A nightmare on the eighth could ruin an entire round, as the hardest hole on the continent is followed by two perilous tee-shots
Molinari’s assessment of Rome’s premier golf course will be a closely-guarded secret but the proliferation of data in the sport means there are hundreds of analysts outside the European team room doing much the same thing.and by his own admission spends “way too much time working with golf data”.
“But there is pretty good shot-level data from the last couple Italian Opens played at Marco Simone.”“We found that it favours distance and accuracy more than the typical course,” Courchene says. The most similar PGA Tour course in terms of the challenge presented in Italy is Bay Hill, where Arnold Palmer Invitational is played. The list of recent winners makes for captivating reading: Scottie Scheffler , Bryson DeChambeau , Tyrrell Hatton and Rory McIlroy are all here this week, while McIlroy, Hatton, DeChambeau, Viktor Hovland and Matt Fitzpatrick all also have runners-up spots from that tournament in the last five years.
On the official scorecard, the eighth is a par-five, but it is a par-four for the professionals and playing 525 yards this week. The approach shot is almost entirely across water, a classic risk-reward matchplay hole, but that decision-making starts back on the tee.
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