The Players Championship 2025 started, but not everyone had a smooth start. Viktor Hovland, Justin Thomas and Max Homa, three of the top golfers in the world, have experienced a difficult round at TPC Sawgrass, making the chances of dispute to become fragile from the beginning.
As the Championship Championship 2021, Justin Thomas once expected a good performance after a few positive results this year. However, everything collapsed within two holes.
Thomas started on Tee No. 10 and maintained -2 after the first 7 holes, before everything slipped tragically. At the 17 Par-3 hole, Thomas’s shot was not accurate enough and the ball fell into the water, leading to Double Bogey. Shortly thereafter, at the 18 hole, another shot into the water made him continue to lose two sticks. Another Double Bogey in hole 5, plus the bogey chain – Double Bogey – Bogey – Bogey in 4 consecutive pits, causing Thomas to lose 5 sticks in a short period of time.
As a result, the golfer once won the PGA Championship championship to receive a 78 -stick round (+6), despite the effort to end the round with two Birdie in holes 8 and 9 to hold hope into the cut.
Besides, Viktor Hovland also falls into difficult circumstances. Like Thomas, Hovland also has three disaster holes. In hole 5, he had Triple Bogey after the ball went to the right and fell into an unstable position. In the 6th hole, he continuously made a mistake in the ball and the next shot, resulting in Double Bogey. Unlike Thomas, Hovland cannot recover at the end of the round. He ended the day of playing with 80 sticks (+8), losing almost all the opportunity to continue on the weekend.
In addition, Max Homa also entered the tournament with bad performance when he accidentally cut in 3 of the last 4 tournaments, and the opening round at TPC Sawgrass continues to be an unforgettable competition day. After 9 head holes, Homa reached +6 with 2 double bogey and 2 bogey. He continued to add two more bogey in the second half of the round, he only got a single Birdie in hole 16, helping him keep the score below 80. However, 79 sticks (+7) is still a disappointing result and causing Homa to face the risk of eliminating right after the second round.
The Players Championship is one of the harshest tournaments on PGA Tour. The talented golfers of Thomas, Hovland and Homa both fall into the end of the table. Although Justin Thomas had a protest at the end of the round, all three golfers needed an excellent round on Friday to hope to overcome the cut. If not, they will have to say goodbye to the tournament earlier than expected.
