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PGA Tour Picks: Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/22/2013

Before looking at this week's second stop on the mini-Texas Swing with the Crowne Plaza Invitational at storied Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, let's recap my recommendations from last week's Byron Nelson. Yet again, a relative unknown took home his first PGA Tour victory, this time 26-year-old South Korean Sang-Moon Bae.
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PGA Tour Picks: Byron Nelson Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/15/2013

Is Tiger Woods good for the game of golf? Of course he is. Ratings skyrocket whenever he's in contention, and PGA Tour pros now make obscene purses because of the Tour's boom in popularity due to Woods. With all due respect to any before him, Woods is the first golfer to become a pop culture world-wide icon (not always for good reasons).
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PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/8/2013

Before I take a look at this week's Players Championship -- and don't call it the "fifth major" because that's simply a marketing ploy and not something players believe -- I have to look back at last week's Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/1/2013

We had yet another first-time PGA Tour winner last week in Billy Horschel, and you could almost see it coming -- I mentioned he was "interesting" at 28/1 to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Horschel had three straight Top-10 finishes entering that tournament and a Tour-high 22 straight cuts made.
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PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/24/2013

Almost hit on my second winner of this PGA Tour season last week at the RBC Heritage but instead had to settle for another near-miss in 2013 as Luke Donald finished third behind Graeme McDowell and Webb Simpson. Donald did pay off at +125 on a Top-10 finish, and I also hit on a playoff as the winning margin with McDowell beating fellow former U.S. Open champion Simpson on the first extra hole.
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Betting Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/17/2013

I would have to rank last week's Masters as among the five most exciting/unusual I have ever watched. Tiger Woods didn't win -- nor did I expect him to -- but once again stole the spotlight from the rest of the field with an illegal drop on No. 15 Friday. It was an incredibly unfortunate break that his approach hit the pin and ricocheted into the water, but there's still no excuse for Tiger not knowing the rules. Is it stupid a rules official on hand didn't tell him he couldn't then drop from about two yards back from his original spot?
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2013 Masters Picks: Golf Odds and Predictions with Props
by Alan Matthews - 4/10/2013

Did you know that pretty much every year betting action on the Masters is more than the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship combined (occasionally you have to take the U.S. Open out of there)? There are a few reasons for this in my opinion. From a pure betting perspective, football is still a long ways off and college basketball just ended.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Props Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/2/2013

I'd like to tell you that I saw D.A. Points' victory coming last week at the Shell Houston Open, but that's clearly false. The 36-year-old American arrived at the tournament having failed to break 70 in his last nine rounds on the PGA Tour and had missed seven cuts in nine events this year. But Points drained a 13-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win the tournament by a shot. It gives Points a two-year exemption and entry into this year's Masters, just the second time he will play the year's first major.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shell Houston Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/27/2013

Frankly, I would have been embarrassed to head into the Masters not having picked a winner on the PGA Tour this season despite coming close a few times. Thanks to Tiger Woods, I no longer have to type with a bag over my head.
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PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/20/2013

Only a few weeks left in March for me to land my first tournament winner of 2013 -- perhaps it happens this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. I did forecast Tiger Woods winning there a year ago, although that's not exactly rocket science considering Tiger's track record at the tournament.
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PGA Tour Golf Picks: Tampa Bay Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/13/2013

On the surface, one might be inclined to start worrying about the San Antonio Spurs. After all, they have lost two of their past three games, allowing a whopping 136 points in a shocking home blowout loss to Portland and then 107 in a rout at injury-ravaged Minnesota on Tuesday.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/6/2013

I didn't much like world No. 1 Rory McIlroy's chances of repeating last week at the Honda Classic at PGA National, but, wow, did I never see that coming. McIlroy was the golden boy of golf entering this year, but now his reputation is in tatters. He missed the cut in his season-opening event in Abu Dhabi and then lost in the first round of the WGC-Match Play. Many believed he would find his groove at the Honda, but after scrambling to shoot even par in the first round, McIlroy withdrew on his ninth hole in his second round while at 7-over-par.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Props Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/27/2013

I couldn’t be happier that the PGA Tour begins its Florida Swing this weekend with the Honda Classic at the PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens on the Sunshine State’s East Coast. Much like last year, I failed to hit on a 2013 tournament winner on the opening West Coast Swing (came close twice). However, in 2012 I did hit on the Honda Classic winner and then again a few weeks later at Bay Hill up in Orlando. The fact that I chose the two best players in the world to win those events, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, respectively … well, it is what it is.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Championship Props Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/19/2013

It’s a shame that Brandt Snedeker and Phil Mickelson will be missing from this week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at the par-72 Ritz Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain (at 7,791 yards, it’s the longest course on PGA Tour) outside of Tucson, Ariz. If the two Americans, ranked No. 4 and No. 9, respectively, were in the field, this might be one of the most anticipated Match Play events ever with Snedeker’s early dominance on Tour and Mickelson’s wire-to-wire win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
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PGA Tour Props Betting: WGC-Accenture Match Play First-Round Matchups
by Alan Matthews - 2/19/2013

Because I believe that this week’s World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play is the best betting event of the golf season (and some nice bracket practice for the NCAA Tournament), I will be breaking down the event at Dove Mountain outside Tucson, Ariz., into two stories. One an overall look at whom I like to win each bracket and the championship, and this one breaking down every single first-round match on Wednesday. The field features 64 of the Top 66 ranked players in the world, with Americans Brandt Snedeker (minor injury) and Phil Mickelson (family vacation) not in the desert.
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PGA Tour Picks: Northern Trust Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/13/2013

This week’s PGA Tour stop is at historic Riviera Country Club in the shadow of Hollywood for the Northern Trust Open, so you would think most players would want to tee it up. However, no golfer on the planet deserves this week off more than Brandt Snedeker.
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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Odds
by Alan Matthews - 2/6/2013

Before getting to this week’s PGA Tour stop at the nation’s top public course, let’s review the recommendations from last week’s Waste Management Open outside of Phoenix. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a lot of faith in Phil Mickelson despite his previous success at the tournament. Lefty hadn’t been playing all that well for a while, but he was utterly dominant at TPC Scottsdale. Mickelson opened with a 60 that could have been a 58 and went wire-to-wire for the third time in his pro career by finishing at a tournament-record 28-under and four shots ahead of the field.
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PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/30/2013

The golf world is back on its correct orbit. By that I mean that Tiger Woods overshadows every tournament, even those he doesn’t play in. That is indeed the case for this week’s Waste Management Open outside Phoenix. Tiger isn’t in the field after a dominating win last week at Torrey Pines, his record eighth victory on the same course in a PGA Tour event – that includes the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey, his last major victory. Tiger now has 75 career wins, just seven behind Sam Snead’s career record.
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PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/23/2013

Before I get to this week’s preview of the Farmers Insurance Open at storied Torrey Pines outside of San Diego as well as Phil Mickelson sticking his foot in his mouth, let’s recap my predictions from last week’s European Tour event in Abu Dhabi.
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PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open in Hawaii Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/9/2013

Well, it was quite the unusual opener on the PGA Tour at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. Because of high winds in Maui, the tournament’s start was postponed and it ended up being shortened to 54 holes and a Tuesday finish. I don’t have any statistical records to back this up, but I can’t remember such a quick turnaround for the next week’s event as will be the case starting Thursday at the Sony Open in Hawaii – thankfully the players only have to travel from Maui to Honolulu.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hyundai Tournament of Champions Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 1/3/2013

The incredibly short golf offseason is already in the books, and the PGA Tour tees it up for the first time in 2013 starting Friday (one of only two events with a Friday-Monday schedule) at the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui for the winners-only Hyundai Tournament of Champions. If you didn’t win a sanctioned PGA Tour event in 2012, then you aren’t in this week’s field. Overall, 30 of 37 eligible golfers are playing at Kapalua.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: World Challenge Props and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 11/28/2012

Kudos to Rory McIlroy last week at the European Tour finale in Dubai, as he completed an amazing season with his fifth worldwide victory while surpassing Tiger Woods’ record for combined earnings in one year. I thought Rory was spent after missing the cut in his tournament prior and that his thoughts were on a nice vacation with girlfriend and tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. McIlroy now has a whopping 17 Top-10 finishes in his past 26 European Tour events dating to his 2011 U.S. Open victory (majors and WGC events count as Euro events as well).
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European Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: UBS Hong Kong Open Picks
by Alan Matthews - 11/13/2012

The PGA Tour’s season officially ended last week at Disney, so now we get a healthy dose of golf’s “silly season” here in the United States until the 2013 season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua in Hawaii. Before I look at this week’s UBS Hong Kong Open on the European Tour I would like to recap last week.
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PGA Golf Odds and Predictions: Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic Picks
by Alan Matthews - 11/7/2012

Last year’s PGA Tour season-ending Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic was very unique. Normally, you won’t see any top players competing at Disney because they are either resting from the long season or off playing lucrative silly season events or in Europe. The multi-millionaires are “above” playing in the Fall Series.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: WGC-HSBC Champions Props and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/30/2012

It’s a tremendous field this week at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions event, perhaps the best group we will see the rest of 2012. Seven of the Top 10 in the world are playing on the Mission Hills Golf Course in Guangdong, China. However, golf fans and bettors will notice two big names who aren’t here: Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods.
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Asian Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: CIMB Classic Props and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/23/2012

There is two-week break on the PGA Tour right now, with the Fall Series’ final event starting Nov. 8 at Disney before we really get into golf’s silly season. So this week, it’s a preview of the Asian Tour. Yep, you heard that right. It’s the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But there’s a decent field, led by Tiger Woods, because of a good purse and a few financial incentives. Tiger no doubt got a nice chunk of change to play in Malaysia for the first time since he won the individual and team titles in the 1999 World Cup.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: McGladrey Classic Props and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/17/2012

Maybe I should just stick to previewing fall events. It’s been a good run on golf recommendations starting with the Ryder Cup. And last week was as well. No, I didn’t get the Frys.com Open winner, choosing Brendan Steele at 50/1 as the best long-shot value. He missed the cut, but I rather knew he was “all or nothing” there. I did, however, hit on Vijay Singh at -115 in a head-to-head matchup with Ernie Els. Singh finished T4 and the Big Easy T16. I also hit on Sweden’s Jonas Blixt to be the top European finisher at 4/1. Blixt took home his first career PGA Tour title, vaulting him from No. 60 to No. 35 on the money list (Top 30 brings extra benefits).
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Frys.com Open Props and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 10/10/2012

Eight of the top players in the world are over in Turkey playing in the World Golf Finals, but the early-week start to that cash-grab event made it to tough to preview in a timely fashion here at Doc’s Sports. So this week it’s again a PGA Tour Fall Series preview with the Frys.com Open at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, Calif. It’s the first official Tour event in that state since the U.S. Open, and the Fall Series will conclude back East with events in Georgia and Florida.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
by Alan Matthews - 10/3/2012

Before I preview this week’s PGA Tour Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which has to be the longest tournament name in pro sports history, let’s look back at a very successful Ryder Cup if you followed my advice. Needless to say, the United States should have beaten Europe, leading 10-4 at one point late Saturday and 10-6 entering Sunday’s final singles. But the Europeans staged the biggest comeback in the event’s history – U.S. rallied from a similar deficit in 1999 but that was on home soil – to win 14.5-13.5 and retain the Cup.
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The 2012 Ryder Cup Props, Odds and Betting Picks
by Alan Matthews - 9/26/2012

Let me first say that I will be previewing all of the PGA Tour’s Fall Series tournaments and any other relevant big golf tournaments through the winter, but to the casual golf fan and bettor the season ends this weekend with the 39th Ryder Cup. The biennial competition between players from the United States and Europe visits Medinah Country Club outside Chicago for the first time.
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The Tour Championship PGA Golf Props Odds and Betting Picks
by Alan Matthews - 9/18/2012

I previewed this weekend’s FedEx Cup-ending Tour Championship last week at Doc’s, going with Phil Mickelson to take the tournament and the $10 million grand prize. Today, let’s look at some various Bovada props on the final big-time event on the PGA Tour for 2012 (Ryder Cup isn’t a Tour event).
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PGA Golf Odds and Predictions: The Tour Championship
by Alan Matthews - 9/14/2012

The PGA Tour’s playoffs, the FedEx Cup, wrap up next weekend at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta with the Tour Championship. A cool $10 million grand prize is awarded to the winner of the FedEx Cup, and all 30 players in the field mathematically have a shot at winning the Cup, although, realistically, only a handful do.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: BMW Championship
by Alan Matthews - 9/5/2012

Not that Rory McIlroy likely gives a darn about what I think, but I am now squarely back in the McIlroy camp in terms of believing he is the future superstar on the PGA Tour. That seemed obvious after last year’s U.S. Open victory, a win at the Honda Classic back in March and taking over the world No. 1 ranking this spring.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Deutsche Bank Championship
by Alan Matthews - 8/29/2012

The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs have been shaven down from the Top 125 in the points to Top 100 for this week’s second postseason event, the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston. However, don’t go channel surfing on Thursday morning looking for this tournament. It’s a Friday-Monday event designed to end on Labor Day. The only other scheduled Friday-Monday event on Tour is the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii.
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2012 PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Barclays
by Alan Matthews - 8/22/2012

Pretty good results in my Wyndham Championship preview last week. I thought Sergio Garcia would contend but was still a bit surprised that he won – I would have jumped all over a Top-10 prop on El Nino but Bovada didn’t offer one. That victory essentially locked up a European Ryder Cup spot for Garcia. I picked Carl Pettersson to finish in the Top 10 (and win) and he finished T4. Also hit on a Top 10 for Jason Dufner and non-Top-10 finishes for Charl Schwartzel and Brandt Snedeker.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Wyndham Championship
by Alan Matthews - 8/15/2012

It’s a bit of a letdown week on the PGA Tour following Rory McIlroy’s dominating performance over the weekend at the PGA Championship that I certainly never saw coming. In fact, this weekend’s Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., is a lot like Week 17 in the NFL season.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: 2012 PGA Championship Preview and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 8/8/2012

The PGA Championship is called “Glory’s Last Shot” because it’s the final major championship of the golf season. And, unfortunately for the tournament, it’s always considered the weak sister of the four. The only time it won’t be overshadowed by the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open is if a golfer is going for the Grand Slam at the PGA. That’s certainly not the case this year with three different winners of the first three majors. In addition, the PGA is overshadowed even more this season because of the Olympics, not to mention the first full slate of NFL Preseason games on Thursday night.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: PGA Championship Props Odds and Picks
by Alan Matthews - 8/7/2012

It’s a major championship week in golf, so that means it’s a two-story preview week for the 94th PGA Championship, held for the first time at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Resort in South Carolina. Let’s take a look at some of the hundreds of prop options at Bovada for the final major of the 2012 season.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: 2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
by Alan Matthews - 8/1/2012

For most casual golf fans and bettors, this week’s World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron begins about a two-month exciting stretch that essentially ends the PGA Tour season. Following this tournament, you have the PGA Championship next week, then a middling Tour stop before the four-event FedEx Cup playoffs and then the Ryder Cup. It’s like the stretch run of baseball season.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: 2012 RBC Canadian Open
by Alan Matthews - 7/25/2012

Well, I would like to say that I nailed Ernie Els to win the Open Championship last week, but in all honestly Els didn’t win the tournament so much as Adam Scott lost it. I did think about picking Els as the best value at 33/1, mentioning in the preview that I did a double-take on the Big Easy because of his past success at Royal Lytham. Els’ victory, his fourth major championship, ended a streak of nine straight first-time major winners.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: John Deere Classic
by Alan Matthews - 7/10/2012

First off, I want to defend myself for my selections last week for the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia. It was a tough tournament to call because it was only the third annual event and the course changed radically after Year 1 to Year 2. I follow golf pretty intently, but I couldn’t pick Sunday’s Greenbrier winner Ted Potter Jr. out of a lineup. Ditto for runner-up Troy Kelly, third-place Charlie Beljan, fifth-place Daniel Summerhays … well, you get my drift. It was just one of those weeks on Tour.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Greenbrier Classic
by Alan Matthews - 7/5/2012

While I didn’t have Tiger Woods winning his Tour-leading third PGA tournament of the season last week at his AT&T National event at Congressional, there were some good results in Top-10 picks. I had Woods (-250), Hunter Mahan (even-money) and Bo Van Pelt (+275) to all finish inside the Top 10 and they did. Van Pelt finished runner-up to Tiger by two shots. I also took Dustin Johnson (-175) to finish outside the Top 10 and he did. I did miss on Jim Furyk finishing in the Top 10 and Nick Watney and Adam Scott finishing outside it. My pick to win was Martin Laird, who was a solid 11th.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Travelers Championship
by Alan Matthews - 6/20/2012

Well, I didn’t pick Webb Simpson as the winner of last week’s US Open, but then again I’m guessing pretty much no one did. Otherwise, it was a pretty solid week. Tiger looked like he would be a lock to finish in the Top 10 after sharing the lead heading into Saturday, but he struggled on the weekend and finished outside of that group.
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WagerWeb: PGA Tour Travelers Championship Prop Bets
by Dave Schwab - 6/20/2012

This week the PGA Tour heads to the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., for the Travelers Championship. While WagerWeb sportsbook has you covered with a complete set of odds for an expanded list of contenders to win this week’s event as well as odds for a number of head-to-head matchups, it also provides a couple of interesting prop bets to add a bit of extra action to this week’s tournament.
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2012 US Open Golf Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/13/2012

In my opinion, the most interesting golf tournament of the year arrives on Thursday when the 2012 US Open, version No. 112, returns to the Olympic Club in San Francisco for the first time since 1998. While some golf fans don’t pay much attention until the weekend of big tournaments, if you are any sort of true fan, tune in Thursday and Friday simply because these are two of the threesomes going off together: Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson-Bubba Watson and Luke Donald-Rory McIlroy-Lee Westwood.
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2012 US Open Golf Props Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/12/2012

You can look for an overall preview of this week’s US Open at Olympic in San Francisco here at Doc’s Sports on Wednesday, but today let’s take a look at some of the many prop options available at Bovada for the second major of the season.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: FedEx St. Jude Classic
by Alan Matthews - 6/6/2012

Can we go ahead and just forget about last week’s Memorial Tournament? I not only didn’t like Tiger Woods to win last week, his second victory on Tour this year (yeah, he’s about back, although Tiger will never be the dominant force he was), but I thought he would finish outside the Top 10 after three below-average tournaments heading in. I liked Phil Mickelson to finish inside the Top 10 despite not often playing well at the Memorial, but he blew up with a first-round 79 and then took his clubs and went home (which is not cool to the fans who bought tickets to see him on Friday).
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Memorial Tournament
by Alan Matthews - 5/30/2012

It was hit-and-miss last week at the PGA Tour’s stop at Colonial. Zach Johnson was the 14/1 favorite at Bovada and won the tournament. I wrote that “Johnson should be the favorite as no one has played Colonial as well as Johnson the past three years. In that stretch, all 12 of his rounds have been in the 60s, including five of 65 or better, for an average of 66.58. He won in 2010, finished fourth last year and T9 in 2009. Colonial has narrow fairways, which suits the short but accurate Johnson off the tee.”
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Byron Nelson Championship
by Alan Matthews - 5/16/2012

Can’t say I am sad in the least to see the 2012 Players Championship in the rear-view mirror. The Players is always a weird tournament to handicap because it seems to be all-or-nothing for many top players, some of whom simply don’t like the layout much -- Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods to name three. But it was a terrible week for my props and winner predictions.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Players Championship
by Alan Matthews - 5/9/2012

Even though the Players Championship isn’t even half as old as any of golf’s true four major championships, pretty much everyone refers to this tournament as the “fifth major” on Tour. And The Players Championship has two things no other event has: the iconic 17th island green – probably the most famous hole in the world but one which actually most players hate because they think it’s a gimmick that penalizes even a slightly awry shot – and the richest purse on Tour.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Players Championship Props
by Alan Matthews - 5/8/2012

It’s the PGA Tour’s “fifth major” this week as the pros visit TPC Sawgrass outside of Jacksonville, Fla., for the big-money Players Championship. I will have my usual weekly preview projecting the winner (and top American finisher) for readers on Wednesday, but because this is such a big tournament there are a near majors-level amount of props to bet. So let’s take a look at a handful that I like.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Wells Fargo Championship
by Alan Matthews - 5/2/2012

Sorry, I have pat myself on the back before I preview this week’s PGA Tour stop at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte for the Wells Fargo Championship. Last week at the Zurich Open of New Orleans, this is what I concluded with under my picks section: “My choice is (Jason) Dufner at 22/1. The guy has too much talent to not win sooner rather than later. Plus, he has finished in the Top 10 in the past three years here, including that T3 a year ago. Dufner is eighth in the all-around ranking this year.”
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: RBC Heritage Betting
by Alan Matthews - 4/11/2012

It’s always interesting to see which players compete in a PGA Tour event the week after a major – most times the very big names like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson don’t. And that’s mostly the case for this week’s tour stop at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head for the RBC Heritage.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Shell Houston Open
by Alan Matthews - 3/28/2012

I have to say I am rather sad to see the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing end. After not being able to pick a winner in the first three months of the season out west, I was able to get Rory McIlroy winning the Honda Classic at PGA National and then last week Tiger Woods winning Arnold Palmer’s tournament at Bay Hill. Not that I can exactly pat myself on the back for picking the two best players in the world to win an event!
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Arnold Palmer Invitational
by Alan Matthews - 3/20/2012

Back before Thanksgiving 2009, it wasn’t uncommon for a betting favorite to win a PGA Tour event. That’s because any event in which Tiger Woods was entered, he was the favorite. And, of course, the pre-scandal Tiger was usually money in the bank.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Transitions Championship
by Alan Matthews - 3/14/2012

It goes without saying that if I pick a player to win a tournament, it’s always good to back up your bet by wagering on said player to at least finish in the Top 10. We all know how hard it is to win on the PGA Tour – just ask Tiger Woods. I mention this because I went with Matt Kuchar as my best “value” last week at the WGC-Cadillac at Doral. Kuchar didn’t win but certainly played well with a T8, so if you took him to finish in the Top 10 as a backup wager you still came out ahead. Consider that strategy going forward as most tournaments offer Top-10 props on the big-name players.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: WGC-Cadillac Championship
by Alan Matthews - 3/7/2012

See, I told you that all it took was for the PGA Tour to get to the Sunshine State for me to pick my first winner of 2012! Last week at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Rory McIlroy won the Honda Classic, his first victory in the States since last year’s U.S. Open. It was a thrilling Sunday, and we have seen more than a few of those already this year. Tiger Woods went on a pre-2009 Tiger-like tear on the final 18, finishing birdie-eagle for a 62, the lowest final round of his career.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: The Honda Classic
by Alan Matthews - 2/29/2012

For last week’s WGC-Match Play, I picked American Bubba Watson, the No. 5 seed in the Hogan Bracket. Unfortunately, he lost in the Round of 32 to Matt Kuchar, 4&3. So who won the event? American Hunter Mahan, the No. 6 seed in the Hogan Bracket. He bested Rory McIlroy in the final – I couldn’t tell you the difference between Watson and Mahan if they were standing together on the tee, but they feel like the same player, you know?
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
by Alan Matthews - 2/21/2012

If you ask 100 devoted golf fans, 95 or so will say the Masters is their favorite tournament. Hard to argue, considering it’s the Super Bowl of the sport, has the most tradition of any tournament (at least in the U.S.) and it heralds the start of spring in America. The U.S. Open is always a can’t-miss event as well, what with the usual difficulty of those courses turning the pros into duffers like you and I.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
by Alan Matthews - 2/8/2012

Well, not great results on my value picks for last week’s Waste Management Open outside Phoenix. I thought young Rickie Fowler had a great shot at his first victory and he started solidly with a pair of 69s but would finish at 26th. My value choice at long odds (+4200) was Y.E. Yang. Oops! He missed the cut after a pair of 73s.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Waste Management Phoenix Open
by Alan Matthews - 2/1/2012

Well, it appears I am getting closer to nailing a winner on the PGA Tour this year. After a slow start, my guys are at least starting to show up on the leaderboard. Last week at Torrey Pines my top value pick was Camilo Villegas, and he was among the leaders after a first-round 65. Unfortunately, he didn’t break 70 again and finished 22nd.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Farmers Insurance Open
by Alan Matthews - 1/25/2012

If you are a golf bettor, this weekend is easily the best of the early season so far. That’s because the top European Tour event thus far is in the Middle East for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, while the PGA Tour has a good field at historic Torrey Pines in San Diego for the Farmers Insurance Open.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Humana Challenge
by Alan Matthews - 1/18/2012

Let’s go with the good news first. For last week’s Sony Open, the final PGA Tour stop in Hawaii, I recommended three longer shots to take a look at: defending champion Mark Wilson at +4000, Steve Marino at +3500 and Charles Howell III at +2000.
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PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions: Sony Open in Hawaii
by Alan Matthews - 1/11/2012

The PGA Tour season teed off last week at the winners-only Hyundai Tournament of Champions and my best “value” pick was David Toms at 20/1. And why not? Toms was coming off his best season in years and had four Top-10s in seven previous appearances at that tournament, both the most of any player in the field.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: Hyundai Tournament of Champions
by Alan Matthews - 1/4/2012

As most of the United States shivers through wintry conditions, the PGA Tour pros will be teeing it off this weekend in the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions in gorgeous Hawaii. This Friday-Monday winners-only tournament is held at Plantation Course at Kapalua on Maui. This is the first scheduled Monday finish for this tournament.
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Golf Odds and Betting Predictions: Dubai World Championship
by Alan Matthews - 12/5/2011

Hopefully I made you a bit of money this season on the golf circuit – I nailed a few winners for 2011. However, golf betting always is a challenge. I will return for 2012, starting with the PGA Tour’s season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Jan. 5, but this week’s Dubai World Championship on the European Tour is the final preview of the year and the season-ender on that Tour.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: The Presidents Cup
by Alan Matthews - 11/15/2011

The Presidents Cup, which tees off Thursday morning (Wednesday night U.S. time) at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia, is in many ways like the Ryder Cup: the Presidents Cup is also a team event pitting the United States against an international contingent, the scoring and competitive setup are much the same and it is staged every other year.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: WGC-HSBC Champions
by Alan Matthews - 11/2/2011

To most casual U.S. golf bettors, this week’s World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions event at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai will be it for 2011 in terms of individual tournament competition – the team-oriented Presidents’ Cup in two weeks might draw some interest. But in terms of stroke play events, we hit the “silly season” on the PGA Tour after this weekend. And there are at least a few interesting events on that schedule I will preview (plus any key strong-field Euro events remaining).
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia
by Alan Matthews - 10/26/2011

The “official” PGA Tour season ended last week at Disney in exciting fashion as world No. 1 Luke Donald rallied on Sunday to win the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic to claim the PGA Tour money title over Webb Simpson and he also likely cemented his PGA Tour Player of the Year honors. Donald also is attempting to win the money title on the European Tour and be the first to take honors on both Tours in the same season.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic
by Alan Matthews - 10/19/2011

It’s the final official event of the PGA Tour golf season this week at Disney in Orlando for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic. (Quick aside, I will still provide betting previews for the rest of the year for any relevant strong-field tournaments, things like next week’s event in Malaysia, the following week’s HSBC Champions event in Shanghai, the Presidents Cup, Tiger Woods’ Chevron World Challenge, etc.)
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: The McGladrey Classic
by Alan Matthews - 10/12/2011

The beauty of the PGA Tour’s Fall Series – or irritation from a betting standpoint – is that more often than not you will see somewhat unknown guys get their first Tour win because, well, the fields are watered down and those journeymen (or young players) often have to perform well to keep the fully exempt status for the following year.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: Frys.com Open
by Alan Matthews - 10/5/2011

If you really think the PGA Tour still isn’t all about Tiger Woods, then you haven’t been paying a lick of attention to what has made news in the golf world for the past week or so. Of course, Tiger plays in his first tournament this week, the Frys.com Open at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif., since missing the cut at the PGA Championship.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
by Alan Matthews - 9/28/2011

You can tell when the PGA Tour’s Fall Series begins because it’s when the golf tournaments start sounding like some weird NASCAR event. For example, good luck fitting “Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open” on a golf ball! This week’s tournament is staged at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas – the event is hoping to move to the spring after next year.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: The Tour Championship
by Alan Matthews - 9/21/2011

For casual golf fans and bettors, the PGA Tour season essentially ends at the final major of the year, the PGA Championship. That tees off a few weeks before football season, which is of course where most bettors are then lured. But for more dedicated golf bettors, the FedEx Cup playoffs remain a source of interest, and that four-tournament postseason concludes this weekend in Atlanta with The Tour Championship.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: BMW Championship
by Alan Matthews - 9/14/2011

The Top 70 players in the FedEx Cup points advanced from the Deutsche Bank Championship and the Top 30 after this tournament will move on the Tour Championship in Atlanta next week for a shot at the $10 million grand prize and, potentially, PGA Tour Player of the Year honors because that race is very much up for grabs as well.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: The Deutsche Bank Championship
by Alan Matthews - 9/1/2011

We are into the “conference semifinal” round of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs as the Top 100 in the points standings have advanced (99 are playing, with J.B. Holmes out due to health reasons) after last week’s rain-shortened Barclays tournament to this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston. And it’s an unusual weekend on Tour because we know there will be a Monday finish – with this tournament scheduled around Labor Day weekend it goes Friday-Monday.
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PGA Tour Odds and Predictions: The Barclays
by Alan Matthews - 8/24/2011

The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs begin this week – sans the biggest star in the sport, Tiger Woods – with The Barclays at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J. Of course the FedEx Cup is a four-event playoff system capped at the TOUR Championship that is essentially the end of golf season for most top players. This is the first-ever PGA Tour event at Plainfield.
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