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Si Woo Kim won the PGA Tour's THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida.

(Lynne Sladky/AP)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Si Woo Kim won THE PLAYERS Championship 2017 on Sunday in Florida. Kim shot 10-under overall, three shots clear of Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen.

European Tour legends Poulter and Sergio Garcia entered the final round in contention. J. B. Holmes and Kyle Stanley were tied for the lead at 9-under. Poulter was tied for fifth at 6-under and Sergio tied for seventh at 5-under.

Defending champion and world No. 3 Jason Day, world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and 2017 Masters champion Sergio were among the notables in a stacked field at the THE PLAYERS.

The five weeks since The Masters have felt like five years. The main reason: Golf's premier men's players scattered after the annual gathering at Augusta (Ga.) National in early April for the season's first major.

The best of the best again have returned to the same location, this time TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., for THE PLAYERS. Known as the "fifth major,'' THE PLAYERS also is a cash grab. The total purse of $10.5 million is the largest of any non-major on the PGA Tour.

THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERBOARD

Significant renovations to Pete Dye's legendary Stadium Course since last year's event include a driveable par-4 12th.

THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERBOARD:

PGA TOUR

THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Course: TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course). Yardage: 7,189. Par: 72.

Purse: $10.5 million (First place: $1,890,000).

Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 2-7 p.m. (NBC Sports).

Defending champion: Jason Day.

Last week: Brian Harman won the Wells Fargo Championship.

Notes: No one has ever won back-to-back at The Players Championship since it began in 1974. ... Brandt Snedeker and Thomas Pieters are the only players from the top 50 in the world rankings who are not playing. ... Bernhard Langer is playing for the third straight year having won the Senior Players Championship. ... Dustin Johnson, No. 1 in the world, never has finished better than a tie for 28th in this tournament. ... Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1978), Hal Sutton (1983), Tiger Woods (2001) and Martin Kaymer (2014) are the only players to win a major and The Players Championship in the same year. ... The 12th hole has been redesigned to make it a reachable par 4 with water on the left. ... Hal Sutton (1983) and Craig Perks (2002) are the only players to win The Players in their first appearance since it moved to the TPC Sawgrass in 1982. ... First place is worth more than Arnold Palmer made in his PGA Tour career ($1,861,857). ... The PGA Tour has signed a 10-year extension with the title sponsor of the FedEx Cup.

Next week: AT&T Byron Nelson.

Online: www.pgatour.com

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)