1994 Players Championship

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The 1994 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 24–27 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 21st Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Greg Norman set the scoring record of 264 (−24) at the Stadium Course and finished four strokes ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller.^[2]^[3]^[4] Norman opened with 63 and followed with three rounds at 67 to set the 36-hole (130) and 54-hole (197) scoring records as well.^[3]

Nick Price had set the mark the previous year at 270 (−18), three better than Mark McCumber's 273 in 1988 (equaled by Davis Love III in 1992).

Defending champion Nick Price missed the 36-hole cut by five strokes.

Venue

This was the thirteenth Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course, and it remained at 6,896 yards (6,306 m).^[1]

Eligibility requirements

The top 125 PGA Tour members from Final 1993 Official Money List.^[5]

Nick Price, Greg Norman, Jim Gallagher Jr., David Frost, Payne Stewart, Lee Janzen, Tom Kite, Fulton Allem, Jeff Maggert, Davis Love III, Larry Mize, Scott Simpson, John Huston, Steve Elkington, Corey Pavin, David Edwards, Mark Calcavecchia, Chip Beck, Jay Haas, Jim McGovern, Rick Fehr, Craig Stadler, Billy Mayfair, Nolan Henke, Bob Estes, Tom Lehman, Howard Twitty, Grant Waite, Dan Forsman, Scott Hoch, Joey Sindelar, Fuzzy Zoeller, Billy Andrade, Mark McCumber, Mark O'Meara, Keith Clearwater, John Cook, Tom Watson, Donnie Hammond, Brett Ogle, Mike Standly, Craig Parry, Ben Crenshaw, Dudley Hart, Loren Roberts, Bob Lohr, Brad Faxon, Fred Funk, Bill Glasson, D. A. Weibring, Russ Cochran, Greg Kraft, Blaine McCallister, Andrew Magee, Curtis Strange, Steve Pate, Hale Irwin, Mark Brooks, Dave Rummells, Lanny Wadkins, John Inman, Robert Gamez, Jay Delsing, Greg Twiggs, Michael Allen, Brad Bryant, Ken Green, John Daly, Peter Jacobsen, John Adams, Mike Springer, Richard Zokol, Bruce Fleisher, Dick Mast, Phil Blackmar, Duffy Waldorf, Brian Claar, Jay Don Blake, Tom Sieckmann, Kenny Perry, Mike Hulbert, Kirk Triplett, Steve Lowery, Jeff Sluman, Brian Kamm, Wayne Levi, Dave Barr, Billy Ray Brown, Dillard Pruitt, Ed Dougherty, Ted Schulz, Bruce Lietzke, John Flannery, Roger Maltbie, David Ogrin, Ed Humenik, Joel Edwards, Neal Lancaster, Bob Gilder, Bob Tway, Kelly Gibson, Gary Hallberg, Willie Wood, Lennie Clements, Ian Baker-Finch, Joe Ozaki, Ted Tryba, Doug Tewell, Larry Rinker, Brandel Chamblee, Michael Bradley, David Toms, Marco Dawson, Ronnie Black, Trevor Dodds, Ed Fiori, Gene Sauers

All winners of PGA Tour events awarding official money and official victory status in the preceding 12 months concluding with the Nestle Invitational.

Vijay Singh

Designated players.

Wayne Grady, Tom Purtzer, Jodie Mudd, Tim Simpson

Any foreign player meeting the requirements of designated player, whether or not he is a PGA Tour member.

Nick Faldo, Ian Woosnam, Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros

Winners in the last 10 calendar years of The Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, PGA Championship, and NEC World Series of Golf.

Hubert Green, Denis Watson, Calvin Peete, Sandy Lyle, Larry Nelson, Dan Pohl, Mike Reid, John Mahaffey

British Open winners since 1990.

Six players, not otherwise eligible, designated by The Players Championship Committee as "special selections."

Ernie Els, Mark McNulty, Masashi Ozaki, José María Olazábal, Colin Montgomerie, Peter Senior

To complete a field of 144 players, those players in order, not otherwise eligible, from the 1994 Official Money List, as of the completion of the Nestle Invitational.

Paul Goydos, Hal Sutton, Steve Stricker, Jim Thorpe

Source:^[6]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 24, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	63	−9
T2	Lee Janzen	65	−7
	Tom Kite
	Jeff Maggert
	Colin Montgomerie
6	Fuzzy Zoeller	66	−6
T7	Jay Delsing	67	−5
	Nick Faldo
	Dan Forsman
	Wayne Grady
	Hale Irwin
	Hal Sutton

Source:^[7]

Second round

Friday, March 25, 1994
Saturday, March 26, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	63-67=130	−14
2	Fuzzy Zoeller	66-67=133	−11
T3	Davis Love III	68-66=134	−10
T3	Jeff Maggert	65-69=134	−10
T5	Craig Parry	69-66=135	−9
T5	Hal Sutton	67-68=135	−9
T7	Nick Faldo	67-69=136	−8
	Brad Faxon	68-68=136
	Tom Kite	65-71=136
	Mike Springer	68-68=136

Source:^[8]^[9]

Third round

Saturday, March 26, 1994

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	63-67-67=197	−19
2	Fuzzy Zoeller	66-67-68=201	−15
3	Jeff Maggert	65-69-69=203	−13
T4	Nick Faldo	67-69-68=204	−12
T4	Davis Love III	68-66-70=204	−12
T6	Brad Faxon	68-68-70=206	−10
	Gary Hallberg	68-69-69=206
	Tom Kite	65-71-70=206
9	Hale Irwin	67-70-70=207	−9
T10	Craig Parry	69-66-73=208	−8
T10	Mike Springer	68-68-72=208	−8

Source:^[8]

Final round

Sunday, March 27, 1994

Champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Greg Norman	63-67-67-67=264	−24	450,000
2	Fuzzy Zoeller	66-67-68-67=268	−20	270,000
3	Jeff Maggert	65-69-69-68=271	−17	170,000
4	Hale Irwin	67-70-70-69=276	−12	120,000
5	Nick Faldo	67-69-68-73=277	−11	100,000
T6	Brad Faxon	68-68-70-72=278	−10	83,750
	Davis Love III (c)	68-66-70-74=278
	Steve Lowery	68-74-69-67=278
T9	Gary Hallberg	68-69-69-73=279	−9	65,000
	Nolan Henke	73-69-69-68=279
	Tom Kite (c)	65-71-70-73=279
	Colin Montgomerie	65-73-71-70=279

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
13	Mike Springer	68-68-72-72=280	−8	52,500
T14	Dave Barr	68-69-72-72=281	−7	42,500
	José María Olazábal	69-69-73-70=281
	Craig Parry	69-66-73-73=281
	Loren Roberts	68-71-71-71=281
	Tom Watson	71-72-71-67=281
T19	Ben Crenshaw	72-72-68-70=282	−6	31,375
	Dillard Pruitt	70-71-68-73=282
	Mike Standly	72-71-68-71=282
	Hal Sutton (c)	67-68-74-73=282
T23	Mark Calcavecchia	70-72-69-72=283	−5	23,000
	John Cook	70-71-72-70=283
	Tim Simpson	69-71-70-73=283
	Steve Stricker	72-70-70-71=283
T27	Chip Beck	73-71-67-73=284	−4	16,640
	Lennie Clements	68-71-74-71=284
	Jay Delsing	67-73-71-73=284
	Ed Fiori	70-68-74-72=284
	Jim Gallagher Jr.	76-68-70-70=284
	Bernhard Langer	74-68-70-72=284
	Wayne Levi	72-68-72-72=284
	John Mahaffey (c)	71-73-65-75=284
T35	Jay Don Blake	70-73-69-73=285	−3	11,037
	Bob Estes	70-71-70-74=285
	Bob Gilder	71-71-70-73=285
	Mike Hulbert	71-71-70-73=285
	John Huston	68-73-72-72=285
	Lee Janzen	65-75-70-75=285
	Neal Lancaster	71-68-72-74=285
	Roger Maltbie	71-69-73-72=285
	Joey Sindelar	70-74-70-71=285
	Ted Tryba	68-73-69-75=285
T45	Ernie Els	69-73-72-72=286	−2	7,150
	Rick Fehr	70-73-68-75=286
	Wayne Grady	67-73-71-75=286
	Andrew Magee	72-71-70-73=286
	Naomichi Ozaki	71-72-70-73=286
	Kirk Triplett	71-72-70-73=286
T51	David Edwards	69-70-72-76=287	−1	5,962
	Steve Elkington (c)	71-72-75-69=287
	Gene Sauers	73-69-75-70=287
	Grant Waite	74-68-71-74=287
T55	Fulton Allem	70-71-72-75=288	E	5,600
	Brian Claar	68-76-72-72=288
	Keith Clearwater	70-72-70-76=288
	Jay Haas	75-69-71-73=288
	Jim McGovern	72-72-71-73=288
	Larry Nelson	70-67-76-75=288
	Vijay Singh	71-69-69-79=288
T62	Michael Allen	74-69-73-73=289	+1	5,250
	Joel Edwards	68-75-73-73=289
	Paul Goydos	72-72-71-74=289
	Mark McCumber (c)	73-71-75-70=289
	Kenny Perry	69-75-73-72=289
	Jim Thorpe	73-69-73-74=289
	Howard Twitty	69-75-72-73=289
T69	Ian Baker-Finch	73-69-74-74=290	+2	4,950
	Brandel Chamblee	70-72-72-76=290
	Russ Cochran	70-73-78-69=290
	Donnie Hammond	68-73-75-74=290
	D. A. Weibring	75-69-70-76=290
T74	Brad Bryant	75-69-75-72=291	+3	4,725
	Sandy Lyle (c)	71-72-71-77=291
	Dick Mast	73-70-74-74=291
	Tom Sieckmann	73-68-69-81=291
T78	John Adams	72-70-76-74=292	+4	4,525
	Fred Funk	73-71-73-75=292
	Greg Kraft	72-71-72-77=292
	Corey Pavin	69-73-73-77=292
82	Masashi Ozaki	68-76-75-74=293	+5	4,400
83	Dan Forsman	67-77-73-77=294	+6	4,350
84	Robert Gamez	70-72-81-72=295	+7	4,300
85	Denis Watson	74-69-80-74=297	+9	4,250
CUT	Seve Ballesteros	74-71=145	+1
	Michael Bradley	72-73=145
	Ed Dougherty	71-74=145
	Bruce Fleisher	70-75=145
	Bill Glasson	74-71=145
	Dudley Hart	71-74=145
	Ed Humenik	73-72=145
	Tom Lehman	68-77=145
	Blaine McCallister	70-75=145
	Larry Mize	74-71=145
	Ted Schulz	71-74=145
	Payne Stewart	72-73=145
	Mark Brooks	69-77=146	+2
	Billy Ray Brown	72-74=146
	Scott Hoch	72-74=146
	John Inman	71-75=146
	Dan Pohl	76-70=146
	Dave Rummells	74-72=146
	Peter Senior	72-74=146
	Scott Simpson	71-75=146
	Craig Stadler	72-74=146
	Bob Tway	69-77=146
	Duffy Waldorf	70-76=146
	Willie Wood	73-73=146
	Ronnie Black	75-72=147	+3
	Trevor Dodds	78-69=147
	John Flannery	72-75=147
	David Frost	70-77=147
	Mark McNulty	71-76=147
	Jodie Mudd (c)	69-78=147
	Mike Reid	74-73=147
	Jeff Sluman	71-76=147
	Ian Woosnam	73-74=147
	Billy Andrade	72-76=148	+4
	Kelly Gibson	73-75=148
	Bruce Lietzke	78-70=148
	David Ogrin	70-78=148
	Brett Ogle	77-72=149	+5
	Steve Pate	74-75=149
	Nick Price (c)	73-76=149
	Phil Blackmar	77-73=150	+6
	Bob Lohr	74-76=150
	Billy Mayfair	78-72=150
	Tom Purtzer	73-77=150
	David Toms	73-77=150
	Marco Dawson	75-76=151	+7
	Ken Green	74-77=151
	Larry Rinker	71-80=151
	Doug Tewell	75-76=151
	Lanny Wadkins (c)	73-78=151
	Mark O'Meara	73-79=152	+8
	Curtis Strange	76-76=152	+8
	Peter Jacobsen	73-80=153	+9
	Richard Zokol	75-78=153	+9
	John Daly	74-80=154	+10
	Brian Kamm	78-76=154	+10
	Greg Twiggs	80-77=157	+13
WD	Hubert Green	76	+4
WD	Calvin Peete (c)	85	+13

Source:^[10]

References

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