Photo: quailhollowclub.com We are back at a familiar venue for this year’s Wells Fargo Championship: Quail Hollow! The private club in Charlotte, North Carolina has hosted numerous PGA Tour events and most recently the 2022 Presidents Cup. It is a big boy golf course coming in at around 7,600 yards from the tournament tees. Now …
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Photo: Orlando Ramirez/ USA Today We are back with the third edition of The Funnel Pin Golf Rankings. Remember this is a subjective exercise. We take a look at the data, but also rely a good deal on the old fashion eye test. We also take into account all tours across the golfing landscape to …
Photo: Louisianagolf.com The annual team event on tour is here in the form of The 2023 Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana. The players will play a best ball format on Thursday and Saturday, with alternate shot taking place on Friday and Sunday. The course itself is a Pete Dye design that is playing at around …
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Photo Credit: Golf Pass After what felt like a marathon of golf at The Masters, The PGA tour is teeing up a designated event just four days later. The RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links will feature a stacked field and a 20 million dollar purse this year. Harbour Town is one of the …
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Photo Credit: Golfbreaks.com This week the PGA Tour takes it’s action over to Copperhead Golf Course at Innisbrook Resort for The Valspar Championship. The skill profile for players who tend to succeed here is similar to that of TPC Sawgrass. Driving accuracy tends to be rewarded here over distance. At just about 7,200 yards it …
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Photo Credit: Golf Digest/ US PGA Tour The return of “Golf’s fifth major” feels a little different this time around. Normally, The Players is the first time we see all the best guys in the world tee it up together. With the introduction of the Designated Events on the 2023 PGA Tour schedule, this is …
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Photo Credit: golfzoo.com We are back in the world of designated events after a one week break for The Honda Classic. Obviously we have a start studded field as a result, that are all vying for arguably the second most coveted piece of outerwear in the world of professional golf, the red cardigan. This tournament …
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Photo: Sky Sports With all the talk of OWGR recently, here at Funnel Pin Golf we wanted to take some time to break down where we think players fall in the greater landscape of global professional golf. While there is statistical evidence provided to back up some of our thoughts, these rankings are centered around …
PGA National / pgaresort.com The field in this week’s Honda Classic does not look like that of the designated events of the last couple weeks. While this one may take a more trained golfing eye to find deep interest in the event, there are still players to watch for and picks to be made. Now …
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Photo Credit: ArizonaGolfer.com Preview It is safe to say that there is no event on The PGA Tour quite like the WM Phoenix Open. Field wise, it is one of the 13 designated events this year, not counting the majors, so the field actually is something we will see again this year. Most notable on …
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