Golf bettors, beryllium definite what you’re wagering connected this week.
The PGA Tour play wraps up with the Tour Championship, which starts Thursday astatine East Lake Golf Club successful Atlanta. The victor volition person the FedEx Cup arsenic the year-end champion.
This is wherever things get tricky. The 30 players successful the elite tract are starting the Tour Championship with antithetic scores based connected their show starring up to the event. Patrick Cantlay volition tee disconnected already astatine 10 under, followed by Tony Finau astatine 8 under, Bryson DeChambeau astatine 7 under, Jon Rahm astatine 6 nether and truthful on, down to the last 5 players starting astatine adjacent par.
Most sportsbooks are posting likelihood lone connected the FedEx Cup winner. Cantlay is the 3-1 favourite astatine the Westgate SuperBook, followed by Rahm astatine +350, DeChambeau astatine +550 and Finau astatine 7-1.
But immoderate sportsbooks are posting abstracted likelihood connected the champion 72-hole people without the handicap. Rahm is the 6-1 favourite successful that marketplace astatine BetMGM, followed by Rory McIlroy astatine 10-1 and DeChambeau and Xander Schauffele astatine 12-1.
Handicapper Wes Reynolds (@WesReynolds1), co-host of VSiN’s “Long Shots” play betting show, offers 1 prime to triumph the FedEx Cup and 3 others to person the champion 72-hole score:
To triumph Cup
Rahm, 4-1
”With finishes of T-3 (tied for third) and T-9 successful the 2 playoff events, his crippled has rounded backmost into signifier rapidly aft different bout with COVID-19.”
Best 72-hole score
McIlroy, 10-1
“Looks to beryllium turning the country with a 4th past week successful Baltimore. Rory is besides a two-time victor present astatine East Lake.”
Scottie Scheffler, 25-1
“Was 5th successful Strokes Gained: Approach past week astatine the BMW Championship, and helium was besides 2nd present to Schauffele past year. This is besides Scheffler’s past accidental to impressment Ryder Cup skipper Steve Stricker to beryllium 1 of the six captain’s picks.”
Sergio Garcia, 40-1
“It should beryllium nary astonishment that Garcia is rallying precocious to perchance marque the European Ryder Cup team. Last week’s T-6 astatine the BMW was Garcia’s archetypal apical 10 since April.”
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