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Tyrrell Hatton Riding A Hot Putter Into Copperhead
Tyrrell Hatton has been in great form since arriving in Florida, finishing T2 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and T13 at The Players Championship last week. The 30-year-old has only played in the Valspar Championship once, missing the cut in 2019, but the difficult setup at Copperhead should be right up Hatton's alley. The world's... Read More
Paul Casey Withdraws From The Valspar Championship
Paul Casey (OWGR No. 24) has withdrawn his name from the Valspar Championship this week. The 44-year-old played great at The Players Championship and looked to have a chance to win until some unfortunate luck on the 16th hole at TPC Sawgrass. His perfect drive on the scoreable par-5 managed to find a deep divot... Read More
Matthew Fitzpatrick Hopes To Bounce Back From Bad Draw
Matthew Fitzpatrick was on a roll before catching the tough side of the draw at The Players Championship and missing the cut last week. The 27-year-old had amassed three top-10 finishes in as many starts in 2022 before getting unlucky with wind conditions at TPC Sawgrass. There is no reason to believe that Fitzpatrick (OWGR... Read More
Joel Dahmen Plodding His Way Through The 2022 Season
Joel Dahmen (OWGR No. 103) finished T33 last week under tough weather conditions at The Players Championship. The 34-year-old ranked middle of the pack in the strokes gained categories at TPC Sawgrass and the same can be said for his season-long statistics. The American has three top-10 finishes on tour since winning the Corales Puntacana... Read More
Max Homa's Game Peaking Before The Players
Max Homa gained six strokes on approach at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and he's now gained strokes on approach in five consecutive events. With his irons peaking heading into the week, he fits the narrative that great recent iron play is a necessity to win The Players Championship. His T17 finish at the API included... Read More
Sahith Theegala A High-Risk, High-Reward Play
Sahith Theegala had a forgettable Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, losing four strokes putting to shoot a 79. The rest of his game seemed to face a similar fate, as he lost strokes around the green and on approach. He was not the only one to struggle mightily at Bay Hill, as multiple professionals... Read More
Mito Pereira Looking To Bounce Back With Putter
After gaining over half a stroke putting per round in six straight events, Mito Pereira broke his streak at The Honda Classic, losing a total of 4.44 strokes to finish T30. He gained strokes in each of the other three major statistical categories, though, which is promising. Pereira has gained strokes on approach in four... Read More
Russell Henley Has A High Floor
Russell Henley has made all 10 cuts this season. He has finished T33 or better in nine of those starts. TPC Sawgrass is a shorter course that requires precision off the tee and on approach. Henley checks both of those boxes consistently, with his strokes gained on approach ranking inside the top 10 on tour... Read More
Corey Conners A Great Course Fit This Week
Corey Conners is one of the best ball-strikers on tour. Conners has gained more than 0.26 strokes per round off the tee in each of his nine starts this season. Although not as consistent as his driver, he has also produced multiple weeks of elite iron play, which is what TPC Sawgrass demands. Unfortunately, his... Read More
Avoid Bubba Watson At The Players
Bubba Watson leans on his driver to gain most of his strokes on the field. He also has one of the stronger course histories on tour, with success at certain courses being a lot more predictable than the average tour pro. Watson's last two starts were a missed cut at The Genesis Invitational and a... Read More
Carlos Ortiz Might Be One To Avoid This Week
Carlos Ortiz does not arrive at TPC Sawgrass in good form. Last week at The Arnold Palmer Invitational, he lost strokes in every key metric. Overall, he lost 10.4 strokes total. Ortiz's best finish this year is a 33rd-place result at TPC Scottsdale. Ortiz also does not have good course history at The Players Championship.... Read More
Luke List Has Great Putting History At TPC Sawgrass
Luke List has gained strokes putting in only one event this season, winning the Farmers Insurance Open that week. List heads to TPC Sawgrass, where he has gained over 0.63 strokes putting in three of his five appearances. In the other three major statistical categories, he has gained steadily across the board all season. He... Read More
Talor Gooch One To Watch Ahead Of Players Championship
Talor Gooch finished in fifth place at last year's edition of The Players Championship. Gooch excelled on approach that week by gaining 6.8 strokes. While he lost strokes off the tee, he was still able to gain 7.5 strokes from tee-to-green. Gooch also had an impressive showing last week at The Arnold Palmer Invitational. He... Read More
Joaquin Niemann Looks To Contend At The Players
Joaquin Niemann put on an absolutely dominating performance three weeks ago at the Genesis Invitational. The Chilean star gained over 14 strokes from tee to green, over seven strokes on approach and over four strokes around the green in his victory. Niemann missed the cut in his last start at The Honda Classic, but that... Read More
Maverick McNealy Could Be One To Avoid
Maverick McNealy had a tough go of it last week at The Arnold Palmer Invitational. The 26-year-old American lost 7.5 strokes from tee to green and 2.4 strokes on approach. McNealy has now lost strokes on approach in two straight tournaments. McNealy is also known as an excellent putter on Poa surfaces. Unfortunately, TPC Sawgrass... Read More
Sergio Garcia Relying On Course History
Sergio Garcia is one of the best players in the field when it comes to historical data at TPC Sawgrass. The former Players Championship winner has turned in back-to-back top-40 finishes over the past few weeks on the PGA Tour. Despite the decent results, Garcia has relied heavily on his putter in recent weeks. We... Read More
Scottie Scheffler Extremely Hot Entering Players Championship
After winning last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational, Scottie Scheffler has now won two of his last three starts. His driver was a major factor in his first win while losing strokes on approach. His second win came courtesy of a whopping 8.44 strokes gained on approach with minimal contributions from his driver. In both wins,... Read More
Webb Simpson Returns After Bulging Disc Injury
Webb Simpson (back) returns to the PGA Tour after a two-month layoff while dealing with a bulging disc injury. It's difficult to say how healthy Simpson is as he comes to TPC Sawgrass this week, but we think the extended layoff will have him feeling pretty good. Simpson, a former Players Champion, certainly has some... Read More
Jason Day Not Striking It Well Recently
Jason Day won The Players Championship in 2016, gaining over 6.3 strokes on approach. His six starts in 2022 have only produced one positive iron performance at the Farmers Insurance Open. As is now a customary part of his game, he made the cut in five of his starts this year by leaning on his... Read More
Sungjae Im's Irons A Concern
TPC Sawgrass demands exceptional approach play from past champions. Sungjae Im has only gained more than a stroke on approach once in his last four starts. He putted exceptionally well in two of those four tournaments, salvaging two T20s by gaining more than six strokes putting. Im has been a consistent gainer off the tee... Read More
Hideki Matsuyama A Hot Putter Away From Victory
In classic Hideki Matsuyama fashion, the Japanese star finished T20 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational while losing stokes on the putting green. In 10 starts this season, Matsuyama has lost strokes on approach once, losing a menacing minus-0.01 strokes at the Shriners Children's Open. He has a similar record off the tee, losing strokes only... Read More
Rory McIlroy Looking To Repeat Ball-Striking At The Players
Rory McIlroy gained a season-high 7.5 strokes in ball-striking at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Unfortunately, his putter rebelled at the worst time, and he lost strokes over his four rounds. A three-putt from five feet on Sunday was seemingly the straw that broke the camel's back. Past winners at The Players, including McIlroy, have typically... Read More
Matthew Wolff A Complete Fade This Week
Matthew Wolff is a complete fade this week at The Players Championship. Wolff has gained strokes off the tee just once in four events in 2022 and has not gained strokes on approach since October of last year. The 22-year-old has great talent, but TPC Sawgrass is not a place that players typically go to... Read More
Viktor Hovland Looks To Bounce Back
Viktor Hovland enters this week off of an emotional roller coaster last weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The young Norwegian led for a majority of the weekend, including the back nine on Sunday, before eventually coming up a shot short of Scottie Scheffler. Bay Hill put the leaderboard through tough conditions, which could possibly... Read More
Look For Adam Scott To Contend This Week
Adam Scott has his game in good form heading to The Players Championship this week. The Aussie enters this week red-hot with the putter, having gained 6.5 strokes or more putting in each of his last two starts. Additionally, Scott has gained strokes off the tee in each of his last two events. Last week,... Read More
Justin Rose Hard To Trust
Justin Rose will be hard to trust this week at The Players Championship. The former world No. 1 has now lost strokes on approach, around the green and putting in back-to-back events. Additionally, the Englishman has gained strokes off the tee just once in four starts in 2022. Sawgrass will put players to the test... Read More
Dustin Johnson An Unknown Heading To Sawgrass
The state of Dustin Johnson's game is relatively unknown heading to The Players Championship this week at TPC Sawgrass. The former world No. 1 has teed it up just twice in 2022, finishing T25 at The Farmers Insurance Open and missing the cut at the Genesis Invitational. Johnson looked good in his first start back,... Read More
Will Zalatoris Hopes To Rebound At The Players Championship
Will Zalatoris shot an opening-round 68 at The Arnold Palmer Invitational last week. Unfortunately, he followed with a 77, 70 and 79. Even with his poor play, he gained 4.1 stokes from tee-to-green and 2.2 strokes on approach. Zalatoris played his first Players Championship last year. He finished in 21st place and gained 6.5 strokes... Read More
Keith Mitchell Looks To Continue His Good Form
Keith Mitchell has finished in the top 15 in four out of his last five tournaments. Mitchell has relied on his strong off-the-tee game to do so. He has not lost strokes in that metric since The Travelers Championship last June. His game off the tee will be very important this week at TPC Sawgrass.... Read More
Jordan Spieth Under The Radar Ahead
Jordan Spieth arrives at TPC Sawgrass for his eighth edition of The Players Championship. Spieth's best performance was a fourth-place finish in 2014. That week, Spieth gained 10.2 strokes from tee-to-green. The three-time major champion is in good form. In his last three starts, he has three made cuts and a second-place finish at Pebble... Read More
