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Kevin Yu betting profile: Sanderson Farms Championship
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Kevin Yu enters play Oct. 3-6 in the 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship after failing to make the cut in the same tournament in 2023.
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The Sanderson Farms Championship tournament and course info
- Date: Oct. 3-6, 2024
- Location: Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Course: The Country Club of Jackson
- Par: 72 / 7,461 yards
- Purse: $7.6M
- Previous winner: Luke List
At the Sanderson Farms Championship
- Over his last two trips to the Sanderson Farms Championship, Yu has an average score of 10-under, with an average finish of 19th.
- Yu last played at the Sanderson Farms Championship in 2023, missing the cut with a score of 1-over.
- En route to winning this tournament in 2023, Luke List posted numbers of 2.173 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (19th in field), 0.109 in SG: Approach the Green (47th), and 6.002 in SG: Putting (seventh).
- List averaged 312.9 yards off the tee (10th in field), had a greens in regulation percentage of 77.78% (seventh), and attempted 27.75 putts per round (16th) in that victory a year ago.
Yu's recent history at the Sanderson Farms Championship
| Date | Result | Round Scores | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/5/2023 | MC | 69-76 | +1 |
| 9/29/2022 | 19 | 67-73-68-70 | -10 |
Yu's recent performances
- Yu has finished in the top 20 in one of his last five appearances.
- In the last five times he's played a tournament, he has made the cut three times.
- Yu has finished with a score lower than the tournament average in one of his last five events.
- In his last five appearances, his average score has been 3-under.
- Off the tee, Kevin Yu has averaged 305.2 yards in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five starts, Yu is averaging -0.790 Strokes Gained: Putting.
- Yu is averaging -2.221 Strokes Gained: Total in his past five tournaments.
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Yu's advanced stats and rankings
- Yu has delivered a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.500 this season (13th on TOUR). His average driving distance (309.4 yards) ranks 23rd, while his 58.4% driving accuracy average ranks 117th.
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Yu has a 0.378 mark (28th on TOUR).
- On the greens, Yu has delivered a -0.500 Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season, which places him 159th on TOUR, while he ranks 167th with a putts-per-round average of 30.04. He has broken par 27.78% of the time (sixth on TOUR).
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Driving Distance | 23 | 309.4 | 305.2 |
| Greens in Regulation % | 9 | 70.57% | 50.69% |
| Putts Per Round | 167 | 30.04 | 29.4 |
| Par Breakers | 6 | 27.78% | 21.53% |
| Bogey Avoidance | 137 | 16.08% | 14.24% |
Yu's best finishes
- Yu has participated in 22 tournaments this season, and while he hasn't won any of them, he has collected two finishes in the top-five and four finishes in the top-10.
- In those 22 tournaments, he made the cut on 13 occasions.
- With 469 points, Yu currently ranks 90th in the FedExCup standings.
Yu's best Strokes Gained performances
- This season, Yu's best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performance came at the Valero Texas Open in April 2024, as he ranked second in the field with a mark of 6.130.
- Yu's best Strokes Gained: Approach effort this season came at the Valero Texas Open, where he ranked sixth in the field with a mark of 6.349 (he finished 39th in that event).
- In terms of Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Yu produced his best performance this season at the Myrtle Beach Classic (May 2024), ranking 14th in the field with a mark of 1.993.
- At the Myrtle Beach Classic in May 2024, Yu recorded a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 3.176, his best mark so far this season. That ranked him 22nd in the field (he finished fourth in that event).
- Yu delivered his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (10.007) at the Myrtle Beach Classic (May 2024), which ranked him fourth in the field. He finished fourth in that tournament.
Yu's Strokes Gained rankings
| Category | Overall TOUR Rank | Overall | Last 5 Starts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee | 13 | 0.500 | -0.892 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Approach the Green | 28 | 0.378 | -0.089 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Around the Green | 157 | -0.345 | -0.450 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Putting | 159 | -0.500 | -0.790 |
| Average Strokes Gained: Total | 104 | 0.033 | -2.221 |
Yu's past results
| Date | Tournament Name | Result | Round Scores | To Par | FedExCup Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5-8 | Sanderson Farms Championship | MC | 69-76 | +1 | -- |
| October 12-15 | Shriners Children's Open | MC | 76-67 | +1 | -- |
| October 19-21 | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP | 59 | 69-74-71-72 | +6 | -- |
| November 2-5 | World Wide Technology Championship | MC | 70-72 | -2 | -- |
| November 9-12 | Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 30 | 71-63-72-65 | -13 | -- |
| November 16-19 | The RSM Classic | MC | 69-72 | -1 | -- |
| January 11-14 | Sony Open in Hawaii | MC | 68-71 | -1 | -- |
| January 18-21 | The American Express | 3 | 66-66-66-63 | -27 | 145 |
| January 24-27 | Farmers Insurance Open | 6 | 64-74-73-67 | -10 | 92 |
| February 1-4 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | 58 | 72-68-73 | -3 | 8 |
| February 8-11 | WM Phoenix Open | MC | 69-73 | E | -- |
| February 15-18 | The Genesis Invitational | MC | 75-75 | +8 | -- |
| February 29 - March 3 | Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches | 9 | 66-67-70-69 | -12 | 66 |
| March 14-17 | THE PLAYERS Championship | MC | 74-73 | +3 | -- |
| March 21-24 | Valspar Championship | MC | 74-69 | +1 | -- |
| April 4-7 | Valero Texas Open | 39 | 72-73-74-67 | -2 | 15 |
| April 18-21 | Corales Puntacana Championship | MC | 72-72 | E | -- |
| April 25-28 | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | 28 | 64-70-62-75 | -17 | 5 |
| May 2-5 | THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson | MC | 68-69 | -5 | -- |
| May 9-12 | Myrtle Beach Classic | 4 | 67-69-66-67 | -15 | 59 |
| May 23-26 | Charles Schwab Challenge | 61 | 69-69-72-75 | +5 | 5 |
| May 30 - June 2 | RBC Canadian Open | 42 | 70-70-67-71 | -2 | 11 |
| June 27-30 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | 31 | 70-70-68-71 | -9 | 19 |
| July 4-7 | John Deere Classic | 20 | 68-63-69-67 | -17 | 43 |
| July 11-13 | Genesis Scottish Open | MC | 73-69 | +2 | -- |
| July 25-28 | 3M Open | 73 | 69-71-75-73 | +4 | 3 |
| August 1-3 | Men’s Olympic Golf Competition | 52 | 73-69-72-74 | +4 | -- |
| August 8-11 | Wyndham Championship | MC | 72-71 | +3 | -- |
All stats in this article are accurate for Yu as of the start of the Sanderson Farms Championship.
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