The Greenbrier Classic was cancelled last year due to flooding, but the event will make its much-awaited return stating this Thursday. Nine major championship winners will come down to White Sulphur Springs looking for a victory, including Phil Mickelson, Angel Cabrera, and Bubba Watson so expect no shortage of star power. As for the sleepers? Here are three of them.
2017 Greenbrier Classic Sleeper Picks and Predictions
You could say that Streelman is flirting with a breakout win this season with the way he’s improved his play of late. And who knows if his first win of the season comes this weekend at The Old White TPC. After missing the cut in back-to-back fashion in the Zurich Classic and the Wells Fargo Championship, respectively, the Illinois native has amassed four top 20’s over his succeeding five starts, which includes a T8 in the Travelers Championship late June.
Luke Donald
It’s easy to disregard Donald’s name this weekend, as he’s missed the cut in all of his past five starts. That being said, his five PGA Tour victories have got to mean something, right? If you see the glass half-full, you could say Donald is due for a win after those series of misadventures. The 2011 PGA Tour Player of the Year finished second in the RBC Heritage back in April before plunging in the aforementioned consecutive missed cuts.
Scott Stallings
Speaking of 2011, that was also the year Stallings pocketed the top purse of the Greenbrier Classic, edging Bob Estes and Bill Haas in a gripping one-hole playoff. The 32-year-old finished with just a T32 last week in the Quicken Loans National and only has a single top 10 in 20 events played so far on the season but that doesn’t matter that much when you’re one of the few champions of the event.
