Now that the action down in Lousiana is over following the conclusion of the RBC Heritage, the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season now marches on to the next one: the 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. With that said, let’s now take a look at some of the favorites, sleepers, and long shots to win this week at TPC Louisiana.
On the season, Morikawa has four top 10s and six top 25s, while going 10/12 overall. Homa, on the other hand, is 11/122 with already two wins this season to go with six top 10s and nine top 25s.
Im has made the cut in all but one of 15 starts this season. He also has five top 10s and 10 top 25s. He is also coming off a T7 at the 2023 RBC Heritage. Mitchell is 12/15 with three top 10s to date, which includes his T4 at the 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am back in February and the solo fifth in the same month at 2023 The Genesis Invitational.
These golfers are the defending champions of this event, and that’s really all you need to know why they’re among the favorites to win this week. Cantlay is 9/10 this season with five top 10s and eight top 25s, while Schauffele is a perfect 11/11 with six top 10s.
Here’s what we said about Reed in our 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans sleepers piece.
The 32-year-old Reed is one of the LIV Golf pros who will be teeing at Augusta National Golf Club this week amid the controversy that still surrounds the PGA TOUR-LIVGolf rivalry. Reed is a former winner of the Green Jacket, having won the 2018 edition of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He is 6/8 at Augusta National Golf Club with two top 10s and three top 25s. He was 35th in last year’s staging of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Here’s what we said about Victor Perez & Thomas Detry in our 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans sleepers piece.
Perez has appeared in only two PGA TOUR events this season, but he made the cut in both of those tournaments, including a T31 at the 2023 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. Detry is 12/15 this season with three top 10s and a runner-up at the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. He also finished with a T8 at the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship.
