What an awesome U.S. Open we had last weekend, with Brooks Koepka getting his 1st major (and well-deserved). Erin Hills didn’t get the tough weather we expected, so scores were super low all week. Ultimately, it made for great viewing this weekend, because typical U.S. Open scoring doesn’t bring the drama that the networks prefer….
Last week’s Nordea Masters was close to being a great one, as I picked Matt Fitzpatrick to win. He came up a shot short, tying for 2nd place with fellow Englishman Chris Wood. Renato Paratore, a young Italian, won his first career event which was great to see. Most of our picks played well, although…
Last week was a fun week at the BMW PGA Championship, with Alex Noren stealing the title by shooting a scorching 62 on Sunday. He’s had one of the best years in European Tour history, and continues to climb the world rankings. He’s firmly on my radar heading into the remaining majors this season. Overall,…
The European Tour’s flagship tournament returns to the West Course at Wentworth, where it’s been hosted for many, many years. There were some changes to the course this season worth mentioning, but the meat of the course is the same. They’ve removed some bunkers, changed a couple of green complexes, and are planning to firm…
The European Tour gets back on schedule after a week off from regular, stroke-play golf. Last week was the debut of the Golf Sixes, a wonky team event that was won by Team Denmark (Thorbjorn Olesen and Lucas Bjerregaard). For this week’s European Tour preview, we’re at the Open de Portugal, not to be confused…
The players make the short trip from Genzon GC to Topwin Golf and CC for this week’s Volvo China Open. Although this is a tournament full of history, the current venue was used for the first time last season. So we only have one year of course history to draw upon, and very few accurate…
For this week’s European Tour preview, we’re at the Shenzen International, which boasts a very strong field. Bubba Watson makes his return to China, where he can let loose and just enjoy himself, and he’s joined by some of Europe’s best: Tommy Fleetwood, Bernd Wiesberger, Joost Luiten, Ross Fisher, George Coetzee, and Dean Burmester. This…
The European Tour finally gets back on schedule after a month-long hiatus due to the World Golf Championships and The Masters. Many of Europe’s top players are still stateside, taking a vacation or playing at The Heritage, but many others are here in Morocco this week. For this week’s European Tour preview, we’re at the…
The venue for this week’s WGC-Mexico is marked at 7,330 yards, but will play significantly less than that due to the high altitude at which the course is located. It’s hard to make this exact calculation, but the true yardage will be well under 7,000 yards. That tends to even the field in terms of…
For this week’s European Tour preview, we head to South Africa for the Joburg Open. This event was won by Haydn Porteous, one of the many South African natives in this field. We have plenty of course history to draw upon for this event, and are going to focus on the South African angle as…
Last week was a great week for me, as I anticipated the early Thursday starters to have the best weather draw. If you didn’t stack early runners, you were toast. I focused my teams around Henrik Stenson and Sergio Garcia, who battled all weekend until Garcia prevailed Sunday afternoon. It was great to see him…
For this week’s European Tour preview, we’re at the Dubai Desert Classic. Although Rory is out with injury, we have a stacked field including an appearance by Tiger Woods. Woods MC last week at Torrey Pines, but he’s still shaking off the competitive rust. I love that he feels healthy enough to travel across the…
