Jordan Smith Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Jordan Smith 62.5 24 2 Adri Arnaus 64.7 92 3 Adrian Otaegui 65.0 79 4 Matthieu Pavon 65.7 32 5 Marcel Schneider 65.9 13 6 Julien Brun 66.7 24 7 Dale Whitnell 66.9 130 8 Thriston Lawrence 67.8 52 9 Joost Luiten 68.0 43 10 Matthew […]
The DP World Tour returns to South Africa to a new location for a new event this week. For the second of three straight events in Africa, it is the SDC (Skills Development Corporation) Championship at St Francis Links in the Eastern Cape, a few hundred yards from the ocean. With a $1.5 million purse, […]
The DP World Tour wraps up its Asian swing in New Delhi, India this week before continuing west to Africa next week. Only one player in the Hawley Ratings world top 150 is in the field for the Hero Indian Open, and that’s Robert Macintyre, who has been a disappointing 57th and 106th as favorite […]
The DP World Tour is in Bangkok this week for the Thailand Classic. No one from the Hawley Ratings top 100 is in the field, with Robert MacIntyre (138th) the top-ranked entrant. Jeunghun Wang, 148th, is not far behind. MacIntyre missed the cut in Singapore last week. Thorbjorn Olesen comes in with a little streak […]
Major tour golf is back in Singapore after a two-year pandemic break. None of the world top 100 (per the Hawley Ratings) are entered. The favorite would appear to be Robert MacIntyre, no. 122, who made the cut at the Dubai Desert and was in the top 25 at Abu Dhabi in his last two […]
We’ll go with defending champion Nicolai Hojgaard as favorite over his higher-ranked twin brother Rasmus in this week’s Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the United Arab Emirates. With the purse down from the $9 million range at last week’s Dubai Desert Classic to the $2 million range this week, the big names have cleared out. […]
Rory McIlroy makes his first appearance this week since finishing fourth in the DP World Tour Championship in mid-November. He’s the clear favorite as the DP World Tour plays its third straight event (out of what will be four) in the United Arab Emirates, the Dubai Desert Classic. McIlroy missed by one stroke in this […]
This event attracts an eclectic field that includes over half the players from last week’s nearby, Ryder-Cup-style Hero Cup competition, nearly 10 players from the LIV lineup, and eight of the world top 100 (per the Hawley Rankings). Ewen Ferguson, Tommy Fleetwood, and Tyrrell Hatton led the way in the Hero Cup with 3-0-1 records. […]
Thomas Detry is a 29-year-old Belgian pro with three top-10s on the DP World Tour in 2022, his best finish being a fifth at the BMW PGA in September. He is not afraid of travel, having last appeared in South Africa in November and now is the favorite at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The […]
Louis Oosthuizen, who makes his first non-LIV appearance since the Dunhill Links two months ago, is the pick this week in the Alfred Dunhill Championship, a DP World Tour event in Malelane, South Africa. Louis Oosthuizen Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Louis Oosthuizen 45.2 7 2 Charl Schwartzel 48.4 116 3 Christiaan Bezuidenhout […]
Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are the clear favorites in a nice field for the DP World Championship this week in Dubai, the final event on the DP World Tour schedule for 2022. McIlroy and Rahm are second and third in the Hawley Ratings and the field includes three others from the top 20 – […]
Tommy Fleetwood is a solid top choice in the Nedbank Golf Challenge this week in Sun City, South Africa. He was fourth his last outing, October’s CJ Cup, after playing in Europe for most of the prior four months. He Is 31st in the current Hawley Rankings, with Christiaan Bezuidenhout (66th) and Lucas Herbert (78th) […]