The Players Championship: Trend Table
We love TPC Sawgrass, don't we folks?
Editor’s Note: Brice Garnett and Steve Stricker don’t appear due to lack of stats available.
We love watching golf at Sawgrass, don’t we? It’s utter chaos. One year you can MC and the next you can place top 5. Course history, even though the venue never changes, is next to nil here in terms of its swings.
Without further ado, let’s get into the trends.
Zalatoris challenged for a while last week and it’s clear he’s rounding back into his pre surgery form. I’m guessing he’ll be pretty popular with the pricing structure as such that you can access anyone, even $12,800 Scottie, but we’ll have to see how clicks pan out when numbers start to become available.
Si Woo is a name that jumps out to me here. Hyper accurate, but a volatile player.
Lowry is another name - great week at API last week.
I wonder if Finau is starting to come alive?
Scottie is absurd. With the defections over the last two years, Rory showing signs of… I guess decline is the best way to put it, but I think that’s a stretch, Scottie could be looking at one of those unreal years he wins 6-10 golf tournaments and has a shot at multiple majors, especially if his API putting performance wasn’t just a one week fluke.
I’m interested to see how Carson Young grades out in the pool. He is ++accuracy and his recent form approach and ball striking have been phenomenal. He’s only $5,500 this week, so my guess is he’ll be chalky, but who knows. Feels like a massive mis-price.
I mentioned on Twitter that Rickie Fowler found his putter again. It was all anyone could talk about last year was his putter and how all the guys wanted their own model. Well, he seems to have found that groove again. He’s also finding a lot more success recently off the tee and ball striking with tee to green showing life.
Horschel plays well in Florida.
Greyson Sigg and I continue to do the devil’s dance in which he bewitches me into playing him and then misses the cut by one stroke (only partly joking) costing my family and I our home. His numbers look good.
I wonder if Justin Thomas is starting to lose some of his early form.
A now over priced Min Woo shows up in red. All the talent in the world, but you never know when it’s all going to come together.
What the hell is going on with Tommy Fleetwood & Tom Kim?
Collin is on the list, too, after a miserable performance last week at Bay Hill.
Rory just hasn’t been great, neither has Matt Fitzpatrick.
Sungjae, on paper here, looks terrible. But, I mentioned him in the same Rickie Fowler tweet because this stood out to me. Course history here can be a bit wonky, that’s a given, but he’s made the past three cuts here and has had a top 10 and a top 20. He took 18th last week at API and that alone has him spiked close to a full stroke better in this trend table than last week. If he’s starting to round into form, it’s a good opportunity to take some swings on him and be in overweight positions relative to your play/lineups/bets and be early on his re-arrival.
Homa, Viktor, Cantlay - y’all good?