The TOUR heads back to Florida for the “Fifth Major”, The Players Championship this week. The Stadium course at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida is home to one of the most recognizable par 3s in the world. The par-3, 132-yard 17th hole, known simply as the “Island Green”, is one of golf’s most recognizable, as well as difficult holes. Many a player has dunked a ball or two in to the drink here, and it’s even seen its fair share of hole-in-ones as well.
Last year Tim Clark carded a scorching 67 on the final day to win by a stroke over Australia’s Robert Allenby, and won his first ever PGA Tour victory.
I’d like to try and forget about last week’s performance and hopefully chalk that up as my mulligan. Moving on… Luke Donald may not have seized the opportunity to take over the world’s number one ranking at The Heritage, but in reality, there’s not another player in the world who’s playing better and more consistently as of right now. TPC Sawgrass places a premium on precise iron play and Donald is tops on TOUR in that list. He’s also ranked first in scoring average and second in scrambling on TOUR. He’ll be starting as my A list selection.
Within the B group there are a lot of options to choose from. Bubba Watson is having another fantastic year and is proving that he belongs among the upper echelon of players on TOUR but I’m running low on starts with him. So will unfortunately take a pass on him this week. Ben Crane who’s had a lot of great recent success at Sawgrass, with two top 5s in his last two starts there gets a start, as well as Bill Haas who’s game looked to come back to life last week.
For the C group I like a couple of Aussies to do very well. Adam Scott’s near win at the Masters proved that he’s back and still a factor. He’s been incredible on the greens with the long, broom handle-like putter, and he’s also a previous winner at the Players (2004). He’ll be coming in fresh after a few weeks off as well. Backing him up will be Jason Day who also had a great showing (T2) at the Masters, to go along with three other top 10s on the season.
Starting Foursome: Luke Donald, Bill Haas, Ben Crane, Adam Scott
Bench Players: Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Pat Perez, Jason Day
My Year-to-Date Stats are:
Current Points: 2638
Points Last Week: 80
Current Percentile: 93rd
Winners picked so far: 3
Top 5s picked so far: 16
About Jeff Palopoli
Web marketer, father, husband, and golf blogger continually searching for the golf game I used to have.
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