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Matt Jones Could Be One To Avoid At The Farmers Insurance Open
Matt Jones had a disappointing missed cut at The Sony Open after a record-setting performance at Kapalua. Jones set the record for 36-hole scoring in Maui, finishing in third place during the Tournament of Champions. Unfortunately, the Sony Open was a different story, as he missed the cut while losing strokes in every metric other... Read More
Maverick McNealy Looks to Contend in San Diego
Maverick McNealy returns to Southern California in good form. In his last 12 tournaments, the American has 11 made cuts and seven top 25-finishes and showed some of that momentum a few weeks ago at the Sony Open, where he finished 27th-place and gained 4.6 strokes tee-to-green. McNealy has decent course history at Torrey Pines,... Read More
Mito Pereira Begins His New Year At The Farmers Insurance Open
Mito Pereira received his tour card early by winning three times on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2021. The three-win promotion was the first since 2016, and the 26-year-old Chilean carried that momentum into three top-10s last season on the PGA Tour. Pereira is known as an excellent ball striker, gaining 2.6 strokes tee-to-green over... Read More
Will Zalatoris Riding Momentum Into Torrey Pines
Will Zalatoris started his 2022 campaign last week at The American Express, finishing sixth-place. Zalatoris flew under the radar heading into La Quinta, likely due to his poor finishes in the fall swing, but he managed to gain 5.7 strokes tee-to-green and 3.7 strokes on approach. A bad putting weak ultimately derailed his chances, and... Read More
Sebastian Munoz Tough To Trust At The American Express
Sebastian Munoz is set to make his first start of 2022 this week at The American Express. Munoz started the season with a rough fall, failing to make the cut in four of his seven starts. This week, players will need to excel in their approach game and putting if they hope to compete. Munoz... Read More
Matthew Wolff Returns To Action At The American Express
Matthew Wolff starts off 2022 at the American Express after finishing the fall swing strong with four consecutive top-20 performances, including a fifth-place finish at the Mayakoba Classic and a runner-up result at the Shriners. Although he may have some rust to shake off since he hasn't played since November, Wolff is no stranger to... Read More
Justin Rose Starts 2022 At The American Express
Justin Rose, the former No. 1 player in the world for a short period of time, seemed to have found some form in 2021 with four top-12 finishes -- two of those came in major championships. Rose enters the American Express after a three-month layoff, with his last event being the RSM Classic, where he... Read More
Carlos Ortiz Coming Off A Runner-Up Finish At The Mayokoba
Carlos Ortiz starts the new year coming off three consecutive made cuts, capped off with a runner-up finish at the Mayakoba Classic, where he gained over 11 strokes total. He is in the top 10 in both strokes gained on approach and in strokes gained in ball-striking over his last 36 rounds in this field.... Read More
Can Andrew Putnam Continue His Good Form This Week?
Andrew Putnam enters the American Express coming off a 27th-place finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii, where he gained over a stroke in both putting and ARG. He heads to the American Express this week, where he has strung together four consecutive top-34 performances, with his best finish being a 10th-place showing in 2020.... Read More
Talor Gooch A Fantastic Option This Week
Talor Gooch continued his solid 2022 season after a top-30 finish at the Sony Open last week. That makes Gooch eight-for-eight this season in the made cut department. Gooch will now bring his impressive season resume into a place he has found plenty of success in his career, The American Express. Gooch has made the... Read More
Harold Varner III Kicks Off 2022 At American Express
Harold Varner III returns to action after a couples months off, with his last event being a missed cut at the Mayakoba. He ended the 2020-2021 season with an 11th-place finish at the BMW and a 12th-place showing at the Northern Trust, where he gained over 3.5 strokes on approach. Before his missed cut at... Read More
Patrick Reed May Struggle At The American Express
Patrick Reed comes into The American Express off a top-15 finish at the Sentry Tournament of Champions a couple weeks back. Now, Reed returns to a place where he missed the cut last season. The American Express is not a normal stop for Reed on his PGA Tour schedule, playing last season for the first... Read More
Si Woo Kim Looks To Repeat At The American Express
Si Woo Kim picked up the third win of his PGA Tour career last year at The American Express by shooting 23-under par. Now, Kim looks to defend his title, but at the minimum, make his seventh cut of the season. Kim is coming off a made cut at the Sony Open but didn't have... Read More
Adam Hadwin Is A Specialist At The American Express
Adam Hadwin returns to The American Express with very solid history at the event. From 2016-2019 Hadwin recorded a finish no worse than T6, and as high as second place. With his history alone, Hadwin is worth a play this week, and that may come with some value. Hadwin ended 2021 missing six of his... Read More
Chris Kirk A Sleeper At The American Express
Chris Kirk comes into The American Express off a top-30 finish at the Sony Open, making it his fifth made cut in six starts this season. With that, Kirk returns to The American Express off two top-21 finishes in the past four seasons. Kirk is known for playing well on Pete Dye golf course's, which... Read More
Cameron Tringale Is One To Watch This Week
Cameron Tringale will make his first start of 2022 at The American Express this week. Tringale will look to build on a strong fall where he played seven events, finishing inside the top 25 four times. Tringale ranks inside the top 40 on the PGA Tour this season in strokes gained in putting, strokes gained... Read More
Russel Knox Coming To La Quinta In Great Form
Russel Knox had a great start to his 2022 year by finishing in seventh place at The Sony Open. Knox gained 5.1 strokes on approach last week. More impressively, he also gained 7.1 strokes from tee-to-green. The 36-year-old is beginning his 10th year on tour. Knox has only won twice on tour but has good... Read More
Adam Long Has Good Memories At La Quinta
Adam Long won the American Express, formally known as the Desert Classic, in 2019. He came into that week off three straight missed cuts. After his win in 2019, Long went on to miss five more cuts in a row. Long's win was an outlier, but he played very well that week. He had 16.2... Read More
Corey Conners Could Be Overlooked This Week
Corey Conners had a disappointing first three days at The Sony Open. The 30-year-old Canadian was stuck in neutral for much of the tournament before he fired a 64 on Sunday to finish in 11th place. Conners' strokes-gained data is impressive from Waialae. He gained 5.9 strokes on approach and 6.8 from tee-to-green. Although limited,... Read More
Phil Mickelson A Wild Card This Week
Phil Mickelson returns to action this week at The American Express. The 51-year-old golfer is coming off a 30th-place finish at Kapalua. Mickelson struggled on his approach in Maui, losing 2.9 strokes two weeks ago. Mickelson had a career-defining moment last spring when he won The PGA Championship at the Ocean course. Mickelson became the... Read More
Kevin Streelman Opens 2022 At The American Express
Kevin Streelman returns to action for the first time since November this week at The American Express. He competed five times between October and November, making four of five cuts. Streelman has missed two straight cuts at this event but has had some past success at La Quinta. Streelman finished inside the top 10 in... Read More
Seamus Power Looking To Stay Hot
Seamus Power is looking to continue his fantastic start to 2022 this week at The American Express. Power finished in a share of third place last week at the Sony Open, shooting three rounds of 65 or lower. The top-five finish marked Power's second top-five in his last three events. The 34-year-old Irishman has missed... Read More
Chez Reavie Needs To Find His Putter To Contend
Chez Reavie makes his first start since November this week at The American Express. In 15 measured rounds this season, Reavie ranks seventh in strokes gained on approach to the green. This statistic should be key this week, as players will need to put up low scores to have a chance to win. On the... Read More
Gary Woodland Makes His Return At The American Express
Gary Woodland will be making his first start of 2022 at the American Express this week. Woodland had a disappointing start to the new season in the fall. He finished in a share of ninth place at the CJ Cup but missed the cut in his other three starts. After a two-month hiatus, the former... Read More
Scottie Scheffler In Search Of First Win At The American Express
Scottie Scheffler will be making his first start of 2022 at the American Express this week. Scheffler had a strong start to the new season in the fall, recording top-five finishes at the OHL Classic and the Houston Open. Scheffler also had a second-place finish in his last start, the Hero World Challenge, in December.... Read More
Christiaan Bezuidenhout A Possible Sleeper This Week
Christiaan Bezuidenhout comes to La Quinta for the first time this week for The American Express. The 27-year-old South African had a strong showing last week at The Sony Open. Bezuidenhout gained 4.7 strokes from tee-to-green at Waialae while finishing in 17th place. Bezuidenhout is known as a great iron player and strong putter. Those... Read More
Cameron Champ Not An Option At The American Express
Cameron Champ will be making his first start of 2022 at The American Express this week. In total, it will only be Champ's second start of the season, playing only once in the fall. In that event, Champ shot a 73 and 71, leading to a missed cut at the Fortinet Championship. Champ didn't play... Read More
Sungjae Im Has Impressive Resume At The American Express
Sungjae Im comes into The American Express off a disappointing missed cut at the Sony Open. Im shot two-under par in the event, but that wasn't good enough to make the cut. Now, Im returns to a place he has found success in The American Express. Im will be making his fourth start in the... Read More
Denny McCarthy One To Watch In The Desert
Denny McCarthy, who is ranked No. 178 in the world, will be teeing it up for the fifth time at the American Express. The three-course rotation has not quite suited his eye thus far, with three missed cuts and one 48th-place finish. The 28-year-old capped off a great fall swing with top-15 finishes in his... Read More
Will Zalatoris Kicks Off His Year This Week
Will Zalatoris enters this week ranked No. 37 in the world after reaching as high as No. 27 this past summer. The uber-talented American did not end 2021 in great form after an injury during the Open Championship in July. This will be the 25-year-old's first time playing the American Express event. He has not... Read More
