The 2021-22 PGA TOUR goes to Orlando, as the 2022 THE PLAYERS Championship is all set to start this Thursday at Bay Hill Club & Lodge, down in Orlando, Florida. Who do you think will end up pocketing the scintillating $2.16million top prize? Check out our preview below of the 2022 THE PLAYERS Championship.
Rahm is still winless this season, but he just continues to pump out results that drive bettors to trust him still. He is coming off a T17 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, which makes it six made cuts for Rahm in a row. Over that stretch, Rahm has had a T3 and a T10 in the Farmers Insurance Open and in the WM Phoenix Open, respectively. Rahm is 4 of 5 at TPC Sawgrass, including a top-10 finish in the 2019 edition of THE PLAYERS Championship.
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.
Thomas is a perfect 6 of 6 this season after finishing sixth in The Genesis Invitational last February. He has not seen action in the PGA TOUR since, but definitely is a golfer to watch out for this week at TPC Sawgrass. After all, he is the defending THE PLAYERS Championship champion having won it in 2021 for a cool sum of $2.7 million.
Ranked 22nd in the world, Horschel is having quite a solid season. He has made the cut in all of his seven starts to date and is coming off a T2 in the Horschel. So far, he has two top 10s and five top 25s this season. He is only 6 of 9 with zero top 10s in his career at TPC Sawgrass, but if his trend holds, he could be making big waves this week.
Gooch had a solid start to the season, going 4 of 4 in his first four starts with each start producing a result no worse than a T11. He is also coming off a T7 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard last Sunday. In 2021, he made the cut in THE PLAYERS Championship and finished fifth.
Werenski finally snapped a streak of six consecutive missed cuts when he finished with a T28 in the Puerto Rico Open last week. He was cut in the 2021 THE PLAYERS Championship but was 2 of 2 in the previous editions of the tournament.
