2022 Players Championship predictions, picks, favorites: One of these nine will win at TPC Sawgrass

The 2022 Players Championship marks the best field of the year, by far. And thus, it is an exceptionally tough tournament to handicap. It’s made even more difficult when you consider how much variance (which plays out as randomness) TPC Sawgrass has to it as a course.

So, while prognostication might not be as straightforward as a Masters or U.S. Open, we can still draw on a deep course history for many players as well as some recent form from everyone. What both of those numbers tell us about the golfers in this field can be used as a guide for predicting which pool of golfers will win this week’s Players.

There are plenty of contenders in field this week, a mix of both young and old. Here’s the usual list of suspects with maybe a few surprises tossed in as we try and figure out who’s going to win the first big-time event of 2022.

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