February 25-28
The Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Florida
$10,500,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Brooks Koepka, who recentley missed two cuts then won last week in Phoenix, seems to be holding on to his form and closed with a 6-under 66 following seven birdies, including three-in-a-row from the 15th to the 17th, unfortunately capped by a bogey at the 18th.

“Usually I can never find my game until The Players. That’s kind of when it starts to feel like it’s coming around,” said Koepka. “But the fact that it’s here a little bit early is nice.”

Koepka is closely followed by Cameron Smith, Billy Horschel and Collin Morikawa at 10-under.

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Morikawa fired nine birdies and a single bogey at the par-3 14th and matched Bryson DeChambeau’s score of the tournament with his 64.

DeChambeau’s second round 64 was thirteen shots better than his opening round score and he lies in a tie for 20th at 3-under.

“It’s just a tale of golf. You can have both ends of the stick,” said DeChambeau. “I didn’t play terrible yesterday, I just didn’t get anything going my way, especially on that back nine. Had some bad mistakes and that’s what happened. I made some good putts and good strokes today that just luck went my way today.”

Defending champion Patrick Reed signed for a second 68 and a tie for 8th at 8-under after finding the water at the par-4 5th and 8th and making bogeys.

Rory McIlroy is tied for 13th at 5-under after signing for a 70. He fired seven birdies but unfortunately also made three bogeys and a double-bogeyed the par-5 7th after his bunker shot found the pine straw.

Viktor Hovland ruined an otherwise flawless round with a quadruple bogey 8 at his final hole on the par-4 9th where he went from bunker to pine straw across the green into a bunker back across the green into the woods and took a penalty drop that failed to reach the green before finally holing it and closing with a 69 and is tied for 17th at 4-under.

“It’s mainly the second shot in the bunker that’s a little bitter,” said Hovland. “That’s costing me four shots right there just that second shot. I hit a lot of good shots today and made a lot of putts, so it’s just unfortunate that one terrible shot comes at that time.”

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Jon Rahm struggled with his short game and is even par at T43 after following up his opening 68 with a 76 on Friday.

World Number 1 Dustin Johnson followed up his opening 77 with a 69 and lies thirteen shots behind Koepka at 2-over.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Brooks Koepka	-11	67	66	133
T2	Billy Horschel	-10	67	67	134
T2	Collin Morikawa	-10	70	64	134
T2	Cameron Smith	-10	68	66	134
T5	Tony Finau	-9	68	67	135
T5	Matthew Fitzpatrick	-9	66	69	135
T5	Webb Simpson	-9	66	69	135
T8	Kevin Kisner	-8	67	69	136
T8	Patrick Reed	-8	68	68	136
T10	Abraham Ancer	-7	71	66	137
T10	Louis Oosthuizen	-7	69	68	137
12	Hideki Matsuyama	-6	72	66	138
T13	Jason Kokrak	-5	70	69	139
T13	Rory McIlroy	-5	69	70	139
T13	Scottie Scheffler	-5	69	70	139
T13	Justin Thomas	-5	73	66	139
T17	Jason Day	-4	71	69	140
T17	Viktor Hovland	-4	71	69	140
T17	Gary Woodland	-4	71	69	140
T20	Bryson DeChambeau	-3	77	64	141
T20	Sergio Garcia	-3	67	74	141
T20	Yuki Inamori	-3	73	68	141
T20	Sebastián Muñoz	-3	69	72	141
T20	Joaquin Niemann	-3	69	72	141
T20	Will Zalatoris	-3	72	69	141
T26	Cameron Champ	-2	72	70	142
T26	Lanto Griffin	-2	70	72	142
T26	Sungjae Im	-2	68	74	142
T26	Chan Kim	-2	71	71	142
T26	Marc Leishman	-2	72	70	142
T26	Shane Lowry	-2	72	70	142
T26	Kevin Na	-2	73	69	142
T26	Wade Ormsby	-2	68	74	142
T26	Aaron Rai	-2	72	70	142
T35	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-1	71	72	143
T35	Thomas Detry	-1	70	73	143
T35	Tyrrell Hatton	-1	70	73	143
T35	Max Homa	-1	73	70	143
T35	Ryan Palmer	-1	71	72	143
T35	Xander Schauffele	-1	71	72	143
T35	Jason Scrivener	-1	75	68	143
T35	Lee Westwood	-1	74	69	143
T43	Daniel Berger	E	73	71	144
T43	Victor Perez	E	69	75	144
T43	Jon Rahm	E	68	76	144
T43	Justin Rose	E	73	71	144
T43	Adam Scott	E	72	72	144
T43	Trevor Simsby	E	74	70	144
T49	Matt Kuchar	1	73	72	145
T49	Min Woo Lee	1	74	71	145
T49	Carlos Ortiz	1	73	72	145
T49	Brandon Stone	1	71	74	145
T49	Brendon Todd	1	74	71	145
T54	Mackenzie Hughes	2	73	73	146
T54	Dustin Johnson	2	77	69	146
T54	David Lipsky	2	70	76	146
T54	Robert MacIntyre	2	74	72	146
T54	Erik van Rooyen	2	71	75	146
T59	Rafa Cabrera Bello	3	74	73	147
T59	Laurie Canter	3	72	75	147
T59	Harris English	3	78	69	147
T59	Tommy Fleetwood	3	75	72	147
T59	Rasmus Højgaard	3	74	73	147
64	Sami Valimaki	4	72	76	148
T65	Bubba Watson	5	77	72	149
T65	Daniel van Tonder	5	76	73	149
T67	JC Ritchie	7	78	73	151
T67	Bernd Wiesberger	7	76	75	151
T69	Lucas Herbert	10	77	77	154
T69	Brad Kennedy	10	81	73	154
71	Andy Sullivan	11	78	77	155
WD	Matthew Wolff