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The heavy travel schedule continues this week as the PGA TOUR heads to Bermuda for the third edition of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, at Port Royal Golf Course.
If you are keeping track at home, the TOUR has now gone from Las Vegas to Japan to Bermuda over the course of three weeks. They aren’t done hopping around yet, either, as next week they will jump over to Mexico.
Back to this week, there will be 132 golfers pegging it at Port Royal. The event was initially scheduled alongside the WGC-HSBC Champions as an alternate event but the WGC had to be canceled again this year. Even with the tournament giving out the full allotment of FedExCup Points, the superstars did not come running as the field continues to thin out on Monday morning with buckets full of pre-tournament WDs.
The show must go on, though, and in the end, we will crown a PGA TOUR winner.
Unlike the last two weeks, golfers will see a cut-line at the Bermuda, with the top 65 and ties playing the weekend, as usual.
The Course
This week’s host venue is Port Royal Golf Course.
It’s a Robert Trent Jones design and it hosted the PGA Grand Slam of Golf from 2009 through 2014.
Port Royal will be one of the shortest courses the PGA TOUR plays all season long. It’s a par 71 that plays to just 6,828 yards on the scorecard.
All three of the par 5s play under 555 yards. There are eight par 4s under 415 yards. This is really not a course that you need distance in order to contend. Just look at the last two champions, Brendon Todd and Brian Gay. They are both short hitters that rely on wedge play and a hot putter.
Played right along the coast, wind can become a big factor at this course. That can cause huge swings in the scoring enviroment. Just take the last two years as an example. At the 2019 edition the field scoring average was 69.8 (-1.2 RTP) while last year it picked up to 71.1 (+0.1 RTP). When you look at this week’s weather forecast, then last year’s scoring average seems more likely, but…
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