What Is The Cut At The Players Championship?

The TPC Sawgrass event will feature 144 players battling it out for the trophy, but where do they need to be to reach the weekend?

A yellow flag at The Players Championship
The top 65 players and ties will make the weekend at TPC Sawgrass
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The Players Championship is the PGA Tour's flagship tournament and one of the biggest in world golf - commonly referred to as the men's game's unofficial fifth Major.

The event at TPC Sawgrass features the best of the best from the PGA Tour, who are battling it out to win the huge $4.5m first prize and earn some of the other incredible perks of winning The Players Championship.

The Ponte Vedra course is one of the toughest tests faced all year, so even making the cut is an accomplishment for pros who haven't quite got their 'A' game.

What does it take to make the weekend?

The 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass

The 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass could dictate whether or not some players make the cut

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A cut at the halfway stage is becoming more of a rarity among the most prestigious tournaments on the PGA Tour, with five of its lucrative Signature events now no-cut affairs.

That’s not the case at The Players Championship, though, which has kept a cut at the 36-hole stage.

Players Championship cut rule

In total, 144 players will compete at the 2025 tournament, with the top 65 and ties progressing to the weekend’s action and the chance to claim a big payday.

This is the PGA Tour's usual cut rule, with The Players Championship cut historically tending to be somewhere between level-par to four-over-par depending on conditions.

While the player who ultimately lifts the trophy has played some unbelievable golf, the first priority will be ensuring they are still in with a chance after 36 holes on Friday evening.

Mike Hall
Mike Hall
News Writer

Mike has over 25 years of experience in journalism, including writing on a range of sports throughout that time, such as golf, football and cricket. Now a freelance staff writer for Golf Monthly, he is dedicated to covering the game's most newsworthy stories. 

He has written hundreds of articles on the game, from features offering insights into how members of the public can play some of the world's most revered courses, to breaking news stories affecting everything from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to developmental Tours and the amateur game. 

Mike grew up in East Yorkshire and began his career in journalism in 1997. He then moved to London in 2003 as his career flourished, and nowadays resides in New Brunswick, Canada, where he and his wife raise their young family less than a mile from his local course. 

Kevin Cook’s acclaimed 2007 biography, Tommy’s Honour, about golf’s founding father and son, remains one of his all-time favourite sports books.

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