After more than a year defined mostly by his near-misses, Rory McIlroy slammed the door on J.J. Spaun in Monday's playoff at Sawgrass.

It required three extra holes, but Rory McIlroy has won his second Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, but did something he'd never done.

Without his best stuff thus far, Schauffele seeks to find a semblance of his 2024 game that carried him to titles at the PGA Championship and The Open ahead of the 2025 Masters. He will be joined in the field by a couple of his U.S. Ryder Cup teammates in Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, who have each experienced a mixed bag of results this year.

Here's a look at the betting favorites and predictions for this week's PGA Tour event, the Valspar Championship.

Players will face an extremely difficult test this week at the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort. The PGA Tour will stay in Florida one more week for the Valspar Championship. The Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort,