PGA Tour : Players Championship Leaderboard Results
Players were falling prey to TPC Sawgrass's many pitfalls, a few were charging, and Cameron Young was doing a good job of just "hanging in there"
David Cannon
After all was said and done, Aberg's magical 63 turned to a Sunday 76, his playing partner Michael Thorbjornsen was worse after a solid 67 a Sunday 77 simply opened the door for the rest of the field to walk through.
Young who's beard makes him look 40, had the best win of his 28 year old career after turning a wedge to 10' for birdie at 17, then a booming 375 yard drive at 18 into a flip wedge par 4 at 18 which was good enough to survive Matt Fitzpatrick's missed 8 footer which would have forced a playoff. His take is $4,500,000
It was an Agatha Christie who dunnit' Sunday with Fitzy looking most likely 2nd 69, $2,725,000 his Ryder Cup partner "Bob" MacIntyre posting the best round of the day 65 4th, $1,225,000 and Xander Schauffele 3rd with a74 69 $1,725,000 weekend.
Canadians
Sudarshan Yellamaraju rose his stock expedentially with the weeknd of his rookie PGA career best T5 73 72 66 68 -9 worth $925,000
The viewing millions heard his story of arriving as a boy to Toronto from India and learning to play off You Tube with never a lesson in his life, golfing left handed with half a back swing but a superb follow through he was on TV a lot.
Most Canadians have no idea who he was, many will know this morning.
Corey Conners had a great Thursday, Friday 69, 67 to T4 but his weekend 72 74 dropped him to T13 $409,207
Nick Taylor T42 74 70 70 73 -1 $91,250
Taylor Pendrith T46 74 69 72 73 E $72,125
Others
For the NBC ratings Scott Scheffler was a flop T22 73 73 67 71 -5, for a #1 ranked player he is an erratic driver, not sure where it's going off the tee, which has led to a very mediocre 2026.
Rory was worse T46 74 71 72 71 E he couldn't trust his putter on the lightning fast TPC Sawgrass greens this year as he tried to defend his title. He also lost the place a few times with his vaunted driver, and some loose irons.
The greens were already brown on Thursday, and despite a couple of downpours were simply treacherous, and the rough around the greens and 2nd cut off fairways was an uncut 5" thick which caused nothing but trouble all week.
Most of the big boys are on holiday now, the rank and file will head up to Innisbrook for the Valspar Championship. then two weeks in Texas for the Houston and Valero Opens before the Masters.
The good news the MLB baseball season is just 9 days away !
Bryan Angus
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