LIV Golf opens its second season in Mayakoba, Mexico on Friday with (shudder) a stronger lineup than what the PGA Tour is offering concurrently in Florida. Using numbers based on the Hawley Ratings, the LIV field has two top-10 players vs. none in the PGA event, three top-20 players vs. one in the PGA event, […]
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 […]
Although Jon Rahm didn’t quite close the deal the last two times out (third in Phoenix last week, seventh at the Farmers on Jan. 28), he has been very good for months, with nine straight top-10 finishes, among them five wins. He is no. 1 in the Hawley Ratings and the pick this week in […]
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 […]
The PGA Tour “elevated” event concept makes its first mainland appearance this week, with Jon Rahm, beast of the season so far, favored at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The meaning of “elevated” is that the top players have an increased responsibility to play such events, and there is a significantly increased purse. Of the […]
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 […]
Mostly by virtue of being the highest-ranked player in the field, Matthew Fitzpatrick (15th in the current Hawley Ratings) shows up first in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am power ratings. Fitzpatrick’s only January appearance was at the Champions, where he finished seventh. He was sixth in this event last year, easily the best result of […]
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. […]
REMINDER: This event starts Wednesday,Jan. 25. Becausee it’s pretty hard to argue with 54 under par in eight competitive rounds in 2023, it’s also pretty hard to dispute the recognition of Jon Rahm as favorite in this week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, just north of San Diego. And if it weren’t for the […]
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 […]
The American Express has attracted a very strong field. Four of the top five players in the Hawley Rankings – Patrick Cantlay, Joh Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, and Xander Schauffele – will play the Pete Dye Stadium Course, final-round venue for this three-course event, this week. The courses are located amid the PGA West complex of […]
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. […]