The TPC Boston course, host of this week’s Dell Technologies Championship, has been a destination on the PGA Tour for 16 years, and the players have generally eaten it up. For the last few years, the average per-round score of the winner has been around 66.5. Pgatour.com notes that two of the par-5s – the […]
You’ve got to hand it to the PGA Tour pros – it’s a long, grinding season but these guys know how to manage their schedules and get into form for the end of the season. Tiger Woods put it this way to the Golf Channel: “It’s about pacing myself and making sure I don’t practice […]
We’re in the one-week gap between two of the season’s premiere events and the start of the FedEx Cup series, meaning that the guys who didn’t qualify for the WGC-Bridgestone or PGA Championship have this one, last chance to get into the top 125 in time for next week’s playoffs. First let’s note that the […]
The thing about Dustin Johnson, picking him is like picking the Golden State Warriors or the 2000s Tiger Woods or the 1960s Jack Nicklaus .. you’re going with the pick that is very frequently favored, and plenty of the misses can be categorized as near-misses. That’s where we are this week as the PGA Championship, […]
— Justin Rose withdrew on Wednesday due to back spasms. — When they started the World Golf Championships in 1999, the stated objective was to get the world’s top players into distinctive events that were built on joint sanctioning by the five major tours (Australasia, Europe, Japan, South Africa, U.S.). They can consider that a […]
The question this week is whether Dustin Johnson can put things back in order for the RBC Canadian Open a week after not quite making the top 100 finishers in the 147th Open Championship. Luckily we have some historical data to work with on this one. Last year Johnson had an abysmal June, missing the […]
The Royal & Ancient endows the title “Champion Golfer of the Year” on the winner of the Open Championship, or as we call it in the U.S., the British Open. When you look at the list of who has won that title, it starts to sink in that it’s not just hyperbole, it’s recognition of […]
This week we have the annual “Midwest major”, or you could call it the John Deere Classic. But if you are a Tour member from around Iowa, Illinois, or Wisconsin, this truly is the Midwest major, played at the TPC Deere Run in Moline IL. The course is just about two miles southwest of the […]
The computer has three guys pretty tightly bracketed at the top this week in the PGA Tour event they are calling A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. We’ll go with Webb Simpson as favorite based on his three top-10s in the last six times this event was played. Simpson, of course, won TPC in mid-May […]
It seems unlikely that the Quicken Loans National has evolved as Tiger Woods dreamed when the event was born as the AT&T National in 2007. What we will see this weekend at TPC Potomac is the weakest field on the PGA Tour since the 2017-‘18 season began with the Safeway Open in October. It’s not […]
Brooks Koepka, winner of last week’s U.S. Open, is on top of the world and in the field this week for the Travelers Championship. Best to enjoy that look from the top while it lasts: The history on winners of majors coming back the week after their big win doesn’t show much in terms of […]
Interested in creating a list of contenders that is long enough to give confidence of including the U.S. Open champion? That list might need to be a little longer than you expect. Since 2000, only half of the 18 U.S. Open winners have even been in the top 10 of the Hawley Ratings. Only three […]