We return this week to posting here at TGR after taking some time off for holidays and to rethink a few aspects of our site, like our posting. In short, we wanted to make our site more user-friendly and more informative, especially with our weekly Tour news. Hopefully we've done that! Now onto the posting.
We return this week for the Farmers Insurance Open, which I think is one of the more popular tournaments at this early point in the season (AKA the "West Coast Swing"). The tournament is held in San Diego, California and played at Torrey Pines Golf Course. Similar to tournaments such as the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the European Tour, the Farmers Insurance Open is actually played on two courses at Torrey Pines, the South and North course, over Thursday and Friday, then the weekend rounds are played on the South course only. Torrey Pines is actually a public course and is situated on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, making it one of the most scenic courses that the PGA Tour stops at during the season.
An interesting fact about this tournament is that it's been a US-dominated event ever since it's inception as the San Diego Open in 1952. Since then, only 2 non-Americans have won the event, Gary Player in '63 and Jose Maria Olazabel in '02. If you're counting, that's only 2 in 62 years.
As we return this week, so does Dustin Johnson, coming back on tour as a new person and new father. Johnson infamously took a leave of absence near the end of last July to deal with personal matters and just became a father less than a month ago. Johnson said he might be a bit rusty, but not to worry as he breaks off rust easily. I'm hoping he'll be in contention for a few tournaments in a few months or maybe weeks.
Finally, here are our picks for the tournament. At this point in the season, I chose my picks based on a lucky feel and not really on how good each player has played so far this year:
1) Rickie Fowler
2) Luke Donald
3) Justin Rose
Some notables in the field include Tiger Woods, fresh off shooting one of the worst rounds in his pro career last week, Mike Weir, our favourite Canadian golfer, and Phil Mickelson, because he's Phil...
Like we always have, we'll be posting a Weekend Update post Friday evening after the weekday rounds, as well as a Results post Sunday evening. Be sure to check those.
And if there isn't any snow on the courses near you, happy golfing,
-Nick
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The 4th Hole of the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Club
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