Rory McIlroy faces a three-hole play-off with with JJ Spaun to determine the winner of the The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida.
Kevin Palmer brings you the action as it happens from the Ponte Vedra Beach course with action due to start at 1pm BST.
Wayne Riley on Sky Sports: “It’s freezing here. The wind is coming out of the north west today, so it will be a completely different challenge for the players today.”
McIlroy fires his second shot onto the green on this long par 5. Advantage Rory.
Spaun goes for the green from heavy rough and flirts with the water before it lands in the bunker.
The winner of this play-off will collect prize money of $4,500,000.00. The runner-up gets a mere $2,725,000.00.
Huge money on up for grabs in this play-off…
Advantage McIlroy after those drives on the 16th hole, but this is a three-hole play-off so we will have a few twists and turns.
A classy drive from McIlroy… not such a good response for Spaun as he puts his drive into the rough. He is a long way behind McIlroy on the fairway.
Rory McIlroy has the honour and he has a driver in hand.
HERE WE GO…. McIlroy and Spaun are on the tee and we are about to get this three-hole play-off underway to decide who win The Players Championship.
This will be JJ Spaun’s first PGA Tour play-off.
JJ Spaun on Rory McIlroy: “Everyone expects him to win. I don’t think a lot of people expect me to win. I expect myself to win. That’s all I care about.”
Rory McIlory ahead of the play-off: “It would mean an awful lot to win. There’s not many multiple Players champions. Scottie [Scheffler] has won the last two years… and I’ve spoken a lot about how much I admire Scottie – it would be nice to get two like him, and two like Tiger [Woods]. “
JJ Spaun: “It’s hard to win, and you have to fail multiple times in order to win. That’s kind of what I’ve learned throughout my career, and it paid off.”
JJ Spaun: “I think in the past I’ve done that, just kind of been afraid of being in that spotlight, being in that pressure, be worried about failure.”
JJ Spaun’s verdict ahead of the play-off with Rory McIlroy: “I showed myself that I don’t have to shy away from the moment.”
McIlroy held his nerve with a clutch putt on the 18th hole last night.
This is how close JJP Spaun came to winning it on the 18th last night
The omens may be good for McIlroy as he last won The Player’s Championship in 2019… with that tournament also ending on St Patrick’s Day.
Rory McIlroy has been involved in five play-offs in his PGA Tour career and he has won the last three – the 2016 Tour Championship, the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions and last year’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside Shane Lowry.