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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
PGA DFS Vegas Report - Spencer Aguiar's Betting Picks for The Players Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Make sure to follow me on Twitter @Teeoffsports to get my updated picks as the tournament progresses, and if you don't have that as one of your social media platforms, here is a link for my betting card weekly. Plays will always get updated as soon... 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
PGA DFS: DraftKings Value Plays - THE PLAYERS Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome back RotoBallers, and thanks for joining me for THE PLAYERS Championship! My name is Joe Nicely and in this article, you will find my favorite DraftKings DFS value plays for this week's PGA tournament. It can be tough to define "value" and that... 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
PGA DFS DraftKings Pivots: Sleepers and Value Picks - The Players Championship
Welcome back, RotoBallers, to my PGA DFS Pivots for DraftKings! This week, the PGA event is The Players Championship. We have a chaotic week ahead of us weather-wise. Rain and thunderstorms are currently forecasted for the first three days. This is another variable that makes this week very tough to handicap. I find myself leaning... Read More
Breaking $100: PGA Betting Picks and Strategy - The Players Championship
This series has got off to an incredibly sweaty start with Berger blowing a Sunday five-shot lead two weeks ago, and Hovland letting a Sunday back-nine lead slip through his fingers last week. As much as it stings to have come so close, twice, the entertainment value of having a horse in the race on... 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
PGA DFS Hole By Hole Breakdown: The Players Championship (Premium Content)
All other PGA Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to the latest edition of the PGA DFS Hole-By-Hole Breakdown, where Josh Bennett (@JishSwish) breaks down the course the PGA Tour is playing each week. We think this course breakdown is an important slice of the "PGA DFS pie" and will help change the... Read More
Aaron Wise Must Find His Putter This Week
Aaron Wise just misses three or four putts when he has no reason to. It was what kept him out of the top 10 last Sunday at The Arnold Palmer Invitational. Several missed key putts on the back nine led to a double-bogey on 18 that pushed him back to a tie for 17th. It... Read More
Chris Kirk Carries Value Once More This Week At Sawgrass
This has been a nice three-week stretch for Chris Kirk. After missing the cut in three out of four tournaments, Kirk has a 14th, 7th, and then a fifth last week at The Arnold Palmer. That is some heady stuff from the American golfer. Considering his metrics are pretty good, his averages are not always... Read More
Keegan Bradley Has Game For The Players Championship
The one thing that holds Keegan Bradley back typically is putting. Everything about his game plays well to Sawgrass. He nearly finished in the top-ten at The Arnold Palmer last week. He just needed to make a few more putts as Bradley could not get one round under 70. Again, this week the American golfer... Read More
Cameron Tringale Looking For Big Week At Sawgrass
Cameron Tringale is another one of those golfers that just cannot put two consecutive weeks together. He looks like a top-10 or top-20 player one week then cannot make a cut the next. This pattern has repeated for eight tournaments and goes back to October of last year. The good is when he makes the... Read More
Mackenzie Hughes Has Some DFS Value At Sawgrass
Mackenzie Hughes has yo-yo'ed his way around the golf courses over the past month. One week he misses putts and the cut. The next week he improves. That has been the pattern so far in 2022. One thing that has been better in most of his rounds is ironically the putting. He has gained 0.736... Read More
Erik van Rooyen Could Struggle Again At Sawgrass
Everything that could go wrong for Erik van Rooyen did last week at the Arnold Palmer. The 73 in Round 1 was bad enough. The 79 was an unmitigated disaster that left the South African lost for words. The double bogey on the 15th was a real dagger. Erik van Rooyen hit too many errant... Read More
Patrick Reed Still Flailing Heading Into The Players Championship
Those that were hoping for some kind of better result for Patrick Reed last week were sorely disappointed. Reed missed the cut at the Arnold Palmer after a 72-76 opening two days. The last six weeks have seen the American golfer miss a cut in three straight tournaments. Ever since that weekend at the Farmer's... Read More
