#WM Phoenix Open

There used to be a time when golf betting was a niche activity, with many online sportsbooks steering clear of the sport altogether. In recent years, however, the number of people betting on golf has skyrocketed. In addition to wagering on the winner of a tournament, you can now take advantage of multiple golf betting opportunities. With most…

The PGA Tour remains in Hawaii this week for the second of two events, this one featuring the first full field of 2023. Waialae Country Club in Honolulu hosts the Sony Open in Hawaii, where Tom Kim will look to hold off a strong field as the consensus favorite. Check out below for our top Sony Open golf picks based on the odds from our best…

It was another strong month sports betting wise for Arizona, reporting $618 million in sports betting wagers - an $80 million increase from September. Fresh off its successful first-year anniversary of legal sports betting in September, Arizona enjoyed another steady increase in handle for the month of October, basking in the success of online…

KAPALUA, Hawaii - On Sunday morning at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan met with credentialed media for a question-and-answer session. He welcomed any and all questions, though he cautioned that due to ongoing litigation with LIV, he might not answer every one fully. That was his only preamble; then Monahan…

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…

Aloha! For most people, the new year's arrival doesn't exactly spur a longing for golf. That is unless you count the bettors who have been anxiously waiting for the West Coast Swing on the PGA Tour, which begins with the Sentry Tournament of Champions at the Kapalua Plantation Course on the island of Maui, Hawai'i. I have always dreamed about…

Originally announced in 2021, with construction started this previous May, the DraftKings Sportsbook at TPC Scottsdale will be the first retail location to offer legal sports betting on a golf course during a PGA event. An iconic golf course, well known for drawing large crowds, is going to also be drawing legal sports betting fans beginning in…

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - When Jay Monahan became PGA Tour commissioner in 2017, he did not quite imagine that just five years later he would be at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new DraftKings Sportsbook facility at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona. But as he knows all too well thanks to the ongoing LIV Golf saga, the sports business landscape can change…

The WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale typically has the rowdiest golf crowds of the year, so naturally, it will become the first golf venue to host live, in-person sports betting at a PGA Tour event. The PGA Tour took part in a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a DraftKings sportsbook that will open east of the Stadium Course and will be open…

Having shared my modeling strategy for this weekend's Valero Texas Open, it's time to apply it and make some picks. Today's column will focus on the derivative markets available to bettors before we dive into some matchup bets tomorrow. As a matter of note, I'm staying away from the futures market as I believe Rory McIlroy is a rightful favorite,…

This week's Arnold Palmer Invitational features a star-studded field going up against a course that has been a mainstay on the PGA Tour since The King made it that way, Bay Hill. The betting odds for the Arnold Palmer Invitational via BetMGM feature two heavy-hitters at the very top, and an ageing champion lurking in the depths. Here's what you…

The 2022 CJ Cup in South Carolina kicks off on Thursday with the first round at Congaree Golf Club. Here's what you need to know to watch Round 1 on TV or online. One PGA Tour star in particular has been giving golf fans something to watch early in the new season: Rickie Fowler. Fowler has struggled for years, with his last victory coming at the…

Reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has backed up his Green Jacket with a great season, having already won the ZOZO Championship and Sony Open titles. He comes in to this prestigious tournament with a lot of confidence, with four Top 20's in six starts in 2022. Before COVID-19 halted the tournament in 2020 after 18 holes, Matsuyama had…

Jon Rahm made the most of his latest trip home to his native Spain, winning the DP World Tour's acciona Open de España presented by Madrid. The 27-year-old Rahm grew up in the Basque coastal town of Barrika, population 1500, and fairly or not, he's been compared to the great Spanish golfers who came before him since his teens: Seve Ballesteros,…

How do you follow last week's completely insane WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale? With the best field of the year at the best golf course on the PGA Tour, of course. The PGA Tour heads to Los Angeles this week as Max Homa defends his title at Riviera Country Club, and he'll have to knock off most of the best players in the world to do it at the…

Golf tips and expert instruction, golf club reviews and the latest golf equipment. Thank you for signing up to. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. The best sight of a hectic weekend's golf apart from Solheim Cup heroine Leona Maguire's LPGA breakthrough was surely Bubba Watson…

The last week of the West Coast swing did not disappoint as Joaquin Niemann collected his second PGA Tour victory and entered the top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career (He's also No. 19 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings). Now it's time to kick off the Florida swing with this week's Honda Classic. To start, the…

The 2022 West Coast swing on the PGA Tour has finished and now things flip to the opposite coast for the'Florida Swing'. It all begins this week with the 2022 Honda Classic at the challenging PGA National. The next several weeks will see the tour make stops at PGA National for the Honda Classic, Bay Hill Club and Lodge for the Arnold Palmer…