Trend Table: Tour Championship
The grand finale of the PGA Tour season
With the field narrowed to 30 golfers, it’s far more feasible to share with you the trend table for everyone as opposed to events carrying 156 golfers.
The trend table is an imperfect science - it’s important to know that from the jump. What is does is identifies gains and losses from a players 32 round total over their 16 round total. Can help us identify when to hop on or hop off a player in our bets or contests.
Given that we know it’s imperfect, it’s not a bible, but helps us in making decisions or settling tie breakers. For instance, Scottie Scheffler will start Thursday in the lead due to Tour Championship scoring. He’s also near the bottom of trend, as is Matt Fitzpatrick. Both of them finished in a tie for second last week at BMW. Scheffler’s game was so historically good that he’s coming backwards in his overall game and still the number one player in the world.
Conversely, you can identify someone like Adam Schenk who was clearly riding a mega hot streak and now his game is returning to where he normally is. Likely showing us he’s not going to have much success at East Lake.
Reading this requires nuance and a fuller picture of the golfer, but it’s a good guiding light.
Let me know if this is helpful to you and we can see about incorporating it into future posts when the fall swing arrives.