2021 Players Championship Betting Odds, Tips & Predictions

Often called ‘The Players' for short, The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour that dates back to 1974 when it was known as the Tournament Players Championship. With a $12.5 million prize fund, The Players, which includes the top 50 players in the world rankings, puts up the biggest purse in professional golf surpassing the $12 million that’s on offer as The US Open.

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Since 1982,the tournament has been played at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This course is famous for its par 3, 17^th hole known as the Island Green. Because of its massive prize pool, The Players is often referred to as the unofficial fifth major.

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The Players Championship Betting 2021 Odds, Tips & Predictions

The 2021 Players Championship is scheduled to take place on the 11th-14th March.

The Players Championship 2021 Betting Odds

We will display the latest odds here closer to the start date of the tournament.

The Players Championship 2021 Betting Tips & Predictions

Watch this space for our expert betting tips and predictions once the event draws closer.

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Popular Golf Bets for The Players Championship

Golf is one of the peoples’ favourite sports for betting on, either online or on the high street. The main reason for this is that it’s a slow-building sport which lends itself to in-play betting and also because there are tournaments going off each week, each one with fields of over 100 players taking part. These huge fields often mean that tournament favourites in golf will typically have longer odds than their equivalents in other sports.

Outright Tournament Winner Betting

Betting on a tournament winner is the simplest way to bet on golf and because of this simplicity, it is without question the most popular way to bet on golf, just as it is with every other sporting event in the world. When you place an outright golf tournament winner bet, you are backing a player to win the tournament and nothing else matters. It is also worth noting that, due to the massive 100+ player fields, golf tends to pick up longer than odds than a lot of other sports that people choose to bet on.

First Round Leader Betting

When betting of the player to be leading the way after a single day’s play, consider those types of players that typically get off to a fast start on day one. With this bet you are looking to pick a selection that stands a chance of finishing day one on top of the leaderboard. You do not need to worry about the player still being top by day four, this is a first-round leader bet only. Of course, because this is like a mini-outright bet, you can always back it each way should you so choose.

Top 10, Top 20 Finish Betting

Leaderboard betting is designed to allow you to bet on a player or players to finish inside the top 10 or 20 players in the field. Betting on the top 10 and/or top 20 markets is popular because its like a long range each way bet. Of course, you are not getting a fraction of the outright odds but you can select players that you know are not good enough to win or even claim a place among the highest finishers but are still at an ability level where making the top 20 or 10 is within the capabilities.

Head To Head Golf Betting

Another option when it comes to betting on golf is to consider head to head match betting. Head to head simply pits two players up against each other and it’s the bettor’s job to correctly put money behind the player that will come out on top and shoot the lowest score out of the two thus finish higher up the leaderboard. It is important to note, that you are not selecting the outright winner of the tourney when you play this bet, merely choosing a player in a nominated pair to perform better than his competitor.

Tournament Structure for The Players Championship

The four-day tournament works the same as many of the stroke play events on the tour in that all the players tee-off in the first round of 18 on a Thursday. Round two is staged on the Friday after which there is a cut off for players to either be eliminated from competition or continue on to Saturday’s third round. On Sunday, the final day is held where the leading players, those with the lowest under par score, are the last to tee off and play their final round of 18. By the close of play, assuming there isn’t a tie, then the winner, the player with biggest under par total from the four days combined, will be crowned. Should there be a tie, then those players on the same score will replay the final three holes, including the Island Green, until a winner is determined.

History of The Players Championship

The Players Championship is the brainchild of the former PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman. The first event was staged at the Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia, USA. In 1975, the event upped and moved to Texas where the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth was briefly its home. One year later the tournament was on the move again, this time to South Florida and the Inverrary Country Club in Lauderhill. In three years in Lauderhill the event replaced the Atlanta Classic in 1974, the Colonial National Invitational in 1975 and the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic in 1976, all of which were restored to the schedule the following year in 1977. That same year, the event moved northwards to the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach where it remained until 1982 when it was first staged at its current Floridian home, the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Past Winners (Since The Players Championship in 1988)

Note: Despite the initial announcement that the tournament would take place indoors during its latter three days, the 2020 edition of the Players Championship was eventually cancelled after the first day in response to the global pandemic.

The Players Championship Key Stats

• At 21 years of age, KimSi Woo became the youngest player to ever win the event in 2017.
• In doing so the South Korean surpassed Adam Scott who won in 2004 at the age of 24.
• Fred Funk became the tournament's oldest winner in 2005 when he won aged 48 .
• There are only six multiple times winners at The Players; Fred Couples, Davis Love III, Hal Sutton, Steve Elkington and Jack Nicklaus.
• With three wins, Jack Nicklaus has more victories at The Players Championship than any other golfer.
• In 1997, Steve Elkington won by seven strokes, the widest margin of victory ever recorded at The Players.
• Justin Leonard shot three eagles at The Players Championship in 2000.
• With 26 birdies in 1994 at The Players Championship, Fuzzy Zoeller holds the record for most birdies in a single tournament.
• Fred Couples twice hit a hole in one in this event, once in 1997 and again in 2006.

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ThePuntersPage Final Say

Often cited as the fifth major, The Players Championships offer up the largest purse in golf, upwards of $15 million. The winner, who will take home 18% of that amount, will also receive 80 points towards his world ranking, the largest share awarded other than in the majors where winners pick up 100 points. Because of this, The Players, as it is sometimes known, is one of the highlights of the golfing calendar and one where that all the top players flock to.

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