A tale of two waves took place Thursday in the opening round of the 2025 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Pete Dye's devilish design gave early goers everything they could handle before conditions eased in the afternoon and gave way to a trio of surprising first-round leaders in Camilo Villegas,

Finau’s best finish at TPC Sawgrass is T-19 in 2023 and this is now five missed cuts in nine career Players starts. Considering he’d finished T-13 at Pebble and T-5 at the Genesis, it seemed like he’d play better this week, but it just might just be that this isn’t the place for him