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Happy 2022, gang, and greetings once again. It’s a little weird to welcome you back during the week of the 10th tournament of the season, but you get it and it doesn’t diminish the sincerity of the sentiment. RELATED: Power Rankings | PGATOUR.COM Expert Picks This is my 13th year in this chair that continues to exist because of your support for all things fantasy and gaming. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The Sentry Tournament of Champions hosts 39 golfers this season, 15 of which appeared in Monday’s Power Rankings. The other 24 are slotted below, also in a customary ranking for this tournament. The hiatus for Sleepers ends with next week’s Sony Open in Hawaii. The Sentry TOC is the first of 10 stops in Segment 2 of PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, but it’s the only without a cut. In fact, it’s the last no-cut contest contributing until the BMW Championship and TOUR Championship conclude the season. Although THE PLAYERS Championship wraps Segment 2, strategically it will be smart to save next-tier talents who make most cuts just to get through that week. The narrative over time continues to support the fact that TPC Sawgrass “wins” the tournament, so THE PLAYERS and The Open Championship (in Segment 4) remain the top-two crapshoots. Save starts for and play haymakers as you’d like, but those are the most indiscriminate events all season, so the short-range plan for both weeks is simply to survive and advance. The only worthy exception is if you’re in the hunt for Segment 2 prizes and you want to lunge at THE PLAYERS. However, if you’re targeting only long-term goals, then you can absorb pushes in both weeks. PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf My roster for the Sentry Tournament of Champions (in alphabetical order): Viktor Hovland Collin Morikawa Jon Rahm Xander Schauffele Jordan Spieth Justin Thomas You’ll find my starters in Expert Picks. Odds sourced on Tuesday, January 4 at 5 a.m. ET. For live odds visit betmgm. REST OF THE FIELD 16. Marc Leishman (-200 for a Top 20) … No one is watching the wind forecast more than his investors, but trade winds (from the northeast) are expected to remain relatively calm. (Continue to monitor this for obvious reasons.) Of course, this doesn’t mean that he’s less capable of contending, but the absence of the equalizer for the rest of the field had more to do with his omission from the Power Rankings than any other variable. However, he has more than enough experience and success in all conditions at Kapalua to warrant a roster spot in every format. 17. Hideki Matsuyama (-300 for a Top 20) … Like others in this field, he prevailed in his last start. It’s just that it was the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP in October, so he’s rested for more than two months. It also occurred in his native Japan, so the victory was more special than usual. He hung up a trio of top-four finishes to open his record at Kapalua, and then settled for a T41 in last year’s edition. Let that most recent result scare your opposition and remember that anomalies require the context of time. 18. Jason Kokrak (-250 for a Top 20) … If you ever wanted evidence of how comfortable a touring professional could be in his own skin after finally breaking through on the PGA TOUR (as he did at Shadow Creek in 2020), he delivered a clear case in Houston in November. Decided to play even though he “was hitting it so bad” just before the tournament, and then won the thing on what was the toughest course of the fall. Placed T35 in his Kapalua debut a year ago, but the upshot is the experience on the track. 19. Harris English (-225 for a Top 20) … Dealt with a sore back for about a month in the fall, so it’s fair to dismiss his results immediately after the Ryder Cup. He did us a favor and kept busy at the Hero World Challenge (T14) and QBE Shootout (T3 with Matt Kuchar), so it’s time to reverse expectations and lean on him to put up a worthy fight in his title defense at Kapalua. 20. Billy Horschel (-150 for a Top 20) … Because he’s locked into another gear to sustain terrific form enough to shed the characteristic as streaky, gone are the days of when he profiled as a form guy over course history, but Kapalua still has his number. Still, maybe he’s pushing back. Until a closing 75 en route to a T24 here last year, he was poised to record a personal-best finish in what was his fifth appearance. A T6 in his debut in 2014 remains his only top 10. 21. Seamus Power … What a delight he’s been. After that flourish last summer that culminated in his breakthrough victory (Barbasol) that awarded him a spot in this week’s field, he’s opened the new season with four top 25s, including a fall-finishing T4 at Sea Island. Even though he’s a debutant, DFSers shouldn’t hesitate because he’s fired on all cylinders. 22. Si Woo Kim … First trip since finishing 10th in 2018. One top 10 among three top 20s in the fall, so he presents no worry from the perspective of form, and he hasn’t exhibited any physical issues in almost six months, so that’s additional reason to exhale. Always risky for conservative gamers, but the potential bang is worth the buck in fractional, aggressive scenarios. 23. K.H. Lee … Elevated among the first-timers because of his consistently strong(-enough) form over time. He’s settled into his new tier on TOUR as a winner, and he gets the most out of his game as he’s applied experience on courses that have become familiar. 24. Joel Dahmen … Qualified for the first time via his nervy victory at Corales. The 34-year-old has paid early dividends this season by going 5-for-5 with a T5 in Houston. Sharks are unlikely to deviate this much, so run him out there in DFS. 25. Tony Finau … Benefited by the special circumstances to exempt the top 30 in the 2020 FedExCup, he made his second appearance at Kapalua last year and finished T31. Now back via traditional means with his long-awaited validation victory (at Liberty National), he’s targeting his first top-40 finish of the young season. All things considered and in the context of his cachet, he presents more as a trap than trustworthy. 26. Erik van Rooyen … Experienced a “hot golfer summer” in 2021. He became a father, broke through on the PGA TOUR and advanced to the TOUR Championship, all within the span of a few weeks. He’s cooled since, but can you blame him? Celebrated the holidays at home in South Africa, so he’s living his best life right now. The balance and the clarity of the last six months could manifest into something special at Kapalua even in his debut. 27. Max Homa … Twice a winner in 2021, albeit in different seasons, the 31-year-old has entered his prime. Even when he’s not winning, he’s contending more often, but the inconsistency he overcomes drags his value in short-term considerations in our world. 28. Brooks Koepka … Sat out the 2020 edition, so this is his first trip in three years. He hasn’t contended since a T3 in his debut in 2016, and he slumped in the last few months of 2021, but only new gamers would attach expectations to any of it, especially in a non-major. 29. Kevin Na … Rested a sore rib in advance of partnering with Jason Kokrak for victory at the QBE Shootout in December, but even a healthy Na has struggled at Kapalua. He competed in the last two editions and failed to crack the top 30 in both. 30. Lucas Herbert … The Korn Ferry Tour Finals grads from Australia is the first from the reshuffle category to hoist hardware this season. The breakthrough in Bermuda reinforced his profile as a winner. Give him time to build experience on the rotation of courses, but you’ve already witnessed what the thoughtful 26-year-old can do on an island. 31. Cameron Champ … His only top 10 of 2021 is what got him here – victory at the 3M Open. As easy as he is to support as a fan, he toys with our sensibilities in fantasy due to his confounding inconsistency. Because there’s no cut at Kapalua, his firepower drops him in the flier-with-upside bucket, but this also will be his first live action since shutting down in October to allow an injured left wrist to heal. 32. Branden Grace … With a last-place finish (among 32) in his only prior appearance on this par 73 in 2017, he’s an easy pass among the qualifiers for whom there isn’t enough reason to endorse or otherwise, and that assessment in the same lane as his choppy record on par 72s. We like to hope for more than a coin flip. 33. Cam Davis … Since breaking through at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, he’s cashed seven of nine times but none went for a top 25, and three of those paydays were in events without a cut. In short, the talented 26-year-old is still finding his footing as a PGA TOUR winner, and that’s OK in the long-term. 34. Stewart Cink … Since capturing his third title at Harbour Town last April, he’s failed to record another top 20. Ended a 10-year hiatus at Kapalua with a T31 last year. 35. Phil Mickelson … The last champion at La Costa in 1998 hasn’t appeared at Kapalua in 21 years, so he’ll be reminded of the elevation changes for which his 51-year-old frame should be physically fit. As it concerns his prospects, if I had set aside a Power Rankings Wild Card for this event (instead of the traditional ranking of the remainder of the field), that’s where you’d have found him, and that’s never a surprise. If you’re in a full-season format, consider this appearance as a bonus with a guaranteed yield. 36. Kevin Kisner … Welp, so much for keeping the faith at Sea Island (see the Recap for The RSM Classic below). Instead, the short week extended three months of poor form for the 37-year-old. Finished a personal-worst T24 in his fourth appearance at Kapalua a year ago. 37. Matt Jones … After rising to victory at PGA National in March, he picked off only one top 25 (T18, ZOZO) in the remainder of the year. First start at Kapalua since a T11 in his debut seven year ago. 38. Garrick Higgo … All but disappeared after qualifying with his maiden title at the one-time Palmetto Championship at Congaree. However, this is to be expected of a 22-year-old who was thrust into potentially difficult and complicated decisions on where to fulfill commitments across multiple tours during a pandemic. In his last eight starts of 2021, he went from Italy to England to the United States to Japan to Bermuda to Mexico and to the United Arab Emirates before landing in his native South Africa. 39. Lucas Glover … No top 35s among five paydays in nine starts since taking the title at the John Deere Classic in July. First visit to Kapalua in 12 years. (A sprained right knee prevented him from giving it a go the last time he qualified in 2012.) NOTABLE WDs Rory McIlroy … Although he’s qualified 11 times, he’s appeared only once, finishing T4 in 2019. RECAPS – THE RSM CLASSIC POWER RANKINGS Power Ranking Golfer Result 1 Kevin Kisner MC 2 Scottie Scheffler T57 3 Webb Simpson T8 4 Corey Conners T22 5 Robert Streb MC 6 Russell Henley T22 7 Louis Oosthuizen WD 8 Cameron Smith T4 9 Harris English MC 10 Alex Noren MC 11 Denny McCarthy T10 12 Henrik Norlander MC 13 Seamus Power T4 14 Adam Long T16 15 Alex Smalley MC Wild Card Mackenzie Hughes 2nd SLEEPERS Golfer (GolfBet prop) Result Patton Kizzire (top 20) MC Andrew Landry (top 10) MC Troy Merritt (top 20) T22 Matthew NeSmith (top 20) T29 Scott Piercy (top 20) T70 GOLFBET Bet Result Patton Kizzire Top 40 (+210) MC RECAPS – HERO WORLD CHALLENGE POWER RANKINGS Power Ranking Golfer Result 1 Collin Morikawa T5 2 Justin Thomas T5 3 Viktor Hovland Win 4 Rory McIlroy 18th 5 Xander Schauffele T12 6 Jordan Spieth 20th 7 Sam Burns T3 8 Abraham Ancer T14 9 Matt Fitzpatrick T12 10 Tony Finau T7 11 Tyrrell Hatton T9 12 Webb Simpson 17th 13 Bryson DeChambeau T14 14 Scottie Scheffler 2nd 15 Daniel Berger T7 16 Justin Rose T9 17 Brooks Koepka T9 18 Patrick Reed T3 19 Henrik Stenson 19th 20 Harris English T14 GOLFBET Bet Result Viktor Hovland over Henrik Stenson (-220) Win > 19th RECAP – QBE SHOOTOUT POWER RANKINGS Power Ranking Team Result 1 Harris English & Matt Kuchar T3 2 Sam Burns & Billy Horschel 2nd 3 Jason Kokrak & Kevin Na Win 4 Corey Conners & Graeme McDowell T5 5 Jason Day & Marc Leishman T3 6 Ryan Palmer & Matt Jones T11 7 Ian Poulter & Charles Howell III 8th 8 Sean O’Hair & Will Zalatoris 7th 9 Max Homa & Kevin Kisner T5 10 Brian Harman & Hudson Swafford 10th 11 Lexi Thompson & Bubba Watson 9th 12 K.H. 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Welcome back folks! Nothing like easing into the New Year with views of humpback whales, rainbows, mountains and the Plantation Course at Kapalua. As is the tradition on the PGATOUR to start the new calendar year, the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions will open the batting. Beginning a run that will take us all the way to the TOUR Championship, it’s time to knock the rust off and bunker in for the second part of the 2021-2022 season. All who are eligible minus Rory McIlroy means 39 players will tee it up this week at the Coore-Crenshaw design on Maui. The Plantation Course will host all four rounds (no cut) as it has since 1999 but this will be the third edition after the 2019 post-tournament renovation. The last two years have seen both extremes at Kapalua. The 2020 edition was hit with severe winds and rains and posted the second-highest winning total. Last year, the weather was non-existent and the scoring was the second lowest on record on Maui. The Plantation Course is defended by the wind and its routing up and down the coastal terrain. The fairways are the widest on TOUR (almost 45 yards on average) and the TifEagle Bermuda greens the biggest targets to hit (over 8,000 square feet on average). There will be wind that blows but the good news is there will be ample room to move it and recovers. Errant shots will find almost three inches of Celebration Bermuda, which will make recovery and scrambling shots challenging to get close. Playing at Par-73 at 7,596 yards, the Plantation Course has 93 bunkers and zero water penalty areas but has plenty of canyons, ravines and trouble if shots are errant. There are only three Par-3 holes but each of the last five winners have finished in the top eight in scoring on these short holes. With massive fairways and massive greens, those gaining the most shots into and on the greens will factor this week. Of the last 17 winners 14 have been in the top seven in Strokes-Gained: Approach. Remembering this is a resort course (and Par-73) scores should be in the low 20-under range as usual if the weather cooperates so it’s not a week to grind out pars. Birdies will need to be circled and circled frequently! Combining the wind and elevation changes minus the use of personal green books (new rule in 2022) suggests that the experienced, elite talent should rule the roost this week. Harris English, the 11th consecutive American to win, returns to try and join Geoff Ogilvy and Stuart Appleby as the only players to defend the title. 2020 and 2017 winner Justin Thomas is the only multiple winner in the field this year. Xander Schauffele was the last to set the course record, 62, in his final round come-from-behind victory in 2019. His gold medal in Tokyo punched his ticket into the field this week. The prize purse gets a very nice bump to $8.2 million this season with the winner taking home $1.476 million plus 500 FedExCup points to start the New Year in style. Recent Event Winners Stats Recent Winners 2021 – Harris English (-25, 267) Birdied the first playoff hole to win for the third time on TOUR in his 250th start. … Played in the final group on 21-under, setting the 54-hole low total. … Led by two after 36 holes. … T-1 after 18 holes (Thomas) after opening with 65. … Became the EIGHTH consecutive winner inside the top five after 54 holes. … Made only ONE BOGEY thru 54 holes. … Circled 26 birdies and one eagle. … Led the field in Strokes-Gained: Putting. … Won in his second attempt (T11) at age 31. … First win since Mayakoba in 2013. … Qualified for the event from the 2020 TOUR Championship (COVID-19 exception). … Entered the week on back-to-back Top 10 finishes and four from his last six starts. Notables in the field this week: 2020 and 2017 champ Justin Thomas (3rd) posted his FOURTH podium finish in just six starts. … Debutant Sungjae Im (T5) had no problem acclimating as he posted all four rounds in the 60s as he led the field in SG: Tee-to-Green. … 2019 winner Xander Schauffele (T5) collected his third straight top five here. … Bryson DeChambeau (T7) led the field in SG: Off-the-Tee and Bogey Avoidance (2 bogeys). … Collin Morikawa (T7) posted a pair of 65s and has T7 in back-to-back seasons. … Jon Rahm (T7) picked up his fourth Top 10 paycheck in four starts. … Daniel Berger (10th) was second in Ball-Striking and GIR. … 34 of 42 players were 10-under or better. … 34 bogey-free rounds. … Scoring average 69.315, easiest on TOUR last season. … Second-easiest Sentry on record (2003). 2020 – Justin Thomas (14-under, 278) Birdied third playoff hole to win for the 12th time on TOUR in his 141st start. … Began the final round in the last group one back. … Sat three back after 36 holes. … One behind after opening with 67. … Led the field in Par-3 scoring and continued the trend of the winner being in the top seven the last five years. … 24 birdies led the field. … Becomes only the fourth multiple champion (2017) since the event moved to Kapalua in 1999. … Third podium in five attempts at age 26. … Won twice and added three top 10 paydays in six events leading into the event. Notables in the field this week: 2015 champ Patrick Reed (P2) posted two of the three lowest rounds of the week (66) to make the playoff and ensure his third top two finish. … 2019 winner Xander Schauffele (P2) led after 54 and 36 holes but could not repeat. … Patrick Cantlay (4th) led the field in Proximity and was T4 GIR. … Debutant Collin Morikawa (T7) hit the second most fairways with 55 of 60 and posted all four rounds under par. … 2018 runner up Jon Rahm (10th) hit the top 10 in both Fairways and GIR. … First edition after post 2019 renovation. … Firm fairways and greens because of all new sod. … Wind blew 20-30 MPH with gusts at 40. … Lift, clean and replace the final 54 holes. … Highest winning score since 2007. … Just seven bogey free rounds. … Only six players 10-under or better. … 72.228 scoring average. 2019 – Xander Schauffele (23-under, 269) Made 11 birdies on Sunday to win by one and claim his fourth victory in 61 career starts. … Final round 62 tied the course record and was the lowest round of the week. … Sat five off the lead after 54 and 36 holes. … Was six back after 18 holes. … Largest final round comeback in history (5 shots). … Finished T5 or better in EVERY Strokes-Gained category. … Made 24 birdies, second to Thomas. … Played his final 54 holes 22-under. … Won on his second attempt after T22 in 2018 at age 24. … Won WGC-HSBC Champions in November and T8 at Hero in December leading in. Notables in the field this week: 2017 winner Justin Thomas (3rd) led the field in birdies with 25 as he was second in Fairways and fourth GIR. … Marc Leishman (T4) backed up his T7 from 2018 even with a triple and a double on the card. … Bryson DeChambeau (7th) was T3 in Distance of Putts made. … Jon Rahm (T8) followed his solo second in 2018 with another top 10. … Cameron Champ (T11) circled 22 birdies. … Final event before the massive Coore-Crenshaw renovation. … Scoring average 70.924. … 12 bogey free rounds. … 15 players 10-under or better. Key stat leaders Top golfers in each statistic on the 2020-2021 PGA TOUR are listed only if they are scheduled to compete this week. Horses for Courses: Sentry Tournament of Champions
Stewart Cink was nearing 50 and beginning to notice that his drives didn’t carry the bunkers they used to. A decline in distance is often an unavoidable consequence of aging, but Cink wasn’t ready to accept his shorter tee shots. Long hours in the gym and a plethora of protein shakes weren’t necessary for him to reverse the trend, though. He was able to gain more than 10 yards – and win for the first time in more than a decade – by making adjustments to his technique and equipment. “I didn’t think that I was really slowing down physically,” he said. “In fact, my clubhead speed wasn’t slowing down. I just had gotten a little bit inefficient with my driving.” Adjusting his setup – specifically, his ball position – allowed him to switch to a lower-lofted driver and unlock the power that he already had in his 6-foot-4, 205-pound frame. Just a few weeks after implementing these changes, Cink won the Fortinet Championship in September 2020, his first win since the 2009 Open Championship. “It gave me so much confidence … to be able to rip the cover off the ball,” he said after his win in Napa. He leapt from 113th to 27th in driving distance, averaging 306.6 yards off the tee last season. He ranked ahead of big hitters like Tony Finau and Bubba Watson, as well as young studs like Sam Burns and Scottie Scheffler. Cink is playing this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions after also winning the RBC Heritage in April, his second victory of the 2021 season. At 48, he is the second-oldest player at Kapalua. We’ll take a closer look at Cink’s swing changes in this edition of Inside My Swing, where PGA TOUR players share what they’re working on and how they keep their game performing at an elite level. FORWARD THINKING Cink failed to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs in both the 2019 and 2020 seasons. He was driving it straight and beating the local pros while at home, but his low-flying drives didn’t translate to success out on TOUR. “I could hit it nice and straight,” he said, “but I was losing yards in the air.” Cink’s coaches, James Sieckmann and Mike Lipnick, wanted him to move the ball forward in his stance so he could hit up on it and increase the carry distance of his drives. Moving the ball forward also allowed him to use a lower-lofted driver, which imparts a more direct blow and transfers more energy into the ball (for a more extreme example, imagine the difference between hitting a ball with a 3-iron and a sand wedge). Making a change, even to a player’s static address position, is often uncomfortable, however. Cink admits that he felt “like a clown,” when he first moved the ball forward in his stance. “I was almost embarrassed to hit shots in front of people,” Cink said. “But Mike showed me a picture of it and it looked like a completely normal setup. “My attack angle went from, say, -2 to about plus-2, which is a kind of a big deal in driving these days. The best drivers and the guys who hit it the farthest … are the ones that attack up.” A look at the stats confirms that. Some of the TOUR’s highest hitters are also the longest. PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson had the highest average apex on his tee shots last season (135 feet, 2 inches). Rory McIlroy ranked second, and Bryson DeChambeau was fourth in that metric. The average apex height of Cink’s tee shots increased nearly 20 feet, to 114’, 4”. That was 26th-highest on TOUR last season. It led to a 15-yard increase in his average carry distance off the tee. “I wasn’t trying to change my attack angle, but the setup change and the way I was using the bigger muscles in my body on my back swing, I kind of accessed more of the power from stronger areas of my body,” Cink said, “and those two changes just resulted in a lot more ball speed and a lot better attack angle. TAKING YOUR MEDICINE Cink describes his backswing before the changes as “shrimpy.” He was swinging his arms, but not using his core and lower body to create power. “I was just a little bit lazy with my turn,” he said. “My lower body wasn’t doing much. It was a stabilizing part of my swing instead of an active and dynamic part of my swing. So we recruited the big muscles on my right side to really load a lot of energy.” Cink’s ball position was part of the problem. With the ball back in the stance, it was harder to turn behind the ball and load into his right side. Moving the ball forward helped him do this. So did making golf swings while holding a medicine ball with both hands. We recruit our core whenever we need to move a heavier object. That’s why this drill helped Cink feel how to properly turn in his backswing. “I am concentrating on getting that weight rotated into the right side,” he said. He doesn’t want his weight to travel outside the midline of his right foot, however. That thought keeps him focused on turning, instead of sliding, in the backswing. TURN AND BURN Because he hadn’t turned properly on the backswing, Cink had to restrict his rotation on his downswing. This kept him from swinging as fast as he could. Cink’s right leg used to stay bent during the backswing, but it now straightens as he turns his lower body and his weight shifts into his right side. “Getting deeper into his right leg – so that his right leg would straighten on the backswing – allowed him to use the ground a bit better and allowed him to rotate sooner on the downswing,” said Lipnick, the Director of Instruction at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Georgia. Players can create speed by pushing off the ground in the downswing. Think of a discus thrower as he releases the disc. Before the changes, Cink had to slide to the left at the start of the downswing. This caused the club to fall below the desired plane. Now he feels like he turns almost immediately at the start of the downswing. “He has a little bump to the left, and then he rotates,” Lipnick said. The medicine ball again helps Cink feel the proper swing. He imagines heaving the ball into a wall down his target line. This teaches him how to unload the power he’s created in his backswing. “The idea of loading and unloading the power into a target is very similar to a golf swing,” Cinksaid. “(The medicine ball) is an external cue … like a swing thought, except it’s not technical.”
Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis continues to show out in his sophomore season as he puts up 37 points and 14 rebounds in a 74-69 win at No. 3 Purdue.
