#FedEx Cup Playoffs

Given the state of his body (and his life) a year ago, the question, "Will Tiger Woods play in the Masters?" -- though certainly tiring and repetitive -- must feel like the easiest burden in the world for Woods to bear as April approaches. This time last year, following his horrific car wreck near Los Angeles just after the 2021 Genesis…

KAPALUA, Hawaii - Ahead of this week's Sentry Tournament of Champions, competitors received a "Player Advance Sheet," as they do before every event. But one entry listed under "TOURNAMENT NOTES" stood out. "This season, at the request of the membership, policies have changed to allow caddies access to locker rooms at all times to be able to assist…

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…

After a break for the holidays, the 2022-23 PGA Tour season resumes with the first event of the new year. The 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions begins on Thursday, Jan. 5, from the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Hawaii. Invitations are only extended to PGA Tour winners in the past year and anybody who qualified for the 2022 Tour Championship…

The PGA Tour resumes after a short winter break in the new year at the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort in Maui, Hawaii for the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions. This will be a 72-hole, no-cut event with a 39-golfer field. Reigning champion Cameron Smith will not be defending his Sentry title after defecting to the LIV Tour at the end of 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…

Welcome to another edition of the Grind, where we are proud to say we carried a 20-day Peloton streak into the New Year. Unfortunately, we also carried a 30-day eat-like-an-absolute-pig streak as well. But that should come as no surprise to loyal readers (AKA my mom) as we begin an 11th year in this space. And while not much happened the past…

It's never too early to start preparing to make picks for the 2023 Open Championship. December presents an opportunity to get great closing line value on a player months in advance. Here's an early preview for the 2023 Open Championship and early picks to win. The 151st Open Championship will be played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, just…

The PGA Tour is on its annual winter break, but that's not stopping us from looking ahead to the rest of the 2022-23 golf season. The Sentry Tournament of Champions kicks off during the first week of January, and from there, it's nearly non-stop PGA Tour golf until the FedEx Cup Playoffs in late August. With that in mind, here's a look at our…

There are plenty of familiar names atop the odds board for the 2023 Masters Tournament. This page will track the odds for all the top contenders and notables leading up to the first major of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season. It was announced by Augusta National Golf Club on Tuesday, Dec. 20, that eligible golfers from the LIV Golf Invitational Series…

The PGA Tour is back in Detroit this week for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic, an event that was added to the schedule in 2019. Players will be teeing it up at Detroit Golf Club's North course for the penultimate event of the regular season before the FedEx Cup Playoffs begin in a couple of weeks. Below, we search for the best value prop bets…

The FedEx Cup Playoffs are on the line for several PGA Tour golfers this week when the 2022 Wyndham Championship tees off Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC. The Wyndham Championship 2022 represents the final opportunity to earn a spot in the top-125 of the FedEx Cup standings and qualify for the playoffs and a shot at the $18…

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…

We've made it to the finale of the 2022 PGA Tour season and the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and the top players delivered to set up a stacked leaderboard for the Tour Championship at the iconic East Lake Golf Club. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will begin the tournament two strokes ahead of the field at 10 under par. Patrick Cantlay, coming off his win at…

All eyes will be on TPC Southwind this week with the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship set to tee off from Memphis on Thursday. The event is the first tournament of the FedEx Cup Playoffs 2022, and the first challenge in the race for the $18 million top prize. The 121-golfer St. Jude Championship field is headlined by Rory McIlroy, who is listed as…

Save for the highly anticipated reappearance of Tiger Woods in the coming few weeks in a trio of events, the truly notable, compelling and consequential golf is over for 2022. How time flies when you're having … well, a total upheaval in the sport. No, we're not going to venture into those weeds. Expending further keyboard energy on the battle…

During the 2022 golf season, Stadium sports betting analyst Nate Jacobson will share his betting targets each week using odds as of Tuesday morning. Here are his thoughts on this week's BMW Championship. He also discusses his bets in all sports on the Sharp Lessons podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on Twitter for more…

The final event of the Fall Swing to the 2022-23 PGA Tour season kicks off this week at the RSM Classic, taking place at the Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga. Last week, Tony Finau won the Cadence Back Houston Open for his third PGA Tour win in his last seven starts. Finau, who was originally set to compete in the RSM Classic field,…

During the 2022 golf season, Stadium sports betting analyst Nate Jacobson will share his betting targets each week using odds as of Tuesday morning. Here are his thoughts on this week's FedEx St. Jude Championship. He also discusses his bets in all sports on the Sharp Lessons podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on…

The PGA Tour during fall has often been relegated to a non-important part of a season that draws most of its attention between the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January until the Tour Championship finale in August. However, as most of the PGA Tour elite are expected to rest during the winter months, a positive change of landscape could be on…

South Africa has been a staple of the DP World Tour and the end of this year's schedule and the start of next involves no less than four co-sanctioned events in the country. The first is the lucrative Nedbank Golf Challenge and offers the final chance for players to qualify for next week's season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Just 66…

Golf tips, best bets and player analysis for the World Wide Technology Championship at El Camaleon on the PGA Tour. Live on Sky Sports Golf & Main Event from 7pm on Thursday Billy Horschel 4pts each-way 18-1 Betfair, Hills, Power Aaron Wise 3pts each-way 20-1 Betfair, Power Emiliano Grillo 2pts each-way 35-1 Hills Brandon Wu 1pt each-way…

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The 2022 Zozo Championship gets underway this week in Japan, and according to the Zozo Championship betting odds via BetMGM, American star Xander Schauffele is the narrow betting favorite. Here's what you need to know. Xander Schauffele captured two wins on the PGA Tour last season at the Travelers Championship and Scottish Open (in addition to a…

The 2022 Shriners Children's Open continues on Saturday with the third round at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. You can find full Round 3 tee times for the tournament at the bottom of this post. Ever since his near-miss at the 2022 PGA Championship, 27-year-old Chilean Mito Pereira has been chugging along on the PGA Tour. He made it all the way to the…

Welcome to the Dustin Johnson-Cam Smith Show, otherwise known as the LIV Tour. The 48 LIV players-led by Smith and Johnson as the last two tournament winners-will tee it up this week at Stonehill Golf Course, a little north of Bangkok, Thailand. That's right, they are taking this tour back outside of the United States after opening up in London.…

The FedEx Cup Playoffs continue this week with the 2022 BMW Championship, which begins on Thursday with the opening round at Wilmington Country Club. Here's what you need to know to watch Round 1 on TV or online. At last year's BMW Championship, Patrick Cantlay outlasted Bryson DeChambeau in a tense playoff to capture his third win of the season.…

The PGA Tour returns to Las Vegas this week, and that's brought out the strongest field of the fall swing. Check out our top picks for the 2022 Shriners Children's Open at TPC Summerlin. Patrick Cantlay enters the week as the betting favorite while Sungjae Im will attempt to defend his 2021 victory at the Shriners Children's Open. The event at TPC…

Golf tips, best bets and player analysis for the Sanderson Farms Championship at Country Club of Jackson on the PGA Tour. Live on Sky Sports Golf red button from 1pm on Thursday Robby Shelton 2pts each-way 90-1 Hills Scott Stallings 2pts each-way 28-1 Betfair, Paddy Power Davis Thompson 1.5pts each-way 90-1 bet365 Justin Suh 1.5pts each-way…

The 2022 Tour Championship betting odds have been released for the PGA Tour event at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Dela. The PGA Tour betting favorite this week is Scottie Scheffler, who comes into the week at+200 betting odds with his start at 10 under before a ball is hit. No. 2 Patrick Cantlay is next best on the table at 17-to-4, with…

Someone is leaving Atlanta with an $18 million check on Sunday afternoon. Scottie Scheffler enters this week's Tour Championship with a two-shot lead thanks to his position in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Will he be able to hold the top spot? Join WagerTalk golf handicappers Nick Borrman and Andy Lang as we break down this week's Tour Championship field…

Much has been said about the stature of team competitions like this week's Presidents Cup and the Ryder Cup being negatively impacted by LIV Golf pros being unable to compete. After all, the International team this week is starting eight rookies and is a heavy underdog to the United States side without players like Cameron Smith, Joaquin Niemann,…

Picking winners of a golf tournament is hard. Doing it consistently is downright impossible. But finding value is something all bettors must practice in order to give themselves the best chance to make hay when the day comes that they ping a champion. Below, we will cover the best bets for the TOUR Championship based on current form, course fit,…

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we never realized how dangerous golf was until this year. First, there was that Australian pro who sliced his hand open trying to move a stake. Then Jordan Spieth nearly fell off a cliff at Pebble Beach. And now Bryson DeChambeau nearly got decapitated by a gallery rope. We always knew about the perils…

The final wraparound PGA Tour season begins this week in Napa Valley for the Fortinet Championship. Rory McIlroy won the FedEx Cup three weeks ago to conclude the 2021-2022 season. This week, McIlroy, off a runner-up last week in Wentworth to Shane Lowry for the BMW PGA Championship, is sticking around for another week on the DP World Tour to play…

With one final opportunity to solidify positioning inside the Top 125 ahead of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, our Wyndham Championship best bets and top finisher predictions target those looking to make one last push - including Valero Open champ J.J. Spaun. The PGA Tour regular season wraps up at the Wyndham Championship odds this week. The Top 125…

The Wyndham Championship is the calm before the final storm of the PGA TOUR season. With the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs just a week away, a lot of the game's top players are skipping the trip to Greensboro, N.C. in order to get ready for the three-week ride. Sedgefield Country Club has been the host of this event for almost 15 years, so we…

With only a handful of notables in the field this week, our Rocket Mortgage Classic outright predictions are targeting a couple of youngsters looking to notch their first victory on Tour. Most notably, Rookie of the Year hopeful Cameron Young. The PGA Tour's penultimate stop ahead of the FedEx Cup Playoffs is at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in…

The 2022 BMW Championship has big shoes to fill following a dramatic ending to the St. Jude Championship. With Will Zalatoris breaking through for his maiden victory at TPC Southwind, there is a new name atop the FedEx Cup standings for the first time in 20 weeks. Zalatoris holds a slim edge over world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler as the two jostle for…

No gambling. No doping. Only moderate alcohol consumption at post-tournament parties. The new LIV Golf circuit might look like a lot of fun (and money), but the Greg Norman -fronted tour also has plenty of rules and regulations. The rules and regulations were among the unsealed documents that were released by a federal court in California on…

LIV Golf betting odds are available for the tour's Chicago event at sportsbooks including DraftKings. For the first time, the LIV Tour isn't taking a month off between events. They are teeing it up this week in Chicago following a one-week break. Dustin Johnson won for the first time on the LIV Tour in Boston two weeks ago, and now the group is…

Max Homa's career season started last year in Napa, Calif., and he'll try to duplicate that success starting Thursday at the 2022 Fortinet Championship. Homa went 19-under par on the North Course at Silverado Resort and Spa last fall, shooting a 7-under 65 on Sunday to beat Maverick McNealy by one stroke. Homa won the Wells Fargo later in the…

The 2022-23 PGA Tour season gets underway this week with its annual stop in Napa, California, for the 2022 Fortinet Championship. Previously known as the Safeway Open, the Fortinet Championship offers players an early opportunity to rack up points and climb the FedEx Cup standings. In fact, the winner of the Fortinet Championship 2022 will receive…

The two-week PGA Tour "offseason" is over, and the scramble for FedEx Cup points begins anew on Thursday when the 2022 Fortinet Championship tees off in Napa, Calif. This will be the tournament's seventh edition at Silverado Resort and Spa, on the North Course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and redone by World Golf Hall of Famer Johnny Miller…

MEMPHIS - Good luck trying to piece together all of the historical data for this one. Starting in 1958 as the Memphis Open, the PGA Tour's Memphis-based event moved to host venue TPC Southwind in 1989. It then underwent a litany of name changes over the years, culminating in being called the FedEx St. Jude Classic for its final eight editions…

Phil Mickelson had a history of gambling in his early days at golf. It spiraled out of hand, with Mickelson later admitting he was embarrassed about his addiction. However, he has also made bets on golf courses, which has landed him in hot soup on a number of occasions. Mickelson contested the first of the FedEx Cup Playoffs in 2014 with the…

TPC Southwind in Memphis, TN, hosts this week's FedEx St. Jude Invitational and our PGA Tour betting experts break it down with their top picks. Two-time FedEx Cup winner Rory McIlroy enters the first event of the 2021-22 playoffs as the consensus betting favorite for the FedEx St. Jude Championship. This year's field consists of 122 of the 125…

The PGA Tour hasn't featured a field this strong in nearly three weeks but with a $15 million purse on the line, the top golfers are back in action at TPC Southwind this weekend. The St. Jude's Championship will tee off on Thursday August 11 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. St. Jude's will kick off the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which offers an $18…

The PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoffs start this week in Memphis, Tenn., and Tony Finau is looking to make yet another splash at the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship. Finau won the initial event of last year's FedExCup Playoffs, shooting 20 under par at the Northern Trust. Now he comes to TPC Southwind for St. Jude Championship 2022 off consecutive tour…

Who's ready for some postseason golf? Amid a crazy year featuring four majors, Tiger Woods' return and a new league in LIV Golf, the PGA Tour season has reached the playoffs. The three-week FedEx Cup Playoffs will kick off on Thursday with the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship. From there, the playoffs will continue with the BMW Championship the…