THE PLAYERS Championship 2026 Field Announced

The organizers of THE PLAYERS Championship have announced the field for the 2026 event, which will return to THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass from March 10-15.

The tournament will feature 123 golfers, including 47 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, representing 24 countries.

Brooks Koepka was added to the field (as the 121st player) as part of the PGA TOUR's Returning Member Program, ensuring his participation did not take a spot from a current Tour member. To form complete threesomes, the field was officially expanded to 123 players as of Monday noon ET. The first two alternates at that time – Patton Kizzire and Seamus Power – were subsequently included in the lineup.

Further details on the field:

• Seven past PLAYERS Champions are in the field: Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025), Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024), Justin Thomas (2021), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), and Adam Scott (2004).
• Two-time champions Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024) and Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025) are aiming to become the first to win THE PLAYERS three times since Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978), and the first to achieve this feat three times at TPC Sawgrass.
• The 2004 champion, Adam Scott, qualified through his standing in the FedExCup after the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (20th place). Scott holds the record for most appearances among all players in the field with 24. Justin Rose is second with 21 appearances.
• Fourteen players are making their tournament debut, including three PGA TOUR winners: 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 debutants, seven are PGA TOUR rookies: Zach Bauchou, A.J. Ewart, Johnny Keefer, Marco Penge, Kristoffer Reitan, Jordan Smith, and Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
• The last player to enter the field was Seamus Power (No. 78 in the FedExCup standings after the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches), and the first alternate is David Ford.

Full List of THE PLAYERS Championship 2026 Participants

(as of Monday, March 9, noon ET)

Åberg, Ludvig	Bauchou, Zach	Berger, Daniel
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan	Bhatia, Akshay	Bradley, Keegan
Brennan, Michael	Bridgeman, Jacob	Burns, Sam
Campbell, Brian	Cantlay, Patrick	Castillo, Ricky
Cauley, Bud	Clark, Wyndham	Cole, Eric
Conners, Corey	Coody, Pierceson	Dahmen, Joel
Davis, Cam	Day, Jason	Dou, Zecheng
Echavarria, Nico	English, Harris	Ewart, A.J.
Finau, Tony	Fisk, Steven	Fitzpatrick, Matt
Fleetwood, Tommy	Fowler, Rickie	Fox, Ryan
Gerard, Ryan	Glover, Lucas	Gotterup, Chris
Greyserman, Max	Griffin, Ben	Grillo, Emiliano
Hall, Harry	Harman, Brian	Henley, Russell
Higgo, Garrick	Highsmith, Joe	Hisatsune, Ryo
Hodges, Lee	Hoey, Rico	Hoge, Tom
Højgaard, Nicolai	Højgaard, Rasmus	Homa, Max
Hovland, Viktor	Hubbard, Mark	Hughes, Mackenzie
Im, Sungjae	Jaeger, Stephan	Kanaya, Takumi
Keefer, Johnny	Kim, Michael	Kim, S.H.
Kim, Si Woo	Kirk, Chris	Kitayama, Kurt
Kizzire, Patton	Knapp, Jake	Koepka, Brooks
Lee, Min Woo	Li, Haotong	Lowry, Shane
MacIntyre, Robert	Matsuyama, Hideki	McCarthy, Denny
McCarty, Matt	McGreevy, Max	McIlroy, Rory
McNealy, Maverick	Meissner, Mac	Mitchell, Keith
Moore, Taylor	Morikawa, Collin	Mouw, William
Noren, Alex	Novak, Andrew	Olesen, Thorbjørn
Pavon, Matthieu	Pendrith, Taylor	Penge, Marco
Phillips, Chandler	Poston, J.T.	Potgieter, Aldrich
Power, Seamus	Putnam, Andrew	Rai, Aaron
Ramey, Chad	Reitan, Kristoffer	Riley, Davis
Rodgers, Patrick	Rose, Justin	Roy, Kevin
Schauffele, Xander	Scheffler, Scottie	Schenk, Adam
Schmid, Matti	Scott, Adam	Smalley, Alex
Smith, Jordan	Smotherman, Austin	Spaun, J.J.
Spieth, Jordan	Stevens, Sam	Straka, Sepp
Taylor, Nick	Theegala, Sahith	Thomas, Justin
Thompson, Davis	Thorbjornsen, Michael	Valimaki, Sami
van Rooyen, Erik	Vegas, Jhonattan	Vilips, Karl
Walker, Danny	Whaley, Vince	Woodland, Gary
Yellamaraju, Sudarshan	Young, Cameron	Yu, Kevin