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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]