Historically the final golf major of the year, the 2020 PGA Championship for the second consecutive year will not play the role of caboose in the golf Majors’ rota. The 2020 PGA Championship is being held at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. The tournament returns to California for the first time in 25 years, since the 1995 PGA tournament at Riviera Country Club. (The course did host the Presidents Cup in 2009, won, as usual, by the United States team. (The International team has never defeated the United State’s squad in the 13 events since the Cup’s inception in 1994.) Like last year’s venue, Bethpage State Park (Black), in Farmingdale, New York), TPC Harding Park is a municipal golf course
The Internet is packed with predictions for who will hoist the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday evening (late evening, after dark, on the East Coast.) I have maintained for several years now that, unlike the very useful series of Dummies books, I don’t know that I can advise you regarding the best way to do something. I do believe, however, that I can tell you with confidence what not to do in order to keep your feet on the path to success.
In the same vein, I don’t know that I can predict with any accuracy which golfer will win the 2020 PGA Tournament (if I had to make a guess, I would suggest the winner will come from Brooks, Rory, Webb and/or Xander), but I will predict that the following golfers won’t win this week:
Tiger Woods – While the golf majors’ schedule for 2020 could not have been planned more advantageously for Eldrick, he is too rusty and old to win here (The Sam Snead Career Record Wins Preservation Society exhales and hangs on the another week.)
Bryson DeChambeau: The bulked-up Bryson may be Kraken his drives well past his competitors, but you have to hit fairways to win here, regardless of length off the tee. Rough is just that, rough.
Justin Thomas: The last golfer to win the tournament prior to the PGA and then win the PGA tournament the next week was the one and only Tiger Woods in 2007. Before that, Ben Hogan in 1946. So Thomas will join some very select company if he wins this week.
Rickie Fowler: The best golfer not to win a major keeps his streak alive at Harding Park
Phil Mickelson: The Champions Tour beckons, and as popular as Philly Mick is, Bruce’s lyrics come to mind: The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive
Jordan Spieth Sadly, the game of this player, who stood on the precipice of golf immortality as recently as the Mastes in 2016, has slipped away recently. Spieth will not achieve the career Slam this week, as much as I hope this Jesuit-educated golfer does.
My sentimental favorite, aside from Rory (he’s Irish) and Spieth, is Tony Bennett; he left his heart here and he has the best toupee this side of William Shatner.
Please be safe and stay well.
R.E. Kelly Copyright 2012-2022
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