An Island View

An Island View

Here are Wes Reynolds' selections for The Players Championship, courtesy of VSIN:

Collin Morikawa (+2050) Morikawa has kept up a good run since winning at Pebble Beach last month by following up with a T-7 at the Genesis and a fifth last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. TPC Sawgrass has always seemed to be an ideal course for Morikawa’s ball striking, yet he has just one top-10 in five appearances, which came last year. It was here last year that Morikawa got into a bit of a kerfuffle with the media after skipping post-round availability the week prior when he blew a three-shot lead at the 2025 API. He is third in this week’s field for both Strokes Gained: Approach and Good Drives Gained.

Ludvig Åberg (28-1) After struggling to start 2026, Åberg did show some signs a couple of weeks ago at the Genesis, indicating a turnaround, and it showed last week at Bay Hill, where he finished third and ranked second for Strokes Gained: Tee-To-Green. The ball striking was on full display as he ranked first for Driving Distance, second for Driving Accuracy, first for Total Driving, fifth for Greens in Regulation and second for Ball Striking. A Ponte Vedra Beach resident, Aberg uses TPC Sawgrass as his practice facility and plays both the Dye Valley and Stadium Course regularly.

Cameron Young (35-1) Young has finished third and seventh in his last two starts. He led the field for Strokes Gained: Off-The-Tee and was third for Strokes Gained: Ball Striking last week at Bay Hill. He has never finished better than 51st in four appearances here. However, he has finished inside the top 10 in eight of his last 15 overall starts and finally earned his first PGA Tour victory last fall at a comparable course (Sedgefield — Wyndham Championship).

Viktor Hovland (40-1) Hovland was T-3 here in 2023 and ninth the year prior. On the other hand, he also shot 80 here in the first round to sit dead last but rebounded to win the Valspar the following week. After a couple of down performances in California, he finished T-13 last week at Bay Hill.

Matt Fitzpatrick (41-1) Course form is fickle here at The Players for most, and Fitzpatrick certainly falls into that, having missed the cut here in three of the last five years. However, the other finishes were fifth and ninth. Approach is the name of the game at TPC Sawgrass, and he was eighth at TPC Scottsdale, third at Pebble Beach and 10th at Riviera in the category. Putting has been terrible for him to start 2026, but a return to Florida proved to be a good thing last week as he was 14th for Strokes Gained: Putting and can keep it going here.

Min Woo Lee (41-1) Lee was sixth on debut here in 2023. He also finished T-6 last week at Bay Hill, where he was top-5 with the irons. Lee was 12th at the Genesis and finished T-2 with Sepp Straka behind Morikawa at Pebble Beach last month. The Australian is an elite driver and should be a contender here if his iron play matches the off-the-tee.

The Players Championship Preview

RBROWNBETS: Hopefully you took our advice and risked a few dollars on McNeese State to win the Southland tournament. It took three overtimes, but McNeese advanced by beating UTRGV 84-80 Tuesday night in the Southland semifinals. We were hoping Texas A&M Commerce would win the other semifinal against Stephen F. Austin to create a lucrative middle opportunity for tonight's championship game, but you can either ride with McNeese or guarantee yourself a small profit by matching your McNeese bet by taking Stephen. F. Austin on the moneyline. ... Not forcing any plays today,

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