Barbasol Championship Picks, Odds & Favorites 2023

Though it plays second fiddle among the two PGA Tour events this week, the door is wide open for the lesser-known field as we look at our best Barbasol Championship picks based on the odds from our best sports betting apps.

It's a great week to back a long-shot winner with your Barbasol Championship picks!

With most of the world's best golfers preparing for the British Open across the pond, we've looked at our best Scottish Open picks. However, more fun is to be had in the U.S. this week, as the door is left wide open at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, KY. Defending tournament champion Trey Mullinax isn't participating this year, leaving Canadian Taylor Pendrith as the betting favorite by the Barbasol Championship odds from our best sports betting sites.

But we're not interested in backing favorites this week.

Barbasol Championship odds

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Barbasol Championship picks and predictions 2023

Satoshi Kodaira to win (+11000)

I absolutely love weeks with two events on the PGA Tour. With the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Xander Schauffele occupied in Scotland, we're left with a wide-open watered down field for the Barbasol Championship.

Not only can the books not price these alternate events as well as others but the lesser-known participants remove the threat of bias many golf bettors carry into a normal week. Thus, without a threat of heavy betting action on any specific golfer(s), we often get higher odds throughout the field than we would for a regular event.

As a result of those factors, we're backing Kodaira to claim his second PGA Tour victory—and first since 2018—with odds as high as +11000 via FanDuel and PointsBet.

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Driving—both distance and accuracy—is paramount at the 7,328-yard Keene Trace Golf Club. Kodaira leads the PGA Tour in good drive percentage for the 2022-23 season. He averaged 0.60 strokes gained: off-the-tee in a T-57 finish at last week's John Deere Classic, in which he lost more than 1.50 strokes per round with his putter.

Kodaira has been much closer to neutral with his flat stick this season, and he has experience at Keene Trace GC. He played this event each of the past three years with no finish worse than a T-53 and a top showing of T-20 in 2021.

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