The 2023 Farmers Insurance Open will be underway this week. Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, and Justin Thomas are among the top golfers expected to have success at Torrey Pines, but here are three sleepers who could be making even louder noises there. Check out some of the sleepers in the 2023 Farmers Insurance Open below.
Rodgers missed the cut at The American Express 2023, but that was only his first after making the cut in seven consecutive PGA TOUR starts this season. Overall, he is 7/9 with two top 10s, with his best finish to date being a T3 in the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Also, before failing to make it to Sunday in The American Express, Rodgers had a two-start streak of finishing inside the top 20 with a T16 in the 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open and a T10 in The RSM Classic 2022.
Stallings is a perfect 5/5 so far in the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season after going with a T25 in the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions. He did not see action in the next two events, but that shouldn’t diminish his value as a sleeper. For one, Stallings has quite the experience in playing at Torrey Pines (South Course). In fact, he is 6/11 there and has made the cut in three of his last four appearances at the said course. Stallings had a stretch in 2014 and 2015 when he finished first and second, respectively, in the Farmers Insurance Open in the same location.
After missing the cut in the 2023 Sony Open in Hawaii, Shelton recovered right away with a T6 in The American Express 2023 last week. It’s his second top 10 of the season and fifth top 25 of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season, thus far. The 27-year-old Shelton has made the cut in seven of his nine starts.
