2019 PGA Championship Picks Roundup: Prognosticating At Soggy Bethpage
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Prognosticating golf tournaments is generally a fool’s game. Then dump lots of rain on a major venue and watch the nullification of many of the best setup and design elements. While Bethpage Black is usually soft for its major events, this year’s weather may further dull the local knowledge or experience advantage some might have enjoyed.
This is my way of saying this one seems wide open. Particularly when you factor in the mostly so-so track records of top players in four significant events since 2002. I consider those finishes and recent form in this “ten to watch” for Golfweek.
And our team makes their picks for USA Today/Golfweek. I am sticking with Tiger again. He likes the place, he’s confident and he’s rested. Oh and he has Privacy here.
It’s hard not to see length being a huge factor, particularly without warmer temperatures this week that players enjoy so much. Ball-striking is paramount, as Joel Beall notes for GolfDigest.com.
Check out some of the changes in iron distance detailed in this Monday preview from Bethpage by Golfweek’s David Dusek.
Ryan Herrington’s “sneaky” PGA picks for Golf World.
And Oddschecker is always great fun to watch as it evolves during the week.
