Players Championship Leaderboard 2025: Reviewing Top Day 1 Scorecards, Player Stats
Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are in contention after the first round of the 2025 Players Championship.
McIlroy put together a five-under 67 to finish within one shot of the leaders, while Scheffler sits at three-under.
Lucas Glover, J.J. Spaun and Camilo Villegas share the lead after 18 holes, but all of the focus on Friday, and for the rest of the tournament, will be on the top two players in the field.
Scheffler is the two-time reigning champion of the event at TPC Sawgrass, while McIlroy has one win and five other top-20 finishes at the highest-profile tournament before major season.
Players Championship Leaderboard
Lucas Glover (-6)
J.J. Spaun (-6)
Camilo Villegas (-6)
Min Woo Lee (-5)
Billy Horschel (-5)
Rory McIlroy (-5)
Full leaderboard can be found here on PGATour.com.
McIlroy hunted down the leaders with a tremendous back nine.
The 2019 Players Championship winner rolled in three straight birdies to begin the back nine and finished off his round with a birdie on the 18th hole.
The run up the leaderboard on the back nine was a welcome sight for McIlroy, who had an up-and-down start with three birdies and two bogeys on the front nine.
A more consistent second round could likely put McIlroy in the lead heading into the weekend.
McIlroy typically has not performed well on Friday at The Players. A 73 on Friday last year was his only bad round of the tournament. Six of his last seven second-round scorers at The Players have been in the 70s, including rounds of either 73 or 75 in the last four years.
Conversely, Scheffler has been excellent, no matter what the round has been, at TPC Sawgrass over the last nine rounds.
Scheffler's three-under 69 on Friday extended his run of nine consecutive rounds in the 60s at The Players.
If that consistency holds, Scheffler will not just be in the mix for his third Players title in row, but he could be towering over everyone else.
Scheffler first needs to chase down the trio of leaders on Friday.
Lucas Glover used four straight birdies from the 15th-18th hole to earn his spot at six-under. J.J. Spaun had a bogey-free afternoon to go along with his six birdies. Camilo Villegas started fast with five birdies in eight holes and then held on to his position through a topsy-turvy back nine in which he had three birdies and two bogeys.
Rickie Fowler (-4), Jordan Spieth (-2) and Collin Morikawa (-2) are among the notable players within a few shots of the lead.
Spieth had perhaps the most adventurous day of any golfer with two eagles, two birdies, two bogeys and one double bogey just on his first nine holes. He settled down with seven pars, a birdie and a bogey on his second nine.
