Twofer Tuesday: Rocket Mortgage Classic

Time to attempt my luck again, I bet. This week's Twofer Tuesday choices middle around the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

The Rocket Mortgage Classic is a new occasion for the PGA Tour. It replaces the Quicken Loans National (identical sponsor), will become a complete-discipline event and moves from Washington DC to Detroit MI. Technically I guess that makes Francesco Molinari the defending champion, however it's going to be a totally specific direction.

Detroit Golf Club is a par-72 path playing over 7300 yards. It's a Donald Ross design with poa veggies. (The pros have been placing on poa veggies for a couple of weeks now, in order that they ought to do quite properly.) The path is virtually made from two courses -- it uses 17 holes from the North Course and one hollow (the par-three fourth for the professionals) from the South Course.

So allow's not beat across the bush Any more. It's time to make my picks!

• My Top10er is Chez Reavie. I know that the guy who just had his best major finish two weeks ago (T3 at Pebble) and won this past week is probably a bit tired. But he's been playing reasonably well all year and seems to be riding a streak of confidence. As far as I'm concerned, it only has to hold out for one more week. He can take a rest later!
• And my winner is Xander Schauffele. Xander has only played two of the last four weeks, joining Reavie with a T3 in his last start at Pebble. With two wins in this wraparound season and his last win coming in January, I figure he's due for another title run.

Since this is a new course for all the pros, this should be a pretty level playing field. We may very well see another surprise winner, given that this course shouldn't play all that long. (It's a par-72, after all.) But since my picks haven't been doing very well lately, I suppose Any of my picks that pan out this time will be a surprise!

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