Brandt Snedeker is Number One

Forget the Official World Golf Ranking, Brandt Snedeker is really the number-one golfer on tour right now. Not Rory McIlroy, not Tiger Woods, not Phil Mickelson, not anybody else. The 32 year-old from Nashville, Tennessee has taken the PGA Tour by storm in 2013. Snedeker has played five tournaments so far in 2013. His finishes are: third at the Tournament of Champions, tied for 23rd at the Humana Challenge, tied for second at the Farmers Insurance Open, second at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, and first last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The summary of these five tournaments is one victory, four top-three finishes, and no finish outside the top 23. This stretch is amazing, considering there have only been six PGA Tour tournaments in 2013, so Snedeker has only taken off one week. He’s played in four straight weeks, and the last three weeks he hasn’t finished outside the top two. Here’s how he stacks up against the rest of the PGA Tour this year: He is tied fo...