PGA Sony Open Picks and Predictions
Jan 13, 2021 | By:
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Harris English comes into this week s Sony Open with five Top-10 finishes in seven events this season, including a victory at last week s Sentry Tournament of Champions.
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Harris English comes into this week s Sony Open with five Top-10 finishes in seven events this season, including a victory at last week s Sentry Tournament of Champions.
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Honolulu is the site of the first full-field event on the 2021 PGA betting calendar and scoring will literally depend on which way the wind is blowing.
KAPALUA, Hawaii – Ryan Palmer chunked his chip shot on the par-5 ninth hole on Saturday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and walked sideways in disgust as it caught the ridge in front of the elevated green and started to trundle back.
DJ, JT have new drivers in play at Sentry
A look at Dustin Johnson s bag at Kapalua. (Courtesy of GolfWRX)
Jon Rahm’s switch to Callaway received most of the early-week equipment buzz at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, but two of the game’s biggest names also have new gear in play.
Both Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas are using new drivers this week at Kapalua. They’re paired together Thursday in the day’s final group, which will tee off at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.
Johnson, the reigning FedExCup champion, has put TaylorMade’s new SIM2 driver (10.5 degrees) in the bag this week. The club will have his trusted Fujikura Ventus 6 X shaft. Johnson also is adding the SIM2 HL 3-wood (16.5 degrees) with a Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X shaft. Johnson found higher ball speeds with the new driver, but most noticeably more forgiveness across the face.
Predicting the TOUR Championship field
2021 Players to Watch on the PGA TOUR
A dozen tournaments into the 50-tournament Super Season, we’re still a lot closer to the beginning than the end. Regardless, we’ve got enough information to guess which 30 players will qualify for the season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake on Sept. 2-5, 2021.
Eight of the 10 winners from the fall of 2019 went on to qualify for the most recent TOUR Championship, the most since the wraparound season began eight years ago. So, yeah, we’ll go out on a limb and say Safeway Open champ Stewart Cink (fourth in the FedExCup standings) is going to make it back to East Lake for the first time since 2009.
Top 10 Under 25
Kids these days. They make it look so easy.
The transition from schoolboy golf to the big leagues isn’t supposed to be so simple. Sure, there are always exceptions, but they come along once every few years. Not anymore.
It’s fitting that Viktor Hovland won the final PGA TOUR event of 2020 because he and his peers have changed the game. They’ve permanently altered our perception of what’s possible for the crop of prospects coming out of college each year. These players turned pro to big expectations and they’ve exceeded all of them. They continually sent us scouring the record books to put their accomplishments in context.