THE PLAYERS Championship is in the books and while we had two players in contention on Sunday, we had to settle for just a T8 with Sepp Straka while Viktor Hovland posted his worst round of the week to fall out of the money. Cameron Young had a memorable birdie on 17 while Matt Fitzpatrick bogeyed 18 and Young claimed his second PGA Tour win, the first coming at the Wyndham Championship last summer after a record tying seven runner-ups before the first victory. The PGA Tour remains in Florida for the fourth and final leg as it heads to Palm Harbor for the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course.  This will be the 25th year of the Valspar Championship that debuted in 2000 at Copperhead which is a par 71 that stretches 7,352 yards and like last week, it demands elite ball striking. It features very narrow fairways with well placed bunkers and punishing rough in key areas. Overall, there are 74 bunkers while nine holes have water in play so positioning is vital...

We had two players in contention over the weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and both hit our money list with Ludvig Åberg finishing T3 and Sahith Theegala coming in T6. It was almost a wire-to-wire winner for Daniel Berger but it was Akshay Bhatia who overcame a late five-shot deficit and forced a playoff which he won on the first hole of sudden death. It was his third PGA Tour victory, also winning in 2023 at the Barracuda Championship and in 2024 at the Valero Texas Open, both in a playoff as well. The PGA Tour remains in the Sunshine State this week for THE PLAYERS Championship taking place from The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.  The event has been played since 1974 and has been held at TPC Sawgrass since 1982 with the only year not played was the COVID year of 2020 after being cancelled after one round. It was moved from May to March in 2019 and The Stadium Course is a par 72 at 7,352-yards, an increase of 163 yards from 2021. While not...

We snagged a top ten with Nicolai Højgaard who finished T6 after making the cut on the number and going 66, 65 over the weekend but it was a very disappointing card from a less than stellar field. Shane Lowry had the Cognizant Classic in his grasp but double bogeys on 16 and 17 saw a three-shot lead turn into a two-shot deficit and Nico Echavarria took advantage with a huge birdie on 17 to win by two to capture his third PGA Tour win. The Florida swing continues with the third signature event of the season as this week it is the highly regarded Arnold Palmer Invitational from Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Florida. Formerly known as the Bay Hill Invitational, the name changed in 2007 recognizing Palmer who took over the property. This will be the third signature event over the last four weeks and while the field goes up in strength immensely from last week, the Arnold Palmer Invitational is a limited field to 72 players with the cut at top 50 and ties similar...

We were out of the money for the first time with The Genesis Invitational as it was Jacob Bridgeman winning his first PGA Tour event. He bogeyed two of his last three holes last week at Pebble Beach to fall short and it looked like another possible meltdown at Riviera. After birdieing two of his first three holes, eventually building a seven-shot lead, he went +3 over his last 15 holes and held off Kurt Kitayama and Rory McIlroy to win by only one shot. The California swing is complete and the tour heads to Florida for the next four events starting with the Cognizant Classic from PGA National Resort (Champions Course) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Formerly known as The Honda Classic, Cognizant took over sponsorship in 2024 and unfortunately for the event, it precedes the signature event Arnold Palmer Invitational and this year has to follow a signature event as it was usually played after the Mexico Open but that was moved to late October. The Champions Course at PGA National is a...

Weather can be an issue this time of year and we saw that two years when the event was shortened to 54 holes with Wyndham Clark winning by one shot over Ludvig Åberg after shooting a course record 60 in the third and ultimately final round. The weather looks to be a non-issue this year with average temperatures and not much wind until Sunday. From a statistical standpoint, it is pretty straight forward with our top three key categories being: Strokes Gained: Tee-To-Green Strokes Gained: Approach Strokes Gained: Around The Green Each bet is Win/Top Five/Top Ten. The typical recommendation is 50%/25%/25% with odds, payouts and results based on a $1000 unit (easy round number for bookkeeping) on each of the following players. The payouts are listed right below the odds which are all from DraftKings: Maverick McNealy Odds: Win 2,900 ~ Top Five 480 ~ Top Ten 220 Payout: Win 1,450.00 ~ Top Five 120.00 ~ Top Ten 55.00 We were on McNealy last week and it was another poor Sunday as he...

The PGA Tour will officially begin our season this week following three events to open 2026. There has been some reshuffling of the schedule from previous years as there was no opening Sentry this year as it was cancelled due to course conditions and the season started two weeks later than last year. We are coming off just three events leading into Phoenix and after being sandwiched in-between signature events in 2025, this year’s edition precedes two consecutive signature events, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational. The Greatest Show on Grass is the perfect stop prior to the signature events and in its usual spot on the schedule during Super Bowl week. The Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale has been a fan favorite for years and annually is the most attended event on tour, surpassing 700,000 spectators (they are not called patrons here) each year. Highlighted by The Colosseum, the par three No. 16 hole that accommodates 20,000 fans, this is...

With his win at the U.S. Open, J.J. Spaun (125/1) had the second highest odds of any golfer to win a major over the past decade, second only to Phil Mickelson (250/1) at the 2021 PGA Championship. Spaun was the only player to finish under par as he won his first major and just his second PGA Tour victory, the first since the 2022 Valero Texas Open. It was a roller coaster of a round as Spaun bogeyed four of his first five holes but birdied four of his final seven holes that included an improbable birdie on 18 to win by two shots over Robert MacIntyre. Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler were the other players in the top ten in odds to actually finish in the top ten. The Travelers Championship marks the eighth and final signature event of the season. The Travelers has been a mainstay since 1952 and has been played at the renamed TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut since 1989 when it went through its second redesign in a decade. It is a par 70 that reaches 6,844 yards making it one...

Sepp Straka held off Shane Lowry and Justin Thomas as the latter two had late collapses allowing Straka to capture the Truist Championship, his second PGA Tour title of the season. The sixth signature event is in the books and we move on to the second major of the season with the PGA Championship coming from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. We normally would have seen Quail Hollow last week playing host to the Truist Championship but we now get it one week later under more difficult conditions and higher stakes. It last hosted the PGA Championship in 2017 but that was when it was annually contested in August. Quail Hollow is a par 71 that is being stretched to 7,626 yards this week and will reward the long hitters with Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark, and Max Homa being recent winners of the then Wells Fargo Championship. The time change is significant because of the turf as the Bermuda layout will be overseeded with Poa on the greens and Ryegrass on the fairways and rough...

Following taking off the two-man Zurich Classic of New Orleans and then the Scottie Scheffler against the field THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, we are back for the Truist Championship, the sixth signature event of the season. Formerly known as the Wells Fargo Championship, Truist took over sponsorship and instead of playing at Quail Hollow which is the typical venue but is hosting the PGA Championship, Philadelphia Cricket Club will take center stage. The Flourtown, Pennsylvania property is the oldest country club in the United States, consisting of three courses with the Wissahickon Course hosting. This par 70 iconic track measures 7,119 yards so while not overly long, driving distance is still very important. It is a very unique layout whereas a normal course under 7,200 yards can be considered easy, this one is penal. The 118 bunkers are what give the course its teeth as the fairway bunkers are placed in areas where accuracy comes into play to avoid finding them. Hitting greens from...