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AT & T Pro Am (A signature event)
This weeks event stays in California for the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-am. The tournament is hosted over 2 courses on the first 2 days, the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links and the equally superb Spyglass Hill.
Wyndham Clark returns to defend his title, Interestingly a loss of form sees him at 55/1 to retain his title.
This tournament is the second signature event and as such commands a purse of $20000000 with $3.6m going to the winner.
The tournament marks the return from injury of Scottie Scheffler. If you were unaware Scottie cut his hand on Christmas day whilst preparing dinner for the family. It was serious enough to require surgery to remove fragments of broken glass. As expected, he starts as favorite at a slightly more generous 5/1. It’s difficult to see the value in this price since he hasn’t played competitive golf since before Christmas.
The Format.
Each amateur will have a single pro for the event. The 80 pros and 80 ams will compete in a best-ball format (using handicaps for the amateurs) over the first two rounds. The pros will also compete in normal stroke-play for the event proper. The amateur portion will end after 36 holes, and not extend into the weekend (this is the second consecutive year of this format, since the tournament became a signature event). There is no cut for the pros, and they will play the final two rounds at Pebble Beach.
Headline pick Max Greyserman 55/1 8 places, +6000 in American markets.
The Farmers Insurance Open
This week we move to San Diego for the Farmers Insurance Open. For the second week the tournament is being played on Multiple courses. Torrey Pines South and North courses play host for the tournament. This week the format is back to a traditional 36 hole cut. Big hitters normally feature prominently up the leaderboard and this will be reflected in our predictions.
Headline Pick Max Greyserman UK price 25/1, US price +3000
John Deere Classic 2023
Another relatively quiet week as only 9 of the world’s top 50 take part in the John Deere Classic, which represents a good opportunity for some of the lower ranked players to pick up some valuable prize money and FedEx points. As has been the case for the last two weeks, we can expect some low scoring.
Rocket Mortgage Classic
A relatively weak field, with only one of the world’s top ten (Max Homa) in attendance, tee it up in Detroit as Tony Finau defends the title he won in 2022 by 5 shots with a remarkable 26 under par winning score.
The Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands
After Wyndham Clark’s thrilling victory in the US Open, the Travelers takes centre stage this week with most of the world’s elite players teeing it up again as Xander Schauffele aims to defend the title he won last year.
The US Open 2023
We’re already at the third major of the 2022/3 season, which takes place in California at LA Country Club, which has undergone a significant redesign in preparation to host the US Open. Matt Fitzpatrick defends the title that he won so memorably with one of the finest bunker shots in living memory on the final hole.
The Memorial Tournament 2023
The PGA Tour heads to Jack’s Place for this week’s Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, a Designated event at Muirfield Village GC in central Ohio. All of the world’s top 5 tee it up, with Max Homa (6) the highest ranked player not taking part due to the wedding of his sister this weekend.
Charles Schwab Challenge 2023
After Brooks Koepka secured his fifth major in the PGA Championship, the PGA Tour returns to Texas for the Charles Schwab challenge, where Scottie Scheffler heads the field in his home state.
US PGA Championship 2023
A redesigned and toughened Oak Hill Country Club is the host venue of a major for the first time in a decade as the world’s best come together for the US PGA Championship, the second major of the 2022-3 season.
AT&T Byron Nelson 2023
World number 2 Scottie Scheffler returns to action after skipping the Wells Fargo as KH Lee attempts a third consecutive victory in the AT&T Byron Nelson. Only nine people men since 1945 have won the same PGA Tour event three straight years, and seven of them are Hall of Famers.
Wells Fargo Championship 2023
This season’s Wells Fargo Championship heads back to Quail Hollow Club after a one-year detour to TPC Potomac as the usual Charlotte host club was preparing for the Presidents Cup last season. Max Homa will look to defend his title after a two-shot victory in 2022. He also won this tournament in 2019 at Quail Hollow.
Mexico Open at Vidanta 2023
The PGA Tour moves to Mexico this week as Jon Rahm seeks to defend his title, with Tony Finau, a narrow runner-up last year, the only other member of the world’s top 20 taking part.
RBC Heritage 2023
Jon Rahm’s dramatic victory in the Masters is swiftly followed by the next of the Tour’s new designated events as most of the top players take on Harbour Town Golf Links for the RBC Heritage.
US Masters 2023
The first major of the season is upon us and FormGolfer has gone even deeper than usual in our analysis to find the value picks to make it a profitable as well as an entertaining weekend.
Valero Texas Open 2023
It’s the last event before the eagerly anticipated 2023 Masters, which sees a weakened field at the Texas Open, with none of the top 10 in the world featuring.
Dell Technologies Match Play
The PGA Tour returns to Austin Country Club with a 64-player field now set for the annual World Golf Championships Dell Technologies Match Play. Scottie Scheffler returns to defend the title he won a year ago.
Valspar Championship 2023
The PGA Tour’s Florida swing wraps up at the Valspar Championship, where Sam Burns looks for his third win in a row at Innisbrook.
The Players Championship 2023
Golf’s fifth major is here as the world’s best take on the challenge of TPC Sawgrass and the iconic island green of the 17th hole. We can expect a ton of drama and hopefully a finish to rival what unfolded at Bay Hill last week.
Arnold Palmer Invitational 2023
The PGA Tour returns to Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Tour’s fourth designated event of 2023. World number 1 Jon Rahm – with three wins in six Tour starts this season – leads a star-studded field in Orlando.
Honda Classic 2023
Sepp Straka returns to PGA National looking to become the first repeat winner at the Honda Classic since Jack Nicklaus in the late 1970s.
Genesis Invitational 2023
The Genesis Invitational sees a stacked field including 23 of the top 25 in the world. Oh, and a certain Tiger Woods makes his return from a foot injury. This should be fun.
Phoenix Open 2023
A huge week is in store at the WM Phoenix Open, as a loaded field will play the Tour’s most highly-attended event. And there’s a football game in town, as well.
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2023
The PGA Tour returns to the golf paradise of Pebble Beach for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 2017 champion Jordan Spieth headlines the field, with Tom Hoge returning to defend.
Farmers Insurance Open 2023
Jon Rahm aims to continue his hot streak at Torrey Pines – a venue where he has had much success in the past. Rahm is set to be joined by four others from the world’s top 10 as the West Coast swing continues.
The American Express 2023
After a couple of weeks in Hawaii, the West Coast swing starts with the American Express, a pro-am event held across three courses.
The Sony Open in Hawaii
The first full-field event of 2023 sees Hideki Matsuyama return to the scene of his playoff win over Brian Harman. Nineteen of the 39 golfers who played the Tournament of Champions will also make the island hop for the Sony Open.
Sentry Tournament of Champions 2023
2023 starts with a bang as 17 of the top 20 in the world rankings tee it up in Hawaii for the traditional curtain-raiser to the new year.
RSM Classic 2022
The holiday season is approaching as the RSM Classic is our penultimate opportunity to put some funds in the festive bank. Fresh off the back of victory in the Houston Open, Tony Finau aims to double up as he heads a relatively weak field.
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The Evolution Of The PGA Tour: From Sam Snead To Tiger Woods & Beyond
Before social media bonuses and plots for breakaway leagues came golf in its purest form, though money has long played a role in the who, what and why.
As far as the PGA Tour is concerned, its roots can be traced back to the late 1800s and the sprinkling of tournaments that began to pop up across the United States of America.
Just 10 professionals and one amateur gathered for the inaugural US Open at Newport in Rhode Island in 1895 and over the following decades golf’s popularity began to grow.
Perhaps the breakthrough in the US, and something that became front-page news, was amateur Francis Ouimet’s US Open triumph in 1913, with the 20-year-old defeating English stars Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a play-off.
It was a victory that contrasted golf’s image of a sport for the wealthy, with Ouimet hailing from a working-class background – he did, however, grow up across the road from The Country Club in Brookline in the Boston suburbs and began caddying there at the age of 11. It was at this venue nine years later he claimed his only US Open crown.
Three years after Ouimet’s success the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, the PGA, was formed, and during the following decade a West Coast swing began to emerge.
Regular tournaments were held in Texas and Florida during the winter months making up part of a circuit that would work its way through a growing number of state opens tournaments.
In the 1930s, an annual schedule began to be formalised – with the legendary Gene Sarazen winning a Career Grand Slam – and following World War Two its popularity began to pick up momentum with the likes of Sam Snead and Ben Hogan coming to the fore.
But the sport’s first real superstars were forged in the 1950s and 60s at the same time as golf gripped the nation at an amateur level, with families starting to enjoy more financial freedom and leisure time than ever before.
It was driven by the nation’s president – a five-star general who played a key role in World War Two and the D-Day invasion of Normandy and sat in the Whitehouse office for nine years, but who called “the thrill of a lifetime” his first and only hole-in-one at the age of 77.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was so much of a golf addict he had a net constructed in the Whitehouse basement where he could nip down and practice, he would use the South Lawn as a practice range and even installed a putting green just outside the Oval Office to sharpen his flat stick game.
Eisenhower was a long-time member of Augusta National who would regularly shoot in the mid 80s and called Arnold Palmer a close friend, and with the president often enjoying rounds with golf pros and celebrities it increased the sport’s appeal to the wider public.
As did television coverage, which also brought with it increased revenue and perhaps inevitably disagreements over how and where that money should be divided up between players and officials.
It led to the Tournament Players Division splitting from the PGA of America in 1968 in what many see as the formal beginning of the PGA Tour. Joe Dey was appointed its first commissioner and was followed by former player Deane Beman in 1974.
The organisation’s name officially changed to the PGA Tour the following year – albeit having a brief stint as the TPA Tour (Tournament Players Association) because of a marketing dispute in 1981.
During Bernan’s 20-year tenure it enjoyed remarkable growth and also witnessed a huge rise in tournament purses.
It was a period that saw players such as Tom Watson, Greg Norman and Curtis Strange grace the circuit’s manicured fairways and carpet-like greens, as well as a fleeting membership for the enigmatic Seve Ballesteros, and by the time Bernan passed on the baton in 1994, the PGA Tour’s revenues had grown from $730,000 when he started to more than $200m.
Most on the golfing scene were aware of a talented young amateur coming through the ranks at that stage but few could have predicted just what an astounding impact he would have on the game.
Tiger Woods landed his first major at the 1997 Masters and would go on to dominate the sport for more than a decade – and the headlines for even longer.
Four Green Jackets have followed that opening victory at Augusta National 25 years ago – including an improbable and remarkable 2019 comeback triumph – contributing to 15 major wins, while the American has also racked up 82 victories on the PGA Tour to take him level with Sam Snead. No more player has ever won more.
Woods was, and still is, a player who transcends golf and was the face of the PGA Tour’s video game for 14 years, taking the sport into people’s living rooms through via a different platform and opening it to a new, younger audience.
He also top’s the PGA Tour’s career earnings list at more than $120m, above fellow American and recent wantaway star Phil Mickelson, though Woods’ profile has helped turn the game’s star players into supremely marketable assets.
On the sporting front, despite Woods’ brief comeback, the game appears to be in great health from a competitive standpoint and boasts a number of marquee names, from Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas to Europeans Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy.
In fact, the PGA Tour’s biggest recent challenge has come not from its popularity, but by the threat of a Saudi-funded super league reportedly offering stars astronomical sums of money to join.
That, however, seems to have crumbled with Northern Ireland’s McIlroy saying the breakaway project is “dead in the water” and the likes of Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau distancing themselves from the project.
It means, for now at the least, the PGA Tour lives on in its current guise, with the only big question remaining being who will win its lucrative Player Impact Program?