Talor Gooch

Talor Gooch

33-Year-Old Golfer
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2025 Fantasy Outlook
Gooch entered 2024 as arguably one of the hottest golfers in the LIV Golf League. He won the season-long Individual Championship in 2023 thanks to victories at LIV Golf Adelaide, Singapore and Andalucia. Unfortunately for Gooch, 2024 was a bit of a different story. While he finished 10th in the LIV Golf individual season standings, he failed to add to his trophy collection, with his T2 in Las Vegas marking his best outing of the year. Gooch was given a special exemption to play in the PGA Championship, and while he was able to make the cut, he finished T60 at Valhalla. Unless he elects to play on the Asian Tour, Gooch is unlikely to receive an invitation to any of the four majors in 2025 and will have to earn his way through qualification. Read Past Outlooks
Fails to replicate 2023 season
September 16, 2024
Gooch finished T15 at LIV Golf Chicago with a cumulative score of two-under par.
ANALYSIS
Gooch entered 2024 as the reigning LIV Golf Individual Champion, thanks in large part to his three victories in Adelaide, Singapore and Andalucia. He finished in the top-10 in five LIV Golf tournaments this season, but he was never really in contention of winning an event this time around, perhaps due to the increased competition from newcomers like Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. Gooch finishes the 2024 LIV Golf regular season 10th in the individual standings with 94.43 points, with his T2 finish in Las Vegas being his best performance. He'll represent Smash GC at the Team Championship in Dallas next weekend alongside Jason Kokrak, Graeme McDowell and captain Brooks Koepka.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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Gooch's only chance to play in a PGA Tour would be via qualifying for either Open. He chose not to do so last year.
Gooch will fall out of the top-50 and not qualify for the Masters, and he has not qualified for any of the other three.
Gooch put together a very similar season to what he did in 2019-20. He lost strokes again off the tee, but was top 70 on tour in all other areas. Gooch finished the season in the top 40 in scoring average. There's no reason to think the 29-year-old couldn't do it again in 2021-22.
Year 3 on the PGA Tour was Gooch's best last season, making 17-of-23 cuts and notching nine top-25 finishes. He ended up top-55 in both SG: Total and scoring average. The 28-year-old solid finish last season does provide some reason for optimism going into Year 4.
Gooch is a perfect example of why you shouldn't write-off anyone that didn't finish in the top-125 the previous season. As a rookie, Gooch finished 139th on the FedEx list, but he retains partial privileges by staying inside the top-150. He parlayed his limited amount of starts (16) into over $1 million in earnings and full privileges for the upcoming season. Gooch appears to have some potential and should be given consideration as a salary cap selection this season.
Gooch's rookie season on the PGA Tour came and went without a top-10 finish, but did include five top-25s as he earned just north of $650,000. He's got plenty of development to do as the 26-year-old was very average in iron play and putting and below average off the tee due to inaccuracy. Don't expect much to change from last season to this one, though there's a decent chance for him to notch his first PGA Tour top-10 at some point in 2018-19.
Gooch appeared to simply be going through the motions throughout a majority of the Web.com season as he placed top-five just once in his first 16 starts, but a runner-up finish at the Price Cutter Charity Championship in August preceded his first career victory at the News Sentinel Open. He earned over $170K during these two weeks alone, boosting him into position to become a rookie on the PGA Tour as he finished sixth on the Web.com's regular season money list. Gooch also made the cut at the 2017 U.S. Open, but a final-round 80 resulted in a second-to-last place finish among those who made the weekend.
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Fizzles out at LIV Golf Greenbrier
August 19, 2024
Gooch finished LIV Golf Greenbrier tied with HyFlyer GC's Cameron Tringale for 11th after shooting a one-under 69 in the final round.
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Bounces back at LIV Golf UK
July 28, 2024
Gooch carded a one-under 70 in the final round at LIV Golf UK to finish the tournament nine-under for a five-way share of sixth.
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Disappoints at LIV Golf Nasvhille
June 28, 2024
Gooch scored a one-over 72 in the final round at LIV Golf Nashville to finish the tournament one-under, tied for 42nd with Smash GC teammates Brooks Koepka and Graeme McDowell and Cleeks GC captain Martin Kaymer.
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T15 at LIV Golf Houston
June 12, 2024
Gooch carded a six-under 66 in the final round at LIV Golf Houston. He finished the tournament six-under, tied with Sebastian Munoz and Henrik Stenson for 15th.
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Finishes T60 in Kentucky
May 20, 2024
Gooch registered a four-under 69 in the PGA Championship to finish tied for the 60th spot.
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