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 […]
One thing you’ve got to say for these LIV players in their second year on tour is that they are not being over-worked. Alookatgolf.com tracks almost all worldwide events with a purse of $1 million or greater, and in the 11th week of the 2023 professional golf season, most of these players have three or […]
The DP World Tour returns to South Africa to a new location for a new event this week. For the second of three straight events in Africa, it is the SDC (Skills Development Corporation) Championship at St Francis Links in the Eastern Cape, a few hundred yards from the ocean. With a $1.5 million purse, […]
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 […]
It seems logical to go with Jon Rahm until something happens to tell the world that this comet is slowing its blazing path across the golf courses of the PGA Tour. You probably already know that currently he has top-10s in 10 straight appearances, including five wins (three on the PGA Tour in 2023). We’ll […]
Let’s not kid ourselves .. this is not a good field for the Puerto Rico Open. With the $20 million Arnold Palmer Invitational occurring in Florida, and this one at less than 20 percent of that, they have attracted a field that includes only one — Erik van Rooyen — of the Hawley Ratings top […]
Question: What happens after back-to-back $20 million events in the western U.S. are followed by an $8.4 million event on the opposite coast? Answer: The top players take the slow route to Florida. And that means that this week, Sungjae Im, ranked 11th (and the only player from the Hawley Ratings top 25) tops the […]
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 […]