2024 Players Championship Updated Odds: TPC Sawgrass Odds & Course Preview

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Getty Images/Action Network. Pictured: Scottie Scheffler (right) and Rory McIlroy (left).

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 Odds

Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated Odds
Scottie Scheffler+625
Rory McIlroy+1700
Justin Thomas+2000
Xander Schauffele+2400
Max Homa+2400
Viktor Hovland+2700
Jordan Spieth+2700
Patrick Cantlay+3000
Collin Morikawa+3000
Will Zalatoris+3200
Hideki Matsuyama+3200
Ludvig Aberg+3200
Shane Lowry+3700
Wyndham Clark+4500
Sam Burns+4500
Russell Henley+4500
Tommy Fleetwood+5000
Si Woo Kim+5000
Brian Harman+5000
Jason Day+5500
Sahith Theegala+5500
Cameron Young+5500
Min Woo Lee+5500
Tony Finau+6500
Sungjae Im+6500
Corey Conners+6500
Tom Kim+7500
Byeong-Hun An+7500
Tom Hoge+7500
Matt Fitzpatrick+8000
Adam Scott+9000
Harris English+9000
Keegan Bradley+9000

Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated Odds
Aaron Rai+9000
Adam Hadwin+10000
Emiliano Grillo+10000
Justin Rose+10000
J.T. Poston+11000
Eric Cole+11000
Chris Kirk+11000
Keith Mitchell+11000
Cameron Davis+11000
Erik van Rooyen+12000
Alex Noren+12000
Nick Taylor+12000
Doug Ghim+12000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout+14000
Brendon Todd+14000
Matthieu Pavon+14000
Beau Hossler+14000
Denny McCarthy+14000
Billy Horschel+14000
Sepp Straka+14000
Rickie Fowler+16000
Jake Knapp+17500
Stephan Jaeger+17500
Nicolai Hojgaard+17500
Luke List+17500
Kurt Kitayama+17500
Austin Eckroat+17500
Andrew Putnam+20000
Lucas Glover+20000
Davis Thompson+20000
Adam Svensson+20000
Akshay Bhatia+20000

Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated Odds
Taylor Pendrith+22500
Andrew Novak+22500
Patrick Rodgers+22500
Ryan Fox+22500
Kevin Yu+22500
Ryo Hisatsune+22500
Maverick McNealy+25000
Taylor Montgomery+30000
Kyoung-Hoon Lee+30000
Ben Griffin+30000
Justin Suh+30000
Webb Simpson+32500
Adam Schenk+32500
Taylor Moore+32500
Chan Kim+32500
Mark Hubbard+32500
Thomas Detry+32500
Matt Kuchar+35000
Nick Dunlap+35000
Sami Valimaki+40000
Seamus Power+40000
Greyson Sigg+40000
Vincent Norrman+40000
Carson Young+40000
Garrick Higgo+40000
Brandon Wu+40000
Matt Wallace+40000
Chesson Hadley+45000
Mackenzie Hughes+45000
Robert MacIntyre+45000
Sam Ryder+45000
Steve Stricker+45000
Michael Kim+45000
Gary Woodland+45000

Golfer2024 Players Championship Updated Odds
Lee Hodges+45000
Charley Hoffman+45000
C.T. Pan+45000
Ben Silverman+45000
Alex Smalley+45000
Justin Lower+45000
Jimmy Stanger+45000
Ben Kohles+50000
Tyler Duncan+50000
Nick Hardy+60000
J.J. Spaun+60000
Grayson Murray+60000
Nate Lashley+60000
Scott Stallings+60000
Aaron Baddeley+60000
Martin Laird+60000
Troy Merritt+60000
Chad Ramey+60000
Nicolas Echavarria+60000
Brice Garnett+60000
Joseph Bramlett+75000
Sam Stevens+75000
Ben Martin+75000
S.H. Kim+75000
Joel Dahmen+75000
Carl Yuan+75000
Dylan Wu+75000
David Skinns+75000
Robby Shelton+75000
Peter Malnati+75000
Matti Schmid+75000
Zac Blair+75000
Hayden Buckley+100000
Francesco Molinari+100000
Ryan Moore+100000
Harry Hall+100000
Kevin Streelman+100000
Matt NeSmith+100000
Davis Riley+100000
Camilo Villegas+125000
Callum Tarren+125000
Chez Reavie+125000
David Lipsky+125000
Tyson Alexander+250000
Ben Taylor+300000
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2024 Players Championship Updated Odds

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).

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2024 Players Championship Course Preview: TPC Sawgrass 

TPC 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.

It's where you make memories that will last a lifetime. Welcome to the most famous three-hole stretch in golf.#THEPLAYERSpic.twitter.com/KLoJauGY1t

— THE PLAYERS (@THEPLAYERS) March 2, 2023

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 2023
50-753.2
75-1006.8
100-12511.9
125-15018.7
150-17515.6
175-20016.7
200-2255.9
225-2509.8
250+11.5

Compared 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 Winners

Scheffler, 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 Score
2023Scottie Scheffler-17
2022Cameron Smith-13
2021Justin Thomas-14
2020Canceled (COVID)N/A
2019Rory McIlroy-16
2018Webb Simpson-18
2017Si Woo Kim-10
2016Jason Day-15
2015Rickie Fowler-12
2014Martin Kaymer-13

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