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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scottie Scheffler Pick Player W-L-T Actual Finish 1 Scottie Scheffler 11-3-2 4 2 Jason Day 10-14-0 6 3 Jon Rahm 12-8-3 31 4 Tyrrell Hatton 13-10-2 59 5 Max Homa 4-3-0 15 6 Rory McIlroy 18-9-3 2 7 Patrick Cantlay 9-4-2 15 8 Rickie Fowler 5-4-3 17 9 Viktor Hovland 3-3-1 31 10 Tony Finau […]
Wyndham Clark Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Wyndham Clark 42.4 6 2 Thomas Detry 49.0 8 3 Joel Dahmen 50.4 49 4 Adam Schenk 53.6 DNP 5 Jhonattan Vegas 54.0 DNP 6 Ben Martin 55.1 8 7 Taylor Pendrith 56.5 68 8 Kramer Hickok 56.7 45 9 Stephan Jaeger 56.9 DNP 10 Emiliano […]
Justin Thomas heads the field in this week’s Valspar Championship in the northern coastal area of metro Tampa-St. Petersburg. Thomas is the only member of the Hawley Ratings top 10 who is in the field — he’s seventh — and he is playing fairly well. He was just above the cut line in last week’s […]
How about this for a threesome in the first two rounds of the Players Championship this week? It’s Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Scottie Scheffler. Together with Patrick Cantlay, the four of them have at least for now separated themselves atop the list of the world’s best golfers. A pair of 76s in the middle […]
A field that includes none of the Hawley Ratings top 100 players, and only three of the top 200, will compete in the Magical Kenya Open Presented by Absa for a purse of $2 million this week in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the fourth iteration of the event and we’ll give a lukewarm nod toward […]