The 2024 Players Championship is upon us this week, as that means it's time to preview the 2024 Players Championship odds.
Coming off of his win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational over the weekend, Scottie Scheffler is the betting favorite at the Players this week at +575, with Rory McIlroy behind him at +1300.
Find the rest of the 2024 Players Championship updated odds and a course preview for TPC Sawgrass below.
Odds via bet365.
2024 Players Championship Updated OddsGolfer2024 Players Championship Updated OddsScottie Scheffler+625Rory McIlroy+1700Justin Thomas+2000Xander Schauffele+2400Max Homa+2400Viktor Hovland+2700Jordan Spieth+2700Patrick Cantlay+3000Collin Morikawa+3000Will Zalatoris+3200Hideki Matsuyama+3200Ludvig Aberg+3200Shane Lowry+3700Wyndham Clark+4500Sam Burns+4500Russell Henley+4500Tommy Fleetwood+5000Si Woo Kim+5000Brian Harman+5000Jason Day+5500Sahith Theegala+5500Cameron Young+5500Min Woo Lee+5500Tony Finau+6500Sungjae Im+6500Corey Conners+6500Tom Kim+7500Byeong-Hun An+7500Tom Hoge+7500Matt Fitzpatrick+8000Adam Scott+9000Harris English+9000Keegan Bradley+9000Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated OddsAaron Rai+9000Adam Hadwin+10000Emiliano Grillo+10000Justin Rose+10000J.T. Poston+11000Eric Cole+11000Chris Kirk+11000Keith Mitchell+11000Cameron Davis+11000Erik van Rooyen+12000Alex Noren+12000Nick Taylor+12000Doug Ghim+12000Christiaan Bezuidenhout+14000Brendon Todd+14000Matthieu Pavon+14000Beau Hossler+14000Denny McCarthy+14000Billy Horschel+14000Sepp Straka+14000Rickie Fowler+16000Jake Knapp+17500Stephan Jaeger+17500Nicolai Hojgaard+17500Luke List+17500Kurt Kitayama+17500Austin Eckroat+17500Andrew Putnam+20000Lucas Glover+20000Davis Thompson+20000Adam Svensson+20000Akshay Bhatia+20000Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated OddsTaylor Pendrith+22500Andrew Novak+22500Patrick Rodgers+22500Ryan Fox+22500Kevin Yu+22500Ryo Hisatsune+22500Maverick McNealy+25000Taylor Montgomery+30000Kyoung-Hoon Lee+30000Ben Griffin+30000Justin Suh+30000Webb Simpson+32500Adam Schenk+32500Taylor Moore+32500Chan Kim+32500Mark Hubbard+32500Thomas Detry+32500Matt Kuchar+35000Nick Dunlap+35000Sami Valimaki+40000Seamus Power+40000Greyson Sigg+40000Vincent Norrman+40000Carson Young+40000Garrick Higgo+40000Brandon Wu+40000Matt Wallace+40000Chesson Hadley+45000Mackenzie Hughes+45000Robert MacIntyre+45000Sam Ryder+45000Steve Stricker+45000Michael Kim+45000Gary Woodland+45000Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated OddsLee Hodges+45000Charley Hoffman+45000C.T. Pan+45000Ben Silverman+45000Alex Smalley+45000Justin Lower+45000Jimmy Stanger+45000Ben Kohles+50000Tyler Duncan+50000Nick Hardy+60000J.J. Spaun+60000Grayson Murray+60000Nate Lashley+60000Scott Stallings+60000Aaron Baddeley+60000Martin Laird+60000Troy Merritt+60000Chad Ramey+60000Nicolas Echavarria+60000Brice Garnett+60000Joseph Bramlett+75000Sam Stevens+75000Ben Martin+75000S.H. Kim+75000Joel Dahmen+75000Carl Yuan+75000Dylan Wu+75000David Skinns+75000Robby Shelton+75000Peter Malnati+75000Matti Schmid+75000Zac Blair+75000Hayden Buckley+100000Francesco Molinari+100000Ryan Moore+100000Harry Hall+100000Kevin Streelman+100000Matt NeSmith+100000Davis Riley+100000Camilo Villegas+125000Callum Tarren+125000Chez Reavie+125000David Lipsky+125000Tyson Alexander+250000Ben Taylor+300000
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The PGA Tour heads to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida for The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass (PLAYERS Stadium Course) in the crown jewel of the PGA Tour schedule. This year marks the 50th playing of The Players Championship.
Scottie Scheffler, who won The Players Championship last year, enters off of a dominant five-shot win this past weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Unsurprisingly, the current FedExCup Points List leader opened as the outright betting favorite again this week at +600 odds at bet365 after winning at TPC Sawgrass by five shots last year. Scheffler has since drifted slightly to +625 odds as of Wednesday morning.
The No. 1 golfer in the world has played The Players Championship two other times before his win last season when he tied for 55th in 2022 and missed the cut in 2021. Scheffler also competed in the 2020 edition of this tournament which was canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scheffler now has finished in the top 17 in all six of his starts on Tour in 2024, including four top-six finishes.
Rory McIlroy, who won The Players in 2019, had the second-shortest outright odds at open on bet365 at +1200 and has drifted to +1700. McIlroy entered Sunday four shots behind Scheffler at the Arnold Palmer Invitational but fired a final-round 76 to finish in a tie for 21st. So far in four starts on Tour in 2024, McIlroy is still yet to record a top-20 finish, although he did win and finish second in two different starts on the DP World Tour in January.
McIlroy has had an up-and-down history at TPC Sawgrass with the win and four other top-12 finishes. Overall, McIlroy has missed the cut in six of 13 appearances at The Players, including two of the last three years.
Via Stan Badz/Getty Images. Pictured: Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, poses with THE PLAYERS Championship Trophy after winning THE PLAYERS Championship on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on March 17, 2019, in Ponte Vedra Beach.Like his Ryder Cup teammate McIlroy, Viktor Hovland also missed the cut at TPC Sawgrass in his tournament debut in 2021, but the Norwegian has recorded consecutive top-10 finishes since then with a T3 last year and a T9 in 2022. Hovland finished T36 at +2 this past weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and has not recorded a finish better the a tie for 19th this season in four starts on the PGA Tour. Hovland opened with +2400 outright odds at bet365 and has drifted to +2700.
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Brice Garnett is in the field for The Players Championship at 600-1 odds thanks to his win this past weekend at the Puerto Rico Open in his first start on the PGA Tour this season. He defeated Erik Barnes on the fourth hole of a playoff with a birdie (as they played the 18th hole four straight times). It was Garnett's second win on Tour and first since the 2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship.
After losing his PGA Tour card last season by finishing 163rd in the FedEx Cup Points List, Garnett went to PGA Tour Q-School in December to try and finish in the top five to earn his card back. He finished 28th then and had made three starts in 2024: two missed cuts and a tie for 51st on the Korn Ferry Tour. Thanks to his win Sunday in Puerto Rico at 150-1 odds entering the week, the 40-year-old now has a two-year exemption and job security on the PGA Tour.
The 2021 winner of The Players Championship, Justin Thomas, opened with +2400 odds to win this week at TPC Sawgrass following a tie for 12th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this past weekend. JT now has four top-12 finishes in five starts so far this season as he is still searching for his first win on Tour since the 2022 PGA Championship. Thomas has since shortened from +2400 at open to +2000 as of late Tuesday afternoon.
The other golfers in the field with outright odds shorter than 30-1 at bet365 on Wednesday morning include:
Xander Schauffele (+2400)Max Homa (+2400)Jordan Spieth (+2700)Some other notables in the field this week and their outright odds include Collin Morikawa (+3000), Will Zalatoris (+3200), Ludvig Åberg (+3200), Wyndham Clark (+4500) and Rickie Fowler (+16000).
All 8 North Carolina Sports Betting Welcome Offers & Sign-Up BonusesRead now2024 Players Championship Course Preview: TPC SawgrassTPC Sawgrass (PLAYERS Stadium Course) is a 7,275-yard par-72 designed by Pete Dye in 1980 that features Poa Trivialis overseed (over dormant Bermudagrass) greens. Dye and Steve Wenzloff collaborated for a renovation in 2016.
The iconic 17th hole features an island green (which is technically a peninsula) and is typical of Dye designs where golfers must take on the trouble near the hole to be rewarded with a quality opportunity to putt for birdie. This is a positional golf course where players will need to have total control of their golf ball and navigate danger near the fast and firm greens.
The final three-hole stretch sets up one of the most exhilarating finishes in golf with risks and rewards: a short par-5 with water short right of the green, a short par-3 17th with water and a small pot bunker surrounding the green, and the dogleg left 18th with one of the toughest fairways to hit on Tour that hugs water on the left all the way up the green.
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The course features some of the smaller putting surfaces on Tour with an average green size of 5,500 square feet. TPC Sawgrass has trouble looming at all times as water is in play on 17 holes (all but the eighth hole), and there are sand bunkers on all 18 holes. The course includes many of Dye's signature small pot bunkers.
Via Mike Ehrrman/Getty Images. Pictured: Scottie Scheffler of the United States plays a shot from a bunker on the 16th hole during the final round of THE PLAYERS Championship on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on March 12, 2023 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.Find the percentage of approaches from each 25-yard bucket for The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in 2023 below (via Datagolf).
Distance (Yards)% of Approaches in 202350-753.275-1006.8100-12511.9125-15018.7150-17515.6175-20016.7200-2255.9225-2509.8250+11.5Compared to the average golf course on the PGA Tour, there were an above-average amount of approaches at TPC Sawgrass in 2023 from 50-75 yards, 75-100 yards, 100-125 yards, 125-150 yards, 225-250 yards and 250+ yards. There were also below-average percentage of approaches from 150-175 yards, 175-200 and 200-225 yards. Consequently, golfers will need to be strong throughout their bags this week at TPC Sawgrass.
Strokes Gained (SG): Approach and SG: Putting have been the most correlated metrics with SG: Total at The Players Championship.
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The Players Championship Past WinnersScheffler, McIlroy, Thomas, Webb Simpson, Si Woo Kim, Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar and Adam Scott are the past champions of The Players Championship in the field this week.
YearPast WinnerWinning Score2023Scottie Scheffler-172022Cameron Smith-132021Justin Thomas-142020Canceled (COVID)N/A2019Rory McIlroy-162018Webb Simpson-182017Si Woo Kim-102016Jason Day-152015Rickie Fowler-122014Martin Kaymer-13