Quiz: Winners of The Players Championship
It is the 50th anniversary, but can you name the previous 49 winners?
2024 saw the 50th anniversary of the Players Championship, but how many of those 50 winners of the tournament can you name on our quiz?
50 years on from the first edition of the event, the tournament has become one of the biggest in the world of golf, and it is dubbed as the “unofficial fifth major”.
The first 13 editions of the tournament were all won by Americans, with it taking until 1987 for a non-American to lift the trophy. Five years earlier, TPC Sawgrass had become the new home of the tournament, and it remains a key fixture on the PGA Tour calendar all these years on.
In more recent years, the winners’ board has a much more international feel to it. Golfers from ten nations have been successful at The Players Championship since the turn of the millennium.
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There are some big names on the list, while there are also a few names that you might struggle to get. However, we have provided the year, nationality and initials of the players who have won The Players Championship.
Can you name all the winners of The Players Championship on our quiz, powered by Sporcle? You’ve got ten minutes, good luck!
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Matt Coles
Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…
Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.
He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.
Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…
Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.
