There have been five U.S. Opens contested at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club (1896, 1986, 1995, 2004, 2018). If we look past the second national championship and focus on the four from the past 40 years, only THREE players have finished under par in those tournaments. That?s what we are in for this week at one Read more…
The last foreign-born player to win the PGA Championship was Australia’s Jason Day in 2015. So after decade of American dominance, will the trend continue? Or might one of the world’s best break-through at Aronimink Golf Club, where South Africa’s Gary Player lift the Wanamaker Trophy the last time it hosted a major championship in Read more…
Only one player in the last 40 years has taken three weeks off on the PGA Tour before the Masters and won: Adam Scott in 2013. Augusta National Golf Club is the most predictive venue on the tour schedule. Year after year, players who check a handful of particular boxes compete, contend and, ultimately, win. Read more…
How did we get here? Tiger Woods’ team was at the bottom of the TGL Season 2 preseason rankings. Their original odds were more than double those of the fifth-ranked team. To say nobody saw this coming is a massive understatement! The second-seeded Los Angeles Golf Club (4-2) will take on the fourth-seeded Jupiter Links Read more…
The top three on the leaderboard Sunday evening at The Players Championship are TGL players! So much for the injury concerns (lol), six of the top ten inhabit the SoFi Center. Unfortunately, for a newly crowned Cameron Young is not one of those who will be heading to Palm Beach Gardens for the playoffs on Read more…
Whether the Players Championship is considered a major is irrelevant. The flagship event of the PGA Tour is a true bucket-list venture for every golf fan. From the most exciting three-hole finish in all of tournament golf to the most volatile cut line on tour, the Players never lets us down from a competitive and Read more…
Get ready for TGL action! Seven regular-season matches are coming over the next nine days. Four of those matches are going to take place over the next 36 hours. On Monday night, we begin with an Atlanta Drive Golf Club (2-1) double header. In the early match (5 p.m. ET), they will compete for first Read more…
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — If TGL was good for golf, that’s great, but was it good for us? Our intentions at Read The Line are pretty specific: We are here to cash winning tickets. RTL predicted 14 of the 19 matches correctly in Season 1, including the postseason. That is a 74-percent win rate Read more…
Woods and Thomas leave more questions than answers as we preview Season 2 of TGL. Will Atlanta Drive Golf Club be able to repeat without Justin Thomas? And will Tiger Woods join Jupiter Links Golf Club this season? Read The Line Keith Stewart explains a way you can win up to $500,000 by predicting the Read more…
Back in July, I grabbed a tee time on Bethpage Black. If you are not familiar with Read The Line, I am a PGA Professional who handicaps professional golf for a living. It has its moments. Have you ever lost an outright bet where you had two of the three players in a sudden-death playoff Read more…
The path to victory at the Ryder Cup requires a different mindset than other golf tournaments. If you want to win (or predict the winner!), you can’t view these players as individuals. If you did, every list imaginable would put Scottie Scheffler at No.1.
It’s the fourth and final men’s major championship of the 2025 season. What started with a career-defining moment at the Masters has been recently capped by a 64-foot birdie bomb at the U.S. Open. In between, the world’s No. 1 grabbed his first major away from Augusta National. What can we expect across the Atlantic Read more…
Over 1,300 players have competed in a U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club and 2 percent have finished four rounds under par. Oakmont is golf’s greatest test. Oakmont Country Club held its first U.S. Open in 1927. Ninety-eight years later, the membership has welcomed the USGA back for their 10th turn at hosting our national Read more…
To properly prepare for the 89th Masters, we once again offer this scouting report that outlines each and every player in the field (not just two of them) this week at Augusta National.
The field was blown away on Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open. The wind was up across the beautiful bluffs of Torrey Pines and the field of 155 was fighting for their cutline lives. Ludvig Åberg finished Round 1 with a nine-under par 63 and held the tournament lead by two strokes. Åberg played Wednesday Read more…
Teams of three will take the stage Tuesday for the inaugural TGL match! Each made-for-TV event will take two hours and be contested over 15 holes. Here’s the format: The opening nine holes will be a THREE-man alternate shot. Teams earn points for winning holes. The final six holes will be as head-to-head matches. Those Read more…
Tiger Woods gets no respect these days. Golf’s modern GOAT and 23 of his PGA Tour comrades are less than 65 days away from the start of the TGL’s inaugural season. As the hype train heads toward the first match on Jan. 7, the preseason betting odds are finally here. Since simulator golf is brand Read more…
Look out! Short odds have returned to the betting boards for the Zozo Championship. The FedEx Cup Fall’s premiere purse ($8.5 million) takes us to Japan for a 72-hole, no-cut tournament. Eight Presidents Cup players are competing, including Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama and defending champion Collin Morikawa. Schauffele starts the board at +450 and followed Read more…
The average winning score at TPC Summerlin for the Shriners Children’s Open is 23 under par over the past five years. Those same five champions average 26 sub-par scores on their way to the winner’s circle. One tradition I like to start my golf betting week is checking the over/under on the winning score for Read more…
Only two players (NOT named Tiger Woods) have won the same event three years in a row over the last 40-plus years! Believe it or not, Tiger did it for six different events in a nine-year span. Two of those six three-year runs extended to a fourth year. But he’s the greatest of all-time and Read more…
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