This Week The Farmer’s Insurance Open
Held at Torrey Pines Golf Course
Par 72 7765 yards
San Diego
The Defending Champion is Max Homa
In the TH Last Year the Winner was Hedge
We join the West Coast swing already in progress. Played at the iconic Torrey Pines golf resort, which has been the venue for two U.S. Opens . . . you remember, Tiger won on a broken leg. (He loves this course, besides the Open he has won this event 7 times . . . four in a row.)
This was first played in 1952 as the San Diego Open held at the San Diego Country Club. The first champion was Ted Kroll. This was Ted’s first of eight wins on the PGA tour. It netted him a winners check of $2,000. Something of a hero in WWII, he received three purple hearts for wounds received in battle. He was leading money winner on the tour in 1956 and played on three Ryder Cups . . . his record was 3-1.
FUN FACT: After he used his considerable celebrity to conduct a public campaign about professional golf being the last major sport to explicitly bar golfers of color . . . Boxer Joe Louis received a sponsor’s exemption to the inaugural event in 1952.
Yes . . . Joe Louis was the first black man to play in a PGA sponsored event . . .
He missed the cut but still . . . it took the heavyweight champion to shame the PGA???
Things that make you go hmmmm
The first two days are split between the North and South courses. After the cut, the final two days are played on the South Course.
Wednesday Start . . . Get Those Picks In !!!
Four and an Alt
Slinger | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Alternate | TOTAL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scrums | Homa -8 | FInau -10 | Schauffele -9 | Morikawa MC2 | ABERG -9 | -25 |
Radar | Morikawa MC2 | Aberg -9 | Schauffele -9 | Homa -8 | CANTLAY -1 | -24 |
Phil | Schauffele -9 | Homa -8 | Aberg -9 | Morikawa MC2 | CANTLAY -1 | -24 |
Hedge | Finau -10 | Homa -8 | Matsuyama -8 | Morikawa MC2 | SCHAUFFELE -9 | -24 |
Metro | Aberg -9 | ROSE -1 | Matsuyama -8 | MW Lee -3 | Meronk DNS | -21 |
Taf | Homa -8 | Im MC2 | Cantlay -1 | Højgaard N -12 | BRADLEY -3 | -19 |
JJ | Schauffele -9 | Homa -8 | Cantlay -1 | Morikawa MC2 | ABERG-9 | -16 |
Chevy | Im MC2 | Theegala 0 | Schauffele -9 | Lee M -3 | HØJGAARD N -12 | -10 |
MX2 | Morikawa MC2 | Theegala 0 | Cantlay -1 | Schauffele -9 | BRADLEY -3 | -8 |
EMC | Cink MC2 | ECKROAT (3) -4 | Pendrith -9 | Buckley MC2 | Cole MC2 | -6 |
Wendy | Schauffele -9 | Day MC2 | MORIKAWA (3) MC2 | Theegala 0 | Bradley -3 | -5 |
Max | Cantlay -1 | Im -MC2 | Day MC2 | MW Lee -3 | STRAKA MC2 | 0 |