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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are just two of the star names competing in this week’s Players Championship at Sawgrass.
Rory McIlroy is looking to win golf’s so-called ‘fifth major’ and after missing the cut in his first three attempts he has since finished eighth, sixth, eighth and 12th before a tie for 35th place last year.
"It took me a few years to figure it out," admitted the world number eight.
"It's funny. I started staying on the beach a few years ago and that's made the event a lot more enjoyable.
"I was a little stubborn the first few years I came here and was trying to break away from that, but you just have to play this golf course a certain way and be a little bit better than everyone else with your irons and your wedges.
"This is my ninth time here so I'm not a spring chicken any more.
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"It took me a few years to figure it out but I've had a few top 10s here and I think it is about time that I step up and give myself a chance on Sunday. I would love to add this event to my CV."
Meanwhile golf fans will be keeping a close eye on Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods as they’ve been paired to tackle the course together.
Woods is bidding to become only the second man after Jack Nicklaus to win a hat-trick of Players Championship titles.
The American knows what it takes to lift the famous crystal trophy and is one of only six players to have won multiple times at Sawgrass, the first coming in 2001 when he was in a class of his own at the top of the world rankings.
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"I certainly go back and take a look at those moments, that was a pretty good run back then," he said at his pre-tournament press conference. "I had all four major championships, I had The Players, I had two World Golf Championships, and all the biggest events I had won at the same time.
"To hold all those events concurrently was special. I mean, I played well, I thought well, I putted well. I did everything well for, I guess, a few years there.
“My level of play then was something that in hindsight looking back on it was pretty high, and not only pretty high, but I held it for a long period of time. It wasn't just for one week."