2026 American Express PGA Power Rankings: Top 10 Golfers To Watch This Week

As the PGA Tour makes its way onto the American mainland for the first time in the new year, golf fans will be treated to a rare influx of star power at PGA West. While the event itself may not hold the prestige of its Californian cousins to come, this week's field is one of […]

Golf Course Preview and PGA Betting Picks: Scouting the 2026 Sony Open (Premium)

It’s taken a week longer than usual for golf fans to welcome the PGA Tour back following 2026’s exclusion of one-half of the traditional Hawaiian swing. But for those of us cooped indoors with early nights and below-zero temperatures outside, the return of Oahu’s ocean backdrops will once again feel like a small luxury on […]

2026 Sony Open PGA Power Rankings: Top 10 Golfers To Watch This Week

After an extended layoff following the removal of Kapalua from this year's schedule, the PGA Tour is finally ready to usher in its 2026 campaign. The venue is a familiar one for the occasion: Wai'alae Country Club. Just 10 minutes from the iconic Waikiki Beach, this historic Seth Reynor design has hosted the world's best […]

2026 PGA Tour Power Rankings: Top 10 Rookies

As the calendar flips to 2026 in the golfing world, there is plenty to look forward to on the PGA Tour: from three brand new events, to the return of a collection of classic Major venues, and for players like Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, another chance to pad their resumes and climb ever higher into the […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2025 Sanderson Farms Championship

After a sporadic September on the scheduling front, October brings with it the first signs of fall and a run of six PGA Tour events in seven weeks! The start of our stretch run begins in Jackson, Mississippi for the Sanderson Farms Championship: an event that has seen its fair share of variety within its […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2025 Procore Championship

Just two weeks removed from crowning a FedEx Cup Champion, the PGA Tour wastes no time launching the race for 2026. But this fall looks nothing like years past. The “Swing Season” is no longer a sideshow for FedEx Cup points — it’s a proving ground. For players who missed the Top 50 cut in […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Scouting the Routing

After 40+ tournaments across six different countries, the 2025 PGA Tour season has finally reached its climax. Just 70 players remain in the race for the season-long title, and only 50 will finish this week with eligibility to move onto Caves Valley for the playoff semi-finals. One of these lucky players will stand on the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Wyndham Championship: Scouting the Routing

It is officially do-or-die time on the PGA Tour. With the first round of the playoffs getting started next week in Memphis, the Wyndham Championship is the last chance players will have to accrue valuable FedEx Cup points and put their names into the ring in the three-week race to crown our 2025 TOUR Champion. […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 3M Open: Scouting the Routing

With the final Major Championship of the season officially in the rearview, the eyes and minds of the PGA Tour officially turn to the stretch run for the FedEx Cup. Two points-paying events remain in the regular season, and with only the top 70 in the season-long standings eligible for an invitation to Memphis, the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Open Championship - Scouting the Routing

reThe final Major Championship of the year is upon us -- and according to many in the architecture world, we may have just saved the best for last. Royal Portrush: the only Irish representative in the Open rota, certainly helps the Emerald Isle live up to its namesake. Carved into a windswept stretch of the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Genesis Scottish Open: Scouting the Routing

As the road to the year's final Major Championship winds down, the PGA Tour makes its fourth annual pilgrimage to the home of golf (or at least 20 miles south of it across the Firth of Fourth). Scotland's national Open has been played at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick for the last six years, […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 John Deere Classic: Scouting the Routing

For the third consecutive week on the PGA Tour, players will face a breakneck sprint to 20-under and beyond. Despite some less-than-stellar fields through the years, TPC Deere Run has spent each of the last eight seasons as one of the easiest 10 courses on the PGA Tour and is one of only three courses […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Rocket Classic: Scouting the Routing

As the year's third Major and final elevated event hits the rear view mirror on the PGA Tour, the next month for golf on U.S. soil will turn to the race for the FedEx Cup Playoffs. With only 70 spots up for grabs in Memphis this coming August, the focus for many of the year's […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 U.S. Open - Scouting the Routing

From Pinehurst to LACC, Brookline, and Winged Foot, golf fans have gotten more than their fair share of U.S. Open drama in the last five years. But in spite of these legendary backdrops, no other course in the rota better encapsulates the ethos of the United States Open than Oakmont. Designed in 1903 with the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Memorial Tournament: Scouting the Routing

If you're one of the many golf fans who enjoy watching some of the best players in the world hack it around like a weekend warrior, the month of June on the PGA Tour should be tailor-made for your suitabilities. Muirfield Village and Oakmont loom as two of the most challenging of a set of […]

Course Preview for the 2025 PGA Championship: Scouting the Routing

At a venue that has become known for crowning breakout stars, there is perhaps no better marriage of course and tournament than Quail Hollow Club and the PGA Championship. From Rory McIlroy's scintillating six-under back-nine to capture his first PGA Title, to Rickie Fowler's clutch approach left of the pin on 18, and Justin Thomas's […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Truist Championship: Scouting the Routing

Just four weeks have passed since Rory McIlroy produced one of the most magical moments in Masters' history, yet we once again stand on the precipice of a Major Championship. With our ordinary host of the Truist Championship gearing up for the 2025 PGA, a brand new venue has been introduced to contest the year's […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson: Scouting the Routing

After a one-week hiatus for my least favorite event of the season, we're back in full force for another one of my bottom three! Jokes aside, TPC Craig Ranch will take a lot of flack for its rather featureless layout, but for golf bettors, any course that has yielded three winners from above 80-1 on […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 RBC Heritage: Scouting the Routing

Things continue to move at a breakneck pace on the PGA Tour, as just four days after crowning our first Major Champion of 2025, another $20 million is up for grabs in the sixth signature event of the year. The battleground on which this lavish prize pool will be contested is one of the most […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Masters: Scouting the Routing

As the frost recedes and Mother Earth slips into her favorite shade of green, 90 of the best golfers on the planet will play for the right to do the very same. It's Masters week: Christmas for those of us who obsess over this sport 365 days a year, and a sacred patronage for anyone […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Valero Texas Open: Scouting the Routing

Although many of us in the golfing industry maligned the exclusion of Match Play in the current PGA rota, one tournament, in particular, has received a noticeable bump in star power, looking for one last competitive run before teeing it up in next week's Masters. Ordinarily considered a tame opening act for the year's first […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Valspar Championship: Scouting the Routing

After a couple of nail-biting final rounds in Orlando and Ponte Vedra, the PGA Tour travels to Florida's western coast for the final leg of the Sunshine Swing. There won't be any $20 million prize pools until the first Major Championship of the year one state North, but with 12 of the OWGR Top 30 […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 PLAYERS Championship: Scouting the Routing

We've already crowned both Tiger Woods' annual champion at the Genesis and Arnold Palmer's at Bay Hill, but perhaps no other event on the PGA Tour comes with the cache of the PLAYERS. From Hal Sutton's memorable approach on 18 to take down Tiger, to Rickie Fowler's Sunday charge and Wyndham's heartbreaking lip-out last year, […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational: Scouting the Routing

After a stirring hors d'oeuvre in Palm Beach Gardens, the PGA Tour's Florida Swing moves quickly into the first of two upcoming main courses: the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. "Major Championship Conditions" is a descriptor often overused in golf media, but with winning scores of (-15), (-9), (-5), (-11), and […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches: Scouting the Routing

Fresh off of the relaxing, jovial atmosphere of Mexico's National Open, the PGA Tour makes its maiden voyage into the Eastern timezone for the first of four consecutive events held in the Sunshine State. Unlike Vidanta Vallarta, however, the courses in the Florida rotation aren't exactly known for their forgiveness, as the next four weeks […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Mexico Open: Scouting the Routing

The final stop of the West Coast swing brings us south of the border for the fourth iteration of Mexico's National Open as a part of the PGA Tour schedule. And rather befitting of the country it represents, this week's host venue profiles much more like a luxury resort built for double-digit handicaps than the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 WM Phoenix Open: Scouting the Routing

Despite being sandwiched between two "signature events" that have sapped a chunk of the typical star power from Scottsdale, The People's Open remains one of the most highly anticipated events on the entire golfing calendar. With its electric atmosphere, a risk/reward layout that ramps up leaderboard volatility, and propensity for Sunday drama, there isn't another […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 ATT Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Scouting the Routing

The greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf is always among the more iconic routings we visit on an annual basis, but in recent years, the lack of elite headliners and an insistence on highlighting the "Am" portion of the AT&T Pro-Am has made this event little more to golf fans than a […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open: Scouting the Routing

With two of the first three winners on the PGA Tour reaching final scores of 25-under-par, golf fans will be salivating at the prospect of a venue with the capability of sending golfers in both directions on the leaderboard. Enter Torrey Pines South: a golf course that has crowned two U.S. Open Champions since 2008 […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2025 Sentry Tournament of Champions

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller) and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stats, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Kapalua's Plantation Course. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]