Two great choices sit at the top of the list of contenders in the 151st Open Championship this week a bit outside of Liverpool, England. They are Scottie Scheffler, still riding his amazing streak of seven straight finishes in the top five in events featuring the world’s best players, and Rory McIlroy, always a favorite […]
It’s about 15 hours by air from Edinburgh to Reno, and then another half-hour by car to Truckee CA, so assuming Keith Mitchell can handle that amount of travel, he is a decent choice as favorite in this week’s Barracuda Championship. He did get an extra couple of days to recover from the travel when […]
Scottie Scheffler Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Scottie Scheffler -27.7 3 2 Patrick Cantlay -16.7 78 3 Xander Schauffele -14.9 42 4 Rory McIlroy -12.7 1 5 Tyrrell Hatton 5.5 6 6 Rickie Fowler 5.9 42 7 Viktor Hovland 10.9 25 8 Tommy Fleetwood 16.6 6 9 Max Homa 26.1 12 10 Matt […]
Taylor Pendrith Pick Player Power Number Actual Finish 1 Taylor Pendrith 54.4 6 2 Troy Merritt 55.1 DNP 3 Lucas Glover 56.0 5 4 Kevin Streelman 60.3 86 5 Peter Malnati 62.4 52 6 Scott Piercy 62.5 68 7 Justin Lower 64.2 44 8 Chad Ramey 64.4 44 9 Vincent Norrman 64.6 1 10 MJ […]
Russell Henley and Denny McCarthy stand out among entries in this week’s John Deere Classic in Silvis IL. They are the two highest-ranked players in the field, they are both coming in with some good momentum in recent months, and both have one career top-10 in the event, McCarthy sixth last year and Henley as […]
Cameron Smith, the last remaining LIV player in the top 10 of the Hawley Ratings, is the top pick in this week’s LIV London event. Smith has finished in the top 10 his last six times out, including four LIV events, the U.S. Open, and the PGA. This event marks the first repeat event in […]
Alexander Bjork is the pick this week as the DP World Tour visits Denmark for the Made in HimmerLand event. Bjork, one of seven players in the event ranked between 145 and 200 in the Hawley Ratings, has top-10 finishes in four of his last five appearances since early May. Jordan Smith, who at no. […]
While a majority of golf’s biggest names catch their breaths after three $20 million (or near) events in the last four weeks, the tour visits Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week. Neither of the two entrants from the Hawley Ratings top 10 who are entered can be said to be playing particularly well […]
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 […]