The 2006 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 33rd Players Championship.
Tournament summary Stephen Ames shot a final round 67 and completed the biggest win of his career by a comfortable margin, six strokes ahead of runner-up Retief Goosen. Ames was the 54-hole leader by a stroke over Sergio García and Vijay Singh.
A month earlier at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Ames lasted only ten holes in the first round, falling to Tiger Woods 9&8.
Defending champion Fred Funk finished thirteen strokes back, in a tie for sixteenth place.
This was the final Players held in March until 2019; it moved to mid-May in 2007. The Players was moved back to March starting 2019 as the PGA Championship moves from August to May from 2019 onwards.
Venue
This was the 25th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course; five yards were added this year and its length was .
Eligibility requirements Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the previous year's Players Championship.
Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Peter Lonard, Vijay Singh, Tim Petrovic, Ted Purdy, Justin Leonard, Bart Bryant, Sergio García, Michael Campbell, Pádraig Harrington, Jim Furyk, Sean O'Hair, Jason Bohn, Ben Crane, Retief Goosen, Vaughn Taylor, Brad Faxon, Olin Browne, Mark Calcavecchia, Jason Gore, Robert Gamez, K. J. Choi, Wes Short Jr., Lucas Glover, Carl Pettersson, Heath Slocum, Stuart Appleby, David Toms, Chad Campbell, J. B. Holmes, Arron Oberholser, Rory Sabbatini, Geoff Ogilvy, Kirk Triplett, Luke Donald, Rod Pampling
The top 125 finishers on the 2005 Official PGA Tour money list.
Fred Funk, Davis Love III, Adam Scott, Scott Verplank, Tim Clark, Billy Mayfair, Brandt Jobe, Tim Herron, Charles Howell III, Shigeki Maruyama, Joe Ogilvie, Fred Couples, Zach Johnson, José María Olazábal, John Daly, Stewart Cink, Tom Lehman, Ernie Els, Tom Pernice Jr., Bo Van Pelt, Darren Clarke, Jonathan Kaye, Justin Rose, Mike Weir, Greg Owen, Jerry Kelly, Mark Hensby, Ryan Palmer, Jeff Brehaut, Pat Perez, Robert Allenby, Woody Austin, Billy Andrade, Kevin Na, Jeff Sluman, Bob Tway, Joey Sindelar, Dudley Hart, Joe Durant, J. L. Lewis, Carlos Franco, Charles Warren, Aaron Baddeley, Harrison Frazar, Brett Quigley, Scott McCarron, Arjun Atwal, Stephen Ames, Bernhard Langer, Steve Lowery, Ian Poulter, J. J. Henry, Daniel Chopra, Tag Ridings, Bob Estes, Loren Roberts, Steve Flesch, Freddie Jacobson, John Senden, Brian Davis, John Rollins, James Driscoll, Kevin Sutherland, Dean Wilson, D. J. Trahan, Hank Kuehne, Stephen Leaney, Jeff Maggert, Robert Damron, Corey Pavin, Jesper Parnevik, Doug Barron, Jonathan Byrd, Craig Barlow, Rich Beem, Rocco Mediate, Brian Gay, Richard S. Johnson, Hidemichi Tanaka, Patrick Sheehan, Todd Fischer, John Huston, Ryuji Imada, Tommy Armour III, Kent Jones, Craig Parry, Nick Price
For the duration of their exemption, PGA Tour members who earned a Tournament Winner exemption prior to March 1, 2004.
Winners of the Players Championship, Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship from the 1996 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2005. Beginning with 1998, winners will be eligible for five years.
Nick Faldo, Steve Jones, Mark Brooks, Craig Perks, Shaun Micheel, David Duval, Ben Curtis, Todd Hamilton
Winners of the NEC World Series in the last years 10 years (1996–1997).
Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years (2003–2005).
Winners of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in the last years (2004–2006).
Winners of the WGC-NEC Invitational and WGC-American Express Championship in the last three years (2003–2005).
Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational.
Colin Montgomerie, David Howell, Henrik Stenson, Ángel Cabrera, Nick O'Hern, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjørn, Lee Westwood, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Shingo Katayama
Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 10 leaders from the 2006 Official PGA Tour Money List through the Bay Hill Invitational.
If necessary to complete a field of 144 players, PGA Tour members from the 2006 Official PGA Tour Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on such list.
Camilo Villegas, Nathan Green
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Round summaries First round Thursday, March 23, 2006 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Jim Furyk65−7 Davis Love IIIT3 Robert Allenby67−5 Miguel Ángel Jiménez Bernhard LangerT6 Ben Crane68−4 Arron Oberholser José María Olazábal John Rollins Vijay Singh Bo Van Pelt Source:
Second round Friday, March 24, 2006 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Jim Furyk65-71=136−8T2 Stephen Ames71-66=137−7 Adam Scott70-67=137T4 K. J. Choi69-69=138−6 Sergio García70-68=138 Vijay Singh68-70=138T7 Brad Faxon70-69=139−5 Steve Flesch69-70=139 Fred Funk69-70=139 Arron Oberholser68-71=139 José María Olazábal68-71=139 Greg Owen71-68=139 John Rollins68-71=139 Bo Van Pelt68-71=139 Source:
Third round Saturday, March 25, 2006 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Stephen Ames 71-66-70=207 −9T2 Sergio García 70-68-70=208 −8 Vijay Singh 68-70-70=208T4 Henrik Stenson 69-71-70=210 −6 Mike Weir 71-71-68=210T6 Jim Furyk 65-71-75=211 −5 Retief Goosen69-71-71=211 Tom Pernice Jr. 70-70-71=211 Carl Pettersson 71-70-70=211 John Rollins 68-71-72=211 Bo Van Pelt 68-71-72=211 Source:
Final round Sunday, March 26, 2006 Champion(c) = past champion PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Stephen Ames 71-66-70-67=274 −14 1,440,0002 Retief Goosen 69-71-71-69=280 −8 864,000T3 Jim Furyk 65-71-75-72=283 −5 384,000 Pat Perez 71-72-69-71=283 Henrik Stenson 69-71-70-73=283 Camilo Villegas 74-70-68-71=2837 José María Olazábal 68-71-74-71=284 −4 268,000T8 Ernie Els 72-70-72-71=285 −3 208,000 Carl Pettersson 71-70-70-74=285 John Rollins 68-71-72-74=285 Vijay Singh 68-70-70-77=285 Vaughn Taylor 73-71-68-73=285 Bo Van Pelt 68-71-72-74=285 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T14 Sergio García 70-68-70-78=286 −2 148,000 Phil Mickelson 70-73-69-74=286T16 K. J. Choi 69-69-77-72=287 −1 124,000 Brad Faxon 70-69-79-69=287 Fred Funk (c) 70-69-74-74=287 Charles Warren 73-71-72-71=287T20 Darren Clarke 73-70-72-73=288 E 100,000 Brian Davis 70-73-73-72=288T22 Freddie Jacobson 69-72-74-74=289 +1 76,800 Greg Owen 71-68-77-73=289 Craig Parry 70-73-70-76=289 Mike Weir 71-71-68-79=289 Tiger Woods (c) 72-69-73-75=289T27 Jason Bohn 71-72-72-75=290 +2 53,250 James Driscoll 71-72-70-77=290 Todd Fischer 73-68-72-77=290 Richard S. Johnson 72-70-75-73=290 Tom Lehman 71-71-70-78=290 Tom Pernice Jr. 70-70-71-79=290 Ian Poulter 72-68-75-75=290 Nick Price (c) 72-71-74-73=29035 Fred Couples (c) 69-73-75-74=291 +3 43,200T36 Ben Crane 68-74-77-73=292 +4 40,200 Joe Durant 69-72-75-76=292T38 Robert Allenby 67-73-78-75=293 +5 32,800 J. B. Holmes 71-73-76-73=293 David Howell 71-71-81-70=293 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 67-74-82-70=293 Jesper Parnevik 72-72-72-77=293 Tim Petrovic 73-69-80-71=293 Lee Westwood 70-73-73-77=293T45 John Daly 70-73-74-77=294 +6 22,020 Carlos Franco 71-71-75-77=294 Dudley Hart 73-70-75-76=294 J. J. Henry 71-73-77-73=294 Peter Lonard 71-73-74-76=294 Jeff Maggert 73-69-78-74=294 Arron Oberholser 68-71-74-81=294 Jeff Sluman 70-73-75-76=294T53 Robert Gamez 71-72-78-74=295 +7 18,613 Charles Howell III 71-73-76-75=295 Adam Scott (c) 70-67-82-76=295T56 Bart Bryant 73-71-74-78=296 +8 18,160 Steve Lowery 73-70-78-75=296T58 Zach Johnson 71-73-74-79=297 +9 17,600 Bernhard Langer 67-75-79-76=297 Rocco Mediate 69-74-77-77=297 Sean O'Hair 73-71-75-78=297 Joey Sindelar 71-73-80-73=297T63 Steve Flesch 69-70-75-84=298 +10 16,960 Harrison Frazar 70-74-76-78=298 Kirk Triplett 70-71-76-81=298T66 Rich Beem 71-72-71-85=299 +11 16,480 Olin Browne 69-75-76-79=299 Nathan Green 72-72-75-80=29969 Thomas Bjørn 69-73-80-78=300 +12 16,160T70 Chad Campbell 70-72-79-80=301 +13 15,920 Shingo Katayama 70-73-77-81=30172 Mark Calcavecchia 69-73-81-79=302 +14 15,68073 Woody Austin 73-69-83-79=304 +16 15,52074 Mark Hensby 71-73-79-83=306 +18 15,360CUT Stuart Appleby 73-72=145 +1 Tommy Armour III 73-72=145 Mark Brooks 71-74=145 Ángel Cabrera 72-73=145 Michael Campbell 72-73=145 Stewart Cink 73-72=145 Ryuji Imada 73-72=145 Justin Leonard (c) 75-70=145 Nick O'Hern 71-74=145 Tag Ridings 70-75=145 John Senden 73-72=145 Patrick Sheehan 71-74=145 Wes Short Jr. 76-69=145 Dean Wilson 71-74=145 Doug Barron 72-74=146 +2 Pádraig Harrington 73-73=146 Shaun Micheel 75-71=146 Heath Slocum 72-74=146 Billy Andrade 69-78=147 +3 Jeff Brehaut 71-76=147 Luke Donald 73-74=147 Brian Gay 75-72=147 Ted Purdy 77-70=147 Brett Quigley 73-74=147 John Huston 73-75=148 +4 Jonathan Kaye 77-71=148 Davis Love III (c) 65-83=148 Colin Montgomerie 72-76=148 Kevin Na 74-74=148 Joe Ogilvie 80-68=148 Scott Verplank 75-73=148 Jonathan Byrd 72-77=149 +5 Daniel Chopra 70-79=149 Tim Clark 77-72=149 Robert Damron 71-78=149 Bob Estes 74-75=149 Tim Herron 72-77=149 Brandt Jobe 75-74=149 Loren Roberts 75-74=149 Kent Jones 76-74=150 +6 Paul McGinley 77-73=150 Rod Pampling 74-76=150 Justin Rose 78-72=150 David Toms 73-77=150 Arjun Atwal 76-75=151 +7 David Duval (c) 71-80=151 Lucas Glover 76-75=151 Stephen Leaney 72-79=151 Billy Mayfair 76-75=151 Kevin Sutherland 74-77=151 J. L. Lewis 76-76=152 +8 Hidemichi Tanaka 75-77=152 Aaron Baddeley 77-76=153 +9 Craig Barlow 80-73=153 Ben Curtis 73-80=153 Todd Hamilton 75-78=153 Rory Sabbatini 72-81=153 Bob Tway 74-79=153 Jerry Kelly 72-82=154 +10 Ryan Palmer 75-79=154 Corey Pavin 74-80=154 Nick Faldo 76-79=155 +11 Geoff Ogilvy 78-77=155 Craig Perks (c) 79-76=155 Steve Jones 73-84=157 +13 Jason Gore 77-81=158 +14 Scott McCarron 82-76=158 D. J. Trahan 76-83=159 +15 Hank Kuehne 80-80=160 +16WD Shigeki Maruyama 78 +6
Scorecard Hole123456789101112131415161718Par453444435 454344534 Ames −9−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−11−9−10−10−11−11−12−14−14−14 Goosen −6−7−6−7−7−7−7−7−7−7−7−6−7−6−7−7−7−8 Furyk −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 Perez −5 −6 −6 −6 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 Stenson−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−4−4−4−4−5−5−5 Villegas −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 Singh −7 −7 −7 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −3 −3 −4 −3 −3 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 García −8 −7−6−4−3−3−3−3-4 −3 −3-3-3−2−3−3−3−2 Weir −6 −6 −5 −2 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 E E +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- | style="background:Red; width:10px;"| |Eagle | style="background:Pink; width:10px;"| |Birdie | style="background:PaleGreen; width:10px;"| |Bogey | style="background:Green; width:10px;"| |Double bogey | style="background:Olive; width:10px;"| |Triple bogey+
References
External links The Players Championship website Full Leaderboard