The Players Championship, Volunteers and Educators All at TPC Sawgrass

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Published: May 6, 2013

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The world knows The Players Championship is coming to Ponte Vedra in Northeast Florida next week for the 40th edition of what may one day become golf's fifth Major. The Players 2013 boasts the strongest field in golf by virtue of its size, professional purity and international pedigree. With a permanent home on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass where the PGA Tour world headquarters are located beyond the first green, this is the club championship of the world's best golfers. The blended brand of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and others, like Masters champion Adam Scott, combined with The Players is the modern equivalent of what Bobby Jones built at Augusta National in the early 1930s.

Born in 1934, by age 40 in the early 1970s, The Masters filled out a friendly foursome of Majors. The oldest being The British Open (first played in 1860) along with two other American golfing competitions, the United States Golf Association Championship (USGA, first played in 1895) and the Professional Golfers Association of America Championship (PGA, first played in 1916). Somewhere in those first 40 years, with the advent of golfing television in the early 1960s and the Big Three—Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player—the four majors we know today came into being.

Why is there a reluctance to add a fifth major? It could be as simple as the number four and the nature of the foursome in golf. While only a number, so too is 18 for the number of holes on a golf course and 12 being the number of eggs we typically purchase, it does account for a custom in golf. Perspectives and precedents do change over time. One can play nine holes and buy half dozen eggs, too. The Western Open, today's vagabond playoff event, preceded the PGA and was widely regarded as a major in the early 20th century. The reason why it never became official seems to be lost in the annals of golf history.



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