After round 1 of the The Players Championship 2025 the joint leaders were J.J. Spaun, Lucas Glover and Camilo Vegas – with J.J. Spaun and Lucas Glover playing a Srixon golf ball.
After round 2 Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia rocketed up the leaderboard to share the lead – both playing a Callaway golf ball.
Budd Cauley, and his Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, shot a 66 in round 3 to lie second behind J.J. Spaun – heading into the final round.
Due to the poor weather forecasted for the final round, tee times were brought forward and players went out in 3balls off holes 1 and 10. The stormy weather sadly did arrive and play was suspended for just over 4 hours.
When the players eventually came back out Rory McIlroy (who had not been out of the Top 5 all week), with his TaylorMade golf ball, was finally leading after starting round 4 with a birdie and an eagle. With 5 and a half holes to complete it was a dash to complete before darkness descended.
By the time the final group reached the 17th there were two sharing the lead by two shots over the rest – J.J. Spaun and Rory McIlroy. JJ having 2 holes to play and Rory just the final treacherous 18th to complete. It was a battle between the Srixon and TaylorMade golf ball to see who would become The Players winner 2025.
Rory managed his par down 18 with a fantastic 2 putt from long distance and the scene was set for J.J. Spaun’s Srixon golf ball – the drive trickled into the pine straw but a terrific approach shot followed and left a 25 footer for victory. With one more roll J.J. Spaun would have been the champion but with darkness finally descending we were left with tied leaders and a Monday playoff to decide the winner. Check out the playoff rules here.
