The 2026 edition of The Players Championship boasts a field of 123-players featureing 47 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and representation from 24 countries.

Among them defending champion Rory McIlroy, given good hope he will take his place in the field following his withdrawal from last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.

As part of his return to the PGA TOUR via the Returning Member Program, Brooks Koepka was added to the field (121) so not to take a spot from a current TOUR member. To round out threesomes, the field was officially expanded to 123 as of Monday at noon ET, with the first two alternates at that time – Patton Kizzire and Seamus Power – being added to the field.

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With defending @THEPLAYERS @McIlroyRory listed to tee-up later this week @TPCSawgrass

Rors among:

⭐️ 7⃣ past champs
⭐️1⃣4⃣ Making their debut
⭐️1⃣8⃣ Major champs

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This year’s Players also features:

Other notes on the field include:

• Seven PLAYERS Champions: Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025), Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024), Justin Thomas (2021), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Adam Scott (2004).
• Two-time PLAYERS Champions Scottie Scheffler (2023, 2024) and Rory McIlroy (2019, 2025) are seeking to become the first to win THE PLAYERS three times since Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978), and the first to win THE PLAYERS three times at TPC Sawgrass.
• 2004 PLAYERS Champion Adam Scott qualified by virtue of his position in the FedExCup standings through the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (20^th). Scott has the most appearances of any player in the field with 24. Justin Rose owns the second-most appearances of any player in the field with 21.
• Fourteen players in the field are making their tournament debut, highlighted by three PGA TOUR winners (in bold): 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 players in the field making their tournament debut, seven are PGA TOUR rookies: Zach Bauchou, A.J. Ewart, Johnny Keefer, Marco Penge, Kristoffer Reitan, Jordan Smith, Sudarshan Yellamaraju.
• The last man in the field is Seamus Power (No. 78 in the FedExCup standings through the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches) and the first alternate is David Ford.
• The field boasts 18 major champion – Highlighted in the list below.
• As well, leading golf journalist Bernie McGuire made his PGA Tour debut way back in the 1988 Players.

THE PLAYERS Championship field list as of Monday, March 9 at noon ET:

*  Those in bold – major champions

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