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 […]
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. […]