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Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth among Davis Love III picks to fill out stacked U.S. roster for Presidents Cup
It won’t quite be Alabama’s top-ranked football team playing Akron on its home field, but the U.S. figures to be an overwhelming favorite to defeat the International team for the ninth straight time in the Presidents Cup in two weeks.
U.S. team captain Davis Love III filled out his remaining roster spots Wednesday with six of the top 26 players in the Official World Golf Ranking: Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Billy Horschel, Cameron Young, Max Homa and Kevin Kisner.
They’ll join world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Sam Burns and Tony Finau on the U.S. team.
It will be the youngest U.S. team in Presidents Cup history, with an average age of 29.6 years. The Presidents Cup is scheduled for Sept. 22-25 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Even though a stacked U.S. team will be the favorite, Love said it will have to play well under pressure.
“It’s still going to be that stadium, that first tee, American flags and ‘Go USA,'” Love said. “This is their 12-man team that has never played together before. They want to win for this team. I don’t think we’ll have to do too much messaging or motivation. Certainly, you don’t want to be on a losing team ever.”
The International team’s highest-ranked players are Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and South Korea’s Sungjae Im, who are 16th and 18th, respectively. Two of the International team’s anticipated stars, Australia’s Cameron Smith and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, are ineligible for the team after defecting to the LIV Golf circuit.
“We understand exactly the mountain that we have in front of us: Possibly the best American team ever assembled if you look at them on paper with their accomplishments and what their world rankings are,” International team captain Trevor Immelman said Tuesday.
The average world ranking of the U.S. team is 11.8; the International team’s is 48.8. The U.S. team includes five of the top 10 players in the world and 11 of the top 20. The International team has no players in the top 10 and two in the top 20.
“Trevor is going to have a team that’s got a chip on their shoulder, that’s motivated and wants to prove that they can still be competitive,” Love said. “We have to be careful. Certainly, these guys aren’t going to take it lying down.”
Love basically followed script in making his captain’s selections, after losing Will Zalatoris, who was seventh in the Presidents Cup standings, to a back injury that caused him to miss the season-ending Tour Championship. Spieth, Morikawa, Homa, Horschel and Young were eighth to 12th in the standings, and Kisner, a veteran and match-play specialist, was 15th.
Tom Hoge and J.T. Poston were just ahead of Kisner in the Presidents Cup standings, but weren’t selected for the team.
Kisner, 38, won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in 2019 and was runner-up in 2018 and this season, when he lost to Scheffler in the finals. Kisner went 2-0-2 and earned three points in his only previous Presidents Cup appearance, at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey in 2017. He is regarded as one of the best putters in the world and finished seventh at the 2017 PGA Championship held at Quail Hollow.
Scheffler, Morikawa, Burns, Horschel, Young and Homa are Presidents Cup first-timers. Scheffler and Morikawa competed on the U.S. team that blasted Europe 19-9 in the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.
While the U.S. has traditionally struggled in the Ryder Cup, it has won 11 of the 13 past Presidents Cups, losing just once, 20 ½-11 ½ in Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. The teams tied 17-17 in George, South Africa, in 2003.
Behind captain Tiger Woods, the U.S. team won 16-14 in Melbourne in the last Presidents Cup in 2019.
“What we do in the Presidents Cup better than the Ryder Cup is we don’t have this fear of losing or this doubt in our head,” Love said. “We just go in with a lot of confidence and we have to keep that momentum going. It was a little closer than we wanted last time in Australia.”
Collin Morikawa soars to top of U.S. Open leaderboard with 4-under 66; tied with Joel Dahmen after 2 rounds
BROOKLINE, Mass. — For every Collin Morikawa and his back-to-back years winning a major is a Joel Dahmen, who only four years ago would have been thrilled to even play in one.
Jon Rahm is the defending U.S. Open champion, one shot out of the lead. He will be playing on the weekend at The Country Club with Hayden Buckley, who studied while playing at Missouri because he figured he’d need to find a job after college.
The dozen players separated by two shots going into the weekend include the top three players in the world ranking and four of the top seven: Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Morikawa.
“I think it’s great for the game of golf that the highest-ranked players and the best players are up there, especially in the tournament where truly the best player ends up winning,” Rahm said.
It also includes two PGA Tour rookies and two players who have never won on tour.
Indeed, this U.S. Open has something for everyone. It just doesn’t have Phil Mickelson, who missed the cut by eight shots.
Morikawa was searching for something in his game and found a “baby draw” instead of his traditional fade, and it has been working beautifully at Brookline. He matched the low score of the championship Friday with a 4-under 66 for a share of the lead with Dahmen, the cancer survivor and popular everyman in golf.
Rahm did his best to keep pace with an eagle and a series of big par putts that felt just as valuable. Rahm had a 67 and was in the group of five players one shot behind. That included McIlroy, coming of a win at the Canadian Open, who hit his stride on the back nine with three birdies over his last four holes for a 69.
Not to be overlooked was Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, who chipped in from thick rough short of the par-5 14th green for an eagle that brought the Texan back into the mix with a 67. He was two shots behind.
Morikawa, Rahm and Scheffler have combined to win four of the past nine majors. And then there’s McIlroy, who has four majors by himself, but none since 2014.
“It’s the U.S. Open. No one has taken it deep so far and kind of run away,” Morikawa said. “The last few days is a huge confidence booster for me heading into this weekend, and hopefully we can kind of make some separation somehow.”
The idea of the U.S. Open is to identify the best players. Some of them require some introductions to major championship contention on the weekend.
Start with Dahmen, who will never be accused of taking himself too seriously, even if he takes his game seriously. He thought about withdrawing from the 36-hole qualifier twice last week, before it started and after the first round.
But he stuck it out, and with a 68 on Friday, plays in the final group of a major for the first time. He joined Morikawa at 5-under 135.
“We don’t tee off until 3:45 tomorrow. I typically have to be home at 5 for dinner,” Dahmen said. “So this will be different, for sure.”
The group one shot behind includes Buckley, who wasn’t in the U.S. Open until making a 20-foot birdie putt in a playoff for the last spot in his qualifier 11 days ago.
He was fading, like so many others, with three bogeys during a five-hole stretch around the turn when he got back on track. Birdies on the last two holes gave him another 68.
Also at 136 were Aaron Wise, with one PGA Tour victory and nothing better than a tie for 17th in his nine previous majors; and Beau Hossler, who featured on the weekend at Olympic Club as a teenage amateur in 2012 but hasn’t been heard of since then in the majors.
They were examples that the U.S. Open being open to all doesn’t just stop with qualifying for the right to play the toughest test in golf.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
2022 U.S. Open leaderboard breakdown: Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm soar to the top as Rory McIlroy holds
History was always going to be made this week in Brookline, Massachusetts. That was inevitable. However, the Boston faithful could not have envisioned a better leaderboard heading into the weekend at the 2022 U.S. Open. While defending champion Jon Rahm and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy are firmly in contention sitting just one stroke off the lead, it is the name at the top which has the potential to produce a truly jaw-dropping moment come Sunday.
That name belongs to Collin Morikawa, who fired a 4-under 66 on Friday to reach 5 under for the championship and command the co-lead alongside Joel Dahmen. The 25-year-old Morikawa has seemingly been on television for the last decade, but in reality, this week’s U.S. Open marks only the 11th major championship appearance of his career.
In his 10 prior such starts, Morikawa captured startling milestones including a win in his PGA Championship debut and another in his Open Championship debut last summer at Royal St. George’s. A once-in-a-lifetime start to a career can be made even more memorable with a victory at The Country Club.
Three major wins in 11 starts would be unprecedented given the talent depth in the game of golf — for reference: Jordan Spieth needed 19 outings to get his three — and the ability to win those majors in three completely different settings would make it all the more impressive feat. Make no mistake, though: Morikawa is in for a battle over the final 36 holes with names like McIlroy, Rahm and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler all within shouting distance.
While this instance would not be like his last two triumphs as Morikawa has yet to command a 36-hole lead in his major career — add that to his list of accomplishments — and some may continue to doubt his putting or his inexplicable lack of confidence in his iron play, history suggests Morikawa will be just fine.
T1. Collin Morikawa and Joel Dahmen (-5): Last year, Morikawa couldn’t figure out the turf in Scotland. He went on to win The Open Championship. This year, he is unable to hit his patented fade with his irons. Lo and behold, he is right in the mix for his third major title. Not only would he continue his incredible pace on golf’s biggest stage, but with a win, Morikawa would be a Masters victory away from completing the career grand slam. While the irons have been good, not great, he has made his mark with his performance on the greens. He had lost strokes with his putter in every start since the Masters, and so far this week at The Country Club, he has gained more than three strokes with the flat stick.
T3. Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Aaron Wise, Hayden Buckley and Beau Hossler (-4): Rahm played alongside Morikawa the first two days and was probably overshadowed by him. Still, the defending champion is in an enviable position and has a fantastic chance to follow in the footsteps of Brooks Koepka by winning back-to-back U.S. Opens. It is no surprise that Rahm is leading the field in strokes gained off the tee as he is the best in the world in that department by a considerable margin; however, the improvement he has shown around the green this week has the potential to propel him to another major triumph.
T8. Scottie Scheffler, Nick Hardy, Matthew NeSmith, Patrick Rodgers and Brian Harman (-3): Carrying the momentum of his birdie-birdie finish from Thursday, Scheffler sure looked like the world No. 1 on Friday. While it did not begin without a hitch, the Texan put together the best approach performance of his career from a strokes gained perspective. Ultimately signing for a 3-under 67, Scheffler will be in the conversation come the back nine on Sunday as long as his short game is able to mirror his baseline statistical output the rest of the way. He currently ranks first in strokes gained approach, third in strokes gained tee to green and sixth in strokes gained off the tee, and he’s outside the top 80 both on and around the green.
T13. Sam Burns, Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Hadwin and Beau Hossler (-2): Burns was one of three players to sign for a 67 in the morning wave, and the next logical step in his career progression is weekend contention in a major championship. He can check that off the list as he is firmly in the mix of this championship and should love his chances moving forward. A three-time winner on the PGA Tour this season, a victory this week would pull him alongside his good friend Scheffler on the yearly total. The LSU product has only hit 15 fairways through the first two rounds, so he will likely need to improve in this department in order to set up more scoring opportunities.
T16. Xander Schauffele, Will Zalatoris, Davis Riley and four others (-1): His U.S. Open resume is fantastic on paper, but this presents the best opportunity to date for Schauffele. In his five prior top-10 finishes, he had yet to truly contend; however, with 36 holes remaining, he is only four strokes off the pace. The names that he will need to leapfrog are some of the biggest in the game, but if there was ever a single instance in which he could shed the doubt and reputation surrounding his name, it is this week.
T24. Brooks Koepka, Hideki Matsuyama, Brandon Matthews and four others (E): Really impressive bounce back round for the two-time U.S. Open champion as he now has rounds of 73-67 under his belt. Koepka was his typical self with the media after his second round as the chip on his shoulder has somehow grown ten-fold. Only four men have beaten him in his last four U.S. Open appearances and he has his work cut out for him if he doesn’t want to add substantially to that total. An improvement around the green would be huge given it is the only area of his game which has held him back through 36 holes.
T31. Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Joaquin Niemann and six others (+1): I can only imagine how frustrated Thomas is after opening his second round with a double bogey and ultimately signing for a 2-over 72. At The Players Championship, PGA Championship and now the U.S. Open, the two-time major winner has received the short end of the stick when it comes to the weather bias in some of the biggest events of the season. He is only six strokes off the lead, and given the firepower in his arsenal, he is still in this thing, although there is now little room for mistake.
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Updated 2022 PLAYERS Championship Odds & Picks for Collin Morikawa, Daniel Berger, More
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2022 PLAYERS Championship Odds
| Golfer | Odds |
|---|---|
| Jon Rahm | +1200 |
| Justin Thomas | +1200 |
| Collin Morikawa | +1400 |
| Rory McIlroy | +1800 |
| Viktor Hovland | +1800 |
| Patrick Cantlay | +2000 |
| Scottie Scheffler | +2200 |
| Daniel Berger | +2800 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | +2800 |
| Xander Schauffele | +2800 |
| Cameron Smith | +3300 |
| Dustin Johnson | +3300 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | +3300 |
| Billy Horschel | +4000 |
| Brooks Koepka | +4000 |
| Jordan Spieth | +4000 |
| Shane Lowry | +4000 |
| Sungjae Im | +4000 |
| Will Zalatoris | +4000 |
| Sam Burns | +4000 |
| Adam Scott | +5000 |
| Corey Conners | +5000 |
| Joaquin Niemann | +5000 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | +5000 |
| Max Homa | +5000 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | +5000 |
| Talor Gooch | +5000 |
| Abraham Ancer | +6600 |
| Gary Woodland | +6600 |
| Jason Kokrak | +6600 |
| Paul Casey | +6600 |
| Sergio Garcia | +6600 |
| Si Woo Kim | +6600 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | +6600 |
| Webb Simpson | +6600 |
| Chris Kirk | +6600 |
| Jason Day | +6600 |
| Russell Henley | +6600 |
| Cameron Young | +8000 |
| Marc Leishman | +8000 |
| Tony Finau | +8000 |
| Alex Noren | +8000 |
| Bubba Watson | +8000 |
| Justin Rose | +8000 |
| Brian Harman | +10000 |
| Keegan Bradley | +10000 |
| Keith Mitchell | +10000 |
| Aaron Wise | +12500 |
| Cameron Tringale | +12500 |
| Harold Varner III | +12500 |
| Ian Poulter | +12500 |
| Jhonattan Vegas | +12500 |
| Lee Westwood | +12500 |
| Luke List | +12500 |
| Maverick McNealy | +12500 |
| Seamus Power | +12500 |
| Thomas Pieters | +12500 |
| Tom Hoge | +12500 |
| C.T. Pan | +15000 |
| Erik Van Rooyen | +15000 |
| Francesco Molinari | +15000 |
| Lanto Griffin | +15000 |
| Lucas Herbert | +15000 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | +15000 |
| Matthew Wolff | +15000 |
| Mito Pereira | +15000 |
| Patrick Reed | +15000 |
| Sebastian Munoz | +15000 |
| Adam Hadwin | +15000 |
| Emiliano Grillo | +15000 |
| Russell Knox | +15000 |
| Ryan Palmer | +15000 |
| Beau Hossler | +20000 |
| Brendon Todd | +20000 |
| Carlos Ortiz | +20000 |
| Charley Hoffman | +20000 |
| Denny McCarthy | +20000 |
| J.T. Poston | +20000 |
| K.H. Lee | +20000 |
| Kevin Kisner | +20000 |
| Martin Laird | +20000 |
| Matt Jones | +20000 |
| Pat Perez | +20000 |
| Patton Kizzire | +20000 |
| Sahith Theegala | +20000 |
| Sepp Straka | +20000 |
| Taylor Pendrith | +20000 |
| Brendan Steele | +20000 |
| Dylan Frittelli | +20000 |
| Joel Dahmen | +20000 |
| Andrew Putnam | +25000 |
| Cam Davis | +25000 |
| Cameron Champ | +25000 |
| Chez Reavie | +25000 |
| Doug Ghim | +25000 |
| Kevin Streelman | +25000 |
| Lucas Glover | +25000 |
| Matt Kuchar | +25000 |
| Matthew NeSmith | +25000 |
| Nick Watney | +25000 |
| Troy Merritt | +25000 |
| Zach Johnson | +25000 |
| Adam Long | +30000 |
| Branden Grace | +30000 |
| Brandt Snedeker | +30000 |
| Garrick Higgo | +30000 |
| Hudson Swafford | +30000 |
| J.J. Spaun | +30000 |
| Kyle Stanley | +30000 |
| Lee Hodges | +30000 |
| Matt Wallace | +30000 |
| Sam Ryder | +30000 |
| Stewart Cink | +30000 |
| Brian Stuard | +35000 |
| Danny Lee | +35000 |
| Doc Redman | +35000 |
| Harry Higgs | +35000 |
| Henrik Stenson | +35000 |
| Ryan Brehm | +35000 |
| Wyndham Clark | +35000 |
| Adam Schenk | +40000 |
| Brice Garnett | +40000 |
| Hayden Buckley | +40000 |
| James Hahn | +40000 |
| Joseph Bramlett | +40000 |
| Kramer Hickok | +40000 |
| Roger Sloan | +40000 |
| Scott Stallings | +40000 |
| Brandon Hagy | +40000 |
| Brian Gay | +50000 |
| Charl Schwartzel | +50000 |
| Chesson Hadley | +50000 |
| Hank Lebioda | +50000 |
| Henrik Norlander | +50000 |
| Jimmy Walker | +50000 |
| Kevin Tway | +50000 |
| Peter Malnati | +50000 |
| Richy Werenski | +50000 |
| Robert Streb | +50000 |
| Scott Piercy | +50000 |
| Stephan Jaeger | +50000 |
| Tyler McCumber | +50000 |
| Anirban Lahiri | +60000 |
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Ah, welcome to PLAYERS Championship week, featuring the most equitable golf tournament of the year.
Don’t believe it? Try this: Since the turn of the century, winners at TPC Sawgrass have been old and young, large and small, stars and journeymen, fiery and tranquil.
Most relevant from a prognostication perspective is that technical skillsets are similarly indiscriminate. The champions’ list is muddled with a puzzling combination of big hitters, great iron players and crafty putters. The leaderboard is annually littered with an amalgam of disparate types of players.
Factor all of that into your mindset and you’ll find that this tourney remains one of the most difficult to predict on a yearly basis.
That doesn’t mean Justin Thomas was an unforeseeable winner; in fact, he might’ve been one of the most calculable outright wagers last year. What it does mean is that there might’ve been 20 or 30 or 40 other candidates who similarly owned the talents necessary for success on this course.
Really, though, the leaderboard diversity isn’t just reflected in the guy who wins the trophy. Each of the last two runners-up was in his mid-to-late 40s. When Tiger Woods last won in 2013, he followed by a trio that included David Lingmerth, Jeff Maggert and Kevin Streelman.
All of which endorses the main point: Things usually happen here that we don’t expect.
Onto this week, specifically, which is supposed to start with an opening round featuring warm, rainy, calm conditions, transitioning over the next few days to cool, dry, windy conditions, only to close with some combination of all of those by Sunday afternoon.
What that all means is the year’s most equitable golf tournament – one which tests every part of a player’s game – might also be the most equitable from a weather standpoint, necessitating an ability to compete in a few different kinds of elements.
Let’s get to the picks, starting with the PGA TOUR leader in total strokes gained and the all-around category, this season, meaning he’s doing everything well, which is paramount for this venue.
Outright Winner
One player to win the tournament.
Collin Morikawa (+1600)
I proposed this idea in a column recently, but it’s worth revisiting: The world’s No. 2-ranked player is eminently underrated.
Best guess is that this is mostly due to the exploits of players such as Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth early in their careers. Essentially, we’ve become accustomed to young superstars thriving in the spotlight, which makes Morikawa’s accomplishments — five PGA TOUR wins, including two majors, plus a victory at last season’s DP World Tour finale in less than three full years as a pro — almost feel somewhat ordinary by comparison.
The truth is, Morikawa has been brilliant by any standard, but it might be his recent consistency which is lifting his profile even higher. In three U.S.-based starts so far this year, he’s finished top-five in all of ‘em. Now, he’ll head to a track which should suit his skillset, as he ranks 15th in driving accuracy and sixth in strokes gained on approach shots, exactly the type of combination we’re seeking this week.
While a T41 result in his first start at THE PLAYERS wasn’t overly impressive, a final-round 66 last year suggests that he just needed a few days to figure out TPC Sawgrass.
Other OADers
Potential selections for one-and-done options.
With some major pools also including multiple picks for this week’s event, I’ll offer up a six-pack of plays at varying levels of odds here.
Scottie Scheffler (+2800)
I won’t be surprised if these odds have shifted by the time you read this — Scheffler longer than Xander Schauffele? Cameron Smith? — but the guy with two wins in his last three starts is riding a heater into this one.
The benefit of OAD pools in which you make weekly picks (instead of all preseason or at select checkpoints) is that you can go with the hot hand. Finishing T7 at the Genesis Invitational after that first win at the WM Phoenix Open last month should have us confident that Scheffler can follow his Arnold Palmer Invitational victory with another strong performance this week.
Sam Burns (+3500)
There was a little glitch in the matrix over the past couple of months, when Burns missed three straight cuts in a row. Back on Bermuda greens, he deserves some consideration.
During the past year or so, I’ve often lumped Burns and Scheffler into the same category — terrifically talented young players who can win on just about any given week. For betting purposes, I’d like Burns at a longer number this week, but he’s certainly a strong candidate for OAD plays, despite shooting 81-76 in his tourney debut last year.
Louis Oosthuizen (+4000)
As I’ve written in the past, Oosthuizen remains one of the toughest players to factor into OAD plays. He’s obviously fared great in some majors, but that’s a pretty large leap of faith you’d have to take to insert him for one of the big four. And he’s hardly trustworthy in most non-majors, which leaves him as an elite-level player without a true home on most pool lists.
This one doesn’t exactly scream slam-dunk, with a T2 in 2017 his only finish better than 19th in 10 career starts, but he’s worth a thought as a contrary option.
Billy Horschel (+5000)
Not long after parlaying a brutal start to his final round of the API into a gutsy attempt down the stretch, Horschel offered, “I don’t give in. I don’t give up. I’m going to battle till the end. I’ll go down in flames before I tap out.”
That might sound like more pro wrestler-bluster than analytical rationale for playing him after that T2 finish, but I do believe that stoking the inner fire could be a key this week for the PVB resident who desperately wants to finally contend in a home game.
One top-25 (a share of 13th in 2015) in eight career starts doesn’t exactly scream value, but those numbers alone might be able to make him a contrarian selection.
Si Woo Kim (+8000)
For the early part of his career, the 2017 champion of this event had a Cameron Champ-like reputation, which is to say, he was usually an all-or-nothing proposition, owning some unique win equity while failing to reach the weekend on a decent number of occasions. He might still own that reputation, but it’s really no longer relevant, as he’s only won once since that PLAYERS victory a half-decade ago, yet he’s made the cut in nine straight starts and 17 of his last 19.
The reality is that Si Woo owns a much higher floor than a few years ago, while his ceiling should remain moderately high. If you want to use your OAD on a known commodity who’s won here previously, Kim isn’t a bad idea.
Matt Kuchar (+15000)
In recent years, there’s always been an “old guy” who contends for this title. Last year, Lee Westwood finished runner-up; two years before that (there was no full event in 2020), Jim Furyk was second.
Ten years removed from his PLAYERS Championship victory, maybe Kuchar can be that player this time. Though he hasn’t shown great form recently, he’s the type who should prosper the more precision and accuracy factor into the result. Even if you don’t want to “waste” an OAD play on him, I don’t mind him for props and DFS lineups.
Top-Five
One player to finish top-five.
Daniel Berger (+800)
When we last saw Berger, he was licking his wounds after parlaying the 54-hole Honda Classic lead into a solo fourth-place finish just two weeks ago. No doubt that one hurt, but Berger has shown some strong resiliency in recent years, with many of his best results coming in bunches.
It wasn’t that long ago when the defending champion withdrew from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a back injury, but he told me afterward that it was only a precautionary measure. While he didn’t win at PGA National, he proved that he is indeed healthy enough to contend.
An opening-round 74 put him behind the eight-ball at TPC Sawgrass last year, though he still battled to finish T9. I expect something even closer this time.
Top-10
One player to finish top-10.
Sungjae Im (+450)
I’ve been admittedly flip-flopping on Sungjae over the year’s first few months, but I think this week’s number is ripe to play him for props and even an outright wager.
Last year’s T17 result included scores of 66 in both the second and fourth rounds; he’s also tended to play some of his best golf here in Florida. While an MC at the Honda and T20 at API don’t exactly back that up, I’ll rely more here on the ascending trend than disappointing results. He’s still posted top-10s in four of his last 10 starts (with a T11 thrown in there for good measure).
Top-20
One player to finish top-20.
Matt Fitzpatrick (+175)
Going back to the proverbial well here after Fitzpatrick posted strong weekend numbers (compared with the field, at least) to finish T9 at Bay Hill. He was similarly T9 at last year’s edition of The Players, which underscores the main reason we should continue backing him: He literally does everything well.
Fitzpatrick ranks second (behind Morikawa, ahead of Jon Rahm) in total strokes gained so far this season. On a track that tests all parts of a player’s game, being proficient across the board seems like a nice place to start looking for contenders.
I’ll admit that top-20 is very conservative here, so don’t be scared to get a little more aggressive if you wish.
Top-30
One player to finish top-30.
Alex Noren
Yet another conservative play for a guy with top-six finishes in two of his last three starts and top-20s in two of his four PLAYERS starts, but it’s very possible to envision Noren making a serious run up the leaderboard, at least over the first couple of days. He’s starting to again show the form that made him a top-10 player in the world ranking just a few years ago.
Top-40
One player to finish top-40.
Russell Knox (+180)
Not only do I like some of Knox’s metrics to fit this event, but both his recent results and his tournament history suggest this is a solid ticket this week. In six starts this year, Knox owns four top-40 finishes; in seven previous starts at this event, he’s finished top-40 four times.
I won’t go all-in, but on a week when the wind is forecasted to blow, I like the Scotsman to play well.
DFS Free Bingo Square
A safe plug-and-play option for DFS.
Justin Thomas (DK $10,400)
Obviously, I like Morikawa (listed above) as a top-of-the-lineup anchor and I won’t talk you out of Jon Rahm and/or Patrick Cantlay if those are guys you really like. (Cantlay, especially, at $1,200 cheaper than Rahm on DK, seems like a strong value.)
But I also won’t get too cute here.
There are sooooo many very playable options in the low-7,000/high-6,000 range that you should be able to sneak at least one stud (if not two) into your lineups this week. Give me a healthy dose of the defending champion, who’s looked like he’s been knocking on the door ever since that win, which still stands as his most recent.
DFS ‘Dog
A lower-priced option for DFS.
Francesco Molinari (DK $6,800)
Wait … I can only pick one here?
Quite honestly, a sub-7000 range that include the likes of Patton Kizzire, Emiliano Grillo, C.T. Pan, Mito Pereira, Sebastian Munoz and Aaron Wise is just begging us to pay up for some of those superstars and fill in the bottom of these lineups with cheap guys who are hardly longshot plays.
My favorite here, though, is Molinari, whose five MCs in 10 starts at this one have been offset with four top-10s. I don’t know if that completely renders him a high-ceiling/low-floor play, but he owns tremendous value at this price as a guy who’s proven he can contend here.
First-Round Leader
One player to post the low score Thursday.
Abraham Ancer
This feels like a nice spot to load up on the undervalued Ancer — both for FRL and other full-event plays — as his previous finishes of T12 and T22 here include five of eight rounds under par.
I like him to go low on Thursday again, as his past four opening rounds have been 66-67-68-69. While those might not be trending in the order we’d like this week, he’s certainly capable of posting a mistake-free round in the mid-60s, which is usually enough to cash these tickets.
Matchup Man
One player who should beat comparable players.
Corey Conners (+5000)
We’ve long known Conners as one of the game’s premier ball-strikers who struggles with other parts of his game, but he’s shown a better wedge and putter performance this season than previous ones.
Coming off a T11 at Bay Hill, Conners is the type of guy I like to target in similar conditions to last week — which is to say, the tougher it gets, the more I like him. I’m willing to take him against some players with similar odds and hope for the wind to blow.
Also Receiving Votes
Other players who should provide value.
Cameron Smith (+2500), Brooks Koepka (+3500), Brian Harman (+13000), Patton Kizzire (+13000), Aaron Wise (+13000), Adam Hadwin (+15000), C.T. Pan (+15000), Branden Grace (+15000), Emiliano Grillo (+15000)
The Big Fade
One top player to avoid at this tournament.
Dustin Johnson (+2200)
It would’ve been easy enough to list, say, past champion Webb Simpson here, coming off an injury absence. Instead, I’ll offer up a little more with which to work.
Even in the best of times, DJ was never one who played his best golf at TPC Sawgrass, a T5 two years ago ranking as his lone top-10 in a dozen starts. While he has trended better here later in his career, Johnson fits the profile of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson — great players who never really took a liking to this course (despite their respective wins here).
With talk of the Saudi League potentially still swirling for Johnson as he plays the PGA TOUR’s flagship event, despite his recent denials, I’ll sell more of him than I’ll buy this week.
2021 British Open leaderboard, winner: Collin Morikawa joins legends as eighth to win two majors before age 25
Collin Morikawa, 24, captured his second major championship on Sunday at the 149th Open, becoming the first men’s golfer in history to win his debut at two separate major events. He also became just the eighth golfer ever to win two majors before the age of 25. The phenom finished 15 under for the tournament, besting second-place finisher Jordan Spieth (-13) and third-place finishers Jon Rahm and Louis Oosthuizen (-11).
Morikawa ended up atop of a star-studded leaderboard in come-from-behind fashion as he parlayed a one-stroke deficit at the 54-hole turn into a two-stroke win, touching off his week with a bogey-free 4-under 66 in Round 4. Spieth and Rahm matched him with 66s in a wild final round that left us with a tremendous finish.
“This is by far one of the best moments of my life,” said Morikawa after the round. “… It gives me chills.”
Paired with 2010 Open Championship winner and 54-hole leader Louis Oosthuizen, who won the same championship 11 years ago to the day Sunday, Morikawa and Oosty exchanged pars in the first three holes of the final round from Royal St. George’s. But as Oosthuizen — who led after every round this week — faded with bogeys at Nos. 4 and No. 7, Morikawa surged and took the lead by sinking birdies on Nos. 7, 8 and 9. He went out in 32 and came in at 34, finishing his week with 31 consecutive bogey-free holes to earn the Claret Jug.
“It was 100%,” he said of his focus on his final 18 holes. “Execution was a little iffy, but I knew there was going to be troubles. … Yeah, my putting stats may not be up there, but they came in when I needed them, and I’m so happy.”
Spieth, a three-time major champion and the 2017 Open Champion, made his own run on Sunday to push Morikawa down the stretch in Round 4. After overcoming bogeys on Nos. 4 and 6, Spieth eagled the seventh and birdied Nos. 9, 10, 13 and 14 to get within one of Morikawa’s lead on the back. Yet Morikawa, playing one hole behind him, had an answer at every turn with a clutch birdie on the par-4 14th and a pair of par saves on 15 and 16 as he brought it home in steady fashion.
Morikawa, who won the 2020 PGA Championship, joins Tiger Woods as the second golfer to win The Open and the PGA Championship before age 25. And only three golfers in the history of the sport — Gene Sarazen, Bobby Jones and now Morikawa — have won multiple majors in eight or fewer starts at such events.
“I had to tell myself midway through the round, when I started making birdies, ‘Just to focus on each shot,'” said Morikawa about his Tiger-like poise. “… Just make sure I’m committed over every shot. That was the goal of every day so far, and I had to stick to it. I put myself in a good position with nine holes left, but there were still nine holes, and I still had to hit shot after shot to try and pull it off.”
Oosthuizen, after leading all week, wound up with his third consecutive top-three finish at a major after second-place efforts at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open. Rahm, who won the U.S. Open last month at Torrey Pines, birdied four of his last six holes but was unable to battle back from a rough start at Royal St. George’s, while Spieth registered his second top-three finish in a major this year.
The Open Championship was the only of golf’s four majors to have been canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic and is the last major on the PGA Tour schedule until next April, making the title of Champion Golfer of the Year for Morikawa all the more sweet. He takes the mantle carried by reigning champion and 2019 winner, Shane Lowry, who finished at 6 under on the week and T12, tying for his second-best finish at the event.
While there’s a nine-month break between majors for Morikawa, he is one of a few Americans who will be playing later this month at another important tournament: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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