Aaron Rai Struggles At Sony Open

Aaron Rai's great driving and approach skills should lend to higher finishes at the Sony Open. Rai has gained strokes off the tee during both trips but has only a missed cut and T61 to show for it. Rai's main issue at Waialae has been the putter, as it is most weeks. Rai comes off […]

Billy Horschel Looks To Find Form After Busy Fall

Billy Horschel closed the season with a pair of top-15 finishes but missed the playoffs. However, Horschel didn't take much time off. During the PGA Tour's break, Horschel kept busy by playing DP World Tour events. Horschel had three top-20 finishes in four events but missed the cut at the RSM Classic when he came […]

Andrew Putnam Reliant On Putting At Sony Open

Last season, Andrew Putnam was among the elite approach players on the PGA Tour. That carried over into 2024, but Putnam had an average week on the greens. The putter is the best club in Putnam's bag, but it's been the deciding factor in how high he finishes at the Sony Open. Putnam gained over […]

Keegan Bradley Battling Putting Woes At Waialae

Keegan Bradley has been part of the Sony Open field for the past few years with mixed results. Bradley has a pair of T12s but also missed four cuts. Last season was a big improvement for Bradley on the greens, but at Waialae, he's been below average for five of the past six years. Along […]

Matt Fitzpatrick Makes Debut At Sony Open

In his first trip to the Sony Open, Matt Fitzpatrick is one of the favorites to win the event. Fitzpatrick has the talent to win any time he enters a tournament, but whether he will this week is the question. Fitzpatrick's ever-increasing driving distance will play at Sony, but his inaccuracy could be an issue. […]

Justin Rose Struggles With Short Approach Shots

To compete at Sentry, approach shots must create chances for birdies. Justin Rose had a great season with his irons, but this week might be a different story. Rose excels on longer approach shots, but this tournament is more of a week for elite wedge shots. From inside 125 yards, Rose averages putts outside of […]

Sungjae Im On A String Of Solid Sentry Starts

Sungjae Im comes off his worst finish at Sentry last season and it was a respectable T13. Im struggled last summer but surged at the end of the season with six straight top-25 finishes. Im has a pair of top-10s in his other two trips to Sentry so his $8,100 price tag on DraftKings seems […]

Ludvig Aberg A Lock For Sentry Lineups

In 2023, Ludvig Aberg held up a trophy six times after the tournament ended. Only two of those were professional events, but there aren't many golfers on the planet that had a better 2023 than Aberg. After he secured his first PGA Tour win in his last start, Aberg makes his debut at the event […]

Brian Harman Returns To Sentry

Brian Harman has played this season-opening event three times, but this year will be his first trip in consecutive years. Harman finished T16 last year, mainly due to a disappointing week with his putter. Harman struggled on the greens to start last season but heated up in the middle of the summer before his big […]

Viktor Hovland Looks To Shake Sentry Struggles

Viktor Hovland enters this season as the PGA Tour's defending champion, but this event has not been one of his best. Hovland's best finish in three starts was a T18 last year after two years outside the top 30. The issue for Hovland had been putting in the past that kept him from better performances […]

Alex Smalley Battling Poor Putting

Alex Smalley is a great ball striker but the putter has held him back to begin his young career. Smalley went on a run during this summer with multiple top-25 and top-10 finishes but has cooled off this fall. While Smalley's putter has always been the problem, recently his off-the-tee and approach numbers have slid […]

Adam Svensson Aims To Defend RSM Title

Adam Svensson's win at last year's event gives hope to any players with poor course history. Svensson missed the cut in previous appearances before his first win last year and now he aims to defend for the first time on the PGA Tour. Svensson started the fall season strong with a pair of top-20 finishes […]

Justin Suh Collecting High Finishes During Fall

After a solid spring, Justin Suh struggled a bit during the summer. However, after a short break, Suh has been back to work during the fall season. After a pair of top-10 finishes, Suh enters an event where the best aspects of his game are paramount. Suh is an accurate driver and elite putter, which […]

Struggles Continue For Cameron Young

Cameron Young hasn't had the results his talent suggests he should for the past season. Young has elite driving distance but his accuracy has been an issue, which is a major problem for this event. In the past, Young had been a prolific putter, but for the past few months putting has become a problem. […]

Harry Hall Is Worth A Look This Week

Harry Hall's game should fit this event well, but it hasn't worked out that way. Hall is an elite putter and his best approach numbers are from inside 125 yards. The course isn't very long so Hall's solid driving distance and great putting should put him inside the top 25. However, each of his two […]

Kevin Yu Struggling With Short Game

Kevin Yu is among the best players on the PGA Tour off the tee, but one of the worst on the green. Yu has elite skills with his driver, but this course allows shorter hitters to have success. Previous winners have been traditionally solid putters so the profile of the course doesn't align with Yu's […]

Brandon Wu Stuck In A Rough Stretch

Brandon Wu hasn't posted a top-25 finish since the Canadian Open in June. Wu has the game to randomly post a high finish like he has in the past, but his recent form suggests that is unlikely. Wu has played in Bermuda twice and finished outside the top 30 both times. The combination of poor […]

Bermuda Offers Ben Griffin A Chance For First Win

The biggest hole in Ben Griffin's game is his accuracy off the tee. Griffin's short game is solid and he can get hot on approach, but wild misses with the driver have held Griffin back. The past two events, however, have seen Griffin make some improvements in accuracy. If Griffin can put the ball in […]

Big Price To Pay For Thomas Detry In Bermuda

Thomas Detry sits only behind Adam Scott in DraftKings pricing this week, but it's unclear whether he's worth that high price. Detry finished second at the event last year and T22 the year prior. While it's nice to see that Detry had success at the course in the past, his current form is a bit […]

Putting Continues To Plague Troy Merritt

Last season was not a good one for Troy Merritt. He only made eight cuts and the biggest issue was his putting. Merritt ranked No. 174 on the PGA Tour in strokes gained: putting. Despite playing at this course every year since 2010 outside of 2012, Merritt hasn't figured these greens out either. In only […]

Proceed With Caution On C.T. Pan

When C.T. Pan returned from injury in April, he went on a mini-run and nearly won twice. In the four events after those solid performances, Pan's finishing positions plummeted. The best Pan finished was T64 at the Wyndham Championship and his history at this course isn't much different. In five trips, Pan missed the cut […]

Sam Ryder Trending Up At Start Of Season

When Sam Ryder's season ended after the first week of the playoffs, his form was the best it had been in months. Ryder had his approach game dialed in and started to roll in some putts, but it wasn't enough to advance to the next round. Ryder's way up the leaderboard is through great iron […]

Kevin Streelman A Solid Start At Silverado

Since May, Kevin Streelman has been on a ball-striking tear. Streelman has gained strokes on approach since May and has been solid around the green as well. Where Streelman has struggled has been with the putter. In the three solid performances with his putter since May, Streelman has finished T18, T9, and T2. Good news […]

Doug Ghim Doesn't Fit At Fortinet

When Doug Ghim does well on the PGA Tour, his play follows a similar format. Ghim drives the ball extremely accurately, hits a lot of greens, and gains a stroke on the greens. None of the above have happened at the Fortinet, however. Along with a poor history of putting at the course, his ball […]

Hard To Trust Lucas Herbert To Start The Season

The list of events Lucas Herbert played in last season is impressive, but not so much when it comes to his finishing positions. Herbert basically only played in major championships and elevated events in the U.S. but only managed to finish inside the top 20 twice. The field at the Fortinet will not be at […]

Poor Putting Performances Holding Kurt Kitayama Back

This will always be a season Kurt Kitayama remembers with his first PGA Tour win and a T4 at the PGA Championship. However, since that memorable finish at a major championship, Kitayama hasn't had very many good weeks. In six starts since June, has three missed cuts, and three finishes outside the top 50. Putting […]

Tom Hoge Having Trouble Off The Tee

Tom Hoge is known as an elite approach player that can get hot from time to time and make some putts. Ideally, a lot of those approach shots would come from fairways to make his life easier but that's not been the case always. Hoge isn't inaccurate among PGA Tour players (No. 79) but isn't […]

Nick Taylor Struggling Off The Tee

Nick Taylor has only made two cuts since his dramatic win in Canada and the biggest issue has been one club. Taylor doesn't offer much distance off the tee and also isn't very accurate. That's not a great combination to have success against the top players in the world. When he played in this event […]

Harris English Seriously Struggling At Season's End

Harris English snuck into this week's field at No. 49 and his statistics show why. English has been great on approach the past two weeks, but every other part of his game has been a real problem. From week to week, English has to worry about a different part of his game derailing his results. […]

Taylor Moore Continues Terrific Putting Run

Taylor Moore has missed the cut in half of his last eight events and finished inside the top five twice. The biggest difference between the two positive weeks has been his putting. Moore has gained a ridiculous amount of strokes on the field with his putter, while his ball-striking numbers continue to be a struggle. […]