Longshot Picks to Win the Event

The 2023 golf season will kick off on January 4th-8th at the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Plantation Course in Kapalua on Maui Island in Hawaii. Legal sports betting is set to go live in Ohio at 12:01AM on 1 January. Top LIV Tour players such as defending champion Cameron Smith, Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Branden Grace, Abraham Ancer and Taylor Gooch are in the field. Phil Michelson is in it.

The Players Championship is set for March 12th. The favorites are McElroy, Rahm, Thomas, Scheffler, Cantlay, Matt Fitzpatrick, Will Zalatoris, Tom Kim, Finau, Viktor Hovland, Schauffele and Morikawa.

Sportsbooks offer betting on the Top Ten finish and Top Five. The odds on Top 5 are higher. There are some restrictions on which players get paid out. Betting on a golf match between two players is similar to that of an NFL game. TOC is dominated by the top players. It is the closest thing to an offseason for pro golf. Golf is not handicaping.BetMGM Ohio does not use dead heat pricing.

Golf props will be relatively small and with smaller limits than regular bets. They might have general props on the final score range of the winner, whether there will a hole-in-one, if someone goes bogey-free in a round, and so on.

Golf tournaments are a good place to place live bets. Sportsbooks have robust live betting offerings. They post odds on round winners, hole winners and prop bets on certain events.

The TOC is in Hawaii. Ohio residents will get legalized sports betting. The tournament is not a major, but it has the field quality of a near-major.