That makes for Swafford’s 2nd career victory on Tour. Unfortunately, Corales Puntacana does not have ShotLink so we cannot further dissect his victory.
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The Tour heads to it’s second ‘alternate field event’ with the Sanderson Farms this week:
The Sanderson Farms Championship has been a tournament on Tour, under different names, since 1994. In 2014 the event moved to the Country Club of Jackson, a John Fought design.
Fought supposedly designed the course with a Donald Ross flavor to it. Ross designs are known for usually making the golfer use every club in their bag which calls for some lay-up tee shots. But most of the stress is on approach shots and short game around the green when the greens are missed.
The course gets decent, but nonplussed reviews from Tour players I’ve talked to. Statistically it does stress longer approach shots and tee shots. Since they started playing the event at CC Jackson the winners have been Nick Taylor, Peter Malnati, Cody Gribble, Ryan Armour, Cameron Champ and Sebastian Munoz. So the winner’s of the event haven’t exactly become premier Tour players, although Champ and Munoz show a lot of promise.
The final critical hole is the 331 yard par-4 15th hole.
This is a reachable driving hole. You will get a lot more players laying up off the tee in the first two rounds than one would expect, but the the play is to go for the green and the target should be the center section of the front left part of the green.
Projected Winning Score: -21
3JACK’S FAVORITES
Sung-Jae Im +1,200
Will Zalatoris +2,000
Sam Burns +2,500
Doc Redman +3,000
3JACK’S DARK HORSE PICKS
Adam Long +3,500
Emiliano Grillo +5,000
Lucas Glover +6,000
Tom Lewis +7,000
Jhonattan Vegas +10,000
Will Gordon +11,000
3JACK