The AMEX: Entire Field + Quick Note
Weird, weird, weird week
The American Express is a 54 hole cut, three different courses played event that has winners in the past several years ranging from Andrew Landry to Si Woo Kim.
In essence - it’s all over the place.
Without really being able to hone in on anything specific as far where to make cuts and condense our pool, the easiest plan of action for this week is to just give you the full field average score for golfers I have data on, their accuracy rank and distance rank as it pertains to the field.
Early indications from people I trust is that overall click percentages are going to be low, with only two golfers registering over 20% (Scheffler being one of them) and the overwhelming majority of the field using at least one $6K player and one $10K player in a stars & scrubs type of build. (Shoutout Cody Main from Establish the Run NFL + PGA for his series of tweets highlighting this - you should be following him if you have a Twitter account).
With this information, maybe we get different by playing a balanced lineup for our tournaments.
Below is the entire field, color coded as it pertains to the field, average score of key metrics, and distance and accuracy ranks also color coded as it pertains to the field.
These are based on each golfers last 16 rounds of performance to get a better gauge of most recent rounds and where their games reside.
Not a ton of surprises here. Be very cautious of where Berger sits. Kirk has won here before.
Again, solid group, all playing better than field on average.
We start to get into the more dicey options around this area. Of note - Andrew Landry won here in 2020.
I’m probably not chasing anyone in this group.
No thank you.
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Join us next week as hopefully we return to some semblance of normalcy at the Farmers insurance open and have another 4 rounds of current data to pull from. Best of luck and get 6/6 through!