2013 Players Championship Preview: All the Best to Play TPC Sawgrass

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Published: May 2, 2013

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I don't know about you, but I am getting excited about the Players Championship!

Maybe the reason is defending champion Matt Kuchar. It has been nice seeing the American flag waving proudly above Champions Circle for the last year. After all, it had been five years since the last American win by Phil Mickelson in 2007.

Since Mickelson's win, there was the excitement of Sergio Garcia's playoff win, Henrik Stenson's Sunday 66 to win, little Timmy Clark winning the biggest event so far in his career and another playoff win, this one by K.J. Choi and his steely putting stroke.

What drama there will be on the Pete Dye-designed Stadium Course, with the world's best professional golfers playing in what amounts to their club championship, golf's unofficial Fifth Major.

After the thrilling victory of 2004 Players Champion Adam Scott at Augusta National in the Masters, somehow 2013 seems to be developing as a milestone year in the history of golf. Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters.

He also finished T15 last year in the Players and may be destined to join World Golf Hall of Famer Jack Nicklaus (who has won three), 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee Fred Couples, Steve Elkington, Hal Sutton and 2012 United States Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love III as a multiple Players winner. Love was the last to repeat as a winner in 2003. Perhaps, instead of Scott, it will be Mickelson or Tiger Woods to notch their second Players victory.

Since Woods' victory in 2001, his best finish has been eighth in 2009. Disappointingly for the fans, the now 36-year-old World No. 1 has withdrawn twice and finished T40 in the last three years. Tiger credits another W/D at the WGC at Doral last year as the turning point where he stopped playing hurt and focused on getting healthy. He went on to win three times last season.



 

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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