TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium course is a venue that habitually rewards strong iron play, with four of the previous five winners ranking in the top six in greens in regulation. Detry continued that trend by ranking first in GIR as well in strokes gained/approach the green.
TGR and Genesis staff, as well as representatives from the Century Club of San Diego, have been essentially working around the clock to make the Genesis Invitational as unique and successful as possible.
When it comes to Charley Hoffman’s letter to his fellow PGA Tour players, apparently Rory McIlroy got the memo. And the four-time major champion had a few things to say in response.
Andrew Novak agrees with Charley Hoffman’s assertion about the PGA Tour’s AON Swing 5 pathway, even though the system benefited him at Pebble Beach last week.
Next week’s PGA Tour stop, the WM Phoenix Open, is often referred to as “The Greatest Show on Grass”. However, there will be a pretty entertaining show among a different set of golfers on the Monday of the tournament.
Perhaps the least surprising thing the PGA Tour has learned since it launched its Fan Forward survey initiative last June is that it has a pace-of-play problem. What it intends to do about it has yet to be determined, but changes are coming.
Today at Pebble Beach Golf Links, the world’s No.1 golfer finally described the events that led to the freak injury, which required surgery and forced him to miss two intended starts in the first month of the PGA Tour season.
The Northern Irishman says he used multiple simulators in preparation to ‘test’ the accuracy of the SoFi Center’s sim, while also offering a valid theory behind the artificial green complex’s bunker sand.
A less-is-more approach might be needed for a sport people want to “bash”, as McIlroy put it, while he himself sees some signs of stress in a tour he has gone to great lengths to preserve.