We talked a bit on the live stream yesterday, but with most contests down to the last nine events, it’s a decent time to put the car in reverse and start working backwards.\u00a0 This week, along with St. Jude and BMW are $20 million weeks.\u00a0 The Open will be at least $17 million.\u00a0 The rest are smaller, with the 3M and Wyndham being some of the smallest of the entire season.<\/p>\n
So, who are your four names for the big events left?\u00a0 Again, it’s worth looking at the competition to see how they’ve deployed top LIV players over the first three majors and if some of the top teams will have bare cupboards for the final two weeks.<\/p>\n
As far as this week goes, it feels similar to the past few big purses this month: If you’re leading and you have a big name, go ahead and fire.\u00a0 If you’re trailing, you might need to find a sneaky name that can top 5 or win this thing.\u00a0 You’ll have to be a little more risk\/reward even with the big purse.<\/p>\n
Let’s dig in to what matters here and who’s likely to handle TPC Highlands this week:<\/p>\n
Cutmakers<\/h2>\n
This week I used one of the new filters I hadn’t touched yet: Signature Events.\u00a0 Below is an average finish position for golfers over the past three years in ONLY signature events.\u00a0 I’m not sure how much better this data is than just using “difficult fields”, but it does exclude the majors and the pressure that comes with them.\u00a0 Still Scottie at the top with an obscene average finish, basically averaging a top 5 over his career at these.\u00a0 I sorted by top five percentage to get an idea of who (else) has consistently made a boatload of earnings at the designated events.\u00a0 Lots of the usual suspects, but also Mav popping up with a bit of a smaller sample size.<\/p>\n
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Driving Accuracy<\/h2>\n
No arguments this week over distance vs accuracy.\u00a0 Finding the fairway by clubbing down is preferred here and has been successful as well.\u00a0 This is the past two years on “less than driver” courses, simply sorted by SG:TOT.\u00a0 Massive gap between one and two as usual, but there are some names that we thought we might see from the group of guys that don’t exactly bomb it off the tee.<\/p>\n
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Wedges<\/h2>\n
I built another “mini-model” for this one, taking a few different wedge ranges and weighting them as close as I could without spending all day mapping out each hole.\u00a0 Some interesting names here, but Henley has made all three lists so far, gotta think he’s a name to be looking at.<\/p>\n
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Putting on Bent\/Poa<\/h2>\n
I wanted to include just the general area, so I didn’t end up sorting these by putting stats by the surface, but rather by region.\u00a0 This will include Philly Cricket, Brookline, Oak Hill, Oakmont, and, of course, TPC River Highlands.\u00a0 The past three years:<\/p>\n
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Travelers Championship One and Done Suggestions<\/h2>\n
Going back to the beginning: I don’t know where you stand and it should go without saying that you can and should use a big name here if you have a handful left.\u00a0 I will also note: if you saved Rory this long, I don’t think you can use him until the Open.\u00a0 He doesn’t seem terribly focused on golfing right now, but has said that he’s eyeing that and it may be your best bet to get him playing well again. Make your plan, and plan your summer, but I do have a few names further down the board I like that could play well here for the chasers of the world.<\/p>\n