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Alex Noren Hopes to Rebound After Poor Masters Showing
Alex Noren will tee it up for the first time since his failed Masters performance. Noren shot a nine-over par, missing the cut by four strokes. The 35-year-old Noren has nine wins on the European Tour but has yet to capture his first win on the PGA Tour. Noren, who is the 17th-ranked player in... Read More
Jason Day Returns to Quail Hollow After Epic 2017 Blowup
Jason Day finished in a tie for ninth during the 2017 PGA Championship held at Quail Hollow. While a top-10 finish at a major is never anything to sneeze at, some results still sting slightly more than others. Having just bogeyed the 17th hole during his Saturday round, Day entered the par-four 18th hole only... Read More
Adam Hadwin Will Return to Action at the Wells Fargo Championship
Adam Hadwin, who pulled out of the RBC Heritage due to personal reasons, will tee it up for the first time since the Masters. The Wells Fargo Championship on paper doesn't feel like the best natural setup for Hadwin, but he has had success at longer courses in his career, albeit never here at Quail... Read More
Kyle Stanley is One of the Best Ball-Strikers on Tour
The 48th-ranked golfer in the world, Kyle Stanley, will make his first appearance since his 52nd-place finish at the 2018 Masters. Stanley, who is one of the best ball-strikers on tour, comes into this event struggling with his current ball-striking skills. In his last 24 rounds compared to the field, Stanley only ranks 54th in... Read More
Dylan Frittelli is Starting to Show Some PGA Tour Consistency
Dylan Frittelli comes into the Wells Fargo Championship with two straight top-35 performances on the PGA Tour. His T32 at the RBC Heritage and T20 at the Valero Texas Open had one major thing in common: dominance off the tee. Frittelli gained 6.060 strokes off the tee, good for first overall at the RBC Heritage.... Read More
Jordan Spieth and Ryan Palmer Miss the Cut at the Zurich Classic
Jordan Spieth and Ryan Palmer entered the 2018 Zurich Classic hoping to exceed last year's T5 finish, in the inaugural New Orleans team event. What they got instead was a nightmare finish, spurned on by an imploding Jordan Spieth. The team of Spieth and Palmer entered the 17th hole on Friday at eight-under par and... Read More
Matt Kuchar and Bubba Watson Deliver a Slap-Happy Performance in New Orleans
Matt Kuchar and Bubba Watson disappointed many this weekend shooting an 11-under par, which was good for a T28 finish. The tandem entered the week as one of the favorites to take home the title but could not get anything going all weekend long. Not only did Kuchar and Watson fail to be the one-two... Read More
Chez Reavie and Lucas Glover Lead After Day One, Fade During the Weekend
Chez Reavie and Lucas Glover started Thursday on a blistering pace at the Zurich Classic. The tandem shot a 12-under par 60 during the opening round four-ball portion of the event, placing them at the top of the leaderboard. Both Reavie and Glover contributed six birdies to the scorecard. Friday's alternate shot portion of the... Read More
Jason Dufner and Pat Perez Come Up Just Short at the Zurich Classic
Jason Dufner and Pat Perez finished at 21-under par, just one shot behind the winning team of Scott Piercy and Billy Horschel. Dufner and Perez shot a four-day total of 66,72,61 and 68, which included a bogey-free Sunday. Dufner, who is not known for his putting prowess, kept the team alive early on Sunday with... Read More
Cameron Smith and Jonas Blixt Fail to Make the Cut During Their Title Defense
The title defense for the duo of Cameron Smith and Jonas Blixt did not go as they would have hoped, missing the cut by two strokes. Smith and Blixt fired an opening round seven-under 65 during the four-ball portion on Thursday but followed up that showing with a cringe-worthy four-over 76 in the alternate shot... Read More
Jason Day to Partner with Ryan Ruffels at the Zurich Classic
Jason Day will partner with fellow Australian Ryan Ruffels at the Zurich Classic. The 19-year-old Ruffels is a downgrade over Rickie Fowler, who was Day's partner last year in New Orleans. The powerful duo of Day and Fowler did not experience any success last year, missing the cut by two strokes. The young Ruffels, who... Read More
Matt Kuchar Is a Cut-Making Machine
Matt Kuchar shot an even-par 71, 72, 73 and 72 to finish T51 at the Valero Texas Open. His made cut marks the 28th straight PGA Tour stroke-play event that Kuchar has made it to the weekend and 31st consecutive made cut if you include tournaments played overseas. One of those 31 made cuts did... Read More
Justin Thomas and Bud Cauley Come into the Zurich Classic as One of the Favorites
The Alabama Crimson Tide team of Justin Thomas and Bud Cauley will make their second consecutive start together at the Zurich Classic. Last year, the duo finished at 19-under par, which was good for a T5 finish. Despite the top-five, the two had a bit of a roller coaster four days. They dominated the Friday... Read More
Chez Reavie and Lucas Glover Will Give the Zurich Classic Another Try
Chez Reavie and Lucas Glover will partner up for the second straight year at the Zurich Classic. Last year, they experienced a disappointing Saturday when they shot a 76 and suffered an MDF finish. Reavie is currently on a five-tournament downswing since the Genesis Open and has not recorded a top-50 performance in that time... Read More
Cameron Smith Looks to Defend His Title With Jonas Blixt at the Zurich Classic
Cameron Smith and Jonas Blixt took the tournament by storm last year when they defeated Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown in a playoff to capture the title. The two teams finished at 27-under par, four shots ahead of the next closest tandem in the field. Smith, who is still looking for his first win on... Read More
Zurich Classic Might be Just What Jason Dufner Needs to Get Back on Track
Jason Dufner comes into the Zurich Classic having missed three of his last four cuts, with a 64th-place finish at the Houston Open sprinkled into the mix. Dufner, who is in need of a complete turnaround, will team up with Pat Perez for the team event. Perez comes into the tournament having missed two consecutive... Read More
Jordan Spieth and Ryan Palmer Will Partner Once Again at the Zurich Classic
Jordan Spieth and Ryan Palmer will partner for the second consecutive year at the Zurich Classic. The two fellow Texans and close friends had an interesting backstory of how their partnership came to be last season. Palmer's caddie, James Edmondson, made a wager with Spieth during a practice round, that if he beat Spieth during... Read More
Dylan Frittelli Posts His Second Straight Top-35 Performance
Even though the RBC Heritage and Valero Texas Open required contrastingly unique styles, Dylan Frittelli still managed to find a way to build off of his T32 at last weekend's RBC Heritage by finishing tied for 20th at the Valero Texas Open. In both tournaments, he finished five-under par and dominated off the tee. He... Read More
Andrew Landry Wins the Valero Texas Open
The 30-year-old Andrew Landry from Austin, Texas, captured his first PGA title this weekend at the Valero Texas Open. Landry's 17-under par performance gave him a two-shot victory over Trey Mullinax and Sean O'Hair. Landry's career-best finish before this victory was a second-place showing six starts ago at the Career Builder Challenge, where he lost... Read More
Si Woo Kim Makes His Fourth Consecutive Cut at the Valero Texas Open
Si Woo Kim's T45 finish at the Valero Texas Open may not be overly exciting, but it is his fourth consecutive cut he has made. It's a bit of a backtrack after last weekend's second-place finish at the RBC Heritage, but on the bright side for Kim, it is another week of made-cut consistency. Kim... Read More
Austin Cook Finds Some Form at the Valero Texas Open
Austin Cook finished at three-under par this weekend at the Valero Texas Open, tying him for 30th place. Cook opened Thursday with a two-under par 70 and followed that up with a two-over par 74 on Friday. He managed to propel himself up the leaderboard on Saturday with a bogey-free three-under 69 but wasn't able... Read More
Ollie Schniederjans Finishes At Two-Under Par at the Valero Texas Open
Ollie Schniederjans finished at two-under par at the Valero Texas Open, tying him for 36th place on the leaderboard. The finish is the best result he has had in his last six events. Schniederjans, who is still looking for his first win on the PGA Tour, struggled all weekend long to put his whole game... Read More
Jhonattan Vegas Misses Another Cut
Jhonattan Vegas couldn't get back on track this week at the Valero Texas Open. Vegas imploded on Thursday with a nine-over par (81), which all but assured he wouldn't be around for the weekend. Vegas did show signs of life during his Friday round, where he shot a one-under (71). The Valero Texas Open, in... Read More
Luke List Disappoints the DFS Community at the Valero Texas Open
Luke List's week at the Valero Texas Open did not go according to plan. List shot a two-over par to miss the cut by one stroke. List was universally one of the highest owned players across all GPPs and his disappointing performance scorned a vast majority of the DFS community. Like expected, he was brilliant... Read More
Luke List Will be a Popular Pick at the Valero Texas Open
Luke List is going to be one of the most popular, if not the most popular player, this week at the Valero Texas Open. List comes into the week with eight straight made cuts, all of which have been within the top 26, and three of those being top-10s. In his last 50 rounds, List... Read More
Ollie Schniederjans is Still Looking for his First PGA Tour Title
Ollie Schniederjans' first win appeared like it was just around the corner a few months ago. A seventh-place finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii and a third-place at the Waste Management Phoenix Open had pretty much everyone wondering when the 24-year-old would finally break through for a victory. Fast forward to the present, and... Read More
Jhonattan Vegas Hopes to find His Game at the Valero Texas Open
Jhonattan Vegas has had a rough seven-tournament stretch which includes two missed cuts, a group-stage loss at the Dell Technology Match Play and an MDF finish at the Shell Houston Open. Vegas will hope to turn his luck around this week at the Valero Texas Open. In his last 24 rounds compared to the field,... Read More
Austin Cook Can't Seem to Find His Early-Season Success
The 27-year-old Austin Cook got off to about the best start he could have ever dreamt of to start this season. He earned his PGA Tour card during the 2017 Web.com Tour season, and it didn't take him long to make his presence felt on the PGA Tour. Cook almost immediately captured his first career... Read More
Francesco Molinari Withdraws From the Valero Texas Open
Francesco Molinari has withdrawn from the Valero Texas Open, citing a shoulder injury as the reason. The withdrawal seems very precautionary, and Molinari himself has said he should be back for the Wells Fargo in two weeks. Molinari had a disappointing 49th-place finish at the RBC Heritage this past weekend, which may be explained by... Read More
Dylan Frittelli Gets a Sponsor Exemption into the Valero Texas Open
Dylan Frittelli's ride so far on the PGA Tour has been a bit all over the place. After two consecutive missed cuts, Frittelli finished tied for 32nd this past week at the RBC Heritage. Most of Frittelli's success has come overseas on the European Tour, and he has yet to record a top-10 result on... Read More
