The 2022 THE PLAYERS Championship will be underway this week. Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, and Rory McIlroy are among the top golfers expected to have success at TPC Sawgrass, but here are three sleepers who could be making even louder noises there. Check out some of the sleepers in the 2022 THE PLAYERS Championship below.
Day is having a lukewarm start to the season, as he is 5 of 6 thus far. In his last start, the Australian finished with a T24 in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Prior to that, he had a T3 in the Farmers Insurance Open. On the season, Day has two top 25s. Day is only 7 of 11 in his career at TPC Sawgrass, but he has won there before. He beat the field in 2016 THE PLAYERS Championship with a 15-under 273 score. Moreover, Day has two top 10s in the last four editions of THE PLAYERS Championship.
Ancer is 3 of 3 in his last three starts and has missed the cut just twice in eight starts this season. His best finish to date this season is a T7 in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba back in November 2021. Ancer is 2 of 3 at TPC Sawgrass, including a 12th-place finish in the 2019 THE PLAYERS Championship.
Ranked 33rd in the world, Gooch is coming off a T7 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard last Sunday. Gooch has four top 10s already this season, and that includes his win in The RSM Classic in November 2021. Last year, he finished fifth in THE PLAYERS Championship.
