Tiger Woods is recovering from knee surgery leaving a large group of golfers thinking that this could be their year.  

Last year, Sean O'Hair made a run at the title before he put two in the water at 17.

"Right now my game is in good shape to play well here," O'Hair tells WOKV sports director Cole Pepper. "I'm focused on this year and I'm ready to go and I'm looking forward to it."

Defending champ Phil Mickleson is the  highest rated player in the field.  For this week, at least, the world's number 2 is the one to beat at TPC Sawgrass. 

All the pros are shooting for their share of the $9.5 million prize pool.  But the really big money is going to local businesses.

The Players Championship is expected to add nearly $100 million to the First Coast economy.

The bankroll is growing too, thanks in large part to the PGA moving the event from March to May.

Lindsay Rossman with Visit Jacksonville says last year out of town visitors stayed longer during the tournament and rented hotels further from the St. Johns County course.

"I think that the Players has come into it's own element," Rossman says. "I think it's actually due to the fact it's the PGA's fifth major."

"Personally, I think (the move to May) is a much better thing," Bogey Grille General Manager Brent Foster says. "It gives us something to do in May, y'know."

There isn't much conern the World's number one is taking this tournament off for the first time since he turned pro.

"We got a lot of local boys who play golf here anyway," Foster says. "There just as much a draw  for them here as anybody else is."