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April 2nd, 2026

The strategy trap hiding in Augusta National’s most overlooked hole

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December 10th, 2024

Stats say this 15-minute putting practice is crucial to making more putts

What if you could make lasting improvement with less than an hour of putting practice each week? Sports biomechanist Dr Sasho MacKenzie says it’s possible, as long as you practise the right way.

November 26th, 2024

Three simple ways to pick smarter targets, according to a strategy expert

From the middle of the fairway, aiming directly at the pin is rarely the smart play.

August 17th, 2024

The new ‘speed era’ is misunderstood. What golf’s next stars are really saying about distance

If the Bomb and Gouge era of the past decade was all about maximising driving distance at whatever cost, the new Speed-Plus era is more thoroughly informed by statistics.

June 13th, 2024

US Open 2024: ‘Effective green size’ is a big buzzword at Pinehurst – here’s what it means

These deceptively small greens mean pros will end up missing a lot of them.

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May 24th, 2024

Two pros asked Tiger Woods why he was so good. His answer is (probably) not what you think

May 1st, 2024

10 stupid score-killing mistakes, explained using advanced stats

We break down a few of the big mistakes golfers make, with a Strokes Gained statistical framework to explain what makes each so costly.

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March 20th, 2024

The crucial par-5 strategy peak Tiger Woods used and why it matters for you

Woods’ keys are all about not making mistakes; they’re not about making more birdies and eagles.

March 13th, 2024

The clever aiming strategy tour players use – and why you should, too

When tour players aim, they don’t think about their perfect shot, they think about all their shots – and especially their misses.

March 7th, 2024

Strategy expert reveals a big, surprising difference between 90s and 70s-shooters

The difference between these two players is not how many birdies they are making, it’s how many bogeys or worse they are making each round.

Why you shouldn’t hit 3-wood off the tee

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Open Championship 2023: The ‘Moneyball’ driving strategy that won Brian Harman the claret jug

Masters 2021: If you know Will Zalatoris’ story, you’re not surprised he nearly won a green jacket

Masters 2021: Augusta National as a ‘shotmaker’s course’? Maybe not

Leaderboard

Rocket Classic - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
T1	Cam Young	-10	F	2
T1	Patrick Cantlay	-10	F	2
T1	Patrick Fishburn	-10	F	2
T4	Matt Wallace	-9	F	2
T4	Rickie Fowler	-9	F	2
T6	Michael Brennan	-8	F	2
T6	Michael Kim	-8	F	2
T6	Peter Malnati	-8	F	2
T6	Chris Kirk	-8	F	2
T6	Xander Schauffele	-8	F	2
T6	Davis Riley	-8	F	2
T6	Ryan Gerard	-8	F	2
T6	Doug Ghim	-8	F	2
T14	Justin Lower	-7	F	2
T14	Michael Thorbjornsen	-7	F	2
T14	Jacob Bridgeman	-7	F	2
T14	Luke Clanton	-7	F	2
T14	Emiliano Grillo	-7	F	2
T14	Keegan Bradley	-7	F	2
T14	Stephan Jaeger	-7	F	2
T21	David Lipsky	-6	F	2
T21	Russell Henley	-6	F	2
T21	Corey Conners	-6	F	2
T21	J.J. Spaun	-6	F	2
T21	Jordan Spieth	-6	F	2
T21	Marco Penge	-6	F	2
T21	Kristoffer Ventura	-6	F	2
T21	Adrien Saddier	-6	F	2
T21	Mark Hubbard	-6	F	2
T21	Ricky Castillo	-6	F	2
T21	Brandt Snedeker	-6	F	2
T32	Kevin Roy	-5	F	2
T32	Rico Hoey	-5	F	2
T32	Thorbjørn Olesen	-5	F	2
T32	Hideki Matsuyama	-5	F	2
T32	Joe Highsmith	-5	F	2
T32	Nicolai Højgaard	-5	F	2
T32	Austin Eckroat	-5	F	2
T32	Hank Lebioda	-5	F	2
T32	Ben Kohles	-5	F	2
T32	Zac Blair	-5	F	2
T32	Tony Finau	-5	F	2
T32	S.W. Kim	-5	F	2
T32	Adam Schenk	-5	F	2
T32	Nick Taylor	-5	F	2
T32	Davis Thompson	-5	F	2
T32	Ben James	-5	F	2
T48	Beau Hossler	-4	F	2
T48	Ryo Hisatsune	-4	F	2
T48	Matt McCarty	-4	F	2
T48	Sungjae Im	-4	F	2
T48	Brian Campbell	-4	F	2
T48	Harris English	-4	F	2
T48	Max Greyserman	-4	F	2
T48	Zecheng Dou	-4	F	2
T48	Jackson Koivun	-4	F	2
T48	Kevin Yu	-4	F	2
T48	Matt Kuchar	-4	F	2
T48	Karl Vilips	-4	F	2
T48	Gordon Sargent	-4	F	2
T48	Keita Nakajima	-4	F	2
T48	Johnny Keefer	-4	F	2
T63	Jordan Smith	-3	F	2
T63	Mac Meissner	-3	F	2
T63	Dylan Wu	-3	F	2
T63	Rasmus Højgaard	-3	F	2
T63	Jackson Suber	-3	F	2
T63	Chandler Blanchet	-3	F	2
T63	Marcelo Rozo	-3	F	2
T63	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-3	F	2
T63	William Mouw	-3	F	2
T63	Adam Svensson	-3	F	2
T63	Neal Shipley	-3	F	2
CUT	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	-2	F	2
CUT	Andrew Putnam	-2	F	2
CUT	Lee Hodges	-2	F	2
CUT	Ben Silverman	-2	F	2
CUT	Ben Griffin	-2	F	2
CUT	Jake Knapp	-2	F	2
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	-2	F	2
CUT	William Jennings	-2	F	2
CUT	Eric Cole	-2	F	2
CUT	Aaron Wise	-2	F	2
CUT	Vince Whaley	-2	F	2
CUT	Mackenzie Hughes	-2	F	2
CUT	Billy Horschel	-1	F	2
CUT	Tom Hoge	-1	F	2
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	-1	F	2
CUT	John Parry	-1	F	2
CUT	Joel Dahmen	-1	F	2
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	-1	F	2
CUT	Kensei Hirata	-1	F	2
CUT	Brice Garnett	E	F	2
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	E	F	2
CUT	A.J. Ewart	E	F	2
CUT	Hayden Springer	E	F	2
CUT	Zach Bauchou	E	F	2
CUT	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	E	F	2
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	E	F	2
CUT	Nico Echavarria	E	F	2
CUT	Sam Stevens	E	F	2
CUT	Haotong Li	E	F	2
CUT	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	E	F	2
CUT	Ryan Ruffels	E	F	2
CUT	Rafael Campos	+1	F	2
CUT	John VanDerLaan	+1	F	2
CUT	Jeffrey Kang	+1	F	2
CUT	Chandler Phillips	+1	F	2
CUT	Chris Gotterup	+1	F	2
CUT	Harry Hall	+1	F	2
CUT	Jesper Svensson	+1	F	2
CUT	Davis Chatfield	+1	F	2
CUT	Denny McCarthy	+2	F	2
CUT	Webb Simpson	+2	F	2
CUT	Taylor Pendrith	+2	F	2
CUT	Danny Walker	+2	F	2
CUT	Pi Coody	+2	F	2
CUT	Garrick Higgo	+3	F	2
CUT	Cam Davis	+3	F	2
CUT	Matti Schmid	+3	F	2
CUT	Trace Crowe	+3	F	2
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	+3	F	2
CUT	Stefano Mazzoli	+3	F	2
CUT	Kevin Streelman	+3	F	2
CUT	Max McGreevy	+4	F	2
CUT	Seamus Power	+4	F	2
CUT	Patton Kizzire	+4	F	2
CUT	Lucas Glover	+4	F	2
CUT	Chad Ramey	+5	F	2
CUT	Nick Dunlap	+5	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	+5	F	2
CUT	Wyndham Clark	+5	F	2
CUT	Christo Lamprecht	+5	F	2
CUT	Pontus Nyholm	+5	F	2
CUT	Daniel Azallion	+5	F	2
CUT	Brendon Todd	+6	F	2
CUT	Andrew Novak	+6	F	2
CUT	Ryan Celano	+6	F	2
CUT	Steven Fisk	+7	F	2
CUT	Justin Quiban	+7	F	2
CUT	Patrick Wilkes-Krier	+7	F	2
CUT	Joe Hooks	+8	F	2
CUT	Keenan Huskey	+11	F	2
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	+12	F	2
CUT	Austin Smotherman	+12	F	2
CUT	Brad Dalke	+16	F	2
WD	Patrick Rodgers	-	-

United Kingdom 2026 Leaderboard

PlayersTeams

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Lucas Herbert	-30	18	4
2	Tyrrell Hatton	-24	18	4
3	Bryson DeChambeau	-21	18	4
4	Cameron Smith	-17	18	4
T5	Abraham Ancer	-14	18	4
T5	Caleb Surratt	-14	18	4
T7	Harold Varner III	-13	18	4
T7	Charles Howell III	-13	18	4
T7	Laurie Canter	-13	18	4
10	Carlos Ortiz	-12	18	4
11	Byeong Hun An	-11	18	4
T12	Anthony Kim	-9	18	4
T12	David Puig	-9	18	4
T12	Marc Leishman	-9	18	4
T15	Ian Poulter	-8	18	4
T15	Peter Uihlein	-8	18	4
T17	Branden Grace	-7	18	4
T17	Björn Hellgren	-7	18	4
T17	Dean Burmester	-7	18	4
T20	Tom McKibbin	-6	18	4
T20	Josele Ballester	-6	18	4
22	Charl Schwartzel	-5	18	4
T23	Jon Rahm	-4	18	4
T23	Paul Casey	-4	18	4
T23	Victor Perez	-4	18	4
T23	Thomas Pieters	-4	18	4
T23	Anirban Lahiri	-4	18	4
T28	Joaquin Niemann	-3	18	4
T28	Scott Vincent	-3	18	4
T28	Adrian Meronk	-3	18	4
T31	Danny Lee	-2	18	4
T31	Luis Masaveu	-2	18	4
T31	Cameron Tringale	-2	18	4
T31	Thomas Detry	-2	18	4
T31	Younghan Song	-2	18	4
T31	Martin Vorster	-2	18	4
T31	Bubba Watson	-2	18	4
T31	Martin Kaymer	-2	18	4
T39	Sebastian Muñoz	-1	18	4
T39	Sam Horsfield	-1	18	4
41	Lee Westwood	E	18	4
T42	Sergio Garcia	+1	18	4
T42	Matthew Wolff	+1	18	4
44	Yosuke Asaji	+2	18	4
T45	Talor Gooch	+3	18	4
T45	Richard Bland	+3	18	4
T47	Minkyu Kim	+4	18	4
T47	Brendan Steele	+4	18	4
T47	Travis Smyth	+4	18	4
50	Miguel Tabuena	+5	18	4
51	Ben Campbell	+6	18	4
52	Dustin Johnson	+7	18	4
T53	Do-Yeob Mun	+8	18	4
T53	Graeme McDowell	+8	18	4
55	Jason Kokrak	+10	18	4
56	Michael La Sasso	+11	18	4
	Richard T. Lee	+2		4