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. […]
Is there any reason to think that players who got their year started in the Sentry Tournament of Champions have an edge the next week in the Sony Open in Hawaii? It doesn’t appear so. Over the last eight years, considering players who finished in the top three of the Champions event, only six backed […]
Usually in this event, it is a valid strategy to pick a guy from the southern hemisphere, on the theory that it’s early summer down there and possibly the guy is in something like mid-season form. That idea won’t work for this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions on Maui in Hawaii: A quick check of […]
Thomas Detry is a 29-year-old Belgian pro with three top-10s on the DP World Tour in 2022, his best finish being a fifth at the BMW PGA in September. He is not afraid of travel, having last appeared in South Africa in November and now is the favorite at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The […]
We’ll call the team of Jason Day and Billy Horschel the favorite in this week’s QBE Shootout at Tiburón Golf Course in Naples, on Florida’s southwest coast. Last year Horschel finished second with Sam Burns and Day was third with Marc Leishman in the three-day (Friday thru Sunday) event. The team of Brian Harman and […]