Gary Woodland Aims To Continue His Success At Colonial
Gary Woodland has thrived at Colonial Country Club the past few years. In his past two starts at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Woodland has posted two top-15 finishes, including a ninth-place finish last year. On top of his stellar course history, Woodland has been playing some solid golf. He has made the cut in four... Read More
Patrick Reed Looks To Find His Form At Charles Schwab
Patrick Reed heads to Colonial fresh off a solid week at the PGA Championship. Reed made the cut and finished in 34th, gaining five strokes from tee-to-green. He has made the cut in four of his last five events and seems to be slowly finding his form. The main issue for Reed has been his... Read More
Scottie Scheffler Looking To Bounce Back In Texas
Scottie Scheffler missed only his second cut of the season at The PGA Championship. Outside of his approach play, all other areas of his game let him down. He now heads back to Colonial for the third time in his career, hoping to improve on a missed cut and a T55. The biggest concern heading... Read More
Abraham Ancer A Strong Option At Colonial
Abraham Ancer should be a strong DFS play and betting option this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Ancer is coming off a top ten finish at the PGA championship, where he gained over four and a half strokes on approach. If the approach play continues, his game should set up nicely for Colonial Country... Read More
Viktor Hovland Can Chip Away At Colonial Country Club
Viktor Hovland has gained off the tee in all but two of his 12 starts this season, while gaining on approach in all but one of those starts. His biggest weakness is his around the green play, gaining less than 0.28 total strokes in 11 of 12, often losing considerably in this department. Colonial CC... Read More
Sungjae Im Returns From COVID Protocols
Sungjae Im found himself in Korean COVID-19 protocols a week before the PGA Championship, which caused him to miss the second major of the year. Colonial Country Club suits Im's ball-striking ability. He is accurate and long off the tee, which is a premium requirement at a tight venue like this. His approach play has... Read More
Justin Thomas Eyeing Back-To-Back Wins
Justin Thomas, now a two-time PGA Champion, battled the worst weather that hit his wave of tee times to outduel Will Zalatoris in a playoff last weekend. Thomas gained at least 2.4 strokes in each major statistical category. His irons, typically the strength of his game, gained the least number of strokes. He gained over... Read More
Jordan Spieth Looks To Continue Strong Spring At Colonial
Ever since Jordan Spieth's missed cut at The Masters, he has played well. Spieth rebounded with a win in Hilton Head and a second-place finish at The Byron Nelson. Spieth finished in 34th place at The PGA Championship last week. Spieth played well, gaining 8.6 strokes tee-to-green and 4.7 strokes on approach. Spieth did lose... Read More
Christiaan Bezuidenhout May Not Be One To Play This Week
Christiaan Bezuidenhout missed the cut at The PGA Championship. Bezuidenhout did arrive at Southern Hills with some momentum. He finished in 12th place the week before at The Byron Nelson. Bezuidenhout's performance was largely due to putting. He gained 8.1 stokes putting that week. He did not have a similar week putting at Southern Hills... Read More
Daniel Berger Hopes To Build On Past Success
Daniel Berger had a disappointing missed cut at The PGA Championship. Berger lost 3.1 strokes on approach and 7.3 putting. Berger returns to Colonial where he won in 2020. Berger won that event after the COVID break. He gained 7.6 strokes gained tee-to-green and 5.4 on approach that week. Regardless of his recent missed cut,... Read More
Harold Varner III A Nice Wildcard For The Charles Schwab
Harold Varner III made the weekend at the PGA Championship and finished just inside the top-50. His ability to hit relatively long off the tee helped. However, his result may have been even better had it not been for the +3 on the back nine. Varner III never truly contended but was at least a... Read More
Max Homa Playing Well Heading To Charles Schwab Classic
Max Homa was again right in it until almost the end on Sunday at the PGA Championship. What do we mean? He shot right at even par which was a good score on a very difficult Southern Hills course. With the winds and changeable conditions, the American golfer was able to make enough putts to... Read More
Rickie Fowler May Be One To Watch At Charles Schwab
Rickie Fowler braved the changeable conditions at Southern Hills and endured a wild Sunday ride. In the end, Fowler finished tied for 23rd and shot even-par on Sunday (four birdies, four bogeys). The only concern was that the American golfer never could put together a few holes. Arguably, that might have been the theme of... Read More
Webb Simpson Looks Ahead After Good PGA Championship
Webb Simpson managed to stay in the top-20 over the weekend at the PGA Championship. The +2 on the back nine did not dampen his spirits. If anything, given the conditions, Simpson felt he played well. He was able to ride the waves and not be too high or too low. Simpson did make a... Read More
Justin Rose Returns To Colonial
Justin Rose ended his missed cut streak with a 13th-place finish last week at The PGA Championship. Rose gained 5.1 strokes tee-to-green. It was the first time since January that he gained strokes in that metric. Rose hopes to continue the form he showed last week at a venue he has had success at. Rose... Read More
Jordan Spieth In Excellent Form Ahead Of The PGA Championship
After a disappointing missed cut at The Masters, Jordan Spieth responded with an impressive ball-striking display in Hilton Head. Spieth won the event while gaining 13.3 strokes tee-to-green and 4.8 strokes on approach. He followed up his win with a second-place finish at The Byron Nelson last week. Spieth had another strong showing with the... Read More
Billy Horschel An Interesting Play At PGA Championship
Billy Horschel has the short game to be an interesting play this week at Southern Hills. With an extreme emphasis being put on the short game this week, the Florida native ranks sixth in the field strokes gained: short game, over the last 24 rounds. He also ranks 23rd off the tee and has gained... Read More
Cameron Young A Steady Putter Away From Victory
Cameron Young has four finishes T3 or better in his rookie season but has not yet managed to get his hands on any hardware. He enters the week as one of the more popular plays courtesy of his controlled power off the tee that has reliably gained him an average of 0.9 strokes per round... Read More
Talor Gooch A Safe Play
Since his win at the RSM Classic in November, Talor Gooch has either finished in the top 30 or missed the cut. If Gooch makes the cut, you will most likely be rewarded with an impressive finish. He does the majority of his scoring with his irons, around-the-green game and with his putting. Over the... Read More
Will Zalatoris Looking To Continue Incredible Major Form
Will Zalatoris may have lost the trust of those that played him last week at the Byron Nelson, where he lost 4.26 strokes putting en route to his first missed cut since November. In his seven major appearances, Zalatoris has gained over 1.8 strokes per round in five of those starts, culminating in four top-eight... Read More
Joaquin Niemann Has Skill Set To Contend For PGA Championship
Joaquin Niemann entered his final round of the Byron Nelson in third place and ended his day T25, losing 5.69 strokes to the field in a single round. He will be looking to bounce back this week at a course that suits his impressive tee-to-green game. At a course that demands exceptional play around the... Read More
Scottie Scheffler Is A Smash Play At Southern Hills
Scottie Scheffler trails Justin Thomas by a fraction in strokes gained total on the 2022 season, but has four more victories than Thomas. Scheffler has risen to the top of the world rankings in rapid fashion and is playing golf at such an exceptional level that it will not be surprising to see him continue... Read More
Jason Day Remains A High-Risk, High-Reward Play
Jason Day remains a mixed bag of results. He has flashed rounds of brilliance with stellar iron play and a tidy short game that has always been a crutch to lean on during lackluster rounds. Day has also had a few recent rounds where he was not sure which direction the ball would fly off... Read More
Abraham Ancer A Fade At Southern Hills
Abraham Ancer will be a fade this week at the PGA Championship. The Mexican's game has not been sharp this year as he has failed to finish inside the top-20 in any event in 2022. The 31-year-old has last strokes around the green in six of his last seven events, a statistic that should be... Read More
Tiger Woods May Struggle At PGA Championship
With very little statistics to go off, it is tough to predict how Tiger Woods will play when he tees it up for the second time this year. He made the cut at The Masters which is essentially his backyard as he has played well there so many times. He heads to Southern Hills where... Read More
Xander Schauffele Riding High Into PGA Championship
Xander Schauffele displayed one of the most impressive 2.5 rounds of golf since Cameron Smith and Jon Rahm broke scoring records at The Tournament of Champions in January. After appearing to be headed for an imminent missed cut, eight strokes off the cut line early on Friday, he rattled off 13 holes of blistering ball... Read More
Justin Thomas Primed For Victory At Southern Hills
Justin Thomas has finished T8 or better in 75% of his regular starts this year. He lights up the strokes gained columns across the board, including putting which is an area of his game he has seen drastic improvement in. He is having the best statistical season of his illustrious career, gaining an average of... Read More
Tony Finau Inconsistent Leading Up To PGA Championship
Tony Finau has been inconsistent in many aspects of his game leading up to this week's PGA Championship. He looked incredibly sharp at the Mexico Open gaining over eight strokes on approach and finishing in second place. The 32-year-old then followed that up at the Wells Fargo losing over seven strokes on approach. The inconsistencies... Read More
Adam Scott Hard To Trust At Southern Hills
Adam Scott makes for an interesting decision at the PGA Championship this week. On one hand, he's been putting extremely well, ranking top-ten in the field over his last 24 rounds. He is also a veteran who knows how to grind it out in tough conditions, similar to what it will take to win this... Read More
Sepp Straka Trending Down Into PGA Championship
Since his top-five finish at the RBC Heritage, Sepp Straka has struggled over his last three starts. After missing the cut at both the Zurich Classic and Wells Fargo Championship, Straka finished T73 last week at the AT&T Byron Nelson. Straka has been one of the toughest players to figure out this season, due to... Read More