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WGC-Accenture Match Play Power Rankings: Euros Lead Ranks

February 23, 2011   B.J. George   No comments

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Graeme McDowellAs March Madness draws near, this week’s PGA stop will give you a little taste of the bracket format that makes college basketball so exciting. The World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championships is one of the best tournaments outside of the majors, pitting the top 64 available players in the world rankings.

This will easily be the best field thus far in 2011, and it will be particularly interesting to see the top 5 players in the world all in the same location for the first time since Tiger Woods was unseated as No. 1.

We’ve decided to break this week’s power rankings down a little differently due to the match play format. This week we’ll dissect players’ chances by where they’re seeded.

From the top group (seeds 1-4), here are the three that have the best chance:

1. Graeme McDowell — Last time we saw McDowell in a match play format, he was closing out Hunter Mahan to retain the Ryder Cup for Europe. He’s playing in the same half of the bracket as defending champion Ian Poulter, but McDowell is arguably the best player in the world right now.

2. Rory McIlroy — McDowell’s fellow countryman hasn’t finished outside of the top 10 in six starts and holds a 4-2 all-time record at this event. McIlroy has a difficult draw that includes a possible matchup with Martin Kaymer. It would be a coin toss at that point, but I like McIlroy’s game a slight bit more at the moment.

3. Martin Kaymer – Rounding out the European trifecta of favorites, the No. 2 player in the world could very well be the only No. 1 seed to advance beyond Friday. As a Ryder Cup rookie, the German lost just once in four matches. With a potential matchup looming, Kaymer or McIlroy won’t be making the semifinals, but whoever escapes the Player bracket will be a heavy favorite come Sunday.

 

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Pebble Power Rankings: Dustin Johnson Aims for Hat Trick

February 10, 2011   B.J. George   No comments

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Dustin JohnsonThe Tour heads back to California for one of the most scenic stops all year at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Players will be competing on three courses, all of which measure less than 7,000 yards and demand accuracy and a solid short game. Tiger Woods might be on the other side of the world this week, but the field in Northern California doesn’t lack star power.

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Dustin Johnson — After back-to-back top 10s to open the year, Johnson (pictured) might have made it three straight had the weather in Scottsdale not caused delays everyday. Less than 30 minutes after his opening-round 64, he was back on the tee for round two and shot nine strokes worse. The two-time defending champ at this event was a disastrous final round away from winning the U.S. Open here last summer.

Vijay Singh — Don’t look now, but the Big Fijian looks to be regaining his form. Winless since 2008, Singh has improved each week and earned his first top three finish in three years, which is pretty unbelievable. The 2004 winner here also has three runner-up finishes at the AT&T

Mark Wilson — Winner in two of his three starts this season, Wilson’s game is primed for the trip to Pebble Beach. He sits top 5 on Tour in greens in regulation, scrambling, and scoring, and his consistency will benefit him this week. While his past results here aren’t spectacular, the FedEx Cup points leader hasn’t missed the cut at the AT&T since 2003.

Jim Furyk — Last season’s FedEx Cup winner took a month off since missing the cut at the Sony Open. He also took a month break after playing both tournaments on the islands to open 2007, returning to the AT&T and finishing T6. Maybe that trend could be a bit of a stretch, but there’s no doubt Furyk enjoys Pebble Beach – he hasn’t finished outside of the top 40 since 1999.

J.B. Holmes — The two-time Tour winner nearly added number three at the AT&T a year ago. Holmes finished one stoke behind Dustin Johnson in a tie for 2nd and hasn’t missed the cut in four starts at this tournament. One of the longest hitters on tour, he also sits sixth in birdie average after a T5 at the WMPO.

 

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Breaking Down Corey Pavin’s Most Likely Ryder Cup Picks

September 03, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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Flick the lights. It’s last call.

Tuesday in New York, one day after this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship is scheduled to be completed, U.S. Ryder Cup team captain Corey Pavin announces his four at-large picks for the October matches in Wales.

Eight players — Phil Mickelson, Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk, Jeff Overton, Dustin Johnson, and Matt Kuchar — already have secured spots on the team off a two-year points system.

Now Pavin gets the chance to put his lasting fingerprints on the team that will be a heavy underdog at Celtic Manor.

Only Mickelson (seven), Mahan (one), Stricker (one) and Furyk (six) have Ryder Cup experience.

“I am excited at the mix of youth, experience, aggressiveness and consistency of these players,” Pavin has said.

But the team’s success will inevitably be determined by Pavin’s four captain’s picks.

 

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Holmes, Allenby Lead Players; Tiger Four Shots Back

May 06, 2010   Mick Elliott   No comments

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J.B. HolmesPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The weather was good for Thursday’s opening round of The Players Championship and so were the scores.

Led by 6-under rounds of 66 by J.B. Holmes and Robert Allenby, 86 of the 145 players birdie-whipped TPC Sawgrass for better-than-par rounds. Eight players, including Lee Westwood, Kenny Perry and Luke Donald, are one shot back. Thirty-six golfers shot in the 60s. The 18-hole scoring average of 71.03 is the lowest since 1993.

“Yeah, it was a fun day,” Holmes said. “It was kind of one of those rounds where it’s not easy but it kind of felt pretty easy.”

How good a scoring day was it?

Even Tiger Woods broke par.

Actually, that’s not fair. Woods may be coming off a 79 that helped cause him to miss last week’s cut, and he may be lugging more baggage than a resort bellhop, but he opened with 70 — the same number carded by Phil Mickelson.

And both sweated it out to get there.

 

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Tiger at 2 Under, Four Shots Behind Leaders at Sawgrass

May 06, 2010   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Tiger WoodsPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Players Championship was such a pushover Thursday that more than half the field broke par.

Even Tiger Woods.

With scrutiny higher than after the worst tournament of his career, Woods settled down after a shaky start and didn’t make a bogey until his final hole for a 2-under 70 to join the assault on the TPC Sawgrass.

J.B. Holmes and Robert Allenby led the way at 6-under 66, a stroke ahead of eight players, including Lee Westwood of England and 49-year-old Kenny Perry. In muggy conditions with only a swirling breeze late in the day, 36 players broke 70, the most for the opening round of this tournament since 1994.

“It was a fun day, one of those rounds where everything was going pretty good,” said Holmes, who played bogey-free and only once came close to making a bogey. “It’s kind of one of those rounds where it’s not easy, but it felt pretty easy.”

Allenby played in the afternoon, when the breeze kicked up, and only had one lapse with a three-putt on the par-3 eighth.

Conditions were perfect for low scoring, and the Stadium Course allows for that with reachable par 5s and a few hole locations in areas that could be attacked.

“Greens were a bit slow out there, definitely quite soft after the rain that we’ve had the last couple of days,” Allenby said. “It definitely made it very accessible, some of those flags. I’m happy with the start, just happy to be amongst it.”

It was a big crowd.

 

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