THE PLAYERS Championship One And Done Pick Strategy (2024)

Golf One And Done pool pick strategy for THE PLAYERS Championship 2024, where Scottie Scheffler is defending champ and favored to win again.

Scottie Scheffler is 1-0 with the new beard (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire)

It is THE PLAYERS Championship Week in PGA One And Done pools. One of the biggest events on Tour, and considered the “fifth” Major by many, it boasts the largest prize purse of the 2024 PGA season.

Last Week’s One And Done Pick Results

• A favorite finally won, as Scottie Scheffler turned in a dominant Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational to claim the $4 million prize.
• Scheffler was picked by around 10% of One And Done entries last week.
• Scheffler was graded as one of our top five picks of the week, with the primary reason for him not being first being the potential to use him in a different big prize purse event.
• Most of the rest of the top finishers were not popular picks, with Wyndham Clark (2nd place) and Shane Lowry (3rd place) often having pick rates below 1% in One And Done pools.
• Rory McIlroy was the most popular pick overall (often above 15% popularity) and our top-rated pick, but he had another uneven week and finished tied for 21st.
• A lot of other top players failed or put up mediocre performances. Among the leaders in pre-tournament win odds, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, and Matthew Fitzpatrick all missed the cut, while Viktor Hovland and Patrick Cantlay finished outside the top 30.

2024 THE PLAYERS Championship Pick Strategy: Purse Info

A first place pick at THE PLAYERS Championship is worth $4,500,000 to One And Done pool players, with a total prize purse of $25 million for the event, making it the most valuable event all season.

If you want to see where this tournament’s purse ranks in your specific One And Done pool, you can set up your pool entry in our Golf One And Done Picks product.

THE PLAYERS Championship Overview For One And Done Pools

This analysis serves as a complement to the data provided in our product, which provides customized weekly pick grades based on factors like the total number of picks you need to make this season, and the specific tournaments included in your One And Done pool.

Here are some notable highlights for THE PLAYERS Championship field.

• Everyone is here, or at least, pretty much all the top golfers who are not playing on the LIV Tour. That includes last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational golfers plus a host of others.
• Scottie Scheffler is the betting favorite, and the gap between Scheffler and the rest of the field is growing, given the early mediocre form of several other top golfers and Scheffler continuing to play well.
• Scheffler is also the defending champ, and coming off a win last week.
• The gap between Scheffler and our current No. 2 ranked golfer in the field (Xander Schauffele) is 0.5 strokes gained per round, as big as the gap from No. 2 to No. 14.
• Other past winners at TPC Sawgrass include Justin Thomas (2021), Rory McIlroy (2019), Webb Simpson (2018), Si Woo Kim (2017), Jason Day (2016), Rickie Fowler (2015), Matt Kuchar (2012), and Adam Scott (2004).

One And Done Pick Advice For 2024 THE PLAYERS Championship