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There is one final PGA Tour stop before the first major of the season and that takes place this week in San Antonio at the Valero Texas Open. Rory McIlroy pegs it up for just third time at TPC San Antonio and does so as the betting favorite in the outright market and the only player with shorter than 10/1 odds on the opener. The top of the odds board is stacked with big... 

The PGA Tour stays in Texas for the final tune up before The Masters with the field gathering in San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open. Many notables are taking the week off ahead of the season’s first major, still the field has talent with Rory McIlroy positioned as the betting favorite and the only player with shorter than 12/1 odds. It’s been a mixed bag for McIlroy ... 

After missing a spot in last season’s schedule the PGA Tour returns to Memorial Park Golf Course for the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Much has changed since the last time the field gathered for this event in November 2022, notably the ascension of Scottie Scheffler as the game’s best player. Coming off wins in his last two starts and ranked No. 1 in the world,... 

If this week’s stop on the PGA Tour doesn’t ring a bell there’s a reason. The Texas Children’s Houston Open skipped the rotation last season and is back for the first time since November 2022 with Tony Finau the defending champion. Since the last edition, however, Scottie Scheffler has become all the rage and the world’s top ranked player opened with the shortes... 

The PGA Tour’s stay in Florida comes to an end with this week’s playing of the Valspar Championship. Situated after a high-profile event the field has diminished a bit, but there remain several big names looking to take home the hardware. Following his runner-up showing at TPC Sawgrass, Xander Schauffele opened as the betting favorite in the outright market wi... 

The PGA Tour brings the Florida Swing to a close this week with the field making the short trip to just outside Tampa for the Valspar Championship. Taylor Moore ended the three-peat bid of Sam Burns with a one-shot victory last year for his first Tour title and both are looking up at Xander Schauffele on the odds board. Coming off his runner-up at THE PLAYERS,... 

Considered by many as the PGA Tour’s fifth major, THE PLAYERS Championship is one of the biggest events on the schedule. The tournament always draws the world’s top players thanks to its enormous prize pool with nine of the world’s top 10 set to peg it up once again on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Fresh off his first win of the season and the defend... 

Often referred to as the fifth major, THE PLAYERS Championship always attracts a strong field with this year’s group headlined by world No. 1 and betting favorite Scottie Scheffler. A dominant five-shot win at Bay Hill last week and a winner by five swings in this event last year, Scheffler is up to his old tricks and is a prohibitive favorite to become th... 

The Florida Swing continues with the second of four straight tournaments in the Sunshine State when the field pegs it up for the Arnold Palmer Invitational starting Thursday. The fourth Signature Event of the PGA Tour season always attracts a strong field with eight of the OWGR top 10 in attendance. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler paces the field as the ... 

The swing through the Sunshine State continues this week when the PGA Tour heads to just outside Orlando for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The tournament annually attracts a strong field with a number of top golfers attacking the Bay Hill Club and Lodge to pay tribute to the tournament’s namesake. And with this being another Signature Event on the sc... 

Those PGA Tour pros not high enough up the pecking order for an invite to Arnold Palmer’s tournament will instead get a chance this week to compete in the alternate field Puerto Rico Open. Nico Echavarria will attempt to do what no golfer in the history of the tournament has done and that’s go back-to-back. He matched the tournament scoring record and secured his first PGA Tou... 

After a run of events out west, the PGA Tour packs its bags for the Sunshine State with this week’s Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches kicking off the four-tournament Florida Swing. The event has a new title sponsor and a new name, but the former Honda Classic will be played at PGA National Resort for the 18th straight year. Several former winners are in the field with 2012 champ Rory McIlroy the prohibitive favorite in the outright market. There hasn’t been a repeat winner here since the Golden Bear in the late 1970s and Chris Kirk is next in line to attempt the back-to-back feat. Kirk opened the new season with a win at The Sentry in January and is positioned further down the outright odds board. There are a number of intriguing matchups available with odds after McIlroy suggesting a wide-open field. Visit BookMaker.eu for a complete list of matchup betting odds when you’re ready to place a wager. ... 

The title sponsor has changed but most everything else remains the same when the PGA Tour kicks off the Florida Swing with the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches. Formerly known as the Honda Classic, the event will be played once again at PGA National with Rory McIlroy a massive favorite to win here for the second time. McIlroy won the event in 2012 but hasn’t played this tournament since 2018. Chris Kirk is back to defend the title he won in a playoff last year looking to go back-to-back here for the first time since Jack Nicklaus did so in the late 1970s. Kirk opened the new season with a win at The Sentry in early January. Listed at +700 on the opening line, McIlroy is the only player with shorter than 23/1 odds, though he’s failed to crack the top 20 in two previous Tour starts. Visit BookMaker.eu for a complete list of betting odds when you’re ready to place a wager. ... 

A novelty event that got the attention of sports fanatics and bettors when first introduced in 2018, The Match has now become an annual event. And in the line of inclusion and to appeal to a different fan base, The Match 2024 will include LPGA pros for the first time. The first edition of The Match pitted golf royalty against each other with Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods going head-to-head and there have been variations in format and competitors ever since. This year’s edition features female p... 

Looking to defend the title he won by three swings last year, Tony Finau is a huge favorite in the outright market at the Mexico Open at Vidanta. Finau has been wildly successful in the two editions as a PGA Tour sanctioned event also finishing as runner-up to Jon Rahm in 2022. The lack of Signature status this week leaves the field thinned out with Nicolai Hojgaard the only other player with shorter than 20/1 odds. A number of players make up the second tier on the outright betting board with all of them featured in several tournament matchups. The Mexico Open has been played since the 1940’s as the country’s national open with Vidanta Vallarta hosting for the first time in 2022. The pros have torn up the resort course with Finau a blistering 24-under last year after Rahm won at 17-under in 2022. Visit BookMaker.eu for an updated list of matchup betting odds when you’re ready to place a wager. ... 

Here’s something different; a surge of people heading across the border only in the other direction as the PGA Tour heads to Mexico with defending champ Tony Finau a big favorite to repeat at the Mexico Open at Vidanta. Played in some form as the country’s national championship since 1944, the 2022 edition was the first sanctioned by the PGA Tour with a full allotment of FedE... 

You know the PGA Tour is getting serious when the game’s big guns start pegging it up. And we’ll see the biggest gun of them all this week with Tiger Woods scheduled to play in an official event for the first time in nearly a year at this week’s Genesis Invitational. Woods will attract plenty of attention just because he’s Tiger Woods, but oddsmakers realize how difficu... 

The PGA Tour heads back to California this week finishing up the West Coast swing at Riviera Country Club for the annual Genesis Invitational. The event always attracts the best players and it’s getting the best of them all with Tiger Woods pegging it up. Woods makes his first Tour start since the 2023 Masters where he retired after three rounds. This tournament last ye... 

With likely contenders Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele withdrawing earlier in the week, the path to a third straight WM Phoenix Open championship for Scottie Scheffler got a little wider. It also didn’t hurt that nemesis Jon Rahm defected to LIV Golf. Winning the same tournament in three successive playings is difficult and hasn’t been done in over a decade. And Schef... 

With the final round of the WM Phoenix Open set to be played on Super Bowl Sunday, the PGA Tour gets the party started with one of the more raucous and popular stops on the season schedule. There will be plenty of wagers placed on both events, among other things, and even some on a combination since the cross-sport prop has become a popular betting method. Scottie Scheffle... 

Already an iconic stop on the PGA Tour due to its breathtaking views along the northern California coast, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am got a bump in status as one of eight Signature Events this season. That means we’ll see more of the sport’s big name players showing up. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will play this event for the first time and o... 

The PGA Tour moves up the California coast this week with Pebble Beach Golf Links playing host to its namesake event, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. With the tournament tabbed a Signature Event we’ll see some big names that haven’t appeared in a while. Rory McIlroy is making his Tour season debut while world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler makes his tour... 

With the final round falling on the same day as the NFL’s conference championship games, the PGA Tour has again moved the start of the Farmers Insurance Open up a day to avoid any conflicts. The full-field of golfers led by betting favorite Xander Schauffele will navigate two courses at Torrey Pines, located in the seaside San Diego suburb of La Jolla. The start of the... 

There are some football fans on the PGA which explains their reluctance to compete with the NFL’s conference championship games. For a third successive year in order to avoid a conflict, this week’s Farmers Insurance Open will again start a day earlier with the final 18 holes played on Saturday. The field will not have to contend with amateur Nick Dunlap, an unlikely w... 

Following the season-opening swing through the Aloha State that produced two unlikely winners, the PGA Tour returns stateside opening the five tournament West Coast swing with The American Express. To accommodate a full field and the amateurs that take part, everyone will play the first three rounds at each of the PGA West Course, Nicklaus Tournament Course and La Quinta Count...