2023 ZOZO Championship Fantasy Sleeper Report

Tom Kim isn’t your ordinary 21-year-old golfer.

In an era of the sport that has become obsessed with distance and club head speed, Kim is refreshingly old school; he hits stacks of fairways and greens in regulation, and then hopes that he’s having a good week with the putter.

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If he is, great things tend to happen – such as becoming the youngest three-time winner on the PGA TOUR since Tiger Woods.

Two of those titles have come at the Shriners Children’s Open, with TPC Summerlin an ideal host for his ball-on-a-string stylings.

Kim forced his way into contention at the 54-hole stage with a Saturday 62, and while plenty were willing to give him a run for his money on Sunday, few can match the Korean for his perceived grace under pressure.

Three birdies early on in the back nine and that was all she wrote: Adam Hadwin the only player to get within one shot of Kim, but unable to halt his opponent’s irresistible march to the trophy.

Onwards the PGA TOUR marches too through its Fall Series, with the action now re-routing to Bermuda, Mexico and first Japan, where this week’s Zozo Championship will unfold.

Those players embroiled in the Fall shenanigans will tee it up at Narashino Country Club, as will defending champion Keegan Bradley and those with emotional ties to Japan: Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and – naturally – Hideki Matsuyama amongst them.

The identities of the three winners of this event at Narashino – Bradley, Matsuyama and Tiger – are confirmation of what is required to triumph at this venue: you need to be good. Damn good.

That will reveal itself off the tee, where tight fairways and sharp doglegs await, on approach – the Bentgrass greens are small in size and well protected, and on the putting surfaces themselves, which will run as pure as you’d expect at any blue riband course in North America.

Open the search to include runners-up, such as Fowler, Brendan Steele and Andrew Putnam, and the objective is clear: only backing those players able to keep their ball under the tightest of control is the modus operandi for bettors this week.

But who will do just that….and at juicy odds into the bargain? Here’s five potential candidates courtesy of our ZOZO Championship 2023 sleeper shortlist.

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