Last year at TPC Sawgrass, betting favorite Dustin Johnson ended up tying for 12th with Smylie Kaufman and Chris Kirk, with then-21-year-old Si Woo Kim stunning the field at THE PLAYERS Championship to become the youngest player to win the tournament.
This year, Kim is one of the biggest longshots on the betting board at +7500 (wager $100 to win $7,500) on THE PLAYERS Championship odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark. No golfer has ever repeated at the event.
Kim topped veterans Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen by three strokes a year ago for the second of his two career wins on the PGA Tour, as he also won the Wyndham Championship in 2016.