Bexico City

At Doha Golf Club, the profile that we are primarily looking for is a combination of approach play and putting. Distance has been a help, and you need to avoid the big miss into the desert, but driving hasn’t been a primary separator at the top of the leaderboard. We have the same big four at the top of the odds board as last week, but while Patrick Reed and Daniel Hillier were contending for victory, Jayden Schaper and Angel Ayora were struggling down the field. A month into the season, we...

This week we have the Qatar Masters at long-time host Doha Golf Club. There was a brief move away from Doha GC after 2019, but it returned in 2022 with the old Bermuda greens replaced by new paspalum greens. Doha is a long 7,508-yard stock par 72 that plays as an exposed desert course, often in windy conditions, with large greens. It played to a scoring average of +0.19 in 2025, +0.09 in 2024 and +0.85 in 2022 with winning scores of -16, -14 and -7 and only 9 players reaching -10 over these...

With most of the big names heading back to America, this is a fairly weak event, but that means it’s wide open beyond the four favorites at the top of the board. At the Royal Golf Club, the profile that we are primarily looking for is a combination of iron play and distance. Driving accuracy is somewhat irrelevant, and while paspalum putting is a bonus, players have been able to contend and even win without putting well. Players with a good history at the comp courses of Al Hamra, Doha, Yas...