It’s a bit greater than two weeks from The Players Championship and the demand for tickets and parking are spiking within the first 12 months the event might be performed beneath full capability since 2019.
In different phrases, move fast or threat getting omitted of the First Coast’s largest week-long occasion.
Players officials say that parking passes for the second and third rounds of The Players (March 11 and 12), that are traditionally the 2 busiest days, are coming shut to being bought out and certain might be gone nicely earlier than event week opens on March 8.
If fans can’t get a parking move (which is bought individually from Players tickets) they may have to use rideshare choices or make the most of a number of downtown shuttles, which is able to function from the Hyatt Regency, the Jacksonville River City Downtown Hotel and the Southbank Hotel at Jacksonville Riverwalk.
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All shuttles are climate-controlled motor-coach-style buses and drop fans off proper on the major entrance of the event. They can be found whether or not a fan is a visitor of the lodges or not.
Shuttle passes are $20 plus relevant taxes and costs and are non-refundable as soon as bought. Shuttles will function Thursday via Sunday. Shuttle passengers should select their pickup time from the lodge and might be ready to return downtown at any of the scheduled return instances.
Shuttles will depart every day between 7 a.m.-12:45 p.m. and return between 1-8 p.m.
The return of Military Appreciation Day on March 8, with the Kelsea Ballerini live performance that can cap the day, has resulted in a sell-out of the free tickets made out there to lively obligation and retired army personnel on that day. Those eligible may get yet another ticket to a aggressive spherical day however these provides are operating out.
The allotment of discounted tickets for veterans for your complete week can be bought out.
Information on tickets and parking might be obtained by visiting theplayers.com.
Early buying
The Players Championship FanStore will as soon as once more open early for these wanting a head begin in looking and buying Players-themed merchandise, and having a ticket to the event isn’t required.
The FanStore, expanded to greater than 33,000 sq. toes and the anchor of The Players Welcome Experience, will open March 4-6. Customers can park free in The Players public lot off Country Road 210.
The hours are 12-5 p.m. on March 4 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 6-7.
The hours of the FanStore through the week of the event (March 8-13) will coincide with gate openings and closings. Gates will open at 7:30 a.m. on March 8-9, 6:45 a.m. March 10-11 and seven:30 p.m. March 12-13.
The Welcome Experience additionally will see a return of the seventeenth gap Challenge to The Players. Fans can take two free pictures on the duplicate of the Island Green, or pay a $5 donation to the First Tee – North Florida for extra probabilities, with every day closest to the pin contests.
The Welcome Experience additionally will embody the Family Care Suite introduced by Wolfson Children’s Hospital, a consolation station for moms and dads to care for his or her infants as wanted throughout event week. The venue is open to all ticketholders and also will be offering diapers freed from cost.
Top-10s at Ocala
Maxwell Morgan of Jacksonville Beach and Sahanna Chokshi of Jacksonville posted top-10s on the Florida Junior Tour’s Ocala Open, on the Ocala Golf Club.
Morgan shot 75-73—148 to end alone in fourth within the boys 11-12 division. He completed three pictures behind winner Chase Bauer of Tampa.
Chokshi tied for ninth within the ladies 11-12 division with rounds of 81-79—160.