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Taking On Copperhead – Transitions Championship Preview

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16 years ago

Mar 17, 2010

It takes just one look down the fairways at the Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead course to realize it takes exceptional talent to conquer this course. On a cool and windy day in Palm Harbor, Florida yesterday the 7340 yards that makes up the PGA Tour’s Transitions Championship host golf course looked even more daunting.

And the players know it.

The best golfers in the world looked like they were grinding before a major as they hit balls yesterday. They seemed to know that miss-struck shots with weak ball flights will be of little use this week if they plan to hoist a trophy on Sunday and grab the winning check of $972,000.

Defending champion Retief Goosen was not even on site yesterday but that didn’t mean he was not preparing for a title defence. He was busy prepping on his own and testing some new KBS iron shafts.

Goosen looks to be in top form heading into the 10^th edition of this PGA Tour event. He already has multiple top-five finishes on tour this season and the difficult Copperhead layout (9^th toughest on the PGA Tour in 2009) is a great fit for his cerebral style of play.

Not to be overlooked as a rival for Goosen this week will be The Prince, Ryo Ishikawa. Prior to dealing with the usual throng of Japanese media following his every move he put on a clinic at the range, striping ball after ball effectively and predictably into the burgeoning breeze. Playing on a Sponsor’s Exemption for the 2^nd year in a row, Ishikawa won four events on the Japan Golf Tour in 2009. Unusually he finished only 71^st at the Transitions in his first appearance but with a year under his belt he might have better plan for tackling the layout.

Overall there is a fairly impressive field teeing it up here this week. It includes 10 of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Rankings. World No. 2 Steve Stricker as well as Jim Furyk have games well suited to the course where steady play is very much rewarded.

Other highlights of the assembled field include Sean O’Hair, Vijay Singh, Stewart Cink, Luke Donald, and Kenny Perry. John Daly is also tipping it up but his random style of play is not the most conducive to winning on a course featuring tight, tree-lined fairways. The “anti-John Daly”, Justin Leonard, looked sharp and confident yesterday as well.

Padraig Harrington looked strong yesterday with all parts of his game. A t3 in Miami assures us he is in top form. He was his usual smiling self and apparently excited, for a number of reasons. Not only was he set to visit the White House today to meet President Obama, he also attended his first NHL hockey game last night.

In a week of firsts for Harrington, maybe it’s time for his first Transitions Championship as well.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Notes:

The Looks: Visit here to see a slideshow of practice range and tour van images captured Tuesday at The Transitions Championship.

Magnificent seven – Seven players have played in all nine Transitions Championships – John Huston, Billy Andrade, Brian Gay, Tim Herron, Lee Janzen, Billy Mayfair and Shaun Micheel. Only Gay and Janzen are scheduled to play in 2010.

The Shafts: Several players were seen testing the new higher spin True Temper steel prototype shafts yesterday. One who I spoke with said he wouldn’t consider putting the shafts in his irons this week due to the gusty conditions that are normally prevalent. As he said, “they just make the ball go up and up; great for some but just not for me.”

In The Vans: It was fairly slow around the equipment trucks yesterday. This far into the season many players have their gamer set dialled in. Of note was a new putter that Justin Rose was playing around with…but we promised not to say anything about it…yet.

A Beast: From the Black Tees, the 7340, par-71 Copperhead Course is rated at 76.8 with a slope of 144. There are elevation changes of up to 80 feet and more than 75 bunkers that protect the course.

This report provided to GolfWRX.com by Flagstick Golf Magazine (www.flagstick.com)

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6 hours ago

May 13, 2026

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2026 PGA Championship betting odds

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2 days ago

May 12, 2026

Gianni Magliocco

Scottie Scheffler leads the betting ahead of the second major championship of the year, with the World Number One a +345 favorite to get his hands on a second PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy who won the Masters back in April is a +800 shot to complete half of the calendar slam at Aronimink Golf Club this week, while Jordan Spieth can be backed at +5900 to become a career grand slam winner.

Here is the full betting board for the 2026 PGA Championship courtesy of DraftKings.

Scottie Scheffler +345 – (Check 0ut his WITB here)

Rory McIlroy +800 – (Check out his WITB here)

Jon Rahm +1300
Cameron Young +1500
Bryson DeChambeau +1700
Xander Schauffele +1850
Matt Fitzpatrick +1950
Ludvig Aberg +2000
Tommy Fleetwood +2600
Collin Morikawa +3500
Brooks Koepka +3900
Justin Rose +4300
Russell Henley +4600
Si Woo Kim +4700
Justin Thomas +4800
Robert MacIntyre +5300
Patrick Cantlay +5300
Viktor Hovland +5400
Tyrrell Hatton +5500
Jordan Spieth +5900
Sam Burns +6000
Hideki Matsuyama +6200
Adam Scott +6400
Rickie Fowler +7000
Chris Gotterup +7400
Patrick Reed +7400
Min Woo Lee +7800
Ben Griffin +8000
Sepp Straka +8400
Shane Lowry +9000
Akshay Bhatia +9200
Maverick McNealy +9200
Joaquin Niemann +9200
Jake Knapp +9200
Jason Day +9600
Kurt Kitayama +10000
J.J. Spaun +10000
Harris English +10500
Nicolai Hojgaard +11000
Gary Woodland +11000
David Puig +11000
Michael Thorbjornsen +12000
Jacob Bridgeman +12000
Keegan Bradley +12500
Corey Conners +14000
Alex Fitzpatrick +15000
Sungjae Im +15500
Sahith Theegala +15500
Harry Hall +15500
Alex Noren +16000
Thomas Detry +16500
Marco Penge +16500
Kristoffer Reitan +17000
Alex Smalley +17000
Wyndham Clark +17500
Sam Stevens +17500
Keith Mitchell +17500
Daniel Berger +18500
Ryan Gerard +20000
Nick Taylor +20000
Rasmus Hojgaard +21000
Dustin Johnson +21000
Pierceson Coody +23000
Aaron Rai +24000
Jordan Smith +24000
Angel Ayora +24000
Bud Cauley +25000
Matt McCarty +26000
Jayden Schaper +26000
Brian Harman +27000
Taylor Pendrith +27000
Ryan Fox +27000
J.T. Poston +27000
Cameron Smith +29000
Ryo Hisatsune +29000
Michael Kim +29000
Max Homa +29000
Denny McCarthy +29000
Tom McKibbin +30000
Rico Hoey +32000
Matt Wallace +32500
Ricky Castillo +33000
Haotong Li +33000
Michael Brennan +34000
Max Greyserman +36000
Stephan Jaeger +37500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +37500
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +39000
Aldrich Potgieter +40000
Andrew Novak +42000
Patrick Rodgers +42500
Daniel Hillier +42500
Max McGreevy +46000
Billy Horschel +48000
Chris Kirk +48000
Ian Holt +49000
Casey Jarvis +49000
William Mouw +50000
Steven Fisk +50000
John Parry +50000
Nico Echavarria +52500
Garrick Higgo +52500
John Keefer+55000
Matthias Schmid +57500
Austin Smotherman +57500
Sami Valimaki +60000
Andrew Putnam +60000
Lucas Glover +62500
Daniel Brown +62500
Jhonattan Vegas +75000
Emiliano Grillo +80000
Mikael Lindberg +85000
Adrien Saddier +100000
Bernd Wiesberger +100000
Elvis Smylie +110000
Stewart Cink +130000
Kota Kaneko +130000
David Lipsky +150000
Chandler Blanchet +150000
Andy Sullivan +150000
Joe Highsmith +180000
Adam Schenk +200000
Travis Smyth +200000
Davis Riley +225000
Martin Kaymer +400000
Brian Campbell +400000
Padraig Harrington +450000
Kazuki Higa +450000
Jordan Gumberg +450000
Ryan Vermeer +500000
Austin Hurt +500000
Tyler Collet +500000
Timothy Wiseman +500000
Shaun Micheel +500000
Y.E. Yang +500000
Michael Block+500000
Mark Geddes+500000
Luke Donald+500000
Bryce Fisher+500000
Jimmy Walker +500000
Jason Dufner +500000
Jesse Droemer +500000
Jared Jones +500000
Garrett Sapp +500000
Francisco Bide +500000
Zach Haynes +500000
Paul McClure+500000
Derek Berg +500000
Chris Gabriele +500000
Braden Shattuck +500000
Ben Polland +500000
Ben Kern +50000

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Photos from the 2026 PGA Championship

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2 days ago

May 11, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site for the second major of 2026: The PGA Championship from Aronimink in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

The tournament’s location, just outside Philadelphia, and its status as a major championship mean GolfWRXers are in for a treat: WITBs from a strong field, custom gear celebrating the PGA Championship, and the rich culture of the City of Brotherly Love — we have noted a relative absence of cheesesteak-themed items thus far this week, but most of the rest of the usual suspects are well represented.

Check out links to all our photos below.