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2022 Players Championship: Top 10 power rankings at TPC Sawgrass

By Mike Randleman

May 10, 2018; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA; A view of The Players championship trophy in front of the club house during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass - Stadium Course. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
May 10, 2018; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA; A view of The Players championship trophy in front of the club house during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass - Stadium Course. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports /
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March 12, 2020; Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA; Jon Rahm hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during the first round of the 2020 edition of The Players Championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass – Stadium Course. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports /

Golf fans were waiting for Jon Rahm to make a charge up the leaderboard last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Despite the infamous 10-inch missed putt on Friday, he still made the cut comfortably and was in position to make a move up a crowded leaderboard.

No one was running away and hiding on a difficult setup at Bay Hill, but Rahm couldn’t quite get it going.

The Spaniard settled for T-17th with rounds of 72-70-74-74.

Disappointing by the world No. 1’s standards, but it’s hard to criticize his sixth-straight top-25.

Rahm will look to continue his improvement at the Players Championship. The Arizona State alum has made all four cuts at TPC Sawgrass, starting out with T-72nd in 2017, T-63rd in 2018, T-12th in 2019, and T-9th in 2021.

He fired 72-68-67-73 last year. Stats were solid across the board, which included ranking 11th in strokes gained approach (4.656).

Rahm was the 54-hole leader in 2019 thanks to rounds of 69-68-64, the last of which was one away from tying the Stadium Course record.

A 76 plummeted him down the leaderboard.

“I think the fairways hold up a little bit more. The greens are not as bouncy even though they’re getting firm,” Rahm said in 2019 in a transcript from ASAP Sports of the tournament’s move from May to March. “It’s just a little bit easier for me to read the grain on the chips and understand what it’s going to do, so I’m just a little bit more comfortable. The course playing a little longer, it just plays to my strengths, especially if I’m hitting as good as I am with the irons.”

This season on the PGA Tour, Rahmbo ranks first in SG tee to green (1.977) thanks to coming in first in SG off the tee (1.21) and second in SG approach (1.058).

The reason he hasn’t won since the U.S. Open is the flat stick. He’s outside the top 100 in SG, but that’s the easiest aspect for the game to turn around and/or get hot with for a week.

The putts are going to start falling sooner rather than later.

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