An early look at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open from Niall Lyons, featuring key stats for recent winners of next week's tournament.
The action heats up now on the PGA Tour as we head to some iconic venues in the next month or two with the first of them being in San Diego for the Farmers Insurance Open.
Jon Rahm has brought this place to its knees in recent years, as well as himself when proposing to his future wife back in 2018. His presence here will be missed in terms of his love for the place, but for golf fans it's all about the action and if there's a packed leaderboard on Sunday afternoon then Rahm's absence will be quickly forgotten.
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Farmers Insurance Open Course
The North course is played once during the first two rounds with the remaining three rounds taking place on the much tougher South Course. Luke List finally won on the PGA Tour here back in 2022 but bar a couple of others we have a fine calibre of winner here and you normally need to look to a player who has won before in fields of this quality.
The South Course is a brute at nearly 7800 yards long and clearly length off the tee helps in trying to tame the course, but the stats down the years tell us it is certainly not a pre requisite. Below I have listed the stats of the top five and ties each of the last three years.
Farmers Insurance Open Winners
Here is a look at the key stats from the top five finishers in recent seasons, featuring the three most recent winners of the Farmers Insurance Open.
| Farmers 2023 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | OTT | APP | ATG | T2G | PUTT | DD | DA | GIR | SCR |
| Homa | 1 | 31 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 55 | 9 | 3 | 14 |
| Bradley | 2 | 32 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 48 | 16 | 32 | 3 |
| Morikawa | 3 | 3 | 3 | 48 | 2 | 27 | 56 | 1 | 2 | 51 |
| Im | 4 | 53 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 58 | 32 | 7 | 35 |
| Ryder | 4 | 26 | 12 | 36 | 11 | 23 | 50 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
| Theegala | 4 | 48 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 35 | 28 | 32 | 13 | 25 |
| Farmers 2022 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | OTT | APP | ATG | T2G | PUTT | DD | DA | GIR | SCR |
| List | 1 | 21 | 4 | 32 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 11 | 6 |
| Zalatoris | 2 | 8 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 64 | 30 | 62 | 2 | 1 |
| Day | 3 | 24 | 38 | 31 | 29 | 7 | 28 | 37 | 21 | 25 |
| Rahm | 3 | 2 | 19 | 71 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 29 | 2 | 78 |
| Tringale | 3 | 48 | 33 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 74 | 23 | 21 | 17 |
| Farmers 2021 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Pos | OTT | APP | ATG | T2G | PUTT | DD | DA | GIR | SCR |
| Reed | 1 | 31 | 39 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 51 | 9 | 63 | 6 |
| Finau | 2 | 43 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 36 | 21 | 71 | 21 | 20 |
| Hovland | 2 | 16 | 5 | 50 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 71 |
| Norlander | 2 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 56 | 40 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| Palmer | 2 | 29 | 24 | 73 | 33 | 2 | 20 | 25 | 17 | 1 |
| Schauffele | 2 | 30 | 7 | 42 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 34 | 32 | 2 |
Farmers Insurance Open Torrey Pines Stats
Of the six who made the frame last year only one broke into the top 30 in Driving Distance for the week. In 2022, List ranked 12th in that department but rankings of 30,28 and 74 made up three of the other top five. Reed won the previous year ranking 51st in driving distance so it is certainly no necessity to be one of the longest in the field.
We can clearly see though that a solid tee to green game is needed mostly made of up approach play and work around the greens. There are a few ways to skin this feline though and it's difficult to rule out many simply by analysing their stats. In Reed's win for instance a poor enough week with the irons was saved by a tremendous short game.
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A West Coast trait is often Poa Annua greens and they feature once again at Torrey Pines. This often gives Californian's an advantage having grown up on these surfaces and the odd time it'll lend itself to those who struggle on the greens as it's a shade more volatile than Bermuda.
None more so was this evident than when Luke List won in 2022 having struggled all his career with the putter then producing one of his best efforts on the greens in many years.
