The 1999 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 26th Players Championship.
David Duval won his only Players Championship, two strokes head of runner-up Scott Gump. The victory moved him to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, ahead of Tiger Woods, who finished six strokes back in a tie for tenth place.
Duval's father Bob, age 52, won the same day at the Emerald Coast Classic near Pensacola for his first victory on the Senior Tour. Both led entering the final round.
Duval's winning score of 285 (−3) remains the highest at the Stadium Course, the venue since 1982. The lowest is by Greg Norman in 1994.
Defending champion Justin Leonard finished nine strokes back, in a tie for 23rd place.
Venue
This was the 18th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course; its 1999 setup measured , an increase of .
Field 1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 1998 Players Championship
Stuart Appleby Olin Browne John Cook Fred Couples Trevor Dodds Joe Durant David Duval Steve Elkington Ernie Els Fred Funk Jim Furyk Tim Herron Gabriel Hjertstedt John Huston Lee Janzen Steve Jones Davis Love III Jeff Maggert Billy Mayfair Rocco Mediate Phil Mickelson Mark O'Meara J. P. Hayes Steve Pate Nick Price Vijay Singh Jeff Sluman Payne Stewart Hal Sutton Tom Watson Lee Westwood Tiger Woods
2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 1998 Official Money List
Billy Andrade Tommy Armour III Paul Azinger Doug Barron Ben Bates Michael Bradley Tom Byrum Mark Calcavecchia Jim Carter Brandel Chamblee Barry Cheesman Stewart Cink Russ Cochran John Daly Robert Damron Glen Day Clark Dennis Chris DiMarco Jay Don Blake Bob Estes Brad Fabel Brad Faxon Steve Flesch Dan Forsman Harrison Frazar Bob Friend Jeff Gallagher Brent Geiberger Bill Glasson Paul Goydos Scott Gump Jay Haas Dudley Hart Nolan Henke Brian Henninger Scott Hoch Bradley Hughes Mike Hulbert Peter Jacobsen Jerry Kelly Skip Kendall Greg Kraft Neal Lancaster Franklin Langham Tom Lehman Justin Leonard J. L. Lewis Frank Lickliter Bruce Lietzke Steve Lowery Andrew Magee Doug Martin Len Mattiace Blaine McCallister Scott McCarron Larry Mize Colin Montgomerie Frank Nobilo Joe Ozaki Jesper Parnevik Craig Parry Tom Pernice Jr. Chris Perry Kenny Perry Lee Porter Mike Reid Lee Rinker Larry Rinker Loren Roberts Scott Simpson Joey Sindelar Mike Springer Craig Stadler Paul Stankowski Steve Stricker David Sutherland Kevin Sutherland Phil Tataurangi Esteban Toledo Tommy Tolles David Toms Kirk Triplett Ted Tryba Bob Tway Omar Uresti Scott Verplank Grant Waite Duffy Waldorf Brian Watts Kevin Wentworth Mark Wiebe Willie Wood Fuzzy Zoeller
3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open (only since 1990), and PGA Championship in the last 10 years (1989-1998)
Mark Brooks Ben Crenshaw Nick Faldo Wayne Grady Tom Kite Bernhard Langer Greg Norman José María Olazábal Corey Pavin Curtis Strange Ian Woosnam
4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf in the last 10 years (1989-1998)
Fulton Allem David Frost Tom Purtzer
5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner
6. Winner of the World Golf Championship events in the last three years, beginning with the 1999 winners
7. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational
Darren Clarke Miguel Ángel Jiménez Brandt Jobe Shigeki Maruyama
8. Any players, not otherwise eligibility, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 1999 Official Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational
9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 1999 Official Money List below the 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their position on the money list Carlos Franco
10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame Seve Ballesteros
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Round summaries First round Thursday, March 25, 1999 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Bob Estes68−4 Brian WattsT3 David Duval69−3 Joe Ozaki Hal SuttonT6 Dudley Hart70−2 Bradley Hughes Skip Kendall Davis Love III Billy Mayfair Chris Perry Jeff Sluman Kirk Triplett Tiger Woods
Second round Friday, March 26, 1999 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Joe Ozaki69-68=137−72 David Duval69-69=138−63 Bruce Lietzke71-68=139−5T4 Ernie Els73-67=140−4 Davis Love III70-70=140 Curtis Strange71-69=140T7 Fulton Allem74-67=141−3 Fred Funk72-69=141 Frank Lickliter71-70=141 Nick Price74-67=141 Tiger Woods70-71=141 Source:
Third round Saturday, March 27, 1999 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 David Duval 69-69-74=212 −4T2 Skip Kendall 70-73-70=213 −3 Phil Mickelson 71-71-71=213T4 Scott Hoch 72-70-73=215 −1 Colin Montgomerie 72-70-73=215 Nick Price 74-67-74=215T7 Scott Gump 72-74-70=216 E Mark O'Meara 72-73-71=216 Payne Stewart 72-70-74=216 Steve Stricker 73-73-70=216 Hal Sutton 69-74-73=216 Tiger Woods 70-71-75=216 Source:
Final round Sunday, March 28, 1999 Champion(c) = past champion PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 David Duval 69-69-74-73=285 −3 900,0002 Scott Gump 72-74-70-71=287 −1 540,0003 Nick Price (c) 74-67-74-73=288 E 340,000T4 Fred Couples (c) 77-71-73-68=289 +1 220,000 Hal Sutton (c) 69-74-73-73=289T6 Scott Hoch 72-70-73-75=290 +2 161,875 Mark O'Meara 72-73-71-74=290 Steve Stricker 73-73-70-74=290 Lee Westwood 73-69-75-73=290T10 Mark Brooks 71-77-71-72=291 +3 107,142 Mark Calcavecchia 76-70-72-73=291 Skip Kendall 70-73-70-78=291 Davis Love III (c) 70-70-78-73=291 Naomichi Ozaki 69-68-81-73=291 Joey Sindelar 72-71-74-74=291 Tiger Woods 70-71-75-75=291 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T17 Ernie Els 73-67-80-72=292 +4 75,000 Jim Furyk 71-76-73-72=292 Duffy Waldorf 71-71-75-75=292T20 John Huston 75-72-73-73=293 +5 60,333 Vijay Singh 77-70-74-72=293 David Toms 73-75-74-71=293T23 Brad Fabel 73-70-80-71=294 +6 40,166 Justin Leonard (c) 72-72-75-75=294 Frank Lickliter 71-70-76-77=294 Larry Mize 73-71-73-77=294 Colin Montgomerie 72-70-73-79=294 Jesper Parnevik 71-73-74-76=294 Payne Stewart 72-70-74-78=294 Curtis Strange 71-69-78-76=294 Esteban Toledo 73-75-72-74=294T32 Gabriel Hjertstedt 73-72-74-76=295 +7 27,666 Franklin Langham 71-75-75-74=295 Bruce Lietzke 71-68-80-76=295 Phil Mickelson 71-71-71-82=295 Chris Perry 70-74-73-78=295 Scott Verplank 76-71-73-75=295T38 Steve Elkington (c) 71-73-78-74=296 +8 20,000 Fred Funk 72-69-76-79=296 Paul Goydos 71-74-76-75=296 Dudley Hart 70-74-76-76=296 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 76-69-79-72=296 Bernhard Langer 73-72-77-74=296 Kirk Triplett 70-75-76-75=296 Brian Watts 68-74-78-76=296T46 Chris DiMarco 74-72-76-75=297 +9 13,600 Brad Faxon 72-75-79-71=297 Brent Geiberger 74-71-78-74=297 Jeff Maggert 73-71-76-77=297 Jeff Sluman 70-72-79-76=297 Tommy Tolles 72-73-76-76=297T52 Doug Barron 72-73-77-76=298 +10 11,600 Robert Damron 74-72-76-76=298 Dan Forsman 76-70-78-74=298 David Frost 74-72-74-78=298 Jeff Gallagher 71-73-77-77=298 José María Olazábal 78-70-76-74=298T58 Jay Don Blake 77-71-79-72=299 +11 11,050 Barry Cheesman 73-74-73-79=299 John Cook 78-69-78-74=299 Steve Pate 74-74-72-79=299T62 Billy Andrade 73-74-81-72=300 +12 10,500 Bob Estes 68-74-80-78=300 Bob Friend 74-69-87-70=300 Bradley Hughes 70-74-78-78=300 Greg Kraft 71-74-82-73=300 Craig Stadler 72-70-80-78=300 Tom Watson 75-71-79-75=30069 Craig Parry 75-73-73-80=301 +13 10,10070 Tom Byrum 76-72-80-74=302 +14 10,000T71 Jim Carter 76-72-76-80=304 +16 9,700 Darren Clarke 77-70-79-78=304 Russ Cochran 76-70-79-79=304 Frank Nobilo 72-71-80-81=304 Corey Pavin 74-74-82-74=30476 Joe Durant 74-74-78-79=305 +17 9,400T77 Fulton Allem 74-67-83-82=306 +18 9,250 Tom Kite (c) 76-72-79-79=306CUT Stuart Appleby 77-72=149 +5 Paul Azinger 76-73=149 Brandel Chamblee 78-71=149 Stewart Cink 74-75=149 Lee Janzen (c) 75-74=149 Tom Lehman 75-74=149 Doug Martin 72-77=149 Billy Mayfair 70-79=149 Rocco Mediate 71-78=149 Greg Norman (c) 72-77=149 Mike Reid 75-74=149 Loren Roberts 77-72=149 Scott Simpson 76-73=149 Paul Stankowski 74-75=149 Kevin Sutherland 75-74=149 Ted Tryba 78-71=149 Michael Bradley 77-73=150 +6 Ben Crenshaw 76-74=150 Bill Glasson 77-73=150 Tim Herron 72-78=150 Neal Lancaster 74-76=150 Steve Lowery 77-73=150 Scott McCarron 79-71=150 Larry Rinker 77-73=150 David Sutherland 73-77=150 Kevin Wentworth 73-77=150 Clark Dennis 75-76=151 +7 Lee Rinker 74-77=151 Bob Tway 75-76=151 Mark Wiebe 78-73=151 Ben Bates 74-78=152 +8 Trevor Dodds 75-77=152 Carlos Franco 78-74=152 Brandt Jobe 73-79=152 Steve Jones 74-78=152 J. L. Lewis 75-77=152 Ian Woosnam 80-72=152 Olin Browne 79-74=153 +9 Harrison Frazar 80-73=153 Tom Purtzer 75-78=153 Wayne Grady 77-77=154 +10 Mike Hulbert 77-77=154 Tom Pernice Jr. 79-75=154 Phil Tataurangi 78-76=154 Andrew Magee 81-74=155 +11 Len Mattiace 76-79=155 Blaine McCallister 78-77=155 Lee Porter 78-77=155 Mike Springer 78-77=155 Grant Waite 82-73=155 Willie Wood 77-78=155 Fuzzy Zoeller 76-79=155 Glen Day 79-77=156 +12 Steve Flesch 78-78=156 Jay Haas 82-74=156 Tommy Armour III 81-76=157 +13 Seve Ballesteros 76-81=157 J. P. Hayes 81-76=157 Peter Jacobsen 75-82=157 Omar Uresti 78-79=157 Brian Henninger 79-79=158 +14 Jerry Kelly 80-78=158 Shigeki Maruyama 74-84=158 Nolan Henke 85-76=161 +17WD Kenny Perry 82 +10 John Daly 83 +11DQ Nick Faldo 71-75-83=229 +13
References
External links The Players Championship website