The 2023 THE PLAYERS Championship will be underway this week. Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, and Scottie Scheffler are among the top golfers expected to have success at TPC Sawgrass, but here are three sleepers who could be making even louder noises there. Check out some of the sleepers in the 2023 THE PLAYERS Championship below.
The 25-year-old Sahith Theegala is still searching for his first career win on the PGA TOUR, but it does feel like he is very close to that goal, especially with how he’s been faring this season. Theegala has made the cut 11 of 12 times and he has made all cuts in every event he’s joined since the start of 2023. He also has five top 10s and seven top 25s this season to date, including a runner-up finish at The RSM Classic in November. Theegala also has two top 10s in his last four starts.
Although he has been cut in two of his last starts – including at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard last week – Horschel can still be paid attention to. Prior to his debacle at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Horschel finished with a t$2 at The Honda Classic in which he fired a 65 in the first round and a 68 in the third round. He obviously struggled in the second and fourth rounds, but he might be just a tournament away from getting it together at last from beginning to end.
Keep an eye on Harman as well as he’s come close to winning not one but at least two tournaments so far this season. He had a pair of runner-up finishes at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba and at The RSM Classic. He was cut in each of his last two starts, but those also just make him hide behind favorable odds for sleeper hunters. Also remember that Harman has three top 10s and in 11 starts at TPC Sawgrass.
