The 2004 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 31st Players Championship.

Tournament summary Adam Scott, age 23, held on for his second PGA Tour title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Pádraig Harrington, who started the final round five shots behind. With a two-shot lead on the 72nd hole, Scott put his approach shot in the water then sank a putt for bogey to win.

Defending champion Davis Love III finished twelve strokes back, in a tie for 33rd place.

Scott was the youngest champion for thirteen years, until Kim Si-woo won at age 21 in 2017. Previously, it was Fred Couples, age 24 in 1984.

Venue

This was the 23rd Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .

Eligibility requirements 1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the previous year's Players Championship.

Ben Crane, Mike Weir, Davis Love III, Fred Couples, Steve Flesch, David Toms, Vijay Singh, Kenny Perry, Rory Sabbatini, Jonathan Kaye, Tiger Woods, Ben Curtis, Craig Stadler, Peter Jacobsen, Shaun Micheel, Darren Clarke, Kirk Triplett, Adam Scott, Bob Tway, J. L. Lewis, Tommy Armour III, John Huston, Stuart Appleby, Shigeki Maruyama, Retief Goosen, Chad Campbell, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, John Daly, Heath Slocum, Craig Parry, Todd Hamilton

2. The top 125 finishers on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.

Brad Faxon, Charles Howell III, Jay Haas, Justin Leonard, Chris DiMarco, Scott Verplank, Nick Price, Briny Baird, Chris Riley, Robert Allenby, Tim Herron, Jerry Kelly, Fred Funk, K. J. Choi, Bob Estes, Stewart Cink, Tim Petrovic, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Robert Gamez, Woody Austin, Geoff Ogilvy, Jonathan Byrd, Frank Lickliter, Peter Lonard, Brenden Pappas, Loren Roberts, Tim Clark, Scott McCarron, Len Mattiace, Tom Pernice Jr., Duffy Waldorf, Scott Hoch, Alex Čejka, Tom Lehman, Lee Janzen, Mark Calcavecchia, Joe Durant, Kevin Sutherland, Rod Pampling, Hidemichi Tanaka, Skip Kendall, Rich Beem, Stephen Ames, Aaron Baddeley, Carl Pettersson, Hal Sutton, Steve Lowery, Matt Gogel, Billy Mayfair, Glen Day, Brett Quigley, Harrison Frazar, David Gossett, Jeff Maggert, Cliff Kresge, Paul Stankowski, Luke Donald, Brandt Jobe, Joey Sindelar, David Peoples, Carlos Franco, Sergio García, J. J. Henry, Billy Andrade, Dean Wilson, Jeff Brehaut, Craig Barlow, Jay Williamson, Todd Fischer, Arron Oberholser, Patrick Sheehan, Stephen Allan, Cameron Beckman, John Senden, Tom Byrum, Neal Lancaster, Brent Geiberger, J. P. Hayes, David Frost, Robert Damron, Pat Perez, Jesper Parnevik, Notah Begay III, Richard S. Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Kent Jones, Pat Bates, Glen Hnatiuk, Esteban Toledo

3. Members in the top 125 non-members category whose official money for the previous year equals or exceeds the amount of official money earned by the player finishing in the 125th position on the 2003 Official PGA Tour Money List.

Pádraig Harrington, Hank Kuehne, Freddie Jacobson, Stephen Leaney, Justin Rose, Thomas Bjørn

4. PGA Tour members from the current Tournament Winners category

Steve Stricker, Matt Kuchar, Spike McRoy, Chris Smith, Gene Sauers, Bob Burns

5. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship from 1994 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. Beginning with 1998, winners will be eligible for 5 years.

Greg Norman, Steve Elkington, José María Olazábal, Nick Faldo, Corey Pavin, Mark Brooks, Craig Perks, Paul Lawrie

6. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1994–1997).

7. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

8. Winners of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in the last three years (2002–2004).

9. Winners of the WGC-NEC Invitational and WGC-American Express Championship in the last three years (2001–2003).

10. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational.

Paul Casey, Colin Montgomerie, Trevor Immelman, Ian Poulter, Brian Davis

11. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 10 leaders from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational.

12. If necessary to complete a field of 144 players, PGA Tour members from the 2004 Official PGA Tour Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on such list.

John Riegger

13. The Players Championship committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Note: Such a player would be added to the field.)

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Round summaries First round Thursday, March 25, 2004 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Adam Scott65−7T2 Kevin Sutherland66−6 Duffy WaldorfT4 Thomas Bjørn67−5 Bob Burns K. J. ChoiT7 Ernie Els68−4 Sergio García Pádraig Harrington Brandt Jobe Scott Verplank Source:

Second round Friday, March 26, 2004 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Jerry Kelly69-66=135−9 Kevin Sutherland66-69=135T3 Ernie Els68-69=137−7 Adam Scott65-72=137T5 Pádraig Harrington68-70=138−6 Vijay Singh70-68=138T7 Bob Burns67-72=139−5 Phil Mickelson70-69=139 Jeff Sluman69-70=139 Duffy Waldorf66-73=139 Source:

Third round Saturday, March 27, 2004 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Adam Scott 65-72-69=206 −10T2 Frank Lickliter 69-71-68=208 −8 Kevin Sutherland 66-69-73=208T4 Ernie Els 68-69-72=209−7 Jerry Kelly 69-66-74=209 Phil Mickelson 70-69-70=209 Kenny Perry 69-71-69=209 Paul Stankowski 73-70-66=209T9 Craig Parry 74-72-64=210 −6 Vijay Singh 70-68-72=210 Duffy Waldorf 66-73-71=210 Source:

Final round Sunday, March 28, 2004 Champion(c) = past champion PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Adam Scott 65-72-69-70=276 −12 1,440,0002 Pádraig Harrington 68-70-73-66=277 −11 864,000T3 Frank Lickliter 69-71-68-72=280 −8 416,000 Phil Mickelson 70-69-70-71=280 Kenny Perry 69-71-69-71=280T6 Jay Haas 72-73-70-66=281 −7 268,000 Jerry Kelly 69-66-74-72=281 Kevin Sutherland 66-69-73-73=2819 Shaun Micheel 70-76-69-67=282 −6 232,000T10 Bob Burns 67-72-72-72=283 −5 200,000 Paul Casey 72-70-69-72=283 Fred Funk 73-71-68-71=283 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T13 Stephen Ames 75-69-72-68=284 −4 154,666 Craig Parry 74-72-64-74=284 Vijay Singh 70-68-72-74=284T16 Woody Austin 76-69-66-74=285 −3 116,000 Tom Byrum 74-71-71-69=285 Matt Kuchar 74-67-71-73=285 Geoff Ogilvy 73-70-72-70=285 Paul Stankowski 73-70-66-76=285 Tiger Woods (c) 75-69-68-73=285T22 Thomas Bjørn 67-76-73-70=286 −2 80,000 Stewart Cink 70-73-74-69=286 Glen Day 71-75-67-73=286 J. P. Hayes 72-73-72-69=286T26 Cameron Beckman 70-71-72-74=287 −1 56,800 Darren Clarke 71-74-73-69=287 Steve Elkington (c) 69-76-70-72=287 Ernie Els 68-69-72-78=287 John Huston 72-71-71-73=287 Jeff Sluman 69-70-73-75=287 Scott Verplank 68-75-73-71=287T33 Robert Allenby 71-73-70-74=288 E 39,644 Briny Baird 71-74-70-73=288 Alex Čejka 69-71-73-75=288 Davis Love III (c) 77-68-70-73=288 Jeff Maggert 73-73-70-72=288 Len Mattiace 74-69-74-71=288 Jesper Parnevik 72-71-73-72=288 Corey Pavin 74-67-74-73=288 Ian Poulter 70-73-71-74=288T42 Pat Bates 73-73-73-70=289 +1 24,087 Chad Campbell 75-69-71-74=289 K. J. Choi 67-79-69-74=289 Brad Faxon 70-75-73-71=289 Scott Hoch 70-71-77-71=289 Justin Leonard (c) 75-69-72-73=289 Colin Montgomerie 73-73-73-70=289 David Peoples 72-72-73-72=289 Nick Price (c) 75-69-73-72=289 Brett Quigley 73-73-69-74=289 Rory Sabbatini 73-68-75-73=289T53 Sergio García 68-73-72-77=290 +2 18,432 Matt Gogel 72-71-70-77=290 Shigeki Maruyama 70-73-74-73=290 Scott McCarron 76-70-69-75=290 Tim Petrovic 71-72-74-73=290T58 Joe Durant 74-71-72-74=291 +3 17,360 Carlos Franco 74-70-74-73=291 Todd Hamilton 71-72-76-72=291 Billy Mayfair 76-70-70-75=291 Rod Pampling 73-71-72-75=291 Justin Rose 73-73-70-75=291 John Senden 73-72-70-76=291 Heath Slocum 73-73-72-73=291T66 Mark Calcavecchia 71-72-72-77=292 +4 16,240 Ben Crane 71-72-71-78=292 Spike McRoy 74-71-75-72=292 Arron Oberholser 73-73-75-71=292 Loren Roberts 73-70-79-70=292 Craig Stadler 70-76-74-72=292T72 Nick Faldo 71-75-71-76=293 +5 15,600 Tom Pernice Jr. 72-71-70-80=293T74 Brandt Jobe 68-75-76-75=294 +6 15,200 Joey Sindelar 73-70-73-78=294 Duffy Waldorf 66-73-71-84=294T77 Bernhard Langer 71-74-73-77=295 +7 14,800 Bob Tway 69-71-78-77=29579 John Daly 69-73-76-80=298 +10 14,56080 Peter Jacobsen 72-73-71-83=299 +11 14,400T81 Greg Norman (c) 72-73-77-79=301 +13 14,160 Hidemichi Tanaka 72-71-74-84=30183 Neal Lancaster 72-71-80-79=302 +14 13,920CUT Stuart Appleby 71-76=147 +3 Lee Janzen (c) 75-72=147 Jonathan Kaye 76-71=147 Skip Kendall 73-74=147 Cliff Kresge 71-76=147 Paul Lawrie 74-73=147 J. L. Lewis 74-73=147 John Rollins 72-75=147 Patrick Sheehan 74-73=147 Kirk Triplett 71-76=147 Jonathan Byrd 73-75=148 +4 Ben Curtis 75-73=148 Luke Donald 72-76=148 Todd Fischer 72-76=148 Brenden Pappas 77-71=148 Pat Perez 73-75=148 John Riegger 74-74=148 Gene Sauers 74-74=148 Esteban Toledo 71-77=148 David Toms 73-75=148 Robert Damron 76-73=149 +5 Robert Gamez 70-79=149 J. J. Henry 74-75=149 Tom Lehman 74-75=149 Craig Perks (c) 70-79=149 Mike Weir 74-75=149 Notah Begay III 72-78=150 +6 Tim Clark 73-77=150 Bob Estes 72-78=150 Steve Flesch 76-74=150 Charles Howell III 75-75=150 José María Olazábal 76-74=150 Carl Pettersson 75-75=150 Steve Stricker 73-77=150 Dean Wilson 75-75=150 Stephen Allan 76-75=151 +7 Tommy Armour III 75-76=151 Rich Beem 71-80=151 Brian Davis 77-74=151 Chris DiMarco 74-77=151 Freddie Jacobson 73-78=151 Kent Jones 74-77=151 Hal Sutton (c) 74-77=151 Fred Couples (c) 74-78=152 +8 Retief Goosen 77-75=152 Chris Smith 77-75=152 Jeff Brehaut 77-76=153 +9 Mark Brooks 78-76=154 +10 David Frost 76-78=154 Tim Herron 76-78=154 Hank Kuehne 72-82=154 Stephen Leaney 78-76=154 Steve Lowery 76-78=154 Chris Riley 75-79=154 Aaron Baddeley 74-81=155 +11 Richard S. Johnson 75-80=155 Peter Lonard 80-75=155 Jay Williamson 77-78=155 Billy Andrade 76-80=156 +12 Harrison Frazar 77-79=156 David Gossett 79-77=156 Glen Hnatiuk 78-78=156 Craig Barlow 81-78=159 +15WD Brent Geiberger 75 +3 Trevor Immelman

Scorecard Final round Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par453444435 454344534 Scott −10 −11 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −13 −13 −12 −13 −14 −14 −13 −13 −13 −13 −12 Harrington −5 −4 −3 −4 −3 −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8 −10 −10 −11 Lickliter −7 −7 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 Mickelson −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 Perry −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −9 −8 −9 −9 −8 Sutherland −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7 −7 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogey Source:

References

External links The Players Championship website Full Leaderboard