Day: March 5, 2021

Inside the Field: THE PLAYERS ChampionshipInside the Field: THE PLAYERS Championship

Here’s how the field qualified for THE PLAYERS Championship as of 3/5/2021. Check here for updates. Tournament Winners Since Last Played PLAYERS Championship Daniel Berger Patrick Cantlay Paul Casey Cameron Champ Stewart Cink Corey Conners Bryson DeChambeau Tyler Duncan Harris English Dylan Frittelli Sergio Garcia Brian Gay Branden Grace Lanto Griffin Tyrrell Hatton Jim Herman Max Homa Viktor Hovland Sungjae Im Dustin Johnson Sung Kang Si Woo Kim Kevin Kisner Brooks Koepka Jason Kokrak Martin Laird Andrew Landry Nate Lashley Marc Leishman Shane Lowry Graeme McDowell Rory McIlroy Collin Morikawa Sebastián Muñoz Kevin Na Joaquin Niemann Carlos Ortiz Ryan Palmer Cheng Tsung Pan J.T. Poston Jon Rahm Chez Reavie Patrick Reed Adam Scott Webb Simpson Cameron Smith Robert Streb Hudson Swafford Nick Taylor Justin Thomas Michael Thompson Brendon Todd Richy Werenski Gary Woodland Winner – Masters Tournament (2016-2020) Danny Willett Winner – THE PLAYERS Championship (2015-2019) Jason Day Rickie Fowler Winner – PGA Championship (2015-2020) Jimmy Walker Winner – The Open Championship (2015-2019) Zach Johnson Francesco Molinari Jordan Spieth Henrik Stenson Winner TOUR Championship (2017 & 2018) Xander Schauffele Winner – World Golf Championships Event – Mexico (2018-2021) Phil Mickelson Winner – World Golf Championships Event – Match Play (2018, 2019) Bubba Watson Winner – HSBC Champions (2017-2019) Justin Rose Winners of the Memorial (2017-2020) Jason Dufner Top 125 who earned most FEC points: 2019/20 -2021 PR/WGC Concession Tony Finau Hideki Matsuyama Abraham Ancer Scottie Scheffler Billy Horschel Adam Long Kevin Streelman Mackenzie Hughes Tom Hoge Maverick McNealy Matthew Fitzpatrick Byeong Hun An Talor Gooch Brian Harman Louis Oosthuizen Brendan Steele Joel Dahmen Russell Henley Harry Higgs Henrik Norlander Cameron Tringale Mark Hubbard Sam Burns Adam Hadwin Wyndham Clark Cameron Davis Peter Malnati Matt Jones Doc Redman Sepp Straka Alex Noren Matthew NeSmith Emiliano Grillo Denny McCarthy Charley Hoffman Danny Lee Kyoung-Hoon Lee Brian Stuard Charles Howell III Harold Varner III Patrick Rodgers Robby Shelton Matt Kuchar Aaron Wise Xinjun Zhang Russell Knox Pat Perez Keegan Bradley Troy Merritt James Hahn Vaughn Taylor Rory Sabbatini Tyler McCumber Ryan Armour Ian Poulter Lucas Glover Scott Piercy Luke List Kyle Stanley Bo Hoag Chris Kirk Scott Harrington Austin Cook Tommy Fleetwood Top 125 (Medical) Charl Schwartzel Top 50 – World Golf Ranking Victor Perez Christiaan Bezuidenhout Lee Westwood Bernd Wiesberger Robert MacIntyre Will Zalatoris Winner – SENIOR PLAYERS Championship – Prior Year Jerry Kelly Top 125 on the 2019-2020 FedExCup Points List Ryan Moore Brandt Snedeker Sam Ryder Adam Schenk Keith Mitchell Scott Brown Beau Hossler Scott Stallings Brice Garnett Tom Lewis Below Top 10 on Current Year FedExCup Points Doug Ghim Patton Kizzire Andrew Putnam Cameron Percy Jhonattan Vegas

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Justin Rose announces new capsule collection with BonobosJustin Rose announces new capsule collection with Bonobos

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Jason Day's tee shot gets stuck in tree, takes one-shot penalty at Bay HillJason Day's tee shot gets stuck in tree, takes one-shot penalty at Bay Hill

ORLANDO, Fla. - Jason Day stood along the right edge of the fairway on the benign par-5 16th hole at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, peering skyward through giant binoculars, looking like an expert birdwatcher looking for Florida's rare black-whiskered vireo. Instead, Day was searching for his Bridgestone golf ball, which he'd driven right, high into a tree, with the ball never returning to earth on Day 2 of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. With the help of binoculars borrowed from a spotter, a television camera and a digital camera, Day finally was able to locate and identify his ball (he did so through its Bridgestone ‘B XS' sidestamp) that had settled in a bird nest well up in the tree. RELATED: Full leaderboard Having identified the ball, Day was able to declare his ball unplayable, and not required to go back to the tee to hit another ball. The rule states a golfer does not have to physically recover the ball, and Day was able to drop two club lengths from the base of the tree, taking a one-shot penalty. An interpretation of Rule 19.2 states that if a player's ball is above the ground (such as in a tree, or a bush), the player may take lateral relief using the point on the ground below the spot of the ball. Day laid up short of the water that fronts the green, missed the green just right with his fourth shot, and took three shots to get down from the collar. Double-bogey. Not the result he had been thinking about standing on the tee of the course's easiest hole at 4 under par minutes earlier. "I think the mama bird is going to come back and find another egg there," Day said. "So it's unfortunate, but it is what it is." Day would make another double at 18 from a greenside bunker ("That was more of a gut punch than 16," he said), but fought back to make three birdies on the front nine (his second nine) and shoot level-par 72. The 2016 API champion, who early in his career lived only five minutes from the gates at Bay Hill, stands at 2-under 142 heading to the weekend. Eight years ago, also at Bay Hill, Sergio Garcia had a ball get stuck about 15 feet into the "V" of a tree right of the par-4 10th hole. To the cheers of a gallery, he climbed up the tree and played a backwards shot onto the green. He, too, made double, but after a rain delay, had to withdraw with six holes to play in his round because he had strained his shoulder. Day wasn't heading up a tree to play this one. Asked if he'd ever had a ball get stuck in a tree before, Day said he hadn't. "It's just like one of these trees here," Day said, pointing to a thinned-out tree near the practice tee, "so there's nothing for it to hold up, other than a nest. So it's unfortunate ... but I'm glad we found it in the end." Saturday, the binoculars returned, Day will get back to hunting birdies and eagles.

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