Check out every shot from the three-hole playoff at THE PLAYERS Championship 2025, where Rory McIlroy outlasted J.J. Spaun to claim his second PLAYERS victory and his 28th win of his PGA TOUR career.
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The PGA TOUR heads to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida this week for the THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler returns to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass looking to extend his legacy and become the first golfer to three-peat at THE PLAYERS. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is hoping to recreate some magic at in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. McIlroy, winner of this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, captured the THE PLAYERS in 2019, but has had a bit of a mixed bag at TPC Sawgrass since then. With over 75 yards added, THE PLAYERS will be decided over the 7,352 yards that THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass has to offer. Alongside last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Russell Henley, other notable players in the field include Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Åberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler with a total of 48 of the world’s top 50 playing in this year's event.
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The PGA TOUR heads to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida this week for the THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler returns to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass looking to extend his legacy and become the first golfer to three-peat at THE PLAYERS. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is hoping to recreate some magic at in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. McIlroy, winner of this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, captured the THE PLAYERS in 2019, but has had a bit of a mixed bag at TPC Sawgrass since then. With over 75 yards added, THE PLAYERS will be decided over the 7,352 yards that THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass has to offer. Alongside last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Russell Henley, other notable players in the field include Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Åberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler with a total of 48 of the world’s top 50 playing in this year's event.
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00:00This up the left side and absolutely hammered.
00:09Should cover everything and
00:10be right down the middle.
00:12The great driving a statement
00:13made by Rory right there.
00:20He's lost the right needs the
00:22rights left wind and knock it down.
00:30He got a lot of ball.
00:39It's gotta carry to take care of the water.
00:41Just got over the water.
00:49It's a fade towards the middle of the green.
00:56Just gonna miss that slope,
00:58but dead pin high in that wind is good for it.
01:00Just trying to pick a spot out to land
01:02the ball and have it run onto the whole.
01:08That was heavy.
01:21Howard that through there didn't
01:22break any to his right wind,
01:24holding it out there.
01:28No, the one short bones.
01:41Yes.
01:44It's gonna be an advantage here for McElroy.
01:48Gets to one under.
01:59So McElroy strikes 1st as we
02:01send you over to Terry and Brad.
02:15Outstanding shot.
02:29Straight into the water.
02:34In contact for sure.
02:41First ball in the water on this
02:44course all week for JJ spawn.
02:49Will you fly this all the
02:50way down to the bottom?
02:52I think you have to with the amount
02:53of spin you're going to have on it,
02:55unless you're going to take
02:56a really lower and long.
02:59Yeah.
03:1236.
03:1683
03:21where I want to fly this.
03:23You're just gonna fly right?
03:24See the second flag.
03:27Yeah.
03:29And it's a little smarter than anything there.
03:31The blue second flag.
03:33That's where you're coming down right?
03:34That's it over the bridge.
03:4085.
03:43Because it's 83.
03:47It's 80.
03:5083
03:534
03:54this is.
03:56Should be should be over.
04:01Just hit it.
04:04It's straight in.
04:09We need what happened on my first shot.
04:20Shot of about 89 yards, but.
04:23Not sure how committed to all
04:25the numbers right now.
04:26After that discussion.
04:30Didn't understand the garbage
04:32from his caddy Mark Carnes.
04:33That's for sure.
04:38You may not stay on the green.
04:41Up against the collar.
04:43So it was an advantage for Rory McIlroy
04:45when they came to this island green,
04:47and now that is well in his mind,
04:49gotta be racing JJ spawn at the moment.
04:52Rough cut in the shoulder chipping.
04:57Trying to let it die, right?
05:00But no real choice there.
05:03This is 4th shot,
05:04so that long putt for double bogey
05:06is where he has his putt for it too.
05:08She shows you how quick that green is.
05:23Just still traveling.
05:26Just touched it.
05:26Well, the wind is in a different direction.
05:29That's a wind aided slope aided.
05:30You saw that ball would have gone
05:32probably a foot on a flat green.
05:39Wow.
05:47Man, these greens are definitely
05:49faster when they look this morning
05:51than when they left the course last night.
06:01Nightmare at 17 total nightmare and
06:03it's been a good swing and a good
06:05shot that he hit just misjudged
06:08how much the wind would affect him.
06:17No, right through his own shadow
06:19and he's going to drop the shot.
06:21You can see the wind blowing there and
06:23that that wind would have affected
06:25that putt and Brook brought it to the left.
06:27Gives one back that he picked up at 16
06:29and it is a three shot lead again
06:31as they head to 18.
06:38Well, this starts up the right and heading, right?
06:46Still going to make the three shot
06:48hole either way, but that's going
06:49to make the chip out back into
06:51play more difficult.
07:02JJ is always also lost this way to the right.
07:06That's the last thing he needed
07:09to see was follow Rory way, right?
07:13And Rory's out there way right as well.
07:15Of 18, all sorts of possibilities here,
07:17but again, Rory with that three shot advantage.
07:22So bones first of all, JJ spawn.
07:24What's he looking at?
07:25Well, the ball is sitting very well.
07:27It's in an area where the spectators
07:29have trampled down the grass.
07:30He's got 222 yards left.
07:31He does have an avenue to hit
07:33something low with a cut and
07:35then roll something onto the green.
07:42OK, Smiley, what about Rory's
07:43second shot coming up? Dan,
07:45his lie is sitting very clean.
07:47His option will be two different
07:48windows for a punch out.
07:50He could either go low underneath the
07:52trees and he also has a window above
07:54the tree line where he could kind
07:56of hit a wedge about 60 yards.
08:00McElroy had a crazy birdie on Thursday
08:02when he missed the fairway in the pine
08:04needles, but he's much deeper
08:06in there in this playoff.
08:10JJ's gotta play aggressive here.
08:12You know, here's that you're just
08:14going to play this well underneath
08:15the hanging limbs. Everybody
08:20got through. No problem.
08:24Side by side here on their thirds.
08:27Left of the flag could miss the green.
08:32Just catches it, bonds.
08:37That it is slipping away here.
08:39He's only trying to get it on top,
08:42which is 127.
08:43I think that's playing 160.
08:45You've got all sorts of cushion, you just.
08:49This much of a gap.
08:51He's got a lot of room to play.
08:53He's got a lot of room to play.
08:56This much lower than JJ's
08:57actually on a great line.
09:01Beauty. The McElroy moving closer
09:04here to officially closing it out.
09:10Such a cool flight right there,
09:12keeping it down underneath the tree height.
09:16Burst out of the scene this season,
09:18wrote it all the way through this week
09:21until this disappointing playoff.
09:22Still give him a ton of confidence
09:24for the rest of the season.
09:27He and all the major championships.
09:30Know that he can get up there and contend.
09:50McElroy's got another players title.
09:54World number two with his second.
10:09And setting the table here.
10:12For what could be a very
10:14special year for McElroy.
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