Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2022 Masters Tournament

2022 Masters Tournament Fantasy Sleeper Report

All of the talk will finally come to an end on Thursday as The Masters gets underway.

Will Tiger tee it up? Will Rory complete the major grand slam? Just how heavy will the rain fall? These are just three of the narratives that will be discussed at great length in the build-up to the first tee.

Of course, this 92-man field (assuming Tiger starts) features dozens of players with realistic hopes of slipping into the green jacket, and they will be hoping that defending champion Hideki Matsuyama is slipping the 2022 garment onto their shoulders come Sunday evening.

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Whoever wins The Masters will have to achieve it the hard way you fancy. Just fire up the weather forecast for Augusta and you will see what we mean – cool temperatures, strong winds and lots of rain are expected in the area.

It will be interesting to see how that all affects the action, but remember the rescheduled November edition of The Masters in 2020 – in cooler, softer conditions, Dustin Johnson took the course apart on his way to -20. Could we see a repeat this week? Probably not, but Augusta will certainly be more amenable if it rains hard and there’s no sunshine to dry out these ordinarily rapid Bentgrass greens.

It’s worth noting that yards have been added to both the eleventh and fifteenth holes, and so now the yardage for his Par 72 track has gone through the 7,500 yard barrier – and, less we forget, the way the fairways grow laterally and back to the tee box in some cases mean that the venue plays even longer than that (and heavy rain would make it longer still!).

The fairways at Augusta are also generously proportioned, and with pine straw instead of thick grass gobbling up errant drives, there is less of a handicap for spraying it off the tee….as long as you have a sight-line into the green.

And that brings us back to the weather – even with the SubAir system, can the greens run at 13 on the stimp if its wet and cold? If they can’t, holding the greens on approach will be easier, and as such we expect scoring to be lower.

That mindset changes the sort of players that we might ordinarily bet on in The Masters, and it certainly creates a more wide-open feel to the event. Could we see a 50/1 or longer winner? The conditions certainly make that possible, so let’s dig into our Masters 2022 sleeper shortlist to see who could achieve the feat.

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