Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2021 Masters

The 2021 Masters Fantasy Sleeper Report

If the old saying is right that ‘in life, timing is everything’, then Jordan Spieth must be feeling pretty sweet about life right now.

It has seemed increasingly likely that he would add a twelfth PGA TOUR title to his collection with each passing week, but for that win to come on home soil in Texas – just a week shy of The Masters – suggests that golf’s stars do occasionally align.

Spieth’s triumph in the Texas Open was fitting, really, and not a huge surprise given that TPC San Antonio is a golf course almost perfectly attuned to his game. So too, it’s worth pointing out, is Augusta National, where we find ourselves this week for the first major of 2021.

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If you’re thinking that it’s barely been a matter of weeks since we were last in Georgia then you’d be right, sort of. The decimation of the schedule in 2020 saw The Masters moved to November, where Dustin Johnson took advantage of some agreeable conditions to post the lowest score in the tournament’s history.

A soft Augusta was always likely to yield to the best in the world, and Johnson’s -20 has never been bettered in this event – incredibly, Cameron Smith became the first player in history to record four rounds in the 60s at the Masters, and he still finished two strokes behind!

The good news is that it seems highly unlikely that Augusta will relent so easily this week, with red hot temperatures leading into the tournament enabling course officials to get the track running as fast as ever. Even the threat of some rain during the course of the week is abated by that infamous sub-air drainage system.

For those not in the know, Augusta features sweeping tree lined, doglegging fairways that are protected not so much by rough but by pine straw, which isn’t too bad to play from when dry.

However, the Bentgrass greens run at around 13.5 on the stimp – that’s as fast as you are likely to see anywhere, and these are protected by shaved run-off areas that can leave devilish up-and-downs for those unfortunate not to hold the surface.

With some almighty hills and elevation changes, The Masters is a physical battle as much as a mental one, and whoever is presented the green jacked by DJ come Sunday evening will have certainly earned it.

A relatively fair weather forecast sets the scene for a fantastic week at Augusta National, and while one of the favorites with the bookmakers is likely to prevail, that’s not to say we can’t have a few darts at the outsiders – remember Danny Willett winning here at 150/1 in 2016?

On which note, here’s our sleeper shortlist for The Masters 2021.

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The 2021 Masters Fantasy Sleeper Report

Sergio Garcia – 50/1 – While the pessimists would try to make you believe otherwise, there is definitely a course form angle to be exploited at Augusta, and so former winners and nearly men are firmly on the radar.

Of those, the 2017 victor Sergio Garcia has been in excellent form lately, and if his improved putting holds he could contend once more at the track which he has named his daughter after.

Since winning the Sanderson Farms Championship way back at the start of the season, Garcia has posted excellent finished all over the globe, and his top-10 at THE PLAYERS Championship was followed by a deep run into the WGC-Dell Match Play.

The Spaniard heads to Augusta in the best form he has been in for quite some time, so there’s every reason to feel positive about his chances.

Joaquin Niemann – 66/1 – A consistently strong performer on Bentgrass greens, Joaquin Niemann has the kind of look and feel of a future major winner.

Whether the Chilean gets it done this week remains to be seen, but he’s actually an excellent fit for this golf course with his outstanding approach play and reliable recovery game.

While not absolutely on fire, Niemann has finished inside the top-30 of each of his last three strokeplay events, and that is slightly under the radar form that could be rewarded with a strong showing in Georgia.

Corey Conners – 80/1 – There are plenty who believe that Corey Conners has the game to go to the very top of the sport, and that Augusta might become a happy hunting ground for him.

Curiously, the Canadian is better at putting from long range than close up, but even so his tee-to-green game is outstanding and will surely reward him many-fold in the years to come.

T10 here in November, Conners is a fantastic shot-shaper who won’t be concerned by the faster conditions this week.

Abraham Ancer – 80/1 – If we’re talking about perennially good performers on Bentgrass greens, then Abraham Ancer has to come into the conversation as well.

That’s not just on the back of his T13 here in November either, because the Mexican performs well on the surface wherever the PGA TOUR takes the players.

Top 25 in each of his last three strokeplay outings, Ancer is another whose best form is not a million miles away.

Jason Kokrak – 100/1 – When you look at all of the evidence, Augusta National is the perfect set-up for Jason Kokrak.

He loves fast Bentgrass greens – always a happy starting point when handicapping The Masters – and he is an excellent shot-shaper off the tee as well.

An excellent grinder of a score, Kokrak finished in the top-10 in consecutive weeks at Bay Hill and TPCS Sawgrass, and that really is a mark of his quality – perhaps he can make that really count in his second trip to Augusta.

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Sleeper Report Predictions This Season (2020-2021)

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