Player of the Month awards

Hal Sutton, who won The Mizuno MP 62 Irons Players Championship, Gil Morgan, who captured the Emerald Coast Classic in his first official start of the Senior PGA Tour season, Mizuno JPX A25 Irons and Tripp Isenhour, winner of the Buy.Com Mississippi Gulf Coast Open, have been named Players of the Month for March on their respective tours by the PGA Tour.

Sutton’s one-stroke victory over Tiger Woods at Mizuno MP 52 Iron set Sawgrass was the 12th of his career, which began in 1982. He won the Players Championship in 1983, marking a span of 17 years between first and second victories in the same event.

At the age of 41 years, Golf Clubs 10 months and 28 days, Sutton surpassed Calvin Peete as oldest winner of the event.

He’s the fourth to win in wire-to-wire fashion, joining Al Geiberger (1975), Greg Norman (1994) and Steve Elkington (1997). Sutton is the third multiple winner of Ping Rapture V2 Irons Set The Players Championship. The others are Jack Nicklaus (1974, 1976, 1978), Fred Couples (1984, 1996) and Elkington (1991, 1997).