Category: Golf

Kurt Kitayama made some people very rich on Sunday after overcoming 200-1 odds to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. There were big names all over the leaderboard as the Arnold Palmer Invitational had the most top-50 players in the field since the 2022 Open Championship. Jordan Spieth was charging early Sunday. Rory McIlroy charged late. Scottie…

I’m not sure designated events are what I hoped they would be from a gambling perspective. Boards have gotten weaker and matchups are more star-studded than I care to see, but you can’t argue with the results of the greatest stars in the world battling every Sunday for the title. We have a semi-surprising Saturday…

The early story on Saturday at Bay Hill was about a number of players making their move up the leaderboard. It started with Pierceson Coody, who is possibly the next young star on TOUR. His 6-under 66 moved him into a tie for seventh after he had just made the weekend by one shot inside…

We almost finished two rounds of golf, but it will be Justin Suh and Greg Koch who will decide what the cut is on Saturday morning. Suh shouldn’t play as much into the outcome since he sits at two-under par and looks to be safely into Saturday, but Koch has the weight of the field…

It seemed like things were set up for another Jon Rahm victory as he took the first-round lead and was headed toward the more favorable morning conditions Friday. However, he proved to be a mere mortal as he fired a 3-over 75, dropping outside the top 10 and opening the door for the rest of…

As the top players compete at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, there is a second PGA Tour event happening in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Open will play host to the opposite-field event where a win for one of the up-and-coming players could be life-changing. Bettors will be looking to find an edge while the casuals…

The best field of the PGA Tour season so far is set to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week. According to Official World Golf Rankings, Bay Hill Club & Lodge is set to host 44 of the world’s top 50 golfers. This is the best field since The Open Championship last July. Bettors…

While the fields aren’t quite what we want them to be in some of these “regular” events, they certainly don’t lack for storylines. Chris Kirk captured his first win in eight years on Sunday as he held on in a playoff over 34 year-old rookie Eric Cole. Kirk captured his fifth career victory and first…

Having not won on the PGA TOUR since 2015, Chris Kirk will look to end his drought Sunday at the Honda Classic. The American has put together an incredibly consistent start to the event, grading inside the top-20 for ball striking in each of the first three rounds. That output ranks fourth for the tournament,…

Another round that couldn’t finish in time. I continue to be at a loss for words about how the PGA Tour can’t get through the day and provide us with complete data totals, but things could be worse this time around since matchups and other markets decided to get priced out for Friday. Thank goodness…

The West Coast swing is officially over and the PGA Tour now takes its talents to Florida for three straight weeks. Well, most of the talent is waiting until next week. After two straight weeks with 19 of the top 20 players in the world in the field, the Honda Classic features just eight of…

Click arrow to expand The Honda Classic odds via PointsBet Player Name Odds Sungjae Im +1000 Shane Lowry +1600 Aaron Wise +2200 Billy Horschel +2500 Matt Kuchar +2800 Adam Svensson +2800 Denny Mccarthy +3000 Min Woo Lee +3000 Chris Kirk +3300 J.T. Poston +3500 Taylor Pendrith +3500 Jhonattan Vegas +3500 Harris English +3500 Thomas Detry…

Jon Rahm closed out another really impressive week as he captured his third PGA Tour win of 2023 and his fifth win worldwide in his past nine starts. It has been an incredible run of golf that has also resulted in him taking over the number one spot in the world rankings. He defeated possibly…

Jon Rahm continued his early season dominance Saturday at the Genesis Invitational as he shot a six-under 65 to take a three-shot lead through three rounds. The Spaniard will be looking to capture his fifth victory over his past nine tournaments on Sunday. We have seen Rahm go through similar stretches in the past, but…

Jon Rahm seized control of the Genesis Invitational on Saturday at Riviera as his bogey-free round of 6-under 65 vaulted him to a three-shot advantage over Max Homa. Rahm did it with some really consistent play and certainly had some good breaks on errant shots, but he continues to show why he leads the conversation…

It continues to be disappointing that the PGA Tour can’t figure out how to finish rounds on time. From a betting perspective, this creates a trickle-down effect as books seem less inclined to post head-to-head wagers when the entire set of data and tee times are yet to be decided for the third round. Our…

There is still golf to be played in Round 2 at the Genesis Invitational, but most of the players still on the course going into Saturday morning are closer to battling the cutline than contention at this stage. Max Homa was in the final group to finish on Friday evening and although he concluded a…

Tiger Woods played his first round on the PGA TOUR since October 2020, and he did not disappoint. After being priced around -200 to miss the cut entering Thursday, Woods shot a two-under 69 in the first-round as he shook off the rust and dealt with right ankle pain. He mentioned his ankle was hurting…

Tiger Woods made his first appearance since the Open Championship in July 2022 today at the Genesis Invitational. If you throw out the majors and limited-field events, this is his first start since the 2020 ZOZO Championship. He closed out his first round of competitive golf in over six months with three consecutive birdies to…

Click arrow to expand the Genesis Invitational odds via PointsBet Player Name Odds Jon Rahm +750 Rory McIlroy +850 Scottie Scheffler +1000 Tony Finau +1600 Justin Thomas +1600 Xander Schauffele +1600 Max Homa +2000 Collin Morikawa +2000 Patrick Cantlay +2200 Viktor Hovland +2800 Cameron Young +3000 Sungjae Im +3000 Jordan Spieth +3500 Sam Burns +3500…

The Genesis Invitational hosts nearly all of the world’s best golfers in Pacific Palisades, California to compete at Riviera Country Club this weekend. The Genesis field includes 23 of the top 25 players in the world according to the Official World Golf Rankings. However, the focus this week has been on someone who’s not ranked…

Tiger Woods makes his return to professional golf this week as he’s set to tee it up at Riviera. In addition to Woods, we once again have another stacked field ready to play one of the TOUR’s most historic courses. The 2023 version of the Genesis Invitational is a “designated event” that will leave a…

Click arrow to expand the Genesis Invitational odds via PointsBet Player Name Odds Jon Rahm +750 Rory McIlroy +850 Scottie Scheffler +1000 Tony Finau +1600 Justin Thomas +1600 Xander Schauffele +1600 Max Homa +2000 Collin Morikawa +2000 Patrick Cantlay +2200 Viktor Hovland +2800 Cameron Young +3000 Sungjae Im +3000 Jordan Spieth +3500 Sam Burns +3500…

We are in store for a mad-dash finish in Arizona, and I’m not talking about Super Bowl 57 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. That game will provide its own fireworks, but consider the final round of the WM Phoenix Open as one of the greatest opening acts imaginable for football to close…

The atmosphere at TPC Scottsdale on Saturday was everything we expected it to be as drinks and emotions were flowing throughout the venue. That permeated throughout the course as poor shots were booed and great ones were raucously cheered. Adam Hadwin put the cherry on top of the day as his tee shot on the…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Well, I just spent Saturday’s third round of the WM Phoenix Open undercover inside the belly of the beast and I can safely report to those who haven’t attended this event previously that it’s everything you probably think it is. Maybe more. And yet, I didn’t just make it through the day.…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — We’re two days into the raucous WM Phoenix Open, and the real party hasn’t even begun yet. Things always get turned up a few notches at TPC Scottsdale on Saturday — and this time, that doesn’t just mean outside the ropes. With half of this field still needing to complete their second…

Outside of the rounds being slow to finish because of the early-morning frost, things couldn’t be going better for event sponsors when you take a look at the WM Phoenix Open’s star-studded leaderboard. Our defending champion, Scottie Scheffler, holds a two-shot advantage over an impressive list of names. Perhaps these outlooks are what we should…

This is the first week in which we get the whole field on one course, with shot tracker, and it’s a great tournament to get that start. We have the No. 2 and No. 3 ranked players in the world leading an elite field at TPC Scottsdale as defending champion Scottie Scheffler blitzed his way…

Welcome to the biggest party of 2023. Over 500,000 fans are expected to walk through the turnstiles for this week’s WM Phoenix Open and create a circus-like atmosphere that has to be seen to be believed if you are new to golf. The best way I can describe the mayhem would be to tell you…

The 2023 Waste Management Phoenix Open is the biggest golf event of the year so far. For some, primarily college-aged males living in Arizona, it is the biggest golf event of the year. But even the professionals get fired up to play the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale. With 19 of the 20 best players…

Now that the Pebble Beach slog has finally ended, we can focus one of the best events of the year. Making Waste Management Open picks has been given the major treatment, both in field strength and respect from the books — particularly DraftKings, which posted the odds weeks ago. Basically anyone who can be here,…

Click arrow to expand the Pebble Beach Pro-Am odds via bet365 Golfer Odds Jon Rahm +800 Rory McIlroy +800 Scottie Scheffler +1400 Xander Schauffele +1600 Patrick Cantlay +2000 Tony Finau +2000 Collin Morikawa +2000 Justin Thomas +2200 Max Homa +2200 Sungjae Im +2800 Cameron Young +3000 Tom Kim +3000 Hideki Matsuyama +3300 Viktor Hovland +3300…

The weather rolled in as expected Saturday, but it was so bad that it stopped play and caused a complete change for the rest of the tournament. Peter Malnati leads the way through 12 holes of his third round, but many others have more to play going into Sunday. It will be a unique tournament…

The AT&T Pebble Beach has given us pedigree and beauty over the years, but the new elevated schedule has continuously provided a murky outlook. The rotational nature of what receives the boost will help this event during future iterations, but the ugly truth has been revealed when it comes to what will transpire for this…

The weather has caused a volatile two days at Pebble Beach, but players will try to overlook that and get themselves through the cut-line and into striking distance prior to Sunday. If you are placing wagers of any kind, please be aware of where everyone is playing their round tomorrow because that has made a…

There is always a lot to keep up with at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am as players play off of two tees on three different courses across a couple hours each morning. Spyglass is always the most difficult, while Monterrey Peninsula and Pebble Beach play much easier. The caveat to that is weather, which we…

The PGA Tour is at one of the most famous golf courses in the world for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The tournament is played on three separate golf courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterrey Peninsula Country Club. In addition to the PGA Tour golfers, numerous celebrities  — including Josh…

I’m a person who loves having as much data as possible to traverse through every week. It doesn’t mean we always land on the correct answer with how we build our metrics, but the ability to have long-term returns that we can point back to is a massive part of my process. In fairness, it’s…

The PGA Tour heads up the West Coast from San Diego to the Monterey Peninsula for the 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Three of the top 16 and seven of the top 50 players in the world will be playing in the fourth full-field event of the 2023 calendar year on TOUR at a tournament…

Max Homa once again reminded us that he is one of the elite closers in the game as he captured his sixth TOUR win in the past 25 months. He was able to hit some big shots down the stretch at Torrey Pines to outlast a world class leaderboard featuring Collin Morikawa, Sungjae Im, Jon…

Well, well, well. Things just got extremely interesting in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Sam Ryder holds the lead heading into the final round, but he better not peek into his rearview mirror because it might end up spooking him if he sees the who’s who of the event pressing the pedal to…

As we noted yesterday, the elite players seem to always find their way to the top at the Farmers Insurance Open. That played out to be true again during a rare Friday Moving Day as Jon Rahm and Tony Finau climbed their way into the last group for Saturday’s final round. They’ll play alongside Sam…

Was anyone else surprised the cut managed to find its way to even par when all was said and done? My model, pre-event, seemed to believe we might veer into the one-over range with the projected wind, but that was not the case after some strong efforts down the stretch from golfers who took advantage…

The first two days of the Farmers Insurance Open from Torrey Pines were a wild ride as low scores from the opening round were quickly put to a halt as winds wreaked havoc on the field. Most notably, one popular pretournament pick, Will Zalatoris, is heading home after a missed cut before the third round.…

2023 Farmers Insurance Open Odds Click arrow to expand 2023 Sony Open odds via BetMGM Player Name Odds Jon Rahm +450 Tony Finau +1200 Xander Schauffele +1200 Collin Morikawa +1400 Justin Thomas +1600 Will Zalatoris +1600 Max Homa +2200 Sungjae Im +2200 Jason Day +2500 Taylor Montgomery +2500 Hideki Matsuyama +3300 Maverick McNealy +3500 Si…

If you weren’t a fan of the three-course rotation last week, then I have some good news for you — there are only two courses in rotation this week at the Farmers Insurance Open. The PGA Tour wants to get out of the way of the mighty NFL Conference Championships, so this week’s tournament will…

The golf world belongs to Jon Rahm right now and everyone else is just living in it. Rahm closed out his second win in as many starts in 2023 as he held off Davis Thompson to win another American Express title. Rahm has also won his past two starts on the DP World Tour and…

After taking down the Sentry Tournament of Champions two weeks ago, Jon Rahm will look to continue his scorching pace by picking up his fourth victory in six starts. It has been an incredible run for the Spaniard after he voiced his displeasure with the current setup of the Official World Golf Rankings. Rahm called…

The American Express is one of the weeks each season where we know it’s going to take a low score to win. We got a treat this time around with so many of the top 15 players in the world teeing it up, and many of them showed up in a big way. Jon Rahm…

Two rounds remain at The American Express, but as anyone who has been watching the festivities in Coachella Valley clearly understands, not all rounds are equal. With a staggering five birdies over the first 36 holes, Davis Thompson is the leader at 18-under. Jon Rahm is two strokes back and attempting to win for the…

Day one of the American Express is finally in the books after a long, drawn-out round. While it would be nice to say change is on the way, it will be much of the same for us over the next two days. The viewable and handicapping structures are severely limited since the PGA West Stadium…