Here are three takeaways from the Players Championship, and what it means for the rest of the 2017 season:
Bad sign for McIlroy
Si Woo Kim becoming the youngest winner in the history of the Players will likely be our lasting memory from Sawgrass -- he is a big-time ball striker with arguably the best tempo on tour, and he will contend in a lot of tournaments over the next decade -- but it managed to overshadow a more worrisome storyline that appears to be taking shape.
Is 2017 going to be another year stuck in neutral for Rory McIlroy?