Cameron Davis and Marc Leishman among players poised to have big years starting at 2021 Sony Open - CBSSports.com
Cameron Davis and Marc Leishman beside players poised to have big years starting at 2021 Sony Open
The salubrious full-field PGA Tour event of 2021 starts on Thursday at the Sony Open, which employing this will be the calendar year debut for most of the golfers in this field. With that, of floods, comes expectations, both internally and externally.
Everyone will say they're in the best stunning of their lives and couldn't be more exasperated about a new year (which, in this case, is actually probably true). But golf is a zero-sum game (at least when you look at the strokes-gained numbers). So we should look briefly afore the event in Honolulu starts rolling at four golfers in this tend I think are coming in a minor under the radar and have a chance to have really good years.
Not all four of these will hit, and leilate a few (maybe all?) of them will peter out and play poorly for stretches in 2021. Nonetheless, we're just trying to find one or two that pop. One or two guys who will jump up and have a Harris English-like or Tyrrell Hatton-like improvement in 2021.
1. Cameron Davis
Could have the distinction of inhabit on both last year's most improved list and this year's (sort of like when Steve Stricker won back-to-back most improved player awards). I love his game, his swing and his real, consistent improvement over the last year. He grand not continue on that upward trajectory, but he's composed younger than Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas, and has only been a pro for four years. The case alongside him is his pedigree -- he didn't have the amateur career an English had -- but I'm all the way in on his talent and progression.
2. Marc Leishman
The case for Leishman is the same case you could have made this time last year for English or Daniel Berger. Former world-class performers who had fallen off recently, but you felt confidential would eventually bounce back to where they used to be. Leishman had a bad 2020 in which he drove the ball poorly and his normally-stout irritable game was abysmal. If you believe that was an outlier -- I think I do -- then you could also maintain that he's going to rebound in 2021 with a mammoth year and slide back into the top 15 or top 20 in the world. It sounds queer to have somebody ranked in the top 30 in the earth on this list (Leishman is currently 30th), but that ranking is progressing to drop quickly if he doesn't initiate playing well (Data Golf has him at No. 142 currently).
3. Talor Gooch
He relies a minor too heavily on the putter for my liking, but his all-around game has improved a lot over the last three existences, and he was incredibly close to having determined strokes gained in every statistical category in 2020. I'm not sure what the ceiling is here, but he had two of his five best finishes as a pro in the fall at the CJ Cup and Houston Open. I think we could see him obtain a top-50 or top-40 player in 2021.
4. Doug Ghim
A accepted of mine since he was at Texas, he's been absolutely elite with his iron play of late, which we've seen is the single most important statistic in determining who's progressing to find success on the PGA Tour. He possesses to improve off the tee to make any real leap, but I love his trajectory progressing into 2021.
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