Field Level Media’s Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.
PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: Zozo Championship (Hideki Matsuyama)
THIS WEEK: Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Southampton, Bermuda, Oct. 28-31
Course: Port Royal Golf Course (Par 71, 6,828 yards)
Purse: $6.5M (Winner: $1.17M)
Defending Champion: Brian Gay
FedEx Cup Leader: Sam Burns
HOW TO WATCH
TV: Thursday-Friday, 1:30-4:30 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday, 1-4 p.m. (Golf Channel)
NOTES: Typically an alternate-field event, this year’s tournament has a full 500 FedEx Cup points available with the WGC-HSBC Championship event canceled for the second consecutive year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. … Former Masters champions Patrick Reed and Danny Willett are in the field. … Stephan Jaeger and Joseph Bramlett are in the field after leading the Korn Ferry Tour points list and the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, respectively. … Sponsor exemptions include 2021 Walker Cup teammates John Pak and Austin Eckroat, who led this year’s PGA Tour University rankings. … Port Royal was designed by Robert Trent Jones and played host to the Grand Slam of Golf from 2009-14. … Monday qualifiers were Erik Barnes, Patrick Flavin, Kyle Wilshire and Matt Hill. … Brendon Todd set the tournament scoring record of 260 with his win in 2019.
BEST BETS: Matthew Fitzpatrick (+1000 at DraftKings) is coming off a victory at the Andalucia Masters on the European Tour. … Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+1200) won twice on the European Tour late last year and served notice with a solo seventh at Bay Hill. He’s coming off a solo fifth at the BMW PGA Championship last month. … Mito Pereira (+1600) won a trio of KFT events to launch onto the PGA Tour, and he has four top-6 finishes in his past 10 starts, including a T4 at the Olympics. … Reed (+2000) is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 24. Working his way back from a bout with pneumonia that landed him in the hospital, Reed tied for 68th in his last start two weeks ago at The CJ Cup. … Russell Knox (+4000) finished T16 here last year. The Florida resident has a history of success on Bermuda grass, including two top-3 finishes at The Honda Classic.
NEXT WEEK: World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico, Nov. 4-7
LPGA Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: BMW Ladies Championship (Jin Young Ko)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Pelican Women’s Championship, Belleair, Fla., Nov. 11-14
Champions Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: Dominion Energy Charity Classic (Bernhard Langer)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
NEXT WEEK: TimberTech Championship, Boca Raton, Fla., Nov. 5-7
–Field Level Media
