THE PLAYERS Championship announces field for 2026
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA — THE PLAYERS Championship announced today the field for the 2026 event, which returns to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass from March 10-15.
The 123-player field features 47 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and representation from 24 countries.
As part of his return to the PGA TOUR via the Returning Member Program, Brooks Koepka was added to the field (121) so not to take a spot from a current TOUR member. To round out threesomes, the field was officially expanded to 123 as of Monday at noon ET, with the first two alternates at that time – Patton Kizzire and Seamus Power – being added to the field.
Other notes on the field include:
- Seven PLAYERS Champions: Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025), Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024), Justin Thomas (2021), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Adam Scott (2004).
- Two-time PLAYERS Champions Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024) and Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025) are seeking to become the first to win THE PLAYERS three times since Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978), and the first to win THE PLAYERS three times at TPC Sawgrass.
- 2004 PLAYERS Champion Adam Scott qualified by virtue of his position in the FedExCup standings through the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (20th). Scott has the most appearances of any player in the field with 24. Justin Rose owns the second-most appearances of any player in the field with 21.
- Fourteen players in the field are making their tournament debut, highlighted by three PGA TOUR winners (in bold): Zach Bauchou, Michael Brennan, Pierceson Coody, Zecheng Dou, A.J. Ewart, Steven Fisk, Takumi Kanaya, Johnny Keefer, William Mouw, Marco Penge, Kristoffer Reitan, Jordan Smith, Michael Thorbjornsen, Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
- Of the 14 players in the field making their tournament debut, seven are PGA TOUR rookies: Zach Bauchou, A.J. Ewart, Johnny Keefer, Marco Penge, Kristoffer Reitan, Jordan Smith, Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
- The last man in the field is Seamus Power (No. 78 in the FedExCup standings through the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches) and the first alternate is David Ford.
THE PLAYERS Championship field list as of Monday, March 9 at noon ET:
Åberg, Ludvig
Gotterup, Chris
Li, Haotong
Schauffele, Xander
Bauchou, Zach
Greyserman, Max
Lowry, Shane
Scheffler, Scottie
Berger, Daniel
Griffin, Ben
MacIntyre, Robert
Schenk, Adam
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Grillo, Emiliano
Matsuyama, Hideki
Schmid, Matti
Bhatia, Akshay
Hall, Harry
McCarthy, Denny
Scott, Adam
Bradley, Keegan
Harman, Brian
McCarty, Matt
Smalley, Alex
Brennan, Michael
Henley, Russell
McGreevy, Max
Smith, Jordan
Bridgeman, Jacob
Higgo, Garrick
McIlroy, Rory
Smotherman, Austin
Burns, Sam
Highsmith, Joe
McNealy, Maverick
Spaun, J.J.
Campbell, Brian
Hisatsune, Ryo
Meissner, Mac
Spieth, Jordan
Cantlay, Patrick
Hodges, Lee
Mitchell, Keith
Stevens, Sam
Castillo, Ricky
Hoey, Rico
Moore, Taylor
Straka, Sepp
Cauley, Bud
Hoge, Tom
Morikawa, Collin
Taylor, Nick
Clark, Wyndham
Højgaard, Nicolai
Mouw, William
Theegala, Sahith
Cole, Eric
Højgaard, Rasmus
Noren, Alex
Thomas, Justin
Conners, Corey
Homa, Max
Novak, Andrew
Thompson, Davis
Coody, Pierceson
Hovland, Viktor
Olesen, Thorbjørn
Thorbjornsen, Michael
Dahmen, Joel
Hubbard, Mark
Pavon, Matthieu
Valimaki, Sami
Davis, Cam
Hughes, Mackenzie
Pendrith, Taylor
van Rooyen, Erik
Day, Jason
Im, Sungjae
Penge, Marco
Vegas, Jhonattan
Dou, Zecheng
Jaeger, Stephan
Phillips, Chandler
Vilips, Karl
Echavarria, Nico
Kanaya, Takumi
Poston, J.T.
Walker, Danny
English, Harris
Keefer, Johnny
Potgieter, Aldrich
Whaley, Vince
Ewart, A.J.
Kim, Michael
Power, Seamus
Woodland, Gary
Finau, Tony
Kim, S.H.
Putnam, Andrew
Yellamaraju, Sudarshan
Fisk, Steven
Kim, Si Woo
Rai, Aaron
Young, Cameron
Fitzpatrick, Matt
Kirk, Chris
Ramey, Chad
Yu, Kevin
Fleetwood, Tommy
Kitayama, Kurt
Reitan, Kristoffer
Fowler, Rickie
Kizzire, Patton
Riley, Davis
Fox, Ryan
Knapp, Jake
Rodgers, Patrick
Gerard, Ryan
Koepka, Brooks
Rose, Justin
Glover, Lucas
Lee, Min Woo
Roy, Kevin