5 chooses our expert loves

Has been a lot of running in these parts, starting with a complete winner In Kevin Yu last fall at the Sanderson Farms Championship. recent rainfallHarris English last week at Farmers Insurance Open, gives us three full winners since hero World Challenge in December. As they say, stay hot.

From the top to the top of the rocks overlooking the shores of La Jolla, we travel up to the coast to Carmel, California for AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am. This will be the second signature event of the 2025 season and the second right week in which the players face the Poa Annua Grass greens.

World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler is backDeliver completely healthy he wounded while cooking during the Christmas holiday. No. 2 Rory Mcilroy is here, also making his debut in 2025 PGA Tour. A former winner here in Pebble Beach, Jordan Spieth is also in the field this week after undergoing hand surgery during the season.

This is the second right season that AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am has been a signature status event. Wynham Clark is your defensive champion as last year’s tournament was cut into just 54 holes due to immature weather. Before last year, the tournament included a three-curse rotation and a 54-holes on Saturday. Now, it is similar to last week in Torrey Pines, where there is only a rotation of two courses and three of the four rounds are played in the host course. Each player will play a round this week, either Thursday or Friday, in the Spyglass Hill, three rounds in Pebble Beach, and there is no cut for the 80 players field. Players joined amateurs on Thursday and Friday.

Spyglass Hill usually plays a little harder than Pebble Beach. It is more protected by the wind with trees -coated roads and less coastal exposure. Spyglass is just a touch of over 7,000 yards. Pebble is just a hair below 7,000 yards. The fair roads are wide and the greens are the smallest areas of placement on the tours. As we have seen some bombs win here in the past – Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Davis Love III – is not a golf course that can really be dominated. It is more about hitting these small greens in adjustment, clashing when you miss them and find a hot poa-Annua week.

In total this week, I looked at the shocks obtained: access, good drives obtained, proximity of holes from 75-150 yards, PAR 4 (350-450 yard), PAR 5 (500-550 yards), greens at won regulations, and clashes. For interconnected courses, I used Silverado in Napa where they play the Procore Championship (another location of northern California in which we have seen some intersections with Pebble Beach in the past); Port Royal Golf Club, another coastal country, where they hold the Bermuda championship and then TPC Southwind, TPC Summerlin, Hamilton Golf & Country Club, and St. George’s Golf & Country Club.

I landed in five players for a full win this week and played each for a Top-20 finished as well.

Taylor Pendrith (55-1)

This was the first name to be thrown from the board to me this week. I played that last year at Farmers Insurance Open and he recorded a Top-10 conclusion, which he did last week, and I felt that it could be the right time to get back to board with upgrade Quick of Canada. He really nails it into statistics this week. It hits a ton of greens, is excellent in par 4s and par 5s, and is really able to call in wedges from 75-125 yard outside. He won his first tour in the tournament last year and also has a Top-10 finish here at Pebble Beach in 2023, two Top-10 conclusions in Bermuda Championship, and two also in TPC Summerlin.

Maverick McNealy (55-1)

McNealy is always a player I consider when the tour goes to the Monterey peninsula. He grew up not far away and also graduated from the nearby Stanford University. He has ended the fifth and competitor in the past in Pebble Beach and also has a racing conclusion in Silverado in Napa. He has excellent conclusions on all other interconnected courses, including one seventh last year in Canada Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. Like Pendrith, McNealy also recently won his first tournament in what happened to be in a shorter, coastal course at the Sea Island. During the last 36 rounds, McNealy ranks third in this field for SG: placement (Poa Annua).

Victor Hovland (60-1)

It’s been a long time since I have supported Hovland but I am wondering if this place could be the right time to do this – along with a prize that is pretty crazy for a ninth -ranking guy in OWGR. Hovland ended the 12th here at US Open in 2019 and won the American amateur here at Pebble Beach a year ago. He has won five times in his career in coastal golf courses and ended the 13th here in 2023. Hovland also just finished the contestant again in August at Southwind TPC-is an excellent sign, on a related course, for a guy who has been fighting to find his game. A comfortable place where he has had tremendous success can simply be cure.

Robert Macintyre (65-1)

First and most importantly, Bobby Mac won Open Canadian last summer at Hamilton Golf & Country Club – one of our interconnected courses. Forecasting this week is not calling for much smell, but a coastal, cold, cloudy, rainy place along the way, feels like a great fit for a Scottish, which has also been lit in Scottish Open, completing the last 1-2 two seasons. I worry that he has never been to Pebble Beach before, but again, this environment is the one who I believe will suit him quite beautifully. Macintyre performs very well in par 4s and 5s, and has a short scary game, ranking 14th in the tournament last season in scrambling and 35 for SG: setting.

Thomas Detry (110-1)

This is the second time this season I have received a knife with the man from Belgium. Similar to some others on this week’s card, I believe Detry has played his best golf lately. It comes out of a 15th place in Torrey Pines last week and was the fourth here in Pebble last year. He has also ended up in 12th place in Silverado and has been a Royal Golf Club competitor. He ranked 10th in the tournament last season for SG: Last week, he was eighth on the field for greens in the regulation.