The 2021-22 PGA TOUR is headed this week to TPC Sawgrass, where many of the best players in the world will compete for the top prize in THE PLAYERS Championship 2022. Have you made up your mind about which player to bet on? If not, let the experts help you decide.
Chris Murphy of the Action Network has dropped three names worthy of attention ahead of the 2022 The PLAYERS Championship: Hideki Matsuyama, Brooks Koepka, and Alex Noren. Matsuyama already has two wins this season and is a perfect 10 of 10 so far. Koepka is looking healthy in the eyes of Murphy. Koepka is 4 of 6 at TPC Sawgrass with a pair of top 25s. As for Alex Noren, the 39-year-old Swede is coming off a T5 in The Honda Classic and has made the cut in all of his past four starts.
Golf Digest
Expert
Top-ranked player
Dan Rapaport
Collin Morikawa
Golf Digest’s Dan Rapaport ranked 100 players ahead of THE PLAYERS Championship 2022 and put Collin Morikawa on top of the rest of the field. Morikawa has gone 4 of 4 this season, finishing each of those starts inside the top 5. He hasn’t won yet this season, but with his current form, any tournament is looking very winnable for him.
PGA.com
Expert
Top-ranked player
Rob Bolton
Collin Morikawa
In his power rankings of players set to compete in the 2022 THE PLAYERS Championship, Rob Bolton of PGA.com has Collin Morikawa on top. Bolton says of Morikawa: “Currently leads TOUR in ball-striking, par-4 scoring and adjusted scoring. T2 in last start at Riviera.”
TopBet News Editor | Ryan Simpson
Expert
Pick
Ryan Simpson, News Editor
Rory McIlroy
In his preview of THE PLAYERS Championship, TopBet News Editor Ryan Simpson revealed that he is picking Rory McIlroy to win the tournament. Here’s what Simpson had to say about Rory McIlroy:
“McIlroy hasn’t played in a lot of tournaments so far this season, but he’s a perfect 3 of 3. He’s not finished worse than 13th in any of those starts and even has a win already, topping the field in THE CJ CUP @ SUMMIT last October. Last Sunday, he settled with a T13 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. At TPC Sawgrass, McIlroy has gone 6 of 12 with four top 10s and five top 25s. He has won here before in 2019 with a 16-under 272 score to win that year’s THE PLAYERS Championship.”
