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Of the 16 lowest scores on the Round 1 leaderboard at the Travelers Championship — and yes, the low scores were exceptionally low, led by a 10-under 60 by Mackenzie Hughes — 12 were posted by players with morning tee times on Thursday. There are two potential conclusions from this information. One is that the…

Well, I hope all of you are holding onto some Mackenzie Hughes 300/1 tickets, because man was that quite an opening round. The 29-year-old Canadian didn’t just claim the first-round lead — he snatched it with a vengeance and is up three strokes on the entire field entering Friday’s cut round. He has some old,…

The PGA TOUR will go ahead with the 2020 Travelers Championship despite a handful of withdrawals due to positive COVID-19 tests or an “abundance of caution.” While plenty of attention will rightfully be paid to how the TOUR moves forward after the positive tests, our job is to provide betting analysis for the Travelers Championship…

The PGA TOUR has been pure rock-and-roll since it returned from a three-month hiatus. We’ve seen two star-studded fields go down to the wire and the golf-betting community has been absolutely buzzing since the TOUR teed off two weeks ago at Colonial. The expectations will be quite high for the Travelers but we’ve got another…

For the third consecutive week we have a star-studded tournament ahead of us on the PGA TOUR and the presence of 15 of the top-20 players in the world means that bettors can find some tasty matchups on the board for The Travelers Championship. Check out our favorite matchup bets for TPC River Highlands: Travelers…

You can’t say that either of the first two winners since the PGA TOUR resumed play were truly sleepers. Sure, Daniel Berger was hanging around +8000 for a brief moment before The Charles Schwab Challenge but he was bet down pretty quickly into the 50-1 range and was a pretty popular play in golf-speculating circles.…

The PGA TOUR heads north to Cromwell, Conn. for this week’s Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands. We’ve been treated to two delightful tournaments the past couple of weeks and the betting buzz ahead of The Travelers is palpable. Bookmakers around the country have taken notice and the offerings at sportsbooks continue to get better…

The PGA TOUR couldn’t have asked for a better restart to the 2019-20 season. Both The Charles Schwab Challenge and RBC Heritage gave us riveting Sunday leaderboards and a pair of dramatic finishes that bettors won’t soon forget. Judging by how loaded the field is and how well some of the game’s biggest stars are…

Webb Simpson got hot with the putter at the right time for us at Harbour Town and his victory served as a good reminder that not all missed cuts are created equal. For the second week in a row Simpson was a popular outright pick and he carried plenty of ownership in DFS, so enough…

Roy McAvoy was talking specifically about the U.S. Open when he delivered his famous speech in Tin Cup, calling it “not just the biggest golf tournament in the world — the most democratic.” Kevin Costner’s character wasn’t wrong in that assessment, even if he didn’t have the foresight to consider a global pandemic which would…

Way back in 2016, I wrote about an idea called Vegas Bargain Ratings, which might sound more complicated than it actually is. The basic premise: DraftKings salaries are highly correlated with odds to win the tournament, but it’s not a perfect fit. By highlighting the golfers for which it’s not correct — and this assumes…

Earlier today, I wrote about which golf metrics have best predicted success at TPC River Highlands, the site of this week’s tournament, the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut. See that post for the data, but the quick version is that we have yet another ball-striking course. It’s one of the rare PGA TOUR tracks to…

Golf has been a major part of the lockdown routine in the Wilson household. As MLB struggles to get its season going, my attention this spring has been solely on handicapping golf while working on my own personal game. As an Oklahoma resident the past 15 years, I have had the joy of watching some…

Golfers who prioritized the big stick at the driving range in their COVID-19 layoffs probably aren’t too happy right now. We’ve had two ball-striking courses in a row in Colonial and Harbour Town, and what do you know … we have ourselves yet another this week at the Travelers Championship. This event is held at…

Betting on golf is cruel. Last week, Webb Simpson burned half of the golf-speculating world with a missed cut at The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial. Not only was Simpson the most-owned player in DraftKings’ Millionaire Maker, but he was also a very popular pick among outright bettors. This week, Webb bounced back with a…