PGA Course Preview for the 2025 PLAYERS Championship: Scouting the Routing

We've already crowned both Tiger Woods' annual champion at the Genesis and Arnold Palmer's at Bay Hill, but perhaps no other event on the PGA Tour comes with the cache of the PLAYERS. From Hal Sutton's memorable approach on 18 to take down Tiger, to Rickie Fowler's Sunday charge and Wyndham's heartbreaking lip-out last year, […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational: Scouting the Routing

After a stirring hors d'oeuvre in Palm Beach Gardens, the PGA Tour's Florida Swing moves quickly into the first of two upcoming main courses: the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. "Major Championship Conditions" is a descriptor often overused in golf media, but with winning scores of (-15), (-9), (-5), (-11), and […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches: Scouting the Routing

Fresh off of the relaxing, jovial atmosphere of Mexico's National Open, the PGA Tour makes its maiden voyage into the Eastern timezone for the first of four consecutive events held in the Sunshine State. Unlike Vidanta Vallarta, however, the courses in the Florida rotation aren't exactly known for their forgiveness, as the next four weeks […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Mexico Open: Scouting the Routing

The final stop of the West Coast swing brings us south of the border for the fourth iteration of Mexico's National Open as a part of the PGA Tour schedule. And rather befitting of the country it represents, this week's host venue profiles much more like a luxury resort built for double-digit handicaps than the […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 WM Phoenix Open: Scouting the Routing

Despite being sandwiched between two "signature events" that have sapped a chunk of the typical star power from Scottsdale, The People's Open remains one of the most highly anticipated events on the entire golfing calendar. With its electric atmosphere, a risk/reward layout that ramps up leaderboard volatility, and propensity for Sunday drama, there isn't another […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 ATT Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Scouting the Routing

The greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf is always among the more iconic routings we visit on an annual basis, but in recent years, the lack of elite headliners and an insistence on highlighting the "Am" portion of the AT&T Pro-Am has made this event little more to golf fans than a […]

PGA Course Preview for the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open: Scouting the Routing

With two of the first three winners on the PGA Tour reaching final scores of 25-under-par, golf fans will be salivating at the prospect of a venue with the capability of sending golfers in both directions on the leaderboard. Enter Torrey Pines South: a golf course that has crowned two U.S. Open Champions since 2008 […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2025 Sentry Tournament of Champions

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller) and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stats, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Kapalua's Plantation Course. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Scouting the Routing: A Course Preview for the 2025 Sentry Tournament of Champions

2025 is finally here, and with it comes an abundance of dates to circle on our golfing calendars. From the Ryder Cup's return to U.S. soil to three historic Major Championship venues and a brand new rotation of “Signature Events,” which will continue to feature the best and brightest names the PGA Tour has to […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Hero World Challenge

After 11 months, 46 tournaments, and tens of thousands of words documenting my thoughts on golf courses from Tokyo to Paris, we've reached the end of the 2023 PGA campaign. We've had our fair share of triumph and heartbreak at Flag Hunting over the course of the season, but above all else, 2024 has once […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 ZOZO Championship

After a four-leg tour from California wine country to the Deep South and the desert of America's southwest, the 2024 PGA Fall Swing has reached it's International stage: jumping from Chiba, Japan, to Los Cabos, Mexico, and Southampton, Bermuda in the space of three weeks. The ZOZO Championship is the youngest (and the last remaining), […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Shriners Children's Hospital Open

The first two events of October have come and gone, and with them, we've crowned two maiden victors at golf's highest level. The first, Kevin Yu, has been a long-time breakout candidate on the lips of many golf touts, and last week, Matt McCarty continued what is one of the hottest runs going in the […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Jackson Country Club. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship

After a sporadic September on the scheduling front, October brings with it the first signs of fall and a run of seven PGA Tour events in eight weeks! The start of our stretch run begins in Jackson, Mississippi for the Sanderson Farms Championship: an event that has seen its fair share of variety within its […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Procore Championship

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Silverado Country Club. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Procore Champinoship

Just two weeks after crowning our 2024 FedEx Cup Champion, the PGA Tour is back to start its race for the 2025 Season-Long title. The “Swing Season,” will be taking on a bit of a different role in 2024, as instead of being an optional, uncorrelated set of events for players to accrue FedEx Cup […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at TPC Southwind. This Wednesday article will now serve as a […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship

After 40+ tournaments across six different countries, the 2024 PGA Tour season has finally reached its climax. Just 70 players remain in the race for the season-long title, and only 50 will finish this week with eligibility to move onto Colorado for the playoff semi-finals. One of these lucky players will stand on the 18th […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Wyndham Championship

It is officially do-or-die time on the PGA Tour. With the first round of the playoffs getting started next week in Memphis, the Wyndham Championship is the last chance players will have to accrue valuable FedEx Cup points and put their names into the ring in the three-week race to crown our 2024 TOUR Champion. […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Olympics

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Le Golf National. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Olympics

Major Championship season might well be over, but 2024 still has one more legacy-defining prize to give out. Before 2016, it had been over 100 years since the last Olympic gold medal was contested in the game of golf, and in the short time since Justin Rose stood atop the podium in Rio de Janeiro, […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 3M Open

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at the TPC Twin Cities. This Wednesday article will now serve […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 3M Open

With the final Major Championship of the season officially in the rearview, the eyes and minds of the PGA Tour officially turn to the stretch run for the FedEx Cup. Two points-paying events remain in the regular season, and with only the top 70 in the season-long standings eligible for an invitation to Memphis, the […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Genesis Scottish Open

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at the Renaissance Club. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Genesis Scottish Open

As the road to the year's final Major Championship winds down, the PGA Tour makes its second annual pilgrimage to the home of golf (or at least 20 miles south of it across the Firth of Fourth). Scotland's national Open has been played at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick for the last five years, […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 John Deere Classic

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at TPC Deere Run. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 John Deere Classic

For the third consecutive week on the PGA Tour, players will face a breakneck sprint to 20-under and beyond. Despite some less-than-stellar fields through the years, TPC Deere Run has spent each of the last eight seasons as one of the easiest 10 courses on the PGA Tour and is one of only three courses […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Detroit GC. This Wednesday article will now serve as a […]

Golf Course Preview for PGA Betting: Scouting the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic

If you enjoyed the birdie barrage on display at the Travelers last week, the PGA Tour has just the event for you in the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Winning scores have crested 23-under in four of the five iterations here in Detroit, and soft conditions throughout the midwest this summer could provide a harbinger for one […]

Flag Hunting: PGA Betting Picks - 2024 U.S. Open

Between Monday's Course Preview piece (found right here on RotoBaller), and last night's podcast (currently posted on our X page), we've given all of you every possible trend, key stat, and player take needed to make the most educated betting decisions possible this week at Pinehurst No. 2. This Wednesday article will now serve as […]