A Look at the Arnold Palmer Invitational
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A Look at the Honda Classic
Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler, the world’s no. 1 and no. 6 players, respectively, per the Hawley Ratings, are the top two picks this week as the PGA Tour pulls into Florida for a four-week stay. They are the last two winners of the Honda Classic and the top two money-winners here over the past […]
A Look at the WGC-Mexico Championship
The pick this week in the WGC-Mexico Championship is Dustin Johnson, and if it seems like you frequently see that name atop someone’s list of picks for an event, you’re right. Within the last year, there almost certainly has been some shifting of players near the top of whatever rankings you prefer, and there have […]
A Look at the Genesis Open
There are a few instances around the PGA Tour where a certain player flourishes on a given course with strong finishes year after year, and we have one of those instances potentially recurring this week. The event is the Genesis Open at beautiful Riviera Country Club and the player is Dustin Johnson, a solid favorite. […]
A Look at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
If it weren’t for the small matters of an 8000-mile trip from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to San Francisco, the 18 hours or so that it takes to fly it, and the 11 time zones that are flown over in the process, it would be fairly straightforward to name a favorite in this week’s AT&T Pebble […]
A Look at the Waste Management Phoenix Open
Don’t forget that there is a great alternative to all that pre-Super Bowl hoopla on television Sunday. It’s the best-attended event on the PGA Tour, the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where over 700,000 spectators will drop in sometime during the week, if last year is any indication. They have brought together another nice field, including […]
A Look at the Farmers Insurance Open
They could put together a threesome of the top three players in the Official World Golf Ratings who are entered in this week’s Farmers Insurance Open (Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele, and Jon Rahm). Or how about a trio of three crowd-pleasing, photogenic stars right around the age of 30 (Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, and Rory […]
A Look at the Desert Classic
Justin Rose makes his first appearance of 2019 this weekend at the recently renamed Desert Classic in La Quinta CA. He’s been out of action since kind of a nothing finish (17th) against a really weak field in the BNI Indonesian Masters in mid-December. But, boy, if he starts up the way he finished in […]
A Look at the Sony Open in Hawaii
With a nice record in this event, a game well-suited to the Waialae Country Club course, and a nice week in Hawaii already under his belt, Justin Thomas looks like a solid choice as favorite in this week’s Sony Open in Hawaii. The only other top-10 player in the field is Paul Casey, no. 8, […]
A look at the Sentry Tournament of Champions
A very good field including several of the world’s top golfers is gathering this week on the west edge of Maui for the Sentry Tournament of Champions. It’s almost good enough to make people forget about the three names that are missing from the first PGA Tour event of 2019. So let’s start at the […]
A look at the Tour Championship
The long, winding road that is the PGA Tour comes to an end this week in Atlanta. Who do you like? The guy with the most FedEx points? The top-rated guy? The best fit for the East Lake Golf Club? The hottest guy? The guy with the best Vegas odds? Some (semi-)longshot? Let’s start by […]
A look at the BMW Championship
I’m pretty sure you don’t care about doing this, but let’s just say you checked today’s Official World Golf Ratings, and there’s Bryson DeChambeau up from 12th last week to seventh now. And then you want to compare his rating with the one in the Hawley Ratings. Dig, dig, scroll down, and there he is, […]