Fantasy golf rankings: 2017 Waste Management Phoenix Open

The Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale is next on the PGA Tour slate. Known for its rowdy 16th hole, the WMPO also has produced some great moments in recent years, including Phil Mickelson’s near-59, Brooks Koestler first career Tour win in 2015, and Hideki Matsuyama’s battle with Rickie Fowler last year.

To help you with your fantasy-golf lineups, Golf week ranks its top 25 players in the field.

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1. Hideki Matsuyama: The defending champ also tied for second here in 2015 and shared fourth in 2014 (he’s fifth in all-time money at this event despite making just three starts here). Hasn’t played since T-27 at Sony, and we all know what he did before that (four wins and two seconds in six starts). He’s had two weeks to recharge and he should be ready to go at one of his best tracks.

2. Jordan Spieth: The World No. 5 was T-7 in his only Phoenix Open start, in 2015. Has already finished in the top 3 twice in 2017. Pick him with supreme confidence.

3. Justin Thomas: Missed the cut here last year after a T-17 in his debut, in 2015. Current form, though, is stellar, as Thomas has won two straight events and three of his past five worldwide.

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Jerry P Sager | Tour Confidential: Will Tiger Woods rebound in Dubai?

Every Sunday night, the Sports Illustrated Golf Group conducts an e-mail round table with writers from Sports Illustrated, GOLF and GOLF.com (with the occasional special guest). Check in every week for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors and join the conversation by tweeting us @golf_com.

1. His chipping prowess aside, Tiger Woods had an uninspiring performance at Torrey Pines, shooting 76-72 and missing the cut by four shots. Now he's headed overseas for the Dubai Desert Classic. What constitutes a good week?

Josh Sens, contributing writer, This is the question that keeps cropping up through swing changes and surgeries and assorted other struggles. The one constant, of course, is that we're talking about Tiger Woods. By the standards he set for himself — never mind the expectations of the multitudes — a good week is a win. Just hoping to make the weekend without an injury doesn't cut it, for him or his fans. In the meantime, though, hitting a few more fairways wouldn't hurt.

Shane Bacon, golf analyst, Fox Sports (@shanebacon): Tiger is so far from contending with his current game that I say making the cut is a great week for Woods. Tiger can say he shows up to win, but that golf swing and two-way miss isn't winning anything right now. Get to the weekend, play in tournament conditions for four days and reassess, but a made cut is a win right now for Tiger Woods. 

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Beauty picked over talent as magazine renews golf sexism debate

Miss New York Kira Kazantsev wins the 2015 Miss America contest.

Golf is under fire again for promoting sex appeal ahead of talent.

Last year there was disappointment that world No 1 Lydia Ko was overlooked for a cover shot on Golf Digest, who preferred serial self-promoter Paige Spiracle with her looks and massive social media presence.

Now Golf magazine has raised eyebrows with its latest edition featuring its fourth annual presentation of the "Most beautiful Women in Golf".

The 2017 parade includes pro golfers Cheyenne Woods, Danielle Kang, Belen Mozo and the sister duo of Jessica and Nelly Korda. But from there it gets a bit cloudy.

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The wife and daughters of former star Ben Screensaver feature, as do a former Miss Idaho (Melissa Jones, wife of PGA Tour pro Matt Jones), golf-mad Miss America winner Kira Kazantzakis, as well as Fox Sports golf and NFL reporter Holly Sanders.

Sanders earns the plaudit of being the only woman to appear in all four editions of the annual lineup.

Some of the golfing links are tenuous at best and have raised the ire of former LPGA Tour professional Anya Alvarez, with the American penning a pointed column for The Guardian.

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Lifelong Woodmont Country Club member resigns over Obama golf controversy

The mayor of a tony Maryland suburb resigned from a prominent golf club on Monday because the club might not welcome President Obama as a member.

Jeffrey Slavin, the mayor of the Montgomery County town of Somerset, wrote in an email that he would not remain a member of Woodmont Country Club because of a recent fevered debate about whether Obama could join.

Some members of the historically Jewish club have said they would not welcome Obama, who has played there four times during his presidency, because of his recent decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements.

                                                         

                                                                        
“He has created a situation in the world where Israel’s very existence is weakened and possibly threatened . . .” longtime member Faith Goldstein wrote in a late December email obtained by The Washington Post. “He is not welcome at Woodmont. His admittance would create a storm that could destroy our club.”

Another member, attorney Marc B. Abrams, called it “inconceivable” that Obama should be in the club because of his stance toward Israel.

In the ensuing debate over the email, Slavin, a Democratic activist and a lifelong member of the country club where his father was also a member, said he would lead a mass membership resignation if Obama were not invited to join.

On Monday — which he noted was Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Slavin made good on at least his own resignation.

He wrote in an email to the club’s general manager:

“I can no longer belong to a community:

Where Intolerance is accepted,

Where History is forgotten,

Where Freedom of Speech is denied,

And where the nation’s first black president is disrespected.”

Slavin signed his email “Thanks for many great memories,” followed by a quote from the civil rights anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and then the words “Stay Woke.”

There is no indication that Obama has actually asked to join the 460-acre club off Rockville Pike, though Politico reported last summer that it would be his likely post-presidency choice of golf spots.

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A courageous golf tour in Pebble Beach California

Are you die heart fan of sports, golf and even more you love going watching the news? Curious to know the hurdle and the adventuring golf course story of this opening session? Wish to come up with some exciting story just before the game session was about to start?

Today we are covering a thrilling moment that was filmed by chance that will surprise you more than your favorite player signature shot. At this time once again the hospitality and golf course for the opening session was supposed to be led by Jerry P Sager, who is senior managing director of First National of America. More about Jerry he has been accounted as famous figure and has more than 25 years of rich history of lending to owners and management companies, his team has provided financing for the acquisition, construction, expansion and refinancing of specialized assets throughout the United States.

But, somehow Jerry Sager has been caught on camera describing the scenes and weather of the golf course. According to Jerry, once again the day October 5 was recalled when the Tour Championship Tournament in Jacksonville was canceled due to hurricane Mathew and the same goes after three months in the Bahamas, Pebble Beach by the season openers. As the same gust of wind and storm hit the Monterrey Peninsula and pummeled by it, this is called as the atmospheric river, which was responsible for the massive flood in Northern California.

Still, some of the players proved their valiant spirit towards golf and appeared to mark their element, what is commonly called as Crosby weather, also pointed by Jerry during questioning. He also helps to come up with the fact that weather like this was mostly preferred for playing golf under old Being Crosby National Pro-Am (now known as the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am). It proved too great curiosity among the spectator who gathers to watch their role icons struggling for the nineteen whole which was greatly affected by the wind.    

After this it was like we have missed the best part of this Sunday, but at end Jerry also concluded that it was weather which won the race and situation, as the game was the force to stop. But also made the smile on golf fans face by announcing that there is more session that is to be held schedule for which he has been called for the lending golf course. He also announces that would be the presence of few more session opener and golf legend to prove their metal once again.