All you’ll want to know forward of the 2025 version of The Gamers, dwell on Sky Sports activities, the place Scottie Scheffler returns as defending champion and Rory McIlroy is amongst these chasing victory at TPC Sawgrass…
What’s The Gamers and why is it vital?
The Gamers is the flagship occasion on the PGA Tour schedule and has historically produced one of many strongest fields in golf, with the calibre of gamers concerned and the curiosity generated seeing it described – till current years – as males’s golf’s “fifth major”.
TPC Sawgrass is situated at PGA Tour’s world residence at Ponte Vedra Seaside, with the match going down in mid-March yearly as a part of a run of Florida-based occasions on the calendar.
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Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley takes a have a look at the enduring sixteenth and seventeenth holes at TPC Sawgrass forward of The Gamers
Jack Nicklaus was the inaugural winner in 1974 and The Gamers has been a part of the PGA Tour calendar ever since, with the match held at its present venue – The Gamers Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass – since 1982.
Has it all the time been performed in March?
The Gamers was historically held in March however then moved yearly to Might from 2007, the place it completed on the second Sunday of that month to coincide with Mom’s Day in america.
Adjustments to the golf calendar from 2019 noticed the PGA Championship soar from being the ultimate males’s main of the yr in August to an earlier Might date, seeing The Gamers revert from Might again to its authentic March spot within the schedule.
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Scottie Scheffler claimed a dramatic victory on the 2024 Gamers Championship at TPC Sawgrass, changing into the primary participant in historical past to defend the title
Scottie Scheffler arrives as a two-time defending champion and seeking to be part of Nicklaus as a three-time winner of The Gamers, having adopted his 2023 victory by ending a shot away from Ryder Cup team-mates Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman and Xander Schauffele in final yr’s title defence.
Rory McIlroy is a former champion and appears to construct on a robust begin to his PGA Tour season, with Ludvig Åberg one other European contender and Tommy Fleetwood amongst these seeking to develop into the primary English winner within the match’s historical past.
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Rory McIlroy seems to be again by way of his ‘rocky historical past’ with the PGA Tour’s most iconic match, The Gamers Championship
A powerful subject affords 48 of the world’s high 50, with 2021 champion Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland and USA Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley additionally concerned.
Will LIV Golf gamers be enjoying?
LIV Golf gamers are nonetheless banned from that includes on the PGA Tour, with a deal to deliver reunification to the boys’s sport but to be reached and the identical enjoying restrictions making use of for The Gamers.
Reigning US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and five-time main winner Brooks Koepka will as soon as once more be among the many high-profile absentees, together with former world No 1s Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson.
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Talking forward of the 2024 version, Billy Horschel has urged the PGA Tour to let LIV golfers again into the The Gamers so it will possibly nonetheless be seen as one of many world’s greatest tournaments
Cameron Smith has been unable to function since his 2022 victory and Tyrrell Hatton – the highest-ranked LIV Golf participant on the earth rankings – additionally misses out, whereas former champion Sergio Garcia is ineligible for the third successive yr.
Woods has delayed his PGA Tour comeback and is lacking The Gamers for the fifth consecutive yr, which is the final of his five-year exemption for profitable The Masters in 2019.
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Tiger Woods displays on how he received The Gamers in 2013 and why he lacked consistency round TPC Sawgrass
The previous world No 1 was anticipated to probably return, then admitted earlier this month his mom’s passing and commitments with the PGA Tour’s coverage board have left him barely desirous about competing.
“My heart is not really into practising right now,” he mentioned on March 4. “Once I start probably feeling a little bit better and start getting into it, I’ll start looking at the schedule.”
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Sky Sports activities commentator Ewen Murray and caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay focus on Tiger Woods’ unimaginable putt on the seventeenth gap at TPC Sawgrass on his approach to profitable the match in 2001
Woods received the occasion and 2001 however has solely featured in The Gamers thrice since his victory at TPC Sawgrass in 2013, whereas it stays unclear once we will see him subsequent tee it up at a daily PGA Tour occasion.
What’s the play-off format?
There hasn’t been a play-off at The Gamers since 2015, when Rickie Fowler prevailed over Garcia and Kevin Kisner, with the format for additional holes completely different than different PGA Tour occasions.
The match makes use of a three-hole play-off, the place the scores from TPC Sawgrass’ last three holes – the par-five sixteenth, par-three seventeenth and par-four 18th – rely in the direction of a participant’s whole.
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If there’s nonetheless a tie after these three holes, the play-off will transfer into sudden-death format. Sudden dying will begin on the seventeenth earlier than continuing to the 18th if needed, then going again to the sixteenth and enjoying hole-by-hole till a winner is discovered.
Who else has received The Gamers earlier than?
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What does the winner get?
The full prize purse of $25m is greater than the funds on supply at any of the 4 majors final yr, with the winner at TPC Sawgrass gathering a $4.5m first prize and 750 FedExCup factors.
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All winners additionally safe a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour and earn three-year invitations to all 4 males’s majors.
The newest trophy was unveiled in 2019 and incorporates points of every of the primary 38 winners of The Gamers, with a golfer product of metallic standing atop of a duplicate of the signature seventeenth island inexperienced.
What’s so important in regards to the seventeenth?
The par-three seventeenth gap is without doubt one of the most recognisable within the sport, with gamers hitting in the direction of a gap surrounded by water on all sides and with large crowds watching from both hospitality tents or spectator banks.
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Sky Sports activities’ David Prutton takes on TPC Sawgrass’ iconic par-three seventeenth forward of The Gamers…with restricted success!
The “Stadium Hole” is TPC Sawgrass’ signature gap and is usually known as having an “island green”, regardless of having a slim peninsula behind the placing floor, however the seventeenth gap definitely poses all types of issues relying on the wind and the pin place.
There have been 14 holes-in-one on the seventeenth within the match’s historical past, together with Ryan Fox in 2024, with balls within the water and gamers racking up large scores each large speaking factors yearly. Count on loads of drama and memorable moments!
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Tim Sherwood and Paul Merson be part of Sky Sports activities Golf within the shot centre to tackle the seventeenth on the TPC Sawgrass
Sky Sports activities is providing prolonged dwell protection of The Gamers, with over 60 hours of dwell content material and motion to get pleasure from from Tuesday to Sunday of match week.
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Protection additionally begins at 11.30am on the Friday and follows the motion from earlier than the opening tee shot till after the shut of play, with the motion then dwell from 1pm on each days over the weekend.
The PGA Tour’s primary feed, marquee teams featured group an featured holes feed might be out there all 4 rounds on Sky Sports activities+, together with six bonus teams, when you can obtain the Sky Sports activities app to get dwell scores, textual content commentary and highlights all through the week.
Who will win The Gamers? Watch dwell all through the week on Sky Sports activities. Dwell protection of the opening spherical begins on Thursday at 11.30am. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract on NOW.
