: $1,710,000
FedExCup Points: 600
Time: 3:00pm to 6:00pm ET
Location: TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach_ Florida, USA.
Defending Champion: Matt Kuchar

Live Stream Link: The Players Championship 2013_ Golf tournament!

The Players Championship is most beneficial known for what stands out as the single most recognizable par 3 in professional golf, the Stadium Course's seventeenth hole, known to golf fans globally as "the Island Green" and what is becoming TPC Sawgrass' signature hole. The final 3 holes are considered one of many toughest finishes in golf.

In 1974 the inaugural event happened at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia. Later it had been moved to Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975, and then to Inverrary Land Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in 1976. Starting from 1977, case was moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida_ USA.

Initially, it was played at Sawgrass Country Club's Oceanside Training. After 1982 it was held within the neighborhood of Sawgrass Country Club, at the Stadium Course on the Tournament Players Club at the Sawgrass.
  
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