Fantasy Golf Tournament Preview – The Players Championship

OVERVIEW

Mastercard commercials, the 5^th Major, Island green, Pete Dye, finishing hole – those are the things we can expect to see hear about this week when viewing THE PLAYERS. Why does the PGA Tour capitalize all of the letters in this tournament? Is that there way of trying to make this tournament more important than it is? Anyways, we know a lot about the course this week, aside from how it will play for the three holes that were changed following last year’s tournament. They’ve gone from MiniVerde greens to the more popular and stress tolerant TifEagle. The most notable change however is the 12^th hole, which is now a driveable Par 4 (which is great, the PGA Tour needs more of these) playing at 302 yards versus the original 360, but there’s still risk involved in going at this green as water runs along the left side of a lengthy bunker on the approach AND left of the green which also features three pot bunkers just to the right.

TOURNAMENT BACKGROUND 

• The Course
• TPC Sawgrass
• Par 72
• 7,215 yards
• Bermuda greens
• Location: Ponte Vedra, FL
• Past Champions:
• 2016: Jaon Day -15 over Kevin Chappell [-11]
• 2015: Rickie Fowler -12 in a playoff over Sergio Garcia & Kevin Kisner
• 2014: Martin Kaymer -13 over Jim Furyk [-12]
• 2013: Tiger Woods -13 over David Lingmerth, Jeff Maggert & Kevin Streelman [-11]
• 2012: Matt Kuchar -13 over Ben Curtis, Rickie Fowler, Zach Johnson, & Martin Laird [-11]

KEY STATS TO TARGET 

• Strong Emphasis – SG:OTT + SG: APP, SG:Putting, Birdie or Better %, Scrambling
• Important – Par 5 Scoring, Par 3 Scoring, Pete Dye experience

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