THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

March 11, 2022

Jared Rice

TPC Sawgrass

Quick Quotes

Q. What about the parking situation? Do they have alternative parking?

JARED RICE: Yeah, so a couple things. If you're holding a Friday ticket, either a grounds ticket or a hospitality ticket, you have the ability to reenter the grounds on Saturday or Sunday. That's one time. You'll need to present that ticket at the entry to be scanned. Our youth policy still applies, so that's 15 and under are admitted free with each ticket.

Q. Relative to parking, because we have sold our parking in the lot on Saturday and Sunday to those ticket holders that already had Saturday and Sunday tickets, we unfortunately can't accommodate that, so we are going to tell fans that are planning to use this benefit to seek alternate means of transportation, Ãœber, our bike and golf cart parking still available, downtown shuttles will be available.

Q. Those downtown shuttles will be open all weekend?

JARED RICE: Yes. And again for tomorrow, both Saturday ticket holders and ticket holders, again, grounds or hospitality from today, you are welcome to come to the grounds tomorrow or Sunday. If you choose to do tomorrow, very important that we're not opening the gates any earlier than 11:00 a.m. due to the weather.

Q. Who gets in Monday?

JARED RICE: We're still working through those details. I think we've said all along that this is unprecedented weather and just be patient with us. We want to make sure the grounds are safe and we have the ability to those fans and we'll do the best we can.

Q. The outside people who have weekly situations who can get in Monday --

JARED RICE: So Monday would be the players. I don't have details in terms of who would have access at that time. We're still working through it.

Q. For hospitality fans, is there a plan for if you'll keep those open or whether you'll keep those open after tomorrow morning's --

JARED RICE: This is a process we go through with inclement weather. We have a policy of working through with our rules officials and agronomy, our operations team will inspect the property. We're taking precautions tonight. Once this weather dissipates and lightning clears, our vendors will go out and strike hospitality structures we feel could be at risk. Our venues are stress tested to 70 miles an hour, so we feel pretty good, but we'll go take a look at it in the morning and make sure everything is safe.

Q. Is that regardless of the size of venue?

JARED RICE: Yes.

Q. They all have the 70 miles an hour --

JARED RICE: Correct. Listen, that's the statistic and that's the measure, but we still need to take the step of physically inspecting that and also making sure the surrounding areas are safe for fans.

Q. You used the word "patience" the other day. Again stressing that through this process?

JARED RICE: Yeah, and I'm really appreciative first of all to fans that have come out today and spent three, four hours on property and hearing this update, that again, we're doing the best we can. This is the world's best golfers, their championship, and the biggest event we have in our community, and we're facing a weather pattern that I don't think any of us have seen before and we just have to be flexible with what it's giving us and make the best of it.