The 2022 Masters is upon us and searching on the present world golf rankings this 12 months’s match appears extensive open.
The conveyor belt of younger golfers produced by the PGA Tour continues to roll on and has left the likes of Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy clinging onto their locations contained in the world’s prime 10.
That there are solely 90 or so gamers within the subject means these competing have a a lot higher probability of success at Augusta in comparison with the opposite three majors, particularly when you exclude these former champions who take part for nostalgia.
All eyes are on Tiger Woods as he makes his return simply 14 months after he escaped from a life-threatening automobile accident, however it might be an excessive amount of to anticipate the best ever to finish a fairytale comeback.
Right here Metro.co.uk appears at 5 gamers who're shaping up for a tilt on the inexperienced jacket…
This younger American has risen to the highest in dramatic vogue. It was solely a little bit beneath two months in the past when Scheffler was nonetheless winless on the PGA Tour however he has stormed American golf to grow to be a a number of champion within the area of some weeks.
His WGC Match Play victory at Austin Nation Membership final month, which adopted success on the Arnold Palmer Invitational, was his third PGA Tour triumph in simply 42 days and has elevated the 25-year-old to World No.1.
Mature past his years and with fantastic chipping expertise, it’s arduous to imagine Scheffler might be in any higher kind heading to Augusta.
This laid-back Aussie has been threatening to win at Augusta for a while showcased by the three top-10 finishes he has notched up in his final 4 Masters appearances.
The 28-year-old arrives at Augusta enjoying a number of the greatest golf of his profession and can be buoyed by his two wins – on the Sentry Event of Champions and the PGA Tour’s flagship occasion, the Gamers Championship – eariler this 12 months.
One among six Australians within the subject, Smith has a number of the greatest brief sport statistics on the planet which leaves him in good stead to sort out Augusta’s sloped greens.
The previous champion has a formidable report at Augusta which makes him probably the greatest Masters performers of latest occasions.
Apart from the 12 months he received in 2015, Spieth – a three-time main winner – has completed in second and third place twice which incorporates final 12 months’s version when he missed out behind winner Hideki Matsuyama and runner-up Will Zalatoris.
Regardless of struggling to match his previous success in recent times – amid a number of swing modifications – if the 28-year-old can rediscover his robust placing expertise he can be harmful at Augusta.
Maybe Europe’s most in-form participant, Hovland has been a revelation since breaking onto the tour in 2019.
The Norwegian has received a number of occasions in each Europe and America all on the tender age of 24. His victory on the Dubai Desert Traditional initially of this 12 months was his second triumph in simply the final six months.
Regardless of Hovland’s success on the DP World and PGA Excursions, the jury remains to be out on him within the majors as he's but to safe a top-10 end. Nonetheless, he's due a powerful displaying in considered one of golf’s huge occasions.
Finau has lengthy flirted with the thought of successful a serious greatest displayed by the very fact he has top-five finishes in all 4 of golf’s premier occasions.
On the Masters, the American’s latest kind is especially good – with three top-10 finishes in his final 4 appearances – and he'll play the season’s first main having received the Northern Belief final August, which took a monkey off his again having developed a status as a choker.
Very a lot an outdoor guess on account of his struggles to get victories over the road, his robust performances on troublesome programs imply he's all the time one to observe.
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