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Northern Trust Open Preview – Golf Handicapping

Northern Trust Open – Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Purse: $6,400,000

The PGA Tour continues with the California swing as it stops at Riviera Country Club for the Northern Trust Open. Formerly known as the Nissan Open, this event usually brings in a solid field and that is the case again this year.

The strong field is a plus but going up against the Super Bowl isn’t ideal even though kickoff will be after the trophy is hoisted.

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Golf Handicapping: Farmers Insurance Open Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

If you have never heard of the Farmers Insurance Open, don’t feel bad because you aren’t alone. The PGA recorded an eagle when it inked Farmers Insurance to be the title sponsor just last week which filled a five-month absence of a sponsor of this San Diego tournament formerly known as the Buick Invitational.

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Golf Handicapping: Canadian Open Preview

2009 RBC Canadian Open Championship Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Following the extremely suspenseful Open Championship at Turnberry, the PGA Tour crosses another border this week at is heads to Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario for the RBC Canadian Open. This will be the 25th time this track has hosted this event but just the 3rd time since the redesign took place in 2001.

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Golf Majors Handicapping: British Open Preview

2009 British Open Championship Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The third Major of the golf season takes place this week with the Open Championship at Turnberry in Ayrshire, Scotland. This will be the fourth time the Open has been played here and the first since 1994 when Nick Price finished birdie-eagle-par and held off Jesper Parnevik to win by a stroke. The other times were in 1986 (Greg Norman) and 1977 (Tom Watson). The reason for the time off from the rotation was due to traffic issues to the course but all has been fixed.

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Golf Handicapping: John Deere Classic PGA Preview

John Deere Classic Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The week before a Major can be a crapshoot on which players are going to tee it up and which players will be taking the week off to rest. In the case of the week before the Open Championship, it is pretty cut and dry as most big name players are going to relax and take their time heading over the pond to Turnberry and the year’s third Major.

That leaves the John Deere Classic with a lack of star quality this week but it nonetheless should be a quality tournament.

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Golf Handicapping: AT&T National PGA Preview

AT&T National Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The tour heads to Bethesda, MD and Congressional Country Club for the AT&T National which is hosted by none other than Tiger Woods. Tiger missed his own tournament last season because of the knee surgery that sidelined him for nearly 10 months. He is back and is the big favorite this week in what is a healthy but not overly impressive field.

Only four of the OWGR Top Ten players are in action with Paul Casey (3), Vijay Singh (9) and Jim Furyk (10) joining Tiger.