The 2013 PGA Tour season continues on Thursday at the TPC at Sawgrass, and here at Bankroll Sports, we are set to make our Players Championship picks and predictions for what should be a remarkable four days of golf in Ponta Vedra, Florida! Don’t miss out on any of the golf betting action here at Bankroll Sports!

2013 Players Championship Predictions & Info
2013 TPC at Sawgrass Dates: Thursday, May 9th – Sunday, May 12th, 2013
2013 TPC at Sawgrass Location: The TPC at Sawgrass, Ponta Vedra Beach, FL
Defending TPC at Sawgrass Winner: Matt Kuchar
2013 Players Championship TV Coverage – Network: Golf Channel, NBC

If Tiger Woods (The Players Championship Odds: 6.75 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook) is in the field, he is going to be the favorite or one of the favorites to win the event. We have seen good things out of Woods thus far this year. He hasn’t played since the 2013 Masters when he finished fourth at -5 in spite of the fact that he didn’t play as well as he truly wanted to. That being said, that’s four Top 5 finishes thus far this year for Woods in just six events played, and he has won three of those four. We’re not quite at the point that Woods is considered the scariest golfer in the world once again at this point, but he certainly has the ability to win each and every time that he is on the course, something that we don’t have the confidence in saying about the mass majority of the golfers that are in this field.

Past The Players Championship Winners (Since 2000)
2012 Players Championship Winner: Matt Kuchar
2011 Players Championship Winner: KJ Choi
2010 Players Championship Winner: Tim Clark
2009 Players Championship Winner: Henrik Stenson
2008 Players Championship Winner: Sergio Garcia
2007 Players Championship: Phil Mickelson
2006 Players Championship: Stephen Ames
2005 Players Championship Winner: Fred Funk
2004 Players Championship Winner: Adam Scott
2003 Players Championship Winner: Davis Love III
2002 Players Championship Winner: Craig Perks
2001 Players Championship Winner: Tiger Woods
2000 Players Championship Winner: Hal Sutton

The man that won the Masters this year, Adam Scott (TPC at Sawgrass Odds: 18 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook) has to be in consideration as well. We knew that Scott was playing well this year before he went to Augusta, and it was great to see the Aussie come away with the emotional win after making some fantastic shots to win his first Green Jacket and the first Green Jacket for his country. Just as this is the first event since the Masters for Woods, it is the first on the PGA Tour for Scott as well. The Australian has only played in five events prior to the TPC, and he hasn’t finished worse than 30th in any of the stroke play events. Scott has three Top 10 finishes and two finishes in the Top 3, and he has had some massive rounds on Saturday and Sunday over the course of this season. The back to back -3s at the Masters was remarkable over the weekend, but perhaps even more impressive was the 64 on the final day of the Cadillac Championship that nearly brought him all the way up for the win.

There is a point that Luke Donald (The Players Championship Lines: 20 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook) will get back on his feet and contend for one of the major titles on the PGA Tour. He picked up a Top 25 finish at the Masters, but a +2 finish isn’t nearly what he was thinking when he stepped foot on the links at Augusta. He did finish third at the RBC Heritage the week after the Masters. It wasn’t good enough to win, but it was a Top 5 finish, Donald’s second in his last three starts on the PGA. Donald finished sixth last year four shots off of the pace of the winner, and he is going to hope to do the job this week at Sawgrass.

The man that is going to try to defend his title this year at Ponta Vedra is Matt Kuchar (The Players Championship Betting Odds: 30 to 1 @ 5Dimes Sportsbook). No one ever won back to back tournaments here at the TPC, and the closest thing that we have seen is when Jack Nicklaus won in 1974, 1976, and 1978. Kuchar though, has had a special few seasons, and he has to be considered in a running if he can avoid putting the ball in the drink on 17. Kuchar has never won a major tournament title, and last year’s win was an emotional one for sure. His family was on hand for the proceedings, and there was never a doubt that it was the biggest moment in his career. This year, Kuchar won the Accenture Match Play Championship over Hunter Mahan 2 and 1, and he played well at the Masters, finishing tied for eighth. If there is a man to go back to back in the Sunshine State, Kuchar is the man.

Odds to Win TPC at Sawgrass @ 5Dimes Sportsbook (as of 5/7/13):
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Tiger Woods 6.75 to 1
Rory McIlroy 17 to 1
Adam Scott 18 to 1
Luke Donald 20 to 1
Phil Mickelson 25 to 1
Sergio Garcia 27 to 1
Justin Rose 30 to 1
Lee Westwood 30 to 1
Matt Kuchar 30 to 1
Charl Schwartzel 35 to 1
Graeme McDowell 40 to 1
Jason Day 40 to 1
Brandt Snedeker 45 to 1
Nick Watney 45 to 1
Billy Horschel 50 to 1
Bo Van Pelt 50 to 1
Jim Furyk 50 to 1
Steve Stricker 55 to 1
Dustin Johnson 60 to 1
Henrik Stenton 60 to 1
Keegan Bradley 60 to 1
Rickie Fowler 60 to 1
Jason Dufner 65 to 1
Louis Oosthuizen 70 to 1
Webb Simpson 70 to 1
Tim Clark 80 to 1
Zach Johnson 80 to 1
Bill Haas 85 to 1
Bubba Watson 85 to 1
Kevin Streelman 90 to 1
Ian Poulter 95 to 1
Ryan Moore 95 to 1
Peter Hanson 105 to 1
Thorbjorn Olesen 105 to 1
Kyle Stanley 115 to 1
David Toms 125 to 1
Jimmy Walker 125 to 1
Ben Crane 135 to 1
Hunter Mahan 135 to 1
KJ Choi 135 to 1
Carl Pettersson 155 to 1
Ernie Els 155 to 1
Martin Kaymer 155 to 1
Freddie Jacobson 160 to 1
Charles Howell III 165 to 1
DA Points 165 to 1
Lucas Glover 165 to 1
Boo Weekley 175 to 1
Robert Garrigus 175 to 1
Marc Leishman 185 to 1
Martin Laird 185 to 1
Stewart Cink 195 to 1
Brendon De Jonge 205 to 1
Brian Davis 205 to 1
David Lynn 225 to 1
John Huh 235 to 1
John Senden 235 to 1
Russell Henley 235 to 1
Angel Cabrera 245 to 1
Charley Hoffman 245 to 1
Chris Kirk 255 to 1
Geoff Ogilvy 265 to 1
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 265 to 1
Harris English 265 to 1
Pat Perez 265 to 1
Aaron Baddeley 275 to 1
Bob Estes 315 to 1
Chris Stroud 315 to 1
John Rollins 325 to 1
Mark Wilson 325 to 1
Francesco Molinari 335 to 1
Jeff Overton 335 to 1
Padraig Harrington 345 to 1
Ryan Palmer 360 to 1
Branden Grace 375 to 1
Cameron Tringale 385 to 1
Retief Goosen 385 to 1
Vijay Singh 385 to 1
Derek Ernst 395 to 1
Luke Guthrie 395 to 1
Michael Thompson 400 to 1
Kevin Stadley 405 to 1
Brian Gay 415 to 1
Scott Piercy 415 to 1
Bryce Molder 435 to 1
Graham DeLaet 435 to 1
John Merrick 445 to 1
Jason Kokrak 450 to 1
Rory Sabbatini 465 to 1
Ben Curtis 480 to 1
Richard H. Lee 480 to 1
Bud Cauley 485 to 1
Brian Harman 490 to 1
Matt Jones 500 to 1
Sean O’Hair 530 to 1
Ted Potter Jr. 530 to 1
George McNeill 560 to 1
YE Yang 560 to 1
Seung Yul Noh 570 to 1
Davis Love III 590 to 1
Jerry Kelly 615 to 1
Jonathan Byrd 620 to 1
Ken Duke 660 to 1
Brendan Steele 670 to 1
Greg Chalmers 670 to 1
Josh Teater 670 to 1
Justin Leonard 670 to 1
Kevin Chappell 670 to 1
Matt Every 680 to 1
Sang Moon Bae 680 to 1
Daniel Summerhays 695 to 1
Jonas Blixt 720 to 1
Ricky Barnes 750 to 1
Scott Brown 750 to 1
Scott Stallings 750 to 1
Charlie Wi 765 to 1
Martin Flores 790 to 1
Johnson Wagner 810 to 1
Tommy Gainey 810 to 1
Brian Stuard 820 to 1
Robert Allenby 830 to 1
Tom Gillis 830 to 1
Anders Romero 840 to 1
David Hearn 840 to 1
James Hahn 850 to 1
Chad Campbell 860 to 1
Jeff Maggert 860 to 1
Charlie Beljan 880 to 1
William McGirt 880 to 1
Erik Compton 900 to 1
Greg Owen 900 to 1
JJ Henry 950 to 1
James Driscoll 950 to 1
Jason Bohn 950 to 1
Casey Wittenberg 1,000 to 1
Colt Knost 1,000 to 1
David Lingmerth 1,000 to 1
David Mathis 1,000 to 1
Dicky Pride 1,000 to 1
Joe Daley 1,000 to 1
Nicholas Thompson 1,000 to 1
Robert Castro 1,000 to 1
Scott Langley 1,000 to 1
Tim Herron 1,000 to 1
Troy Matteson 1,000 to 1
Will Claxton 1,000 to 1