Hass and Garcia Have Experience to Win Players; Kirk and Kisner Are Contenders

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Published: May 10, 2015

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While there are names such as Chris Kirk and Kevin Kisner on leaderboard at the 2015 Players Championship, it is much more likely that the winner will come from a group of experienced golfers a few shots back, such as Bill Haas or past champ Sergio Garcia.    

The reason is that anybody can have a great third round, but it takes a little more than that to get into the winners circle on Sunday. And as Johnny Miller said during Saturday’s telecast, the course is “just filled with pressure shots, one after the other.”

There’s no let-up from the first tee to the final putt.

“I remember thinking it’s just a difficult hole, like every hole you can make bogey, and we don’t play that many courses where it feels like even the easy ones out here, if you don’t execute, they aren’t easy,” Haas said about his first impressions of the course.

Haas and Garcia can handle pressure because they have handled it in the past. Garcia has won The Players before, and Haas won the $10 million FedEx Cup in a playoff. That’s intense golf.  

Haas said his experience winning The Tour Championship and FedEx Cup has been important.

“It’s definitely something you can rely on,” he said. “I’ve been over putts before, and I’ve told myself, you’ve done this.”

Past champ Sergio Garcia will rely mainly on his good ballstriking.

“I’m very confident with my game, with my long game. Even my chipping has been quite good,” he said. “Unfortunately my putting has been up-and-down.”

How up and down? Yesterday he broke his putter in two and tossed it into a trash can before leaving the golf course.  

David Facey, chief golf correspondent for the Sun in the UK, saw what happened. He said that immediately after Garcia th...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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