The 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge will be underway this week. Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth, and Tony Finau are among the top golfers expected to have success at Colonial Country Club, but here are three sleepers who could be making even louder noises there. Check out some of the sleepers in the 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge below.
Kitayama missed the cut at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship but recovered right away with a T4 at the 2023 PGA Championship, where he finished strong with a 65 in the final round. He only has one event played at the Colonial Country Club in his PGA TOUR career, but he made the cut in that start, which was a 40th-place campaign at the 2022 Charles Schwab Challenge. Kitayama is 48th overall this season with a 0.644 SG: Total and 43rd with a 70.449 scoring average.
Although Grillo missed the cut at the 2023 PGA Championship, it’s still hard to discount the strong stretch of golf he had prior to that event at Oak Hill. Grillo had a top-25 finish in each of his three starts before the PGA Championship, including a pair of top 10s, with a T7 at the 2023 RBC Heritage followed by a T5 at the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta.
After four consecutive missed cuts, Palmer has come alive with a T35 at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship followed by a T8 at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson. That was his first – and so far, only – top 10 of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season. What’s good about Palmer is that he’s 14/19 with four top 10s overall at the Colonial Country Club.
