Ene 20, 2022

Power Rankings: The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club

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Power Rankings

Escrito por Mike Glasscott

The Abaco Club on Winding Bay returns as host venue for The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic for the first time since 2019 and fourth time since 2017.

The 2020 edition was played at Royal Blue Golf Club in Nassau, as Great Abaco was recovering from Hurricane Dorian.

Yards (per official scorecard):	7,141
Par:	72 (36-36)
Greens:	SeaDwarf Paspalum; 7,000 square feet on average.
Stimpmeter:	Around 11 feet.
Rough:	Empire Zoysiagrass at two inches.
Bunkers/Water Hazards	84/1 (water in play on 1 hole).
Architects:	Donald Steele and Tom Mackenzie (2004).
Purse:	$750,000; $135,000 winner plus 500 KFT points.
Defending Champion (event):	Jared Wolfe (not entered).
Defending Champion (course):	Rafael Campos.
Tournament Record (course):	271; 2018 Adam Svensson (not entered).
Tournament Course Record:	64; Vince Covello (2017, Round 2; not entered).

POWER RANKINGS

RANK	PLAYER	COMMENT

Another late-week Power Ranking = another Sunday-Wednesday event in The Bahamas!

Week 2 of the Korn Ferry Tour season unfurls against the backdrop of the turquoise waters of The Abaco Club at Winding Bay. The Abaco Club has crowned Andrew Landry (-16, 2017), Adam Svensson (-17, 2018) and Campos as champions and will add another from the field of 132 this week.

The Abaco Club runs through the dunes of Winding Bay and enjoys exposed holes along the coast. The links-style layout provides plenty of room to swing driver as 60 acres of fairway awaits off the tee. The putting areas also provide ample targets as they average 7,000 square feet. Big fairways and big greens are on the menu this week after a tight test (25 acres of fairway; 4,500-square-foot greens on average) at Sandals Emerald Bay last week.

Set up to run firm and fast, The Abaco Club will play firmer and faster as the course didn't even receive three inches of rain last summer. Finding fairways and dialing in wedges is the first priority. Pot bunkers and sandy waste areas will catch the errant shots and Zoysiagrass rough will provide the defense off the fairways. Another week of Paspalum greens won't take long to adjust to, if at all.

Scoring this week will be predicated on the weather as usual in this part of the world. Each day of the tournament will feature breezes blowing from four different directions, and that could keep the numbers slightly higher again this week. Thankfully, we won't see the winds that blew 18-26 mph with 38 mph gusts like Rafael Campos had to navigate in the final round in 2017!