The PGA Tour returns to individual stroke play this week with the CJ Cup honoring Byron Nelson. For the fifth consecutive year, this event will be held at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. Quite simply, the PGA Tour has now soft admitted on multiple occasions that this is not a golf course of high enough quality to host a PGA Tour event. After playing as one of the five easiest golf courses on the schedule in 2021 and 2022, the par was changed to 71 instead of 72, in an eff

Good morning! Andy is taking a well-deserved break this week, so there won't be a full Zurich Classic course breakdown. Fortunately, because I'm an obsessive editor who hates deleting things, I've got some of Andy's old writeups on TPC Louisiana, so I've taken some of those write-ups and put them together so those of you who are looking for a deep-dive on the Zurich will have some information. The course doesn't appear to have changed much (it's still playing to exactly 7,425

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There's always a natural exhale after The Masters, which makes the decision to host a Signature Event in the following week that much more confounding. I understand this from a geography standpoint. I made the drive myself from Augusta to Hilton Head last year. It's certainly not inconvenient. Yet at the same time, doesn't this feel like the perfect week to host the Zurich Classic? Let fans exhale, miss real competition for a week, and then position your 'Signature Event' as

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The Valero Texas Open is one of the longest-running tournaments on the PGA Tour, dating all the way back to 1922. As of 2017, the event has been managed by Wasserman Media Group (I was a former intern!), and it has been played in the San Antonio area since inception. It is the longest-held PGA Tour event in the same city, and while the tournament has moved around to multiple venues in the greater San Antonio area, we have been coming to TPC San Antonio since 2009. In 2019, th

Weather Okay, here’s my opinion. First of all, there will be flog lag on the weather this week. I cannot believe this is a sentence I am...

The PGA Tour heads to Houston for the Texas Children's Houston Open, which will be returning to Spring for the second year in a row after a few editions in the Fall swing. Memorial Park will be the host course for the fifth consecutive year, an undisputed upgrade from the Golf Club of Houston, which couldn’t even stay in the LIV rotation! I am far more partial to Memorial Park, particularly given my affinity for Tom Doak. While many of the PGA Tour's best players are in full

Okay, let’s talk about it! I have personally never seen so much discourse on the weather this week in my four years of covering golf...

The PGA Tour heads to Tampa this week for the final stop in a four-week Florida swing. While I don't think that the Valspar Championship is the best Florida event, it might be the most underrated. The field strength has been up and down over the years amid multiple scheduling changes. While most of the best players in the world are now in full-on Masters mode, we'll still get one more look at Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Sam Burns, Shane L

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The PGA Tour returns to the swamp for its flagship event, the All-Caps PLAYERS Championship. This event now features the highest purse in golf, a whopping 25 million, which has doubled since 2019. The field consists of 144 players and remains the strongest non-major championship field of the year. The host venue is the iconic TPC Sawgrass, designed by Pete Dye in 1980. Scottie Scheffler will look to become the first player in its 40-year history to win three Players Champions

I will refrain from an over-inflated weather breakdown this week, as we are fortunate to having the legendary “UTStick” join us for the...

After a disappointing #NotMyHonda, I’m tentatively excited for the fourth signature event of the season, the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The API will receive the signature banner for the second year in a row, and the 72-man field is one of the few signature events that will also feature a cut. Similar to the Genesis Invitational, only the top 50 players and ties will advance to the weekend, which feels fairly nonsensical to me. Regardless, Bay Hill is one of the best tests of

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The Cognizant Classic opens one of my favorite stretches of golf on the PGA Tour, the Florida swing, known for its firm and grainy Bermuda greens, copious water hazards, and swirling winds. Yet for reasons unbeknownst to myself, the PGA Tour has attempted to re-brand the previous Honda Classic as another 15- to 20-under-par approach and putting contest. In a sign of solidarity, for the ethos of the Honda Classic, we will quietly support the Honda of old while not standing for

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After a torrid start to the season, the PGA Tour takes a natural exhale for the Mexico Open at Vidanta Vallarta, a logical exhale for many of the game’s best players. This event will unquestionably feature our most underwhelming field of the season. Yet with more lesser-known players comes a stronger reliance on data and often a greater edge. My most financially successful part of the season has historically been the Fall swing, after all. Even with such an underwhelming fiel