Updated 2022 PLAYERS Championship Odds & Picks for Collin Morikawa, Daniel

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…