Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2022 Waste Management Phoenix Open

2022 WM Phoenix Open Fantasy Sleeper Report

There are those people in life who suffer scar tissue, be it physical or psychological, and they hide themselves away.

And yet, there are those who bear their scars with pride and, where relevant, use them as fuel.

Tom Hoge falls into the latter camp, it turns out, after turning his disappointment at failing to convert his place in the final group at the American Express into victory into something positive just up the coast at Pebble Beach.

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The 32-year-old has had to wait more than a decade for his maiden PGA TOUR title, but it must have felt so sweet to avenge the frustration of PGA West with a stellar final round at Pebble Beach.

The fact that he did it despite making a double-bogey at the fifth, before somersaulting a leaderboard that contained Cantlay and Spieth at the top deep into the business end, will have pleased Hoge and his backers no end – four birdies on the back nine showing that he might just have learned lessons from his AM-EX ordeal in how to deal with the pressure of contending.

The West Coast swing heads inland to Arizona this week for the Phoenix Open, before heading back towards the coast for the conclusion of this mini-juncture of the TOUR at the Genesis Invitational next week.

A high-quality field is forming for the trip to TPC Scottsdale, a track that is a favorite with the players and spectators alike – although not always with bettors, as their hopes of a winning ticket fade at the red-hot sixteenth with its stadium atmosphere, the risk-and-reward drivable Par 4 seventeenth or the knee-shaking drive over water at the eighteenth. 

Jon Rahm will be fancied by many to tame the beast – he’s the sportsbook favorite, while the likes of Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth and two-time Scottsdale winners Hideki Matsuyama and Brooks Koepka will also enter calculations.

The desert-feel to Scottsdale will be complimented by a driving wind this week, and with more than 60 bunkers and some sizable water features there are hazards to be found on the real estate.

But the winning score here is routinely late teens under par, and as long as you stay out of trouble off the tee – and hit some laser-like irons into smooth Bermuda greens (that have been overseeded with Poa) there are ample birdie opportunities to be found on this 7,266 yard Par 71 layout.

But who will amass a winning score? That’s the question for our Waste Management Phoenix Open 2022 sleeper report….

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