Snedeker not a major favorite, yet

Golf Channel’s Jason Sobel pumped the breaks on considering Snedeker as a Masters favorite when he tweeted that the last player to win Pebble then the Masters in the same year was Tom Watson – in 1977.

Digging deeper on that same thought path, only 17 times since 1955 has the Pebble Beach winner gone on to win a major that same year.

Snedeker knows the next step for him is to win a major This year, I’m going there knowing I can contend,” Snedeker said of Augusta National and The Masters.

If you expand the focus of his finishes to the end of last season, in eight of his last 10 PGA Tour starts, Snedeker has finished inside the top 11.

If he continues to roll the rock like he has in his last three events, Snedeker would be the clear favorite next week at the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.

Getting back to Pebble winners winning a major later that same season, Phil Mickelson was the last to do so when he won the 2005 Pebble Beach Pro-Am then went on to win the PGA Championship that August.

Snedeker is clearly the hottest golfer on the PGA Tour right now, but there are nine weeks until the first major at Augusta.

She is the youngest winner in LPGA and Ladies European Tour history, and is easily the youngest player ever with three professional wins.

For those that haven’t seen Ko in action, she is playing this week’s LPGA Tour event in Australia and will play the Kraft Nabisco Championship the first week of April.