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When it comes to Masters trends, Hideki Matsuyama broke the mold with his 2021 win. One of the great things about trying to handicap the golf season's first major is we're intimately familiar with Augusta National Golf Course, and the smaller field lends itself to the cream rising to the top. It's a big reason why Sunday at the Masters is the best…

The field for this week's RBC Heritage will have heaved a collective big sigh of relief when they discovered money-machine and now Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is taking a week off. The world No.1, a 16/1 winner for us last week, will need a computer to work out the winnings from that phenomenal four-victory-in-six week golden stretch but the…

The 2023 golf season will kick off on January 4th-8th at the Sentry Tournament of Champions at the Plantation Course in Kapalua on Maui Island in Hawaii. With legalized sports betting set to go live in Ohio at 12:01AM on January 1st, Buckeye State residents will be able to place wagers on the event. BetMGM Ohio and the other legal sports books…

2023-01-11DP World Tour Hero Cup golf tips: Luke Donald turns to new team competition for Ryder Cup pointers The Hero Cup is an all-European version of the Ryder Cup that is newly-devised this year and starts early on Friday UK time at Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates. The same venue hosted the HSBC Championship for 15 years before…

2023 U.S. Open June 15, 2023 8:00 am EDT The 2023 U.S. Open will be played at the Los Angeles Country Club (North Course) in Los Angeles, California. Before I discuss my favorite early first look bet for the 2023 U.S. Open let's take a look at the betting odds of past champions of this tournament to see if we can find any historical trends. Here is…

The 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions continues on Sunday afternoon with the fourth and final round at Kapalua in Hawaii. Here's what you need to know to watch Round 4 on TV or online. Collin Morikawa's game overhaul continues to impress in Maui, as a round of eight-under 65 on Saturday brought him to 24 under par, and six shots clear of his…

2pts double Justin Thomas to beat Scott Stallings & Scottie Scheffler to beat JJ Spaun (both 8/15) at 1.35/1 (General) A question for you: what did Sam Burns achieve when winning last June's Charles Schwab Challenge which not one PGA Tour winner since then has repeated? In truth, of course, there will have been many unique aspects of his triumph at…

The fourth and final round of the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions gets underway Sunday, January 8, at Kapalua in Hawaii. You can find full Round 4 tee times for the tournament at the bottom of this post. Collin Morikawa was bogey-free through two rounds and kept the streaking going in round three as he's now opened up a six-stroke lead heading…

At the 2023 Tournament of Champions, it is not a victor from the 2021-22 season that occupies the top of the leaderboard, but a prolific winner, nevertheless. Collin Morikawa commands the solo lead at 16 under midway through the action at the Plantation Course at Kapalua as the two-time major champion has looked rejuvenated with the putter in…

The PGA Tour season's third major is in the books, and the stretch run is right over the horizon as many of the tour's top golfers get set to play in the 2022 Travelers Championship. The short trip over to TPC River Highlands near Hartford, Conn., brought many players from the U.S. Open, played last week in Brookline, Mass. Five of the top 11…

The 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions continues on Saturday afternoon with the third round at Kapalua in Hawaii. Here's what you need to know to watch Round 3 on TV or online. The birdies are abundant in Maui, as Collin Morikawa pulled ahead of the Round 1 logjam at the top of the leaderboard to lead the tournament by two shots at 16 under par at…

The third round of the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions gets underway Saturday, January 7, at Kapalua in Hawaii. You can find full Round 3 tee times for the tournament at the bottom of this post. A logjam of three players tied at the top on Thursday gave way to a single leader on Friday, as Collin Morikawa followed up a first-round 64 with a…

The 2023 portion of the 2022-23 PGA Tour schedule tees off on Thursday as the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions gets underway. The first tee time is set for 2:30 p.m. ET, so it's an afternoon start for most of the mainland. The top players from last season will battle each other as they take on the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii. To…

After a six-week hiatus, the PGA TOUR returns to kick off 2023 in Hawaii on the island of Maui at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. A field of 39 players, including 17 of the OWGR Top 20, are here this week as this event at Kapalua has opened the PGA TOUR calendar year for the last 25 years. Cameron Smith kicked off our profitable season last…

Paradise awaits this week as PGA Tour golf returns to the Plantation Course at Kapalua, as the Sentry Tournament of Champions begins a 34-week race to take home the FedEx Cup. What we can expect this week: The Plantation course is a par-73 layout stretching 7596 yards. The scorecard shows 11 Par 4s, four Par 5s and three Par 3s. The course covers…

Breaking down our PGA Tour expert picks to kick off the 2023 season at Kapalua with the Sentry Tournament of Champions picks, best bets and more. It's been a few-weeks hiatus for the PGA Tour and a much longer hiatus during the heart of football season for me with the PGA Tour expert picks. But guess what, both are very much back as we kick off the…

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As the NFL races toward the postseason, the NBA and NHL hit the malaise of the winter months and MLB remains a rite of spring, it's right around this time each year that I find myself waxing poetic about golf being a 12-month-a-year - OK, 11¹/₂-month-a-year - sport. For those of you already familiar with my weekly preview columns and accustomed to…

With the flip of the calendar comes the resumption of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season. Taking roughly a month-long break following the RSM Classic, it is the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions which will once again begin the new year. Welcoming 39 of the best players in the world, winners from the 2021-22 season and those who qualified for the Tour…

Steve Palmer's golf betting predictions and analysis for the 2023 DP World Tour Rankings. It has become obvious with every passing DP World Tour season that what players do in the regulation events counts for little when it comes to determining who will end up atop the DP World Tour Rankings. Performance in Majors and World Golf Championships will…

April will be here before you know it, and coming along for the ride with it will be the start of golf's 2023 major championship season. Beginning at Augusta National for the Masters, as it typically does, the majors will go a long way to defining the game's best next year. While eyes around Augusta will be drawn to Tiger Woods and the return of…

This article is part of our Golf Picks series. The third major championship of the year has arrived, and the storylines will be plentiful at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. One big one will involve Rory McIlroy, who wound up on top of a star-studded leaderboard at the RBC Canadian Open and is favored to win this week's event at 10-1 odds.…

As was the case upon the completion of the first round, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton find themselves alongside each other at the top of the leaderboard heading into the weekend at the 2022 DP World Tour Championship. Playing in the final group in the second round, the two Ryder Cup teammates traded blows around Jumeirah Golf Estates, and…

July 8 (UPI) -- Wimbledon 2022 finales, the Scottish Open golf tournament and a batch of NASCAR and Formula 1 auto races pack this weekend's sports schedule. Dozens of MLS and MLB regular-season games will also air from Friday through Sunday. Combat sports fans also can tune in for several boxing bouts and UFC fights. But the grass tennis courts of…

The stars are out this week at Riviera, but who looks like the best bets on the board? Our hosts break down picks to win, sleepers, fades and more. This week, the PGA Tour lands at Riviera CC for the Genesis Invitational. Each of the top 15 players in the world will be competing when the event begins Thursday. Tiger Woods, as tournament host, will…

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Rory McIlroy bids to follow Jon Rahm's lead and give Europe back-to-back PGA Tour victories when the Wells Fargo Championship moves from North Carolina to Maryland while the usual venue, Quail Hollow, is readied for Presidents Cup duty in September. McIlroy will be miffed he will be defending the Wells Fargo on new terrain as he is a triple winner…

The opening event of the 2022 FedExCup playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship features all the best names from the PGA Tour, but it was Rory McIlroy who entered the week a+1000 betting favorite. Check out the live odds below as the event unfolds. The FedExCup Playoffs will kick off in earnest this weekend at TPC Southwind in Memphis, TN. The…

Scottie Scheffler to win 5.44pm twoball 4pts 4-5 general Tommy Fleetwood to win 4.38pm twoball 4pts 4-5 general Defending champion Viktor Hovland leads the Hero World Challenge by a shot going into the weekend at Albany, New Providence, Bahamas. Hovland, a pre-tournament 16-1 chance, has shortened to 4-1 after covering the opening 36 holes in five…

4pts e.w. Rory McIlroy at 9/1 (Boylesports 1/5, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 9,10) 1pt e.w. Brendan Steele at 100/1 (Boylesports 1/5, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) 1pt e.w. Patrick Rodgers at 150/1 (Boylesports 1/5, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) We get to see Muirfield Village for the fourth time in little more than two years as the Memorial Tournament again serves as the…

If the college basketball March Madness action wasn't enough for you last week, golf has its own version in Texas this week as the world's best congregate one final time before the Masters, which starts in just two weeks (!). Though a handful of the top players in the world will be absent this week, we still get a very different look at the…

It's the best of both worlds this week as the co-sanctioned 2022 Scottish Open tees off Thursday at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. LIV Golf's push to compete with the top tours has spurred a strategic alliance between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. The Scottish Open field will feature 75 players from each of those tours, plus…

A limited but loaded field is set to tee off Thursday at Congaree Golf Club in the 2022 CJ Cup in South Carolina. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and reigning FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy are among the 15 players ranked in the top 20 who are scheduled to compete. Also among the 78 golfers in the CJ Cup 2022 field are 10 top players from the Korean…

Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports The 44 edition of the Ryder Cup delayed until 2023 due to COVID-19 Team USA is the holder of the Ryder Cup after winning emphatically at Whistling Straits in 2021 One of the most exciting golfing events on the calendar is slowly creeping into sight, as the Ryder Cup 2023 gets underway in just over 12 months' time.…

There are plenty of storylines entering Thursday's 2022 U.S. Open. Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas will try for a second title this season. Jon Rahm, the reigning U.S. Open champion, will be trying to go back-to-back, while red-hot Rory McIlroy wants a fifth major title after winning last week's RBC…

Rory McIlroy can make history this week with a victory at the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship, which gets underway on Thursday, May 5. McIlroy is the defending champion of this event and he'll become the first player to successfully defend his title with a win at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. McIlroy headlines the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship field,…

Sky Sports Main Event and Golf, 2pm Sunday Jon Rahm to win the US Open 4pts each-way 4-1 general Jon Rahm to win 7.34pm twoball (4-6) and Scottie Scheffler to win 7.23pm twoball (5-9) 2pts double bet365 Sam Burns to win 7.12pm twoball 1pt 7-5 general Min Woo Lee to win 6.12pm twoball 1pt 7-5 BoyleSports Lowest tournament round over 65 3pts…

Golf fans across the globe were excited to see Tiger Woods in the field at the Hero World Challenge, but he ended up being a late scratch due to plantar fasciitis, which he said Tuesday was a side-effect of his lingering leg and ankle injuries. This event now features 19 players, with of 17 of the top 21 golfers in the world.

Tiger Woods' return to competition was supposed to begin this week at the 2022 Hero World Challenge. Instead, golf fans around the world will have to wait just a little bit longer as the 15-time major champion withdrew on Monday citing plantar fasciitis in his right foot. In his place, Austrian Sepp Straka will make his Hero World Challenge debut…

The 2022 Hero World Challenge will tee off on Thursday, December 1. Despite no FedEx Cup points on offer, the event still has a loaded field fighting for a total purse of $3.5 million. The limited-field event, hosted by Tiger Woods, suffered a major blow as the ace golfer announced his withdrawal on Tuesday. The 15-time PGA Tour champion bowed out…

The PGA Tour signs off for 2022 with this week's Hero Worldwide Challenge at the Albany Golf Club, New Province Bahamas. It's a star-studded line up in the Bahamas with eighteen of the World's Top Ranked 25 players on show. Only 20 players will be competing this week for a share of the $3.5M prize purse with the winner collecting the Hero Worldwide…

The 2022 Hero World Challenge is here, and we're back with our PGA Tour expert picks and betting tips for the PGA Tour event at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. Every week, we share our PGA Tour player rankings, and they are agnostic of competition. Whether you're betting on golf, playing in a fantasy golf leagues or competing in a DFS (DraftKings,…

The Hero World Challenge will close out the PGA Tour's calendar year with 20 of the world's top players at Albany Golf Course in The Bahamas. Host Tiger Woods was set to be in the field, but was forced to withdraw due to plantar fasciitis. The 2022 Hero World Challenge field will feature 2022 major champions Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick and…

It's Tiger Woods glorified hit-and-giggle in the Bahamas. Oddschecker's Tom Jacobs assesses the field This is exciting, isn't it? We haven't seen Tiger Woods since he was fighting back the tears on the Swilcan Bridge. But the 15-time major champion has decided he is fit enough to return to PGA Tour action at his 20-man invitational in the Bahamas,…

Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald will be running the rule over potential candidates for his Rome squad when the former world No.1 tees it up in this week's Made In HimmerLand tournament in Denmark so players like Rasmus Hojgaard, Bob MacIntyre and Matt Wallace will be hoping to bring their A-game to the party. Wallace put down an early marker by…

Mito Pereira's PGA Championship lead wasn't as safe as it appeared when he entered Sunday with a three-shot lead on the field. But as his birdie putt on the 17th hole darted straight for the hole, it appeared longshot bettors were set to cash in. That birdie putt fell one rotation short of the cup and the ensuing tee shot on No. 18 found water. The…

THE curtain comes down on the DP World Tour season this week, with Rory McIlroy starting as a hot favourite to command centre stage in Dubai. McIlroy tops the Tour rankings, and is expected to finish the year as Europe's leading money earner for the fourth time, by romping to a third victory in the DP World Tour Championship. He has already…

Sky Sports Golf Main Event and Golf, 6.30am Sunday Rory McIlroy to win the DP World Tour Championship 2pts 9-2 general Tommy Fleetwood top-five finish 2pts 13-10 bet365, Hills Tommy Fleetwood win 7.30am twoball (1-2) and Rory McIlroy to win 7.50am twoball (4-7) 2pts double bet365, Betfair, Power There have been 13 previous editions of the DP World…

Almost eight years have passed since Rory McIlroy last won a major championship, believe it or not. Despite a prolonged slump in golf's biggest events, he's showing up this week at the U.S. Open as the betting favorite and fan favorite, and deservedly so on both accounts. The sport has splintered into a good-versus-evil battle in recent weeks, with…

The PGA Tour is known for its stroke-play tournaments, so the 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event is a welcomed change in the schedule. Austin Country Club is set to host the tournament, as it has since 2016. The event will feature 64 of the world's best golfers, but they will be broken into 16 groups of round-robin play that begins on…