Which player is ready for his breakthrough moment on the PGA Tour?
The 2021-22 PGA Tour schedule isn't yet five months old, but it has already produced three first-time Tour winners.
Australia's Lucas Herbert won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship in October, Talor Gooch took The RSM Classic title in November, and then Luke List won a sudden-death playoff at last week's Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
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Who are the next players capable of winning on tour for the first time? Here are a handful that might do it sooner rather than later:
Will Zalatoris The second-year phenom just missed getting his first PGA Tour victory last week when his 8-foot birdie putt slid past the 72nd hole at Torrey Pines. He lost to List in a sudden-death playoff. It was the second runner-up finish of Zalatoris' career; he also finished solo second in his first appearance in the Masters in April.
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«The emotions that I'm kind of feeling are a little bit from the Korn Ferry Tour, right before my first win… I horseshoed one from about 15 feet and then won the next week,» Zalatoris said shortly after losing in the playoff. He won't win the next week this time around; Zalatoris had to withdraw from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am because of COVID-19. «So I know my game's really close.
»I've got no regrets at all. I thought I battled like hell all day and handled myself really well. I had my chances, for sure, but that's just the nature of this game. It's hard to win out here; there's no question about that."
Zalatoris, 25, is already one of the best ball-strikers in the