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Watch here http://www.golf.sportzlivetv.com/ THE PLAYERS Championship Live Stream Online Free PGA Tour at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL . The tournament will be part of the PGA Tours and will be a 72 holes Stroke Play event,with no cut, at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL from May 5 - May 8, 2011, LIVE online Broadcast here.

The world's top darts players will descend on the Doncaster Dome this evening, with the £250,000 Players Championship Finals being held from at the venue over four days

Phil Taylor, the 15-time World Champion, will head the field of 32 stars who will compete for the £60,000 title in the internet-streamed event, which also features new World Champion Adrian Lewis and Mexborough's Dennis Priestley.

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Priestley, who has maintained his place in the world's top 32 and won the Australian Open since turning 60 last summer, will be involved on the tournament's opening night on Thursday when he takes on Derby-based Andy Hamilton.

Middlesbrough-born Colin Osborne will open the tournament against Denis Ovens, while Blackpool's Ronnie Baxter takes on Andy Smith, World Championship finalist Gary Anderson plays Justin Pipe and Colin Lloyd plays Jelle Klaasen on the first night.

The first round, played over the cut-throat best-of-11-leg format, will conclude on Friday night, including Taylor's clash with Bristol's rising star Steve Brown as the world number one bids to recapture the title he previously won in 2009.

Lewis plays former World Champion Steve Beaton, world number three James Wade takes on Mark Dudbridge and number one seed Simon Whitlock - who won six Players Championship tournaments in 2010 - will play Hartlepool's Tony Eccles.
Taylor could meet Wade should both progress to the second round, and may also face his conqueror in the World Championship quarter-finals, Mark Webster, in the last eight.

However, the 50-year-old said: "I can't look ahead to who I might play later in the tournament because I've got to get past Steve first.

"He's a good young player and he's made a lot of progress in the last year or so, and he's knocking on the door of the top 32. I won't be taking him lightly but if I get past him it will be a tough route through."

Taylor lost his World Championship title recently and hasn't won a major tournament since the start of August at the European Championship, and Brown is targeting his maiden win over the Stoke legend on Friday night.

"There's never a good time to play Phil, but it is a short format and this may be a great chance for me," said Brown.

"We all practice in our bedrooms or our local clubs and go through the process of needing double top to beat Phil Taylor in our practice routines. To play him in a major competition is something you dream of and I'm looking forward to it."

The second round of the Players Championship Finals will be held across two sessions on Saturday, with the quarter-finals on Sunday afternoon and the semi-finals and finals played in one session on Sunday evening.

The Players Championship

Tournament information:

This will be the 37th edition of The Players, with 28 years at the Players Club Staduim Course. The event was originally conceived as the Tournament Players Championship and was the PGA Tour's answer to a "major." In the beginning, the tournament moved around the country to existing PGA Tour sites, (Atlanta C.C., Colonial C.C. & Inverrary C.C.) but after three years it was viewed as just a replacement tournament for the event it was replacing. It was also not receiving "major status" and many thought the only way to receive that status was to find a permanent site. In 1977 the Tour picked Sawgrass as a semi-permanent site and after a year decided to move the PGA Tour offices from Washington D.C. to the Jacksonville area. After two years at Sawgrass, the Tour decided that it should own the course that held its "major," but they found out that the owners of Sawgrass didn't want to sell the facility. Everyone was disappointed, except PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman, who came up with the idea of the Tour building its own course. Beman then went through a year and a half of trying to sell his idea to the Tour and in August of 1978 the members approved his idea. After a search of several sites around the Northern Florida area, a site just down the road from Sawgrass in Ponte Verde Beach was picked and Pete Dye was picked to build the Tournament Players Club. It was dedicated in October of 1980 and since 1982 has been the permanent site of The Players Championship, which changed its name to The Players this year.

Course information:

While Deane Beman was still a player he had dreamed of a course that would be challenging for the player, but at the same time spectator friendly. He continued the dream and when he became the commissioner of the PGA Tour he made sure the Tour would own a course of its own.

He thought that his dream would be fulfilled when the Players Championship went to Sawgrass in 1977. He loved the area so much that he moved the Tour headquarters down to the Ponte Vedre area. Then he tried to buy Sawgrass but the owners weren't interested in selling, forcing him to either find another course or build one which he decided was the best course of action.

After Beman got the support of the players for the venture, he went out looking for a site. He looked all over the Northwestern Florida coast and parts of Georgia and after visiting about 30 sites narrowed it down to seven. Beman wanted to build the course in the Jacksonville area and the folks at Sawgrass had some land that they were willing to give to Beman for a dollar. At the time it looked like the steal of the century for Beman and the Tour, but over the course of time the Sawgrass area became big because of the building of the TPC Sawgrass so those folks saw a nice return on their dollar sale to the Tour.

Still Beman had 415 acres of swamp land and was looking to build something special on it. He turned to Pete Dye, who was able to create the vision Beman had and translate it into a course in the swamp. He built a great course that had amphitheater shaped viewing areas, making the TPC Sawgrass the Yankee Stadium of golf.

Dye built some ingenious holes, even one devilish hole that was a bit of a accident. He basically built 17 holes and ran into problems when the par 3 17th hole wouldn't fit because to build the mounding around the hole, he took it from the site of where the 17th hole was to be. He knew that he had a problem with this gigantic hole in the ground that wasn't suitable for a hole and when he was surveying the hole with his wife, Alice. He asked her if she had any suggestions. She told him to fill the hole with water and place an island green in the middle. With that suggestion was born the most recognizable hole in the world, the par 3 17th which has drawn praise and ire from golfers around the world.

The course opened in 1981 and hosted The Players Championship in 1982. That year the course was very "raw" with a lot of complaints from the players that the greens and landing areas had too much slope. Winds in the early days didn't help ease the pain of the mounds, but over the years improvements have made the course more "player-friendly".

Over the years, the TPC Sawgrass has gone from a course the players didn't care much about to one of the most loved, but toughest courses on Tour. With the advent of the Players moving to May, the course went through an extensive renovation in 2007 in which all of the grass on the tees, fairways and greens were stripped off with a new drainage and irrigation system placed underneath. The greens were built with a sub-air system just like the one at Augusta National, which can control firmness in any weather conditions. At the same time, 122 yards was added to the course and the rough is now Bermuda instead of rye.