Call it what you want: Whether The Players Championship is the fifth major or not, betting operators are treating the PGA Tour’s flagship event like a major with the plethora of prop bets and other markets available. Golf bettors are spoiled this week with a ton to bet on. We’re here to help you navigate Read more…
One of my rituals you will soon learn is my love for sunsets and “closing time” at the practice areas. In my 20-plus years as a PGA professional, I’ve learned there’s something very enlightening about the golden hour around a golf course. As the sun set on Tuesday evening at The Players Championship, Matsuyama was Read more…
It’s been a weird year betting golf. Scottie Scheffler finally broke the long run of longshot winners with his dominant performance at Bay Hill. But as a heavy favorite last week, it’s unlikely most golf bettors were dipping into the Scheffler outright market. Before that, the lowest odds for a champion was Jake Knapp (40-1) Read more…
After a thrilling week in Orlando where the PGA Tour finally received a much-needed infusion of star power, we now head north to Ponte Vedra Beach for The Players Championship. The “fifth major” remains the flagship event of the PGA Tour season, and it now features the largest purse in golf, a whopping $25 million, Read more…
The PGA Tour’s fourth signature event of the season, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, remains one of the year’s best tests with a great field at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, a Dick Wilson design that has featured numerous renovations by the King himself over the years. It’s the second year in a row Read more…
At long last, we have our first winner of 2024, courtesy of the great Pat Mayo, who correctly predicted Jake Knapp’s impressive victory at the Mexico Open at odds of 35-1. That makes Knapp the biggest favorite to win on the PGA Tour so far this season. Didn’t have that one on your bingo card, Read more…
The Cognizant Classic marks the official start of the Florida Swing, and the start of a jam-packed three-week stretch culminating in the Players Championship. Albeit a new title sponsor, the PGA Tour will return to a familiar venue in the Champion Course at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., designed by George and Tom Read more…
There’s many reasons to be excited about The Match 9, the latest in the Capital One’s The Match series, which will air at 6:30 p.m. eastern on Monday on TNT. First, the participants—for the first time in the five-plus year history of The Match, we have female golfers. Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang will tee Read more…
Following a weather-shortened week at Pebble Beach, the PGA Tour returns to action for the Waste Management Phoenix Open, one of the most distinctively engaging events of the season. TPC Scottsdale provides an ideal setting for tournament golf, providing the perfect playbook for TPC-style architecture. The famous 16th par-3 ‘Stadium’ hole is one of the Read more…
For the first time in a long time, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am has a truly elite field, perhaps the most elite it’s ever had. As it should. One of the sport’s most iconic venues has been missing some serious star power over the last few years. That’s not the case this week thanks to Read more…
The PGA Tour heads to Northern California this week for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at one of the most celebrated venues in our sport. The tournament format is receiving a bit of a shakeup this year, as the event will now be under the Signature Event banner. The field will now consist of just Read more…
The longshots are running wild in 2024, with amateur Nick Dunlap being the latest mega bomb to to win on the PGA Tour. Enter Torrey Pines, a venue known for producing elite winners and elite leader boards time and time again. That should, in theory, make picking this week’s winner a heck of a lot Read more…
The PGA Tour heads to beautiful La Jolla, Calif., this week for the Farmers Insurance Open, an event hosted at Torrey Pines since 1968, and a venue we have come to associate with some of the most indelible golf moments of the past 25 years. Players will split their first two rounds between the North Read more…
Another week, another longshot gets it done on the PGA Tour. Sadly, we were not on Chris Kirk at Sentry nor Grayson Murray at Sony, but it’s good to see the mega bombs can still get it done. There are big tickets to be cashed in 2024. Shoutout to Brandon Gdula, who was on Keegan Read more…
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