1984 Tournament Players Championship
The 1984 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 29 to April 1 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the eleventh Tournament Players Championship.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 29 – April 1, 1984 |
| Location | Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 30.198°N 81.394°W |
| Course(s) | TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,857 yards (6,270 m) |
| Field | 144 players, 71 after cut |
| Cut | 149 (+5) |
| Prize fund | $800,000 |
| Winner's share | $144,000 |
| Champion | |
| Fred Couples | |
| 277 (−11) | |
| Location map | |
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Fred Couples, age 24, shot a course record 64 in the second round, and finished at 277, one stroke ahead of runner-up Lee Trevino. It was his second win on tour, and he won this championship twelve years later in 1996. Trevino, the champion in 1980 at adjacent Sawgrass Country Club, had missed the cut at the previous two editions, the first two held at the new venue.
Defending champion Hal Sutton finished sixteen strokes back, in a tie for 41st place.
Couples was the youngest champion for twenty years, until Adam Scott won at age 23 in 2004. Sutton had been the youngest, but only for a year; Couples was five months younger at the time of his win.
Eight years later, Couples lowered the course record to 63 in the third round, but finished eight strokes back.