PGA Weekly Course Analysis: WGC-HSBC Champions

Each week, Sean O’Donnell will break down the course in detail to figure out which golfers will be in the best position to succeed.

WGC-HSBC Champions

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World Golf Championship this week! Honestly, this event even seems like the bastard-child of the WGC series. It occurs squarely “out of season” and while we see the biggest conglomeration of “names” that we’ve seen since the TOUR championship, we also have a lot of guys electing to take even this big-money event as a vacation date. This opens the way for a lot of more middle-class Europeans, and a host of Asian golfers who we are not familiar with.

The “insane” (according to Justin Thomas, who handled it better than anyone) swirling winds last week at the CJ Cup spoiled what could have been a score-fest under calm conditions, and really spoiled my prediction, but, these projections are always contingent on weather. That said, we’ve got a lot of data at Sheshan International and it’s always played as a very scoreable course, and we’ve got a lot of big guns to try to go low here! Let’s take a look!

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Sean O'Donnell (hokie2009)

Sean O’Donnell is a proud Hokie (Virginia Tech class of 2009, electrical engineering) as well as a Grateful Dead enthusiast. A fantasy baseball player since age 12, he has flirted with DFS in the past, but only this season stumbled onto the dearth of information that exists pertaining to daily fantasy golf and made a commitment to analyzing PGA tournament data on a weekly basis. When he’s not scouring the web for obscure PGA data, he works as a consultant for small businesses involved in research grants with the federal government.