Jon Rahm will try to become the third straight PGA Tour player to win since 2017 when he teed up at the Farmers Insurance Open in the San Diego suburb of Torrey Pines on Wednesday.
How rare would his feat be?
Since 1997, one player has made three consecutive 18 starts on the PGA Tour, and Tiger Woods has won all but four of them, according to Justin Ray, head of content at Twenty First Group. doing.
Rahm, who started the season with wins at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and American Express, became the first player to win three straight on the PGA Tour since Dustin Johnson won the Genesis Open, WGC-Mexico Championship and WGC-Dell. will be Technologies match play took place in early 2017 for him. Rory McIlroy did it last in his 2014 and Woods in his 2008.
according to Ray’s research, Woods won 58.3% of the time when he had a chance to win three in a row. Everyone else’s success rate was 10.5% for him.
Here’s what’s happening in men’s professional golf this week.
What’s next for the PGA TOUR
Farmers Insurance Open
when: Wednesday to Saturday
Where: Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
defending champion: Rook list
wallet: $8.7 million
Three stories to watch:
Ram three consecutive victories: Rahm should have a good chance of hitting 3 peats at Torrey Pines, one of his favorite courses in the world. He won his 2017 Farmers’ Insurance Open and his 2021 US Open.
In his career 24 rounds with Torrey Pines, Rahm has averaged 69.29 points. This is his second best figure among players with 10 or more rounds since 1968. Woods averaged 69.28 in 69 career rounds. Woods won the event seven times, while Torrey, who played for the Pines, also won the 2008 US Open.
“I feel really fit and very comfortable with my swing,” said Rahm. “So I’m going to Torrey, a place where I’m already very confident, with very high hopes and knowing that I’m doing everything right.
“If I keep hitting my tee shots and my iron game stays at this level, I will have a really good chance at that golf course. It has a very special place in my heart.”
How well has Rahm performed this year so far? : Leading the PGA Tour at Teeoffs (1.071).
Rahm has also done well in PGA Tour events in California.
.@JonRahmpga At California PGA Tour events from early 2017
Wins: 4 (1st place)
Average score: 68.74 (1st place)
Per Score: -246 (1st place)
Bogey/Worse per Round: 1.97 (1st)
SG Tee to Green: +1.71 (1st)— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) January 24, 2023
early tea time: For the second year in a row, the Farmers Insurance Open will run Wednesday through Saturday to avoid TV competition with the NFL’s conference championship game on Sunday. This is the only event on the PGA Tour schedule that ends on Saturday. Rounds 3 and 4 will air in prime time on the East Coast.
The field includes Rahm, Colin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau, Justin Thomas, Max Houma and Will Zaratris, so Tory Pines has plenty of star power. I have. In fact, he’s 5 of OWGR’s top 10 players, and his 13 of the top 50 are there.
Hello again: No doubt there will be jokes about the PGA Tour moving up the start date of the Farmers Insurance Open by one day to complete all four rounds with JB Holmes on the field. Holmes, 40, isn’t exactly known for his fast play.
Still, it’s good to see Holmes back on tour after dealing with a back injury for the better part of the last two seasons. He has a major medical exemption and to maintain his tour card he can play in 26 games to earn 288.816 FedEx his cup points. Early in Holmes’ career, he fought back from two brain surgeries and won three of his five career victories on tour.
It will be Holmes’ first PGA Tour start since failing to qualify for the Fortinet Championship in September 2021. Holmes hasn’t finished in the top 10 in a Tour event since winning the 2019 Genesis Invitational. Almost five months after winning the Riviera, Holmes shared his 36-hole lead with eventual champion Shane Lowry at his 2019 Open his championship at Royal Portrush. Holmes advanced to the final round six strokes behind him and in heavy rain he scored 87 in 16 overs. He finished tied for 67th. After that, Holmes finished in the top 15 only once in 31 starts.
2019 Houston Open winner Lunt Griffin will also make his first start since undergoing back surgery following the John Deere Classic in July. He tied for his 66th place last week at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Bahamas Great His Exuma Classic.
LIV Golf Wants Augusta National Documents
A recent discovery dispute between LIV Golf and the PGA TOUR involved communications between Tim Finkem, an independent director and former commissioner of the PGA TOUR, and employees and members of the Augusta National Golf Club. I’m here.
Lawyers for LIV Golf are seeking communications between the parties “in connection with new tours, including but not limited to LIV Golf,” according to court documents filed Monday.
The subpoena agreed to contact seven members of Augusta National, including four employees and chairman Fred Ridley. But LIV’s attorneys want to expand their findings to include Augusta National members Jimmy Dunn, Condorezza Rice, Billy Payne, and more.
“A central element of the Tour’s plan to eliminate competition from LIV is that golfers, other tours, vendors, broadcasters, sponsors, and virtually all other third parties have done business with LIV. The case was to threaten,” LIV Golf’s attorneys wrote in a joint statement. Court. “The findings indicate that the tool delivered these threats by deputizing not only its own executives and employees, but also other influential figures.”
In the same court filing, attorneys for Mary Meeker, independent director of the PGA Tour Policy Board, said the LIV golf attempt was “not at issue beyond what the LIV considers to be the ‘most powerful people in America.’ called it a “fishing expedition for communication with unrelated individuals.” “
“LIV erroneously alleges that the TOUR was ‘leaning’ on Augusta National or pressured LIV golfers out of the Masters,” Meeker’s attorneys wrote. “According to plaintiffs, TOUR and Augusta National have partnered in response to LIV.[ed] Some of the top professional golfers are wondering if they will be banned from future Masters tournaments. This theory is completely unfounded, as the fact that the Masters allowed his LIV golfer to participate in his 2023 tournament shows. “
Augusta National announced on December 20 that it will invite all golfers who qualified for the Masters under previous criteria, including 16 players competing in the LIV Golf League, in April.
Garcia drops out of DP World Tour dispute
DP World Tour communications director Scott Crockett told reporters in Dubai this week that LIV Golf’s Sergio Garcia, Branden Grace and Charl Schwartzel have dropped their appeals at the upcoming arbitration hearing. Competing LIV Golf Events.
Thirteen LIV golf players, including longtime Ryder Cup participants Ian Poulter, Graham McDowell, Lee Westwood and 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed, continue to appeal the lawsuit. A hearing before a three-man panel convened by the Sports Resolutions Arbitration and Media Center in London is scheduled to begin on 6 February.
A decision is not expected for several weeks after the hearing. Either side may appeal the judgment.
DP World Tour CEO Keith Perry told reporters in Dubai, “Whatever the outcome is.” “I think it’s an important moment for our tour, and for protecting the tour, and for members at all levels.”
baby photo!
Joel Dahmen pulled out of American Express last week for good reason. He and his wife, Rona, welcomed their first child into the world. Their son, Riggs, was born Thursday at 11:26 a.m. ET. where’s his bucket hat?
hey do you remember me
World No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy will compete in the Hero Dubai Desert Classic for the first time this year.
With a tea from Hollywood, Northern Ireland…@tommckibbin8 🤝 @McIlroyRory #HeroDDC | | # Rolex series pic.twitter.com/FuRng5Su5W
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) January 24, 2023
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