Belgium’s professional golf tournament, the Soudal Open, returned to the traditional stroke-play format last year after two seasons of a “knockout” format. We’re going traditional again this year, with Belgian citizen (but PGA Tour regular) Thomas Detry as the favorite. Detry is playing in Europe for the first time this year. In 11 events on […]
Patrick Cantlay Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Patrick Cantlay -8.1 21 2 Xander Schauffele 0.0 2 3 Rory McIlroy 1.1 47 4 Sungjae Im 14.4 8 5 Max Homa 14.8 8 6 Jordan Spieth 15.1 135 7 Viktor Hovland 18.8 43 8 Jason Day 20.0 69 9 Justin Thomas 23.5 14 10 Sam […]
Robert MacIntyre Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Robert MacIntyre 52.0 WD 2 Rasmus Hojgaard 60.3 47 3 Jordan Smith 60.6 16 4 Adrian Meronk 61.4 1 5 Victor Perez 61.6 9 6 Sam Horsfield 62.7 DNP 7 Thorbjorn Olesen 63.3 40 8 Alexander Bjork 64.9 4 9 Nicolai Hojgaard 65.8 5 10 Yannik […]
It’s not exactly like Snow White and the seven dwarfs, but this week Jon Rahm is alone among the PGA Tour five big names of 2023 on the entry list in the Mexico Open. Tony Finau is the second-highest-ranked player in the field at no. 11 (Hawley Rankings). From there you drop down to no. […]
Sentosa Golf Club, site of a fairly regular series of professional golf events, is host to LIV Golf Singapore this week. The club, on Sentosa Island and adjacent to the Singapore Strait, has two courses. The Serapong course, which will be used this week, was site of a Asian Tour event four times between 2018 […]
International golf returns to Korea for the first time since 2019 this week as the DP World Tour stops at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Incheon. A field with a strongly international flavor is headed by Polish player Adrian Meronk, 134th in the current Hawley Rankings, and Danish Rasmus Hojgaard, 127th. Meronk missed the […]
The PGA Tour’s annual team event, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, is being contested this week. They’re at TPC Louisiana in the New Orleans metro area town of Avondale. Four teams stand out against the rest — the defending champions Xander Schauffele & Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa & Max Homa, Sungjae Im & Keith […]
It’s homecoming, or at least a return to the home continent, for all four members of the Ripper GC team in LIV Golf this week. None of the four — Cameron Smith, Matt Jones, Marc Leishman, and Jed Morgan — has a hometown particularly close to Adelaide, where the event will be played. Leishman comes […]
From www.europeantour.com: “The DP World Tour further enhances its credentials as golf’s global tour this week as Japan becomes the 51st different country to host an event on Tour.” They are in Omitama, about 65 miles northeast of Tokyo, for the ISPS HANDA Championship at the PGM Ishioka GC. Assuming he can adjust to a […]
We’ll go with Patrick Cantlay as the choice in this week’s RBC Heritage, based largely on his record of four top-10 finishes in his five lifetime appearances in the event. He lost to Jordan Spieth in a playoff last year, missed the cut in 2021, and was third twice and seventh between 2017 and 2019. […]
World no. 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler stands just a tiny bit taller than the rest as the world’s top golfers prepare to compete in the Masters this week. In addition to being a great fit for the course, Scheffler has been uniformly excellent in 2023. The 26-year-old Texan has won twice (Phoenix and […]
The mingling of what used to be normal events on the PGA Tour with $20 million (and up) events is causing the formerly normal events to suffer a severe reduction in strength of field. The latest example is this week’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio TX, where one of the world’s top 20 golfers […]