The Players Championship

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Golf Channel and NBC will be the television homes of the 2023 Players Championship. It's a beautiful Thursday morning at TPC Sawgrass and the first wave of players is already well underway in their opening round. — Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of The Players Championship 2023! Rahm is at -2, Scheffler is at even and McIlroy is struggling a bit at +2 right now. — Another bogey for McIlroy drops him all the way down to +4 and close to the very bottom of the leaderboard. — What a round Morikawa has going! They'll be the marquee group as the first round winds down in Ponte Vedra. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, drops yet another shot to finish the day with a 76 (+4). — Ramey makes a solid par on the last hole to finish with a round of -8 (64). The Sporting News will be tracking live scores and highlights from Thursday's Round 1 leaderboard. — Disaster for Thomas at the 4th hole as he pitches it into the water from just off the green. That doesn't mean the field will be missing all its previous winners.

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy hits a four-over-par 76 to finish 12 shots behind early clubhouse leader Chad Ramey in round one of the Players ...

"I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw and didn't capitalise on that. "I feel like this is as penal as I've seen it out of the rough for a long time. Another pushed drive on the par-five 16th left McIlroy with a tough 200-yard second shot from the pine straw, with water waiting for anything leaked further right. A run of seven pars followed before he dropped his solitary shot on the par-three eighth. His third bounced through the green into a bunker and McIlroy would take three more from there. His opening shot will be a 28-foot eagle putt on the par-five 16th.

Rory McIlroy posted an opening 76 at the Players Championship due to some wayward driving, his worst competitive score in nearly two years.

I need to regroup and try to shoot a good one tomorrow and be here for the weekend.” Unsurprisingly, McIlroy was seen battering drives down the range long after his round had concluded. There’s obviously a part of it that’s the user, as well. “They were testing drivers at Riviera but I just didn’t even want to take the chance. “That’s the reason the score is what it is.” McIlroy said: “I went to that new driver in Riviera, and it’s just not … After all, a bounce is precisely what McIlroy needs during round two in order to survive for the weekend.

A wayward Rory McIlroy endured a dreadful start at the Players Championship after an opening four-over-par round of 76 at TPC Sawgrass left him 12 shots off ...

“I feel like this is as penal as I’ve seen it out of the rough for a long time. He arrived holding the lead at six under but he hit his tee shot into the lake surrounding the green and only managed to escape with a bogey courtesy of a brilliant pitch shot from the drop zone. “Last week I kind of lost it, I didn’t know where the ball was going and I think this score showed I knew where the ball was going and that gave me a lot of freedom to play golf,” he told Sky Sports. It’s golf.” “I hit a lot of putts and just kept burning edges to go to one that looked like it was going in. “I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw there and didn’t capitalise on that and after making bogey on one and three sort of was tough to get it back from there.”

The 2023 Players Championship is officially underway with a relatively unknown on top. Chad Ramey fired a bogey free 8-under 64 on Thursday to command the ...

- 11:50 a.m. - 7:56 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. - 7:34 a.m. - 7:23 a.m. - 7:12 a.m. - 7:01 a.m. - 6:50 a.m. All times Eastern Both Scheffler and Rahm look to apply pressure on Ramey with strong Friday showings while McIlroy attempts to climb towards the cutline from 4 over at 12:56 p.m. Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa was terrific in the first round en route to a 7-under 65. Chad Ramey fired a bogey free 8-under 64 on Thursday to command the solo lead.

Rory McIlroy went straight from the final green to the driving range after slumping to an opening round of 76 at The Players Championship.

The intimidating sight of Collin Morikawa is looming large in Ramey’s mirrors. “I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw there and didn’t capitalise on that, and making bogey on one and bogey on three … - T6. - T3. - 2. - 1.