The PGA Tour’s best are coalescing for its flagship event Thursday as the 2026 Players Championship gets underway Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. TPC Sawgrass again serves as a gracious host that has been conquered by some of the top names in the game over the last few years.
The stern test of Pete Dye’s masterpiece boasts as strong a list of recent winners as any event in the world: Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025), Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024), Cameron Smith (2022) and Justin Thomas (2021) have emerged from among elite fields over the last six years at TPC Sawgrass.
Still, the 2026 season to this point has been defined by the depth of the top of the PGA Tour. There has been a continuation of last year’s trend of different players winning each signature event, as the last 11 such trophies have been raised without a single repeat champion.
Scheffler and McIlroy still enter as the two best players in the world, but the gap between them and the next tier of PGA Tour stars seems to be narrowing in size while growing in number. McIlroy is no longer second on the odds boards for The Players as he enters the tournament a self-described “game-time decision” due to lingering back spasms that are putting his play at risk.
Scheffler has moved down from 4-1 to 5-1, while Collin Morikawa at 15-1 has replaced McIlroy as second on the board. Rory has dropped from 13-1 to 18-1 as tournament play begins with Si Woo Kim and Ludvig Åberg the only two players otherwise listed at 20-1 or better
The 2026 Players Championship will be a fascinating battle between one of the strongest fields in golf, and you are not going to want to miss a moment. Check out the full slate of Players tee times for Round 1 as well as The Players Championship TV schedule and coverage guide for all four days.
Will 2026 see someone new lift the golden trophy, or will Scheffler and McIlroy reassert their dominance and pick up another golden statue? That’s the question the oddsmakers are asking coming into TPC Sawgrass this week.
2026 Players Championship odds
Odds via FanDuel Sportsbook
- Scottie Scheffler (5-1)
- Collin Morikawa (15-1)
- Rory McIlroy (18-1)
- Si Woo Kim (20-1)
- Ludvig Åberg (20-1)
- Tommy Fleetwood (25-1)
- Russell Henley (27-1)
- Xander Schauffele (30-1)
- Min Woo Lee (30-1)
- Cameron Young (25-1)
- Akshay Bhatia (35-1)
- Hideki Matsuyama (35-1)
- Matt Fitzpatrick (40-1)
- Viktor Hovland (40-1)
- Chris Gotterup (40-1)
- Sepp Straka (45-1)
- Brooks Koepka (45-1)
- Jake Knapp (45-1)
- Shane Lowry (45-1)
- Patrick Cantlay (45-1)
- Rickie Fowler (45-1)
- Robert MacIntyre (45-1)
- Jordan Spieth (50-1)
- Daniel Berger (50-1)
- Sam Burns (55-1)
- Maverick McNealy (55-1)
- Adam Scott (55-1)
- Ben Griffin (55-1)
- Harris English (55-1)
- Kurt Kitayama (55-1)
- Justin Rose (70-1)
- Jacob Bridgeman (70-1)
- Harry Hall (70-1)
- Alex Noren (75-1)
- Nicolai Højgaard (75-1)
- J.J. Spaun (75-1)
- Justin Thomas (80-1)
- Pierceson Coody (80-1)
- Aaron Rai (80-1)
- Michael Thorbjornsen (80-1)
- Ryan Gerard (80-1)
- Sahith Theegala (80-1)
- Keith Mitchell (80-1)
- Rasmus Højgaard (80-1)
- Nick Taylor (100-10)
- Max Greyserman (100-1)
- Taylor Pendrith (100-1)
- Wyndham Clark (100-1)
- Jason Day (100-1)
- Davis Thompson (100-1)
- Keegan Bradley (100-1)
- Thorbjørn Olesen (100-1)
- Sam Stevens (100-1)
- Kristoffer Reitan (100-1)
- Corey Conners (100-1)
- Marco Penge (100-1)
- Ricky Castillo (100-1)
- Tony Finau (100-1)
- Matt McCarty (100-1)
- Nico Echavarria (125-1)
- Jordan Smith (125-1)
- Alex Smalley (125-1)
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout (125-1)
- Max Homa (125-1)
- Ryan Fox (125-1)
- Sungjae Im (125-1)
- Haotong Li (150-1)
- Max McGreevy (150-1)
- Patrick Rodgers (150-1)
- Ryo Histatsune (150-1)
- J.T. Poston (150-1)
- Brian Harman (150-1)
- Denny McCarthy (150-1)
- Mackenzie Hughes (150-1)
- Rico Hoey (150-1)
- Aldrich Potgieter (150-1)
- Bud Cauley (150-1)
- Mac Meissner (150-1)
- Garrick Higgo (200-1)
- Michael Kim (200-1)
- Johnny Keefer (200-1)
- Stephan Jaeger (200-1)
- Kevin Roy (250-1)
- Joel Dahmen (250-1)
- Zecheng Dou (250-1)
- Vince Whaley (250-1)
- Eric Cole (250-1)
- Emiliano Grillo (250-1)
- Kevin Yu (250-1)
- Tom Hoge (250-1)
- Michael Brennan (250-1)
- Steven Fisk (300-1)
- Sami Valimaki (300-1)
- Taylor Moore (300-1)
- Chris Kirk (300-1)
- Lucas Glover (300-1)
- Chad Ramey (300-1)
- Matti Schmid (300-1)
- Andrew Novak (300-1)
- Gary Woodland (400-1)
- William Mouw (400-1)
- Lee Hodges (400-1)
- Austin Smotherman (400-1)
- Takumi Kanaya (400-1)
- S.H. Kim (400-1)
- Davis Riley (600-1)
- A.J. Ewart (600-1)
- Jhonattan Vegas (600-1)
- Mark Hubbard (600-1)
- Matthieu Pavon (750-1)
- Sudarshan Yellamaraju (750-1)
- Andrew Putnam (750-1)
- Chandler Phillips (750-1)
- Karl Vilips (750-1)
- Joe Highsmith (1000-1)
- Cam Davis (1000-1)
- Erik van Rooyen (1000-1)
- Zach Bauchou (1000-1)
- Brian Campbell (1000-1)
- Adam Schenk (1000-1)
- Danny Walker (1000-1)
