She’s been back to her brilliant best since the world resumed this year and I think it would be almost just for her to swoop on the big season-ending prize after her playoff loss last week. Hopefully there is enough space among all the Lamborghinis in the car park for LYDIA KO to make it to the first tee on time. The biggest danger to the top two will come from 2014 champion LYDIA KO and she’s my pick to grab the last title of the year.
This could be the most interesting tournament of the week with the year’s two dominant players, Jin Young Ko and Nelly Korda, both in great recent form and a supporting cast of the rest of the best in the world on hand to keep things interesting. Thompson was also joint runner-up behind Korda last week, and will be desperate to not go winless again this year after winning at least once on the LPGA Tour every between 20. Lexi’s form line at this event reads T20, 4 th, T40, T2, 1 st, T6, T5 and it is fair to suggest the local Floridian loves playing golf at Tiburon. Thompson wasn’t able to get the job done last week (despite my own anointing of here as the champion in this format) but I am sticking solid with the American, and for good reason. The potential dual for Player of the Year honours between Nelly Korda and Jin Young Ko is an exciting one, however, LEXI THOMPSON will spoil the party this week in the opinion of this observer. Ko has been hugely impressive, but Korda has put together the best season by an American on the LPGA Tour in a long time and playing for a second consecutive week in her home state is enough to give her the nod here. Like everyone in golf, the battle between NELLY KORDA and Jin Young Ko has had me enthralled this year, with the American to greet the judges this week and take out Player of the Year honours. His (hair) tips might be slightly more dubious than even mine (golfing variety), but he’s flushing it and just looking for a little fortune on the back nine on Sunday and he’ll take his place in Australian golfing folklore, not to mention become very rich in the process.
He may not play for months afterwards because he actually looks a little tired, but there’s zero doubting MIN WOO LEE’s form heading into the grand finale of the European Tour. Lucas Herbert and MIN WOO LEE have come of age in Europe in 2021 and since Herbert has already won in the US it would be a fitting finale for Lee to take the top prize this week. Rod Morri – Golf Australia magazine contributor and The Thing About Golf podcast hostĪs expected this is a difficult one to call with no shortage of good players in the field but the two young Australians who’ve had breakout years will be a feature. RELATED: DP World Tour Championship preview Ranked No.2 on the official rankings, Morikawa can seriously lay claim to being the best player in the world if he finish the week as the European Tour’s (RIP) season long champion. The American was T10 here last year on debut, is arguably the finest iron player in men’s golf and the motivation to get one back on Rory McIlroy on his home Tour after losing to the Northern Irishman at his home track won’t hurt. But the job of the tipster is to make a pick, and mine is the top ranked player in the field COLLIN MORIKAWA. This is seriously tough with so many top names firing and some more unlikely chances presenting some value.
JIMMY EMANUEL – Golf Australia Deputy & Digital Editor But it would be beyond foolish to count the Englishman out here.įitzpatrick is a two-time winner around the Earth Course at Jumeriah Golf Estates, and clearly his best golf can't be far off given he won at the tricky Valderrama just over a month ago. Returning to the PGA Tour following his win in Spain hasn't delivered the best results for MATT FITZPATRICK who was T30 and T64 in his last starts.