Every week the location changes, but when the purse stays the same, the players stay the same too. So again this week, even though they are in Cromwell CT, nearly a six-hour flight and over 2,900 miles from the site of last week’s U.S. Open, we have names like Scheffler, McIlroy, Rahm, et. al at […]
After a week off for the U.S. Open, the DP World Tour resumes in Munich this week for the BMW International Open. It is getting easier to overlook the fact that Victor Perez is the highest-ranked player in the field (no. 124 in the Hawley Ratings) after his back-to-back missed cuts in the KLM Open […]
It’s been a long time since anyone put together a stretch like Scottie Scheffler has done so far in 2023. The data on which alookatgolf.com is built goes back to the start of the century, and the last time someone put together anything like this was 13 years ago, since the Tiger Woods of May, […]
Two-time defending champion Rory McIlroy comes into this week’s RBC Canadian Open playing well and the obvious favorite. McIlroy has won the event on both of his appearances here, last year and 2019, the intervening two years lost to the pandemic. He has two runner-up finishes (Match Play and Palmer), two sevenths, and two missed […]
Considering the men entered (and lacking comparable data on the women) in this week’s Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed tournament near Stockholm, Sweden, we will go with returning homie Alex Noren as favorite. Noren has been playing the PGA Tour since February and had a recent semi-bounce-back, making cuts at the Memorial and Schwab the last […]
World no. 2 (per the Hawley Ratings) Patrick Cantlay slightly out-ranks world no. 1 Scottie Scheffler this week in the Memorial Tournament based on his outstanding record in the event over the past five years. Cantlay won the event in 2021 and 2019 and was in the top five last year and in 2018. He […]
With Victor Perez, the question is whether to believe that last week’s 104th place finish in the KLM Open means something, or to forget it, possibly attributing it to fatigue due to his fourth trans-oceanic flight since February. Going with the bigger picture, he looms as the favorite this week in the Porsche European Open […]
Brooks Koepka wasn’t the only one to put some polish on the LIV brand in last week’s PGA Championship (which was hosted by the PGA of America, as opposed to the PGA Tour). LIV players Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith also finished in the top 10, and Patrick Reed and Mito Pereira were in the […]
Victor Perez is the obvious choice this week in the KLM Open at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, Netherlands. Perez has been back and forth across the Atlantic four times this year, playing a mixture of PGA Tour and DP World Tour events. He was 12th last week in the PGA Championship, ninth two weeks earlier […]
Another week goes by, and Scottie Scheffler’s amazing run of success on the PGA Tour continues. After finishing fifth (three strokes behind Jason Day) in last week’s Byron Nelson, Scheffler has appeared 13 times since November and his worst finish in the span is 12th in the Genesis. He has 10 top-10 finishes in those […]
For PGA Tour players and others who must travel for a living, there’s nothing like getting home and sleeping in your own bed. Also, for a pro golfer it doesn’t hurt to be the top-rated player in an event, arrive on site playing very well, and have confidence that the course is one on which […]
LIV Golf touches down in the U.S. for the first time in 2023 this weekend, in Tulsa, and despite some criticism, the tour has generated some enthusiasm and a nice spread of names on the leaderboards this year. Big crowds turned out in Australia last month. Five events this season have produced four different winners […]