![]() ![]() That includes the entire Top 30 in last year's FedEx Cup and all 13 TOUR winners thus far this season. Andrews with 44 of the current OWGR Top 50 at Bay Hill this week. ![]() Per the OWGR, this is the strongest field anywhere in the world since last summer's Open Championship at St. This week, the PGA TOUR continues the Florida swing to Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Fifth place was shared five ways between Ben Taylor, Ben Martin, Justin Suh, and last year's 1-2 finishers at the Honda Classic, Sepp Straka and Shane Lowry. Monday qualifier Ryan Gerard, who is a rookie on the Korn Ferry Tour, finished solo fourth and earned a spot in this week's TOUR alternate event at the Puerto Rico Open. Tyler Duncan finished third for his best PGA TOUR finish in over three years. Cole had the chance to match for birdie from just outside 10 feet, but the putt lipped out. On the first playoff hole, the Par 5 18th, Kirk, now ranked 32nd in the OWGR (Official World Golf Rankings), stuck his third shot and made birdie. Cole then settled for par at the last hole giving Kirk new life. Kirk led by one stroke going into the 72nd hole but found the water on approach and made bogey. Precise iron play has proven to be a differentiator in Palm Beach Gardens with ball strikers like Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott and Russell Henley all winning here before.Chris Kirk earned his first PGA TOUR victory in over seven and a half years at the Honda Classic, at 25/1, in a playoff over 150/1 longshot Eric Cole, who was tipped in this column last week. ![]() ![]() PGA National has proven to be one of the toughest tests on TOUR year after year, with the winner shooting no lower than 12-under since 2014. PGA National, which was originally designed by Tom Fazio and redesigned by Jack Nicklaus, is known for its challenging Bear Trap on holes 15-17, which features two par-3s and a par-4 with water looming to sink a player’s round coming down the stretch. PGA National (Champion) is a 7,125-yard par 70 that features Bermudagrass greens - which will be a welcome sight among many TOUR players after playing mainly on the bumpy Poa Annua greens on the West Coast. Honda Classic Early Picks: Kuchar Has Form and Course Fit Read now Course Preview Straka finished T45 last week at Riviera in his lone West Coast swing event after also playing at Kapalua, where he finished T21 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Straka came from five shots behind to win last year at -10 by a single shot over Shane Lowry, who opened with the second-shortest outright odds at +1400 this week. The event’s defending champion, Sepp Straka, opened with outright odds of +3500 to go back-to-back. Im is coming off of two top-10 finishes in his last three starts with a T4 at the Farmers Insurance Open and a T6 at the WM Phoenix Open. Im won his first event on TOUR here at The Honda Classic in 2020 when he finished at -6, holding off Mackenzie Hughes by a stroke. The PGA TOUR moves to Palm Beach Gardens at PGA National for The Honda Classic this week and the first event of the Florida swing.Īs the TOUR moves from coast to coast, most of the top players in the world have the week off, but Sungjae Im headlines the field and opened at PointsBet as the betting favorite at +900 to win outright. ![]()
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