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Off to San Francisco, it’s the PGA Tour’s first Major of 2020, the PGA Championship. TPC Harding Park is hosting the event. It’s only the second time the course is home for a PGA stroke play event since Tiger Woods defeated John Daly in 2005.
Back then, who would have thought Tiger was the wild one of the two?
Since the public course isn’t on the PGA’s regular rotation, track specific data is not available. So, I did a virtual tour online; read a story with Google Earth images showing how the maintenance crew narrowed fairways and their shapes; analyzed the scorecard, watched a foursome play five TPC Harding Park holes on YouTube, and came to the conclusion that accurate bombers off the tee will have the edge.
I created a course-specific, driving efficiency score. The idea is to identify golfers that are likely to put the ball in the fairway, far from the tee-box. It should give the top ranked players an advantage on some of the course’s long par fours and the two par fives.
Of course, we still use the rest of our super-duper, secret reversion and projected scoring models to finalize our rankings.
Our lineup of Integrity:
| Name |
| Jon Rahm |
| Patrick Cantlay |
| Rory McIlroy |
| Tiger Woods |
| Adam Hadwin |
| Tony Finau |
| Collin Morikawa |
| Gary Woodland |
| Webb Simpson |
| Bryson DeChambeau |
| Xander Schauffele |
| Justin Thomas |
| Daniel Berger |
| Brendon Todd |
| Tyrrell Hatton |
| Sungjae Im |
| Paul Casey |
| Max Homa |
| Patrick Reed |
| Brooks Koepka |
| Tommy Fleetwood |
| Dustin Johnson |
| Jordan Spieth |
| Adam Scott |
| Brandt Snedeker |
| Viktor Hovland |
| Henrik Stenson |
| Cameron Smith |
| Marc Leishman |
| Rafa Cabrera Bello |
| Matt Wallace |
| Ian Poulter |
| Justin Rose |
| Bernd Wiesberger |
| Victor Perez |
| Danny Willett |
| Hideki Matsuyama |
| Abraham Ancer |
| Corey Conners |
| Tom Lewis |
| Shane Lowry |
| Joaquin Niemann |
| Chez Reavie |
| J.T. Poston |
| Matt Kuchar |
| Ryan Palmer |
| Kevin Kisner |
| Sergio Garcia |
| Erik Van Rooyen |
| Bubba Watson |
| Kevin Streelman |
| Rickie Fowler |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout |
| Scottie Scheffler |
| Billy Horschel |
| Byeong Hun An |
| Louis Oosthuizen |
| Jason Kokrak |
| Jason Day |
| Matthew Wolff |
| Kevin Na |
| Joel Dahmen |
| Graeme McDowell |
| Matthew Fitzpatrick |
| Phil Mickelson |
| Sung Kang |
| Jazz Janewattananond |
| Shaun Norris |
| Lucas Herbert |
| Matthias Schwab |
| Robert Macintyre |
| Chan Kim |
| Kurt Kitayama |
| Joohyung Kim |
| Jorge Campillo |
| Ryo Ishikawa |
| Joost Luiten |
| Marcus Kinhult |
| Benjamin Hebert |
| Martin Kaymer |