Players Championship sees Rory McIlroy, JJ Spaun set for 3-hole playoff to determine winner on Monday

J.J. Spaun was searching for his 2nd vocation triumph connected the PGA Tour erstwhile helium stepped up for his putt connected Hole 18 during a chaotic last circular successful The Players Championship connected a rain-filled Sunday. 

A mates much rotations connected his putt, and helium would've won it all. 

Instead, he's pitted against Rory McIlroy for a Monday morning, three-hole playoff to find the victor of this signature tournament. 

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J.J. Spaun reacts to missing his putt to triumph during the last circular of The Players Championship play tourney astatine TPC Sawgrass. (Jeff Swinger-Imagn Images)

McIlroy and Spaun are some astatine 12-under pursuing their last rounds connected Sunday – a agelong time that saw a four-hour rainfall delay. 

The circular was forced to beryllium delayed owed to the upwind and lightning successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, which was expected considering the tourney moved up tee times to debar a imaginable hold into Monday. 

However, it was unavoidable with the grade of the hold – 1:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. – and however the golfers ended up finishing their last rounds. 

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For McIlroy, helium was archetypal to decorativeness his 18 holes, and helium was hoping a occurrence 74-foot putt would effect successful a birdie connected his last hole. He had the close speed, but helium missed it good near and yet cleaned up for par to decorativeness with a 4-under 68 to get him successful presumption to triumph the tournament. 

McIlroy went to motion his scorecard portion watching intimately what Spaun was doing successful the radical down him.

Spaun came into this last circular connected Sunday hoping to station different under-par round, but helium struggled to get going contempt seeing 12-under by his sanction astatine his tee time. 

He began the time 2-over earlier birdying Hole 9 to station a 37 connected the beforehand 9 holes. But helium would bogey connected 12, forcing that 2-over backmost connected the scorecard earlier yet seeing immoderate play shots spell his way. 

Rory McIlroy stands connected the eighteenth greenish aft missing his archetypal putt during the last circular of The Players Championship play tourney astatine TPC Sawgrass. (Jeff Swinger-Imagn Images)

Spaun would birdie Holes 14 and 16 to yet get backmost to 12-under for the tournament, heading to the iconic TPC Sawgrass land greenish connected 17. His tee shot, though, was conservatively deed to the mediate of the greenish alternatively of seeking the signature acold close pin placement connected Sunday. 

Spaun would two-putt and get his par, knowing his destiny could beryllium sealed 1 mode oregon different connected Hole 18. 

As McIlroy watched from the clubhouse, Spaun's last tee changeable of the time made it's mode into the straw connected the close broadside of the fairway, conscionable trickling determination aft trying to clasp connected into the rough. 

However, contempt slipping connected the grass, Spaun was capable to deed a bully attack changeable to springiness himself a bully look astatine a birdie from 20-plus feet out. 

Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun volition spell head-to-head successful a 9 a.m. playoff connected Monday greeting to find the victor of the 2025 Players Championship. (IMAGN)

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As fans swarmed astir the 18th green, Spaun stepped into his putt and enactment a bully changeable connected it, arsenic the shot rolled existent toward the hole. But it didn't person capable juice, falling conscionable a mates rotations abbreviated and Spaun couldn't judge it. 

With a tap-in par, the playoff was acceptable for Monday, and it volition beryllium Holes 16, 17 and 18 to find the victor of this year's Players Championship.

It's a David vs. Goliath successful presumption of PGA Tour careers, arsenic McIlroy owns 27 Tour victories to Spaun's one.

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