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PGA Tour Picks: Desert Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/15/2019

That's what I'm talking about! In the first full-field event of the New Year, we correctly recommended Matt Kuchar - at a cool price of +4000 - to win the Sony Open in Hawaii last week. Kuchar led by two after 54 holes and shot a 4-under 66 in the final round for a 22-under 258 overall and beat playing partner Andrew Putnam by four strokes. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open in Hawaii Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/8/2019

Quite the impressive start to the calendar year for 25-year-old American Xander Schauffele. He entered the final round of the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua on Sunday five shots out of the lead but tied a course record with a 62 and beat 54-hole leader Gary Woodland by a shot. The 11-under-par mark was the second-best score to par in a final-round win in PGA Tour history. It was the largest final-round deficit overcome in the history of the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua. Did I mention that Schauffele actually bogeyed his first hole? Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Sentry Tournament of Champions Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/2/2019

The 2018-19 PGA Tour wraparound season actually began in early October in California wine country with the Safeway Open, but to most golf fans the year annually begins at the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. That tees off Thursday at the Plantation Course at Kapalua, a par 73 measuring 7,518 yards. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Ryder Cup Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/18/2018

The 2017-18 PGA Tour season concludes this Sunday at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. We projected Rory McIlroy to win the tournament for a second time and Justin Rose to win the FedExCup for the first time. Overall this season, we picked four correct winners entering the finale. We've said it before and will again: Your best golf bets really shouldn't be the winner market (such a crapshoot) but instead the Top 10 prop or head-to-head. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/11/2018

Glad to see good-guy and popular PGA Tour player Keegan Bradley win the weather-delayed BMW Championship on Monday outside Philadelphia, although really Justin Rose should have. Rose, though, bogeyed his 72nd hole and then the first playoff hole to give Bradley his first victory in six years. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: BMW Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/4/2018

I figured that when Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship to go with his U.S. Open victory that Koepka was a lock to win PGA Tour Player of the Year. And he's still almost surely going to be - I doubt any guy has won two majors in a year and not won it. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Dell Technologies Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/28/2018

Not going to say much about last week's FedExCup playoff-opening victory by rising superstar Bryson DeChambeau at the Northern Trust. It was DeChambeau's third career win, and he was never much challenged on Sunday in winning by four over Tony Finau. The victory moved DeChambeau to No. 1 in the FedExCup points and just about assures that Jim Furyk will pick him as one of his captain's choices for the Ryder Cup. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Northern Trust Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/21/2018

Tough for golf to make much noise on the American sports calendar this time of year with everyone amped about the NFL preseason and NCAA fall camps. However, Brandt Snedeker made some news last week by shooting a first-round 59 on the way to leading wire-to-wire to take the Wyndham Championship, the final event of the PGA Tour's 2017-18 regular season. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/14/2018

The PGA Tour just had arguably its best weekend in at least a few years. That's because Tiger Woods was blowing up in the final round of the PGA Championship and Twitter and CBS' ratings were both exploding with him. Woods shot his lowest-ever final round in a major, a 64 (Tiger played his first two holes of this tournament in 3 over and his next 70 in 17 under), but he came up two shots short of who is clearly the next superstar in the sport: Brooks Koepka. Read More >>

PGA Championship Golf Picks with Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/7/2018

If you read these weekly golf previews, you know that I spend the first portion recapping how my picks went last week. I'm not going to say much about there here because there's plenty to say about this week's 100th PGA Championship, the last major of the year. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/31/2018

Sometimes, I talk myself out of picking the overall favorite in a PGA Tour event, because what fun is going chalk? An average joe could do that every week. Perhaps I should follow my gut more often. I did think there was a pretty good chance that world No. 1 Dustin Johnson would win last week's Canadian Open after coming so close to doing so twice before. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/24/2018

Being honest, I'm not a Tiger Woods fan. He's arrogant and whiny and a terrible role model. All he put his ex-wife through is ridiculous. But, there's no question that golf is much more interesting with Tiger contending - especially in a major tournament. I didn't give Woods much of a chance to win a fourth British Open title even though he was only four shots off the lead entering his final round. Did you know that Woods held at least a share of the 54-hole lead in all 14 of his major victories? So, he doesn't rally in majors. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: RBC Canadian Open Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 7/24/2018

If you were to take a poll of 100 golf fans and ask them what their favorite major of the year is, 98 of them would say The Masters, and they'd be wrong. The best Major of the year is far-and-away the Open Championship. Because how could it not be? This year's Open Championship featured four completely different days in terms of weather and golf, a hundred storylines, and an edge-of-the-couch worthy final round on Sunday - all culminating in another first-time Major winner, Francesco Molinari. Read More >>

British Open Golf Expert Picks with Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/17/2018

American Michael Kim said he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to find lodging in Scotland this week for the British Open at Carnoustie, but after winning his way into that tournament with a dominant victory Sunday in the John Deere Classic, I'm sure he'll find a hostel or something where he can spend some of that $1,044,000. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: John Deere Classic Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/11/2018

Golf has been rather newsworthy of late, generally overshadowing tournament winners. It's nice for Kevin Na that he won the Greenbrier in West Virginia on Sunday, but all anyone in the golf world wanted to talk about all week was the potential made-for-TV $10 million winner-take-all match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson that's being discussed. This is almost surely going to happen, and I'll certainly watch it. What I'd rather see, though, is these two very rich dudes put up $5 million of their own money with the winner-taking-all. That's NOT going to happen. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/3/2018

When I think of Italy, I don't much think of a country that churns out stellar golfers. Soccer players, sure. Chefs, heck yes. Golfers? Not so much. Still, it surprised me to earn that no Italian had won on the PGA Tour since someone named Toney Penna in 1947. That drought ended on Sunday at the last Quicken Loans National to be held in the Washington, D.C., area and hosted by Tiger Woods as Francesco Molinari tied the TPC Potomac course record with an 8-under 62 in the final round to win the tournament by eight shots. That tied for the largest margin of victory on Tour this season. Molinari's total of 21-under 259 broke the tournament record by seven shots. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: Quicken Loans National Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 6/27/2018

Another Travelers Championship golf tournament; another Bubba Watson win. Bubba Watson erased a six-shot deficit in the final round by shooting a 7-under 63 to win his third career Travel-ers title. The win marked Watson's 12th PGA victory of his career, and he essentially did it in style by firing two rounds of 63 and by gaining a ton of strokes on the field. Watson's all-around game was impressive as he gained more than three strokes putting en route to his first 63 in Round 2. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Quicken Loans National Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/26/2018

Bubba Watson started Sunday six shots out of the lead at the Travelers Championship outside Hartford, but the two-time Masters champion shot a final-round 63 - his second 63 of the weekend -- to win the Travelers for the third time in his career. It was also Watson's third PGA Tour win of the season, most of anyone. He's an early Player of the Year favorite. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: Travelers Championship Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 6/19/2018

What an absolute disaster this year's U.S. Open turned out to be. The USGA completely butch-ered the course, and it wasn't even remotely enjoyable for players -- unless your Brooks Koepka -- or fans that spent their weekend watching and listening to Joe Buck try his hardest (and fail) at commentating on golf. Buck is already an annoying on Sundays during NFL season, the last thing I want to do while watching a relaxing sport like golf is listen to Buck get excited or pissed off about literally nothing. But I digress. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/19/2018

Brooks Koepka deserves the first mention as he became the first player since Curtis Strange (1988-89) to win back-to-back U.S. Opens, and the two Koepka won couldn't have been more different. Last year, Erin Hills in Wisconsin was completely defenseless and Koepka blistered the course for a 16-under total - tying the best score in U.S. Open history relative to par. At Shinnecock Hills, Koepka won at 1 over. Not bad for a guy who missed four months earlier this year, including the Masters, with a serious wrist injury. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: 2018 US Open Golf Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 6/12/2018

The week before a Major is always a great time to find your game and play four solid rounds of golf. However, if you are Dustin Johnson, who won last week's St. Jude Classic, the timing of the win can be rather precarious. In the history of the modern-day U.S. Open, no player has won the week prior to the Major and then gone on to be crowned U.S. Open champion. Depending on what side of the fence you are on - believing in superstitions like that or not --- Johnson's camp will be more than pleased with his performance last week and will feel that he deserves the title of betting favorite this week at Shinnecock Hills. Johnson shot an incredible 19-under par, six shots better than second-place Andrew Putnam. Johnson also capped his incredible four-day weekend by holing out for eagle from 171-yards away on the 72nd hole. Read More >>

2018 US Open Golf Predictions with Odds and Expert Picks
by Alan Matthews - 6/12/2018

Let's just cut to the chase: As good as Dustin Johnson looked in his dominating win at the St. Jude Classic in Memphis over the weekend, I will not be picking him to win the 118th U.S. Open this week at very tough Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, N.Y. It's tough enough to win back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour. It's just about impossible to win the week before a major and then also take said major. Since 1988, only three guys have done so: Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. Read More >>

2018 US Open Golf Best Bets
by Tony George - 6/12/2018

The US Open is upon us, and frankly this is going to be a wide-open Tournament this year with numerous top named golfers really at the top of their game. This list includes world ranked #1 Dustin Johnson, who just walked away with the St Jude Classic in Memphis last week by 6 strokes and was really never challenged or pushed on Sunday in the final round. No player has ever won the US Open after winning the week before, but he will be on the leaderboard no doubt. He is installed as the early favorite at 9-1 to win and was the 2016 US Open Champion. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: St. Jude Classic Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 6/5/2018

As the PGA Tour embarked on another journey to Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, for the ever-popular Memorial Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus, the excitement level for this tournament was at an all-time high. Some of the biggest and best names were in the field, including Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. While the final leaderboard featured DJ, Thomas, McIlroy and Fowler inside the top-10, Woods was lurking for the majority of the final round before closing with a 2-over 38 on the back nine. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/5/2018

It was almost like no one wanted to win Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament on Sunday outside Columbus, Ohio. Kyle Stanley birdied No. 14-17 on Sunday, but then his tee shot on No. 18 caromed off a tree and into deep rough. He made bogey to fall into a playoff with Bryson DeChambeau and Byeong Hun An - the first three-man playoff in tournament history. Stanley had another poor drive on the return to No. 18 in the playoff and was eliminated with a bogey. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Memorial Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/29/2018

Aaron Wise won on the PGA Tour in Dallas and then Justin Rose in Fort Worth on Sunday. You noticing a bit of a name trend there? Rose shot a final-round 64 at Colonial on Sunday to finish at 20 under and beat out Brooks Koepka by three for Rose's first career win at the Fort Worth Invitational. He could have tied the 2010 tournament record of 259 but bogeyed the 72nd hole. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Fort Worth Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/22/2018

Looking for the next young star on the PGA Tour? I give you 21-year-old Aaron Wise, a former NCAA champion (2016) at the University of Oregon. In just his 26th career PGA Tour start, Wise won the AT&T Byron Nelson on Sunday in Dallas. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Byron Nelson Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/15/2018

Not much drama at the PGA Tour's signature event last week (as in put on by the Tour itself unlike, say, any of the four majors), the Players Championship, as Webb Simpson basically had the tournament won when he left the course Saturday night. There was little stress Sunday as he shot a ho-hum 73, including a double-bogey on his 72nd hole, and still won by four over Xander Schauffele, Charl Schwartzel and Jimmy Walker. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/8/2018

Good to see noted good-guy Jason Day back as a weekly contender on the PGA Tour after he went through a rough patch for a while with his mother being diagnosed with cancer and his own self-described burned out feeling with the game of golf in generally. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: 2018 Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/1/2018

About the only thing I'll remember from last week's Zurich Classic of New Orleans was that it was pretty interesting to watch when the guys came to the first tee with their new walk-up music. Some players were meh, while some really got into it. It was a big ol' party in the Big Easy, with Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy winning the only annual team event on the PGA Tour. There's no way the Zurich Classic will ever switch back to normal stroke play at this point as the players seem to love the new format. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/24/2018

OK, so we've clearly hit a lull in the PGA Tour schedule. I didn't know too much about the winner two Sundays ago at the RBC Heritage, Satoshi Kodaira. Knew not much more about this past Sunday's first-time winner on Tour, Andrew Landry, as he took home the Valero Texas Open title in San Antonio. Read More >>

Golf Betting Systems: Valero Texas Open Picks and Expert Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 4/18/2018

In the span of two short weeks, we've gone from crazy excited about The Masters to nobody cares that Patrick Reed won, because nobody really likes Patrick Reed as a golfer. It's one of the craziest and quickest turn arounds I can recall, with the exception of Danny Willet pulling off the unthinkable in the 2016 Masters. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: 2018 Valero Texas Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/17/2018

Well, Sunday was a first. A guy won a PGA Tour event whom I knew essentially nothing about. Hey, there are thousands of professional golfers in the world when including the European Tour, Asian Tour, Web.com Tour, etc. Can't possibly keep track of them all. I had heard the name of Satoshi Kodaira and knew he was from Japan, but that was about it - he wasn't even a Tour member. Kodaira birdied the third extra hole to defeat Si Woo Kim in a playoff and win the RBC Heritage on Sunday at Hilton Head in South Carolina. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/10/2018

It's somewhat ironic that Patrick Reed's nickname on the PGA Tour is "Captain America" because he's actually not all that popular among his peers or with fans. I'll let you Google some things in his past because I can't speak to how true they are. The nickname comes from Reed's prowess during international competitions for his country. Read More >>

2018 US Masters Betting Tips: My Best Bets to Win Biggest Golf Major
by Tony George - 4/3/2018

You have to be long off the box, you have to be able to move the ball right to left (known as a draw for right handers), you have to have a masterful short game and imagination, and you have to be dialed in with your flat stick, and finally you have to have Master's Experience at Augusta National to contend in the 2018 Masters Tournament. A tradition like no other in golf continues this Thursday in the years first Major. Here I will offer some US Masters betting tips with my value picks to wear the Green Jacket. Click here for more information on my member's plays in all sports. Read More >>

2018 Masters Betting Trends with Expert Handicapping Analysis
by Chris Vasile - 4/3/2018

With the 2018 Masters tournament just two days away, now would be a great time to start finalizing your betting card if you haven't already done so. However, I am obligated to warn you that the odds you will be betting between now and the start of the tournament are nowhere near what you could have gotten at the start of the calendar year or even before the start of last week's Houston Open. Read More >>

2018 Masters Golf Odds with Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/3/2018

I won't spend too much time reviewing this past weekend's Houston Open, but you have to feel good for Englishman Ian Poulter. Two weeks ago at the WGC-Match Play, Poulter advanced to the quarterfinals and was told by reporters that was suffice to bump him high enough in the world rankings to qualify for this year's Masters. Read More >>

The Masters Expert Betting Picks: Live Long Shots to Wager On
by Trevor Whenham - 3/30/2018

The Masters is still more than a week off, but to be honest I'm already a little bored of the tournament. Or, more correctly, I'm board of the storylines that are going to be talked about heading into and during the tournament. Tiger, Tiger, Tiger. Can Tiger beat Dustin Johnson? Can Tiger Beat Rory? Can Tiger beat Justin Thomas? Or Jordan Spieth? Can Anyone beat Tiger? Tiger, Tiger, Tiger. Yawn. I guess this proves that when it comes to Tiger I am over it. All of it. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Houston Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/27/2018

Is next week's Masters going to be filled with story lines or what? Phil Mickelson is back in form. Tiger Woods is healthy and a betting favorite at Augusta. And two-time champion Bubba Watson looks out of his 2016-17 slump by winning for a second time this season on Sunday at the WGC-Match Play. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/20/2018

Rory McIlroy can be a little whiny you know what at times, as he complained about galleries at least week's Arnold Palmer Invitational, but the dude's got game as evidenced by his brilliant final-round 64 at Bay Hill to win his first tournament since, somewhat ironically, the Tour Championship on Sept. 25, 2016. That was the day Palmer died. More irony? Palmer and McIlroy's wife, Erica, shared a birthday - Sept. 10. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/13/2018

In a year, shoot even six months, will anyone remember that Paul Casey won the 2018 Valspar Championship? Nope. They will only recall that Tiger Woods nearly won. The TV ratings for a usually middling event were off the charts all weekend because of Tiger. The ratings for the final round on Sunday of the Valspar drew the largest TV audience for any non-Masters event since the 2015 PGA Championship. It was also the highest network TV audience for a non-major since the 2013 Players Championship, which was won by Woods. Saturday drew the best-rated Round 3 of a PGA Tour event on any broadcast network since 2006. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/6/2018

The Masters can't get here soon enough. Tiger Woods is starting to look like he might actually win again at some point in 2018, and Phil Mickelson is playing his best golf in five years. Lefty won the WGC-Mexico Championship in Mexico City on Sunday, his first victory anywhere since the 2013 British Open - that was the longest title drought of his Hall of Fame career. The 47-year-old was the oldest man in the field but beat young Justin Thomas, the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year, in a playoff to become the oldest winner of a WGC event. It was Mickelson's 43rd career win on Tour. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship Odds
by Alan Matthews - 2/27/2018

By all accounts, reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year Justin Thomas is a good dude. And I doubt he cares what I think, but come on man! Thomas had a fan ejected from the course over the weekend for rooting against him at the Honda Classic, which Thomas would go on to win in a playoff over relative unknown Luke List. It was Thomas' seventh victory in his past 31 worldwide starts, and he's just the third player in the past 30 years with eight PGA Tour wins before age 25. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/20/2018

When previewing last week's Genesis Open at Riviera in Los Angeles, I wrote that I was wagering on Paul Casey, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods (despite him being part of it) at +900 to win against the field (-2000) but also some long-shot money on two-time Genesis Open champion Bubba Watson at +5000 as it started to look as if the two-time Masters winner was breaking out of a long slump. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Genesis Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/13/2018

When I went to bed Saturday night, I was quite comfortable in thinking that I was going to get some nice cash on Dustin Johnson winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for the third time in his career. The world No. 1 was the +550 favorite entering the tournament and was co-leading with journeyman Ted Potter after three rounds on a course DJ practically owns. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/6/2018

I tell you, I thought we were looking at a second straight Super Bowl to go to overtime when Patriots quarterback Tom Brady got the ball with 1:05 left and his team down eight points vs. Philadelphia - after all, this is the GOAT we are talking about, and he led an incredible late comeback last year against the Falcons in the Super Bowl. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Phoenix Open Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/30/2018

If you are a fan of playoff golf on the PGA Tour, the start of 2018 has been right up your alley as Jason Day's playoff win at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego on Monday was the third straight multi-hole playoff on the Tour. It's only the third time this century that scenario has occurred. From 2002-2017, there were a total of two tournaments that went to at least six-hole playoffs. Now there have been two in the past three weeks. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/23/2018

Spaniard Jon Rahm was the +900 opening favorite last week at the CareerBuilder Challenge in northern California, and he beat relative unknown Andrew Landry on the fourth hole of sudden death for his second career PGA Tour win and to replace Jordan Spieth as the No. 2 player in the world rankings. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: CareerBuilder Challenge Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/16/2018

With all due respect to Patton Kizzire, who looks like he will be a very good player on the PGA Tour for years to come, few people are going to remember last week's Sony Open at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu because of his playoff victory. Golf was on no one's mind in Hawaii when on Saturday morning an emergency missile alert accidentally went out to everyone in the state, causing mass panic as people thought they were about to die because of a nuclear strike from North Korea. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open in Hawaii Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/9/2018

No sport, in my opinion, makes you want to go out and play it more than watching golf. At the same time, no sport, in my opinion, humbles you more quickly. I learned that again this weekend, and I'm definitely not Dustin Johnson. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Sentry Tournament of Champions Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/2/2018

Before I get to previewing the 2018 opening Sentry Tournament of Champions at the Plantation Course of Kapalua in Hawaii, let's take a quick look ahead to the major championships for this year. Bovada, for example, has yes-only props on several big-name players as to whether they will win any major in 2018. World No. 1 Dustin Johnson is +165. Jordan Spieth has the shortest odds at +160. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The RSM Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/14/2017

Due to rain in Mexico, the final round of the PGA Tour's OHL Classic at Mayakoba was a 36-hole affair, and American Patton Kizzire held off pre-tournament favorite Rickie Fowler by a shot Sunday for his first career win in his 62nd Tour start. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/7/2017

Not too often will you see a three-man playoff on the PGA Tour where a bogey is good enough to advance, but that's what happened Sunday at a windy TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Patrick Cantlay, Alex Cejka and Whee Kim all finished regulation tied at 9-under and all bogeyed the first playoff hole. The trio then returned to the 18th hole and Cantlay won with a par for his first career PGA Tour title - but it won't be the last as he has long been touted as a potential star alongside contemporaries like Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/31/2017

The final big-time tournament of the calendar year, the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, will be remembered for a while thanks to the choke job by world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and the amazing comeback of Justin Rose. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/24/2017

I'm 1-for-3 on the campaign after reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year and FedExCup champion Justin Thomas proved those honors were well-deserved with a victory at the inaugural CJ Cup at Nine Bridges in South Korea on Sunday. Both he and Aussie Marc Leishman finished 72 holes at 9-under, and Thomas beat Leishman on the second playoff hole with a birdie. Thomas had to birdie his 72nd hole to join Leishman in the playoff. It was the 24-year-old's sixth victory worldwide in his past 25 starts, and he's up to No. 3 in the world behind fellow Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: CJ Cup at Nine Bridges Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/17/2017

Americans are now 8-for-8 in winning the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur after Pat Perez took the PGA Tour event on Sunday by finishing at 24-under 264 and beating out fellow American Keegan Bradley by four shots - the biggest margin of victory in the tournament's short history. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: CIMB Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/10/2017

The 2017-18 PGA Tour season began as the last one did: A Brendan Steele victory at the Safeway Open at the Silverado Resort in California's wine country (which is unfortunately burning down right now in spots). Last year, Steele got hot on the back nine Sunday to rally from four shots down and win at 18 under by a stroke. This time, he finished at 15 under to beat Tony Finau by two. Steele is the first player to win this event, which has been around since 2007, twice. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Safeway Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/3/2017

Team USA's rout of the International squad over the weekend in New Jersey in the Presidents Cup team event put a bow on the 2016-17 PGA Tour season. It was a season that likely will be most remembered for another Tiger Woods back surgery and Justin Thomas' breakout campaign. He won his first major title at the PGA Championship, took home the $10 million FedEx Cup prize (despite not winning the Tour Championship) and is going to be named PGA Tour Player of the Year. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/19/2017

First off in these weekly golf previews, I recap how I fared on my predictions in the previous tournament to show how smart or stupid my picks were. We will skip that this time because it's been three weeks since I last wrote, which was the Dell Technologies Championship in Boston, the second leg of the FedExCup playoffs. Then the Tour had a week off before resuming last week at the BMW Championship outside Chicago. I wasn't able to preview that due to unforeseen circumstances, although I'm fairly confident I wouldn't have chosen Aussie Marc Leishman to take home the title by going wire-to-wire (although I do like Leishman). Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Dell Technologies Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/29/2017

Heck of a start to the PGA Tour's FedExCup playoffs on Sunday at the Northern Trust in New York and perhaps the birth of the sport's next great rivalry between Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth. Spieth started Sunday with a three-shot lead and was up to five after his first five holes - but then he found the drink on No. 6 and started coming back to the field. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Northern Trust Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/22/2017

Yes, Sweden's Henrik Stenson was the winner of last week's Wyndham Championship, but he was never in danger of missing the FedExCup playoffs. So a close No. 2 on the list of big winners would have to be J.J. Henry, who entered the tournament in North Carolina No. 134 on the points list but played well enough to land right on the bubble at No. 125 to advance to golf's postseason. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/15/2017

In golf this year, six has been a lucky number. As in, how many letters in each major championship winner's first and last names. Sergio Garcia won his first Grand Slam tournament at the Masters. Brooks Koepka won his first major at the U.S. Open. Jordan Spieth got 75 percent of the way to the career Grand Slam by taking his first Claret Jug at the British Open. Read More >>

2017 PGA Championship Picks with Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/8/2017

You know, I was probably leaning toward picking Japan's Hideki Matsuyama to take his first career major title this week at the PGA Championship, but I'm off his bandwagon now because it's so incredibly rare to win the week before a major and then take said major. Matsuyama shot the round of his career Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone at Firestone Country Club, a 9-under course-record-tying 61 to stroll to a five-shot victory over Zach Johnson. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/1/2017

Perhaps Venezuelan Jhonattan Vegas should apply for a work visa in Canada; hey, they have good health care (and Venezuela is a mess right now)! Plus Vegas clearly likes playing in the one PGA Tour event each year north of the border. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/25/2017

If you are a big-time sports fan like me, then you probably have yelled at your TV screen on more than one occasion when an athlete screws up an easy situation with something along the lines of: "Even I could do (make) that!" You know, when some random baseball player drops an easy pop fly or DeAndre Jordan bricks about eight free throws in row. Read More >>

2017 British Open Golf Picks with Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/19/2017

It was only a matter of time before Bryson DeChambeau got his first PGA Tour win. He had an amazing college career at SMU and made history during the summer of 2015 when he became just the fifth player to win both the U.S. Amateur and the NCAA individual title in the same year. He turned pro last spring and won the first Web.com Tour Finals event to earn his PGA Tour card. Read More >>

GA Tour Picks: John Deere Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/11/2017

Xander Schauffele. Now that's a name! Sounds almost like a James Bond villain or something. You might not have heard of the 23-year-old unless you follow golf pretty intently. He became somewhat well known with a Top 5 finish at the U.S. Open at Erin Hills earlier this month. On Sunday, Schauffele, who turned pro in 2015, got his first win by taking the Greenbrier Classic with a birdie on the 72nd hole at the Old White Course in West Virginia. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Greenbrier Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/4/2017

You can add one name to the field at the British Open in two weeks at Royal Birkdale: Kyle Stanley will compete for the Claret Jug after beating Charlies Howell III on the first extra hole of a playoff Sunday in the Quicken Loans National at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. Stanley will return to the Open for the first time since missing the Muirfield in 2013. Howell's runner-up qualified him for the first time since 2012. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Quicken Loans National Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/27/2017

I don't get too excited about non-major PGA Tour events, but it was pretty cool watching Sunday's playoff between Jordan Spieth and Daniel Berger as the two are good buddies. Spieth got his second win of the year by holing out from a greenside bunker on the first extra hole of the Travelers Championship playoff at TPC River Highlands outside Hartford. Spieth's celebration after was awesome. I've already heard some stodgy old golfers complain about it, but I thought it was great and golf needs more emotion. Plus, Berger got a good laugh from it all, so if he wasn't offended then no one else should be. Berger was officially eliminated from the playoff when he missed a 50-foot putt to match Spieth's birdie3. Read More >>

Golf Betting Props with Expert Predictions on Sponsors Dropping Tiger Woods
by Raphael Esparza - 6/27/2017

Has Tiger Woods hit rock bottom? Will Tiger Woods ever win another golf tournament? Will Tiger Woods ever be healthy again? These are the questions I want answered. However, offshore sportsbooks have other ideas. Since turning professional over 20 years ago, Woods has become a global icon and one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. But when you are on top of the mountain, the only thing that is going back down, and right now Woods is spiraling. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/20/2017

The 117th U.S. Open looked great on television at the links-style Erin Hills course in the middle-of-nowhere Wisconsin this past weekend, but I don't think the USGA is going to allow its crown jewel tournament to go back there unless it can be toughened up. I don't know about you, but I like watching guys brought to their knees by the toughest possible conditions in the U.S. Open, and that's essentially what the USGA wants. Alas, a lack of wind at Erin Hills made the course quite tame - the fairways are frankly too wide -- and American Brooks Koepka won his first-ever major championship by finishing at 16-under. The under-par mark tied a U.S. open record set by Rory McIlroy six years ago at Congressional. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: US Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/13/2017

I learned two things about Daniel Berger this past weekend: He's clearly a "Horse for the Course" at TPC Southwind in Memphis after repeating at the St. Jude Classic, and he's not going to win this week's U.S. Open because no player has won that tournament after winning an event the previous week. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/6/2017

It's not too often you will find a golfer win a PGA Tour event when he shoots 77 in one of his four rounds, but that was the case on Sunday as Jason Dufner took Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament for his fifth career PGA Tour victory. He also joined Nicklaus as the only Ohio natives (Dufner was born in Cleveland) to win the event in Dublin, outside of Columbus. Read More >>

PGA Tour Picks: The Memorial Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/30/2017

The two-week Texas Swing wrapped up Sunday at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, and I hit on my fourth winner of the season in Kevin Kisner. He was priced at +2500 at Bovada to win entering the tournament. My reasoning for picking him was: "He's a good shot-maker and this is a shot-makers' course. Prior to the T10 last year he was T5 in 2015 and is averaging 67.75 in his past eight rounds at Colonial." This time, Kisner was first in the field in fairways hit (40 of 56) and second in greens hit in regulation (53 of 72).
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PGA Tour Picks: Dean & DeLuca Invitational odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/23/2017

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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Byron Nelson Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/16/2017

I'm thankful every day for living in a free country like the United States. Why do I mention this in a golf story? At age 21, Si Woo Kim of South Korea became the youngest winner of the Players Championship on Sunday with a closing 3-under 69 and three-shot victory. Kim got $1.89 million for his second career PGA Tour win, a five-year Tour exemption and three-year exemption to the Masters Tournament.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/9/2017

Frankly, the two most interesting things to happen in golf this past weekend didn't involve Brian Harman winning the Wells Fargo Championship with a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole to deny world No. 1 Dustin Johnson the chance at his fourth straight victory.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/2/2017

I think the Zurich Classic of New Orleans was a pretty big success with its new two-man team format, and I'm quite certain that the tournament will stick with that going forward. It really did seem like the players were more engaged while also having fun playing with a friend or countryman. Many players said they chose friends on the Tour rather than research whose game best complemented their own. Here's hoping the Tour allows more creativity with format changes at other events.
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PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/25/2017

We had another first-time winner on the PGA Tour this season Sunday at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio as Kevin Chappell brought a one-shot lead into the final round and held on for once. He made an eight-foot birdie putt at the 72nd hole to beat Brooks Koepka by a shot. Chappell had a pretty memorable post-victory celebration - I recommend checking it out.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/18/2017

I didn't know a heck of a lot about PGA Tour pro Wesley Bryan before he won the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town in Hilton Head, S.C., on Sunday, but he has just become one of my most-liked golfers. Why? To celebrate his first PGA Tour win, two-year Tour exemption, $1.7 million winner's check and spot in next year's Masters, Bryan, proudly wearing his plaid jacket that also went to the tournament winner, took a selfie of himself and his wife celebrating at Taco Bell afterward. That's awesome.
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/11/2017

It figures! I have been picking Sergio Garcia to win one major each year since I started doing golf previews here at Doc's. The Spaniard probably was the best player still without one, and it had to come sooner or later. Sadly, I didn't really touch on El Nino at the Masters, but he won the green jacket by beating Justin Rose on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday in what was some compelling golf to watch - although the TV ratings were way down. I guess Americans didn't care as much to see a guy from Spain and one from England duel on the back-nine.
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PGA Tour Picks: Houston Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/28/2017

How good is Dustin Johnson's life right now? He's married to the gorgeous Paulina Gretzky and gets to hang around father-in-law and the greatest hockey player ever in Wayne Gretzky whenever he wants. Oh, and DJ's playing some pretty decent golf these days. Johnson solidified himself as the Masters favorite by winning the World Golf Championships-Match Play in Austin on Sunday for his third straight tournament win - no one had done that on Tour since Rory McIlroy in 2014.
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PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-Match Play Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/21/2017

I honestly didn't much consider another Aussie at Arnie's tournament, but Marc Leishman, a guy I do usually pick to win an event or two each year because the talent is there, got his second career Tour win. He entered the final round three shots out of the lead but seized it with an epic 51-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th on Sunday. Leishman, one of the Tour's top-rated putters, then got up-and-down on the final two holes to finish at 11-under 277 and win by a shot over Americans Charley Hoffman and Kevin Kisner - they both shot final-round 73s as the third-round co-leaders. Kisner and Hoffman started the final round at 11 under par.
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PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/14/2017

Quick, name me the best Canadian golfer in PGA Tour history. Yeah, all I could think of was former Masters champion Mike Weir. He has really struggled in recent years, though. Canada currently has just six full-time PGA Tour players, but the country finally added another victory last week at the Valspar Championship in the Tampa Bay area.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/7/2017

I'm taking credit for another victory last week at the inaugural World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship. My singular value pick was Gary Woodland because he can hit it a mile and that tournament in Mexico City was played at the highest altitude ever for a PGA Tour event. Woodland was +3300 but finished T38. I also mentioned that I liked the prop of Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth at +300 vs. the field (-450).
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Mexico Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/28/2017

Yep, I outsmarted myself last week. I was leaning toward Rickie Fowler as my choice to win the first stop of the Florida Swing, the Honda Classic, but I was too tempted by Swede Russell Knox's history at PGA National and his nice price of +3000. Yet there was Fowler teeing off on Sunday in Palm Beach with a four-shot lead. He was far from sharp in his final-round 71, but he won by the margin he started the day with (although the lead was down to one shot briefly).
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PGA Tour Picks: Honda Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/21/2017

I'm giving myself credit for a half-win last week at the Genesis Open at historic Riviera outside Los Angeles. When I wrote that preview last Tuesday here at Doc's, there hadn't yet been a Bovada prop posted that paired both Adam Scott and Dustin Johnson against the field. I said I thought one of the two would win, but that I'd go with Scott at that point simply because he was better value at a longer price. That said, Bovada did post one of those props by Wednesday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Genesis Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/14/2017

Did we have an official changing of the guard in golf over the weekend? One could look at it that way as 23-year-old Jordan Spieth continued to set records, while 41-year-old Tiger Woods had to pull out of his next two PGA Tour events because his back still isn't right.
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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/7/2017

No male golfer from Japan has won one of golf's four Grand Slam tournaments, but I'm thinking about going to one of Doc's promoted sportsbooks right now and dropping down some money on Hideki Matsuyama to win a major in 2017 as that guy is in the midst of a tremendous stretch of golf.
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PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Phoenix Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/31/2017

It was no secret on the PGA Tour that many of the more veteran golfers expected a breakout season for Jon Rahm, who is from Spain but played at Arizona State. The guy was one of the best collegians ever as the only two-time winner of the Ben Hogan Award (in 2015 and 2016), which recognizes the outstanding male amateur and collegiate golfer of the year. He also won the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2016 and was a four-time All-American.
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PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/24/2017

I'll just cut to the chase here and say that while I've heard of Hudson Swafford, I probably couldn't have told you anything about him before he was the surprise winner of the CareerBuilder Challenge on Sunday to start the PGA Tour's West Coast Swing.
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PGA Tour Picks: CareerBuilder Challenge Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/17/2017

I have zero problem admitting when I was flat-out wrong, and boy was I on Justin Thomas this past weekend at the Sony Open as the PGA Tour wrapped up its two-event Hawaii Swing. I wasn't real high on Thomas after winning the SBS Tournament of Champions the week before because only one player had ever swept both events in one season and the courses are very different.
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PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/10/2017

Your early leader to be the breakout superstar of this PGA Tour season? That would be Justin Thomas, a good friend of Jordan Spieth's -- both those guys are from a talented high school Class of 2011 (not the same school) alongside Daniel Berger, Patrick Rodgers, Ollie Schniederjans and Emiliano Grillo. Thomas and Spieth also dueled in college when Thomas was at Alabama and Spieth at Texas.
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PGA Tour Picks: SBS Tournament of Champions Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/3/2017

Welcome to my first PGA Tour preview of the New Year! I hit on five winners in the 2016 calendar year, and six if you include me casually referencing I liked Justin Rose to win the Olympic gold medal in Rio when I actually previewed that week's PGA Tour event. Technically the 2016-17 wraparound season has already started with seven official fall events. Really none of those had world-class fields except for the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in China in late October.
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PGA Golf Handicapping: Tiger Woods Returns
by Trevor Whenham - 12/5/2016

After an absence so long that many people started to think he would never come back, Tiger Woods returned to action last weekend in the Hero World Challenge. Now, it wasn't exactly a return out of a Disney movie - he finished 15th in the 17-player field and had a pretty lousy final round. He survived all four rounds, though, and despite looking like walking a whole round was too much for him - which it probably is because he'd practice with a cart and can't be working out like he used to - he looked mostly fine.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hero World Challenge Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/29/2016

There was no PGA Tour event last week, so let's do a quick recap of the most recent tournament, the RSM Classic in Sea Island, Ga., which was also the final official PGA Tour event of the year. Then I'll address Tiger Woods' highly-anticipated return to action this weekend in the Bahamas.
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PGA Tour Picks: The RSM Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/15/2016

For the second week in a row, we saw a veteran PGA Tour player who had largely been forgotten about get his first Tour win in years. Two Sundays ago in Las Vegas, it was 47-year-old Rod Pampling taking home the title. And this past Sunday at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico, Pat Perez got his first Tour win since 2009.
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PGA Tour Picks: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/8/2016

It was a pretty watered-down field in Las Vegas last week for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, so I figured it was a good time to pick someone a bit off the radar to win -- and my choice was Scott Piercy. Alas, the American finished T24 after a final-round 71, his worst round of the week by far. He was in contention entering Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/1/2016

I knew how well Hideki Matsuyama was playing entering last week's World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions big-money event in China. He had won two weeks prior at the Japan Open, was second the next week at the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur and again had a bit of a home-field advantage competing in Asia for the HSBC Champions. Alas, all that travel I thought would cool him off.
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PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/25/2016

Hard not to root for a guy like Justin Thomas. He played collegiately at Alabama, and around 4 a.m. Sunday in Kuala Lumpur he woke up so he could watch the Texas A&M-Alabama live streaming on his computer. Now, you might be thinking that's no big deal, but golfers tend to like their routines and Thomas had to go play the final round of the CIMB Classic later that day.
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PGA Tour Picks: CIMB Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/18/2016

The 2016-17 PGA Tour wraparound season got underway last weekend with the Safeway Open in northern California, and American Brendan Steele shot a final-round 65 to rally for a one-shot win over Patton Kizzire, who shot 70 on Sunday at Silverado. It was Steele's first victory in 141 starts on the PGA Tour dating to his rookie season when he won the Valero Texas Open.
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PGA Tour Picks: Safeway Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/11/2016

It has been an interesting few weeks in golf since I last wrote, previewing the Tour Championship. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy won that tournament and the FedEx Cup to salvage what had been an otherwise disappointing season on the PGA Tour. I liked England's Paul Casey to win the tournament and the Cup; he finished fourth in Atlanta at 9-under.
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PGA Tour Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/13/2016

I'm rather bummed that the 2015-16 PGA Tour season is ending this week at the Tour Championship. It has easily been my best season in picking winners as I hit on No. 6 (if you include my casual Olympic pick) last week with Dustin Johnson taking the third leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick in Indiana.
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PGA Tour Picks: BMW Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/6/2016

Nothing like a final-round 65 to end a victory drought! That's what Rory McIlroy shot on Monday at the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston for his first PGA Tour win since the Wells Fargo Championship in May 2015. (McIlroy did have a European Tour win this year.) He was six shots out of the lead when he teed off on a windy Monday and was 4-over-par after his first three holes in Friday's opening round. The win jumped McIlroy from 38th to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings. He's now assured of playing in the Tour Championship.
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PGA Tour Picks: Deutsche Bank Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/30/2016

The PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs opened last week at Bethpage State Park's Black Course, and American Patrick Reed took home his first title of the season to also vault to No. 1 in the points. Reed finished at 9-under 275 to edge out Sean O'Hair and Emiliano Grillo by a shot. Reed had been seventh in the standings, the highest of any player without a victory. Reed now has a 380-point lead over second-place Jason Day, who tied for fourth.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Barclays Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/23/2016

The PGA Tour's regular season concluded on Sunday at Wyndham Championship outside Charlotte with a guy I'll admit I know little about winning: 21-year-old South Korean Si Woo Kim for his first career Tour title. He shot a final-round 67 on Sunday to finish at 21-under 259 (tying tournament record) and beat out former world No. 1 Luke Donald by five shots. Kim really won the tournament on Friday with a course-record 60 and never looked back.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/16/2016

I focused my preview last week on the John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour and barely touched on the Olympic tournament in Rio. But clearly I'm an Olympic genius because my pick to win the gold medal was Great Britain's Justin Rose, and he did so, paying out at +1000 on Bovada. He beat Henrik Stenson, the Swede and tournament favorite, by two shots. I also pegged Patrick Reed as the top of four American golfers, but he finished T11. Matt Kuchar was the top finisher from the USA by earning the bronze medal.
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PGA Tour Picks: John Deere Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/9/2016

Last week was about the newsiest on the PGA Tour in a long time. First, you had Nike dropping the bombshell that it would be leaving the golf equipment business but still make apparel. So what does that mean for guys like Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who are under contract? Obviously they can't be obligated to play old Nike clubs and balls.
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PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/2/2016

The major championship portion of the 2015-16 PGA Tour season came to a conclusion on Sunday at Baltusrol as American Jimmy Walker completed a wire-to-wire victory for the first major title of his career -- and thus making all four major winners this year first-timers.
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2016 PGA Championship Picks with Golf Odds with Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/26/2016

There were two players head-and-shoulders above the rest at least week's Canadian Open in world No. 1 Jason Day and No. 2 Dustin Johnson. I didn't think either would win, though, and they didn't. That honor well to fairly unknown Venezuelan Jhonattan Vegas for his first PGA Tour victory since 2011. He will also represent his country in Rio.
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2016 British Open Picks with Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/12/2016

Don't bet against Sweden's Alex Noren on the European Tour when he has a 54-hole lead! Noren had that at least week's Scottish Open and brought home his fifth career Euro Tour title, all coming with a lead entering the final round. Noren shot a final-round 2-under 70 to finish at 14 under at Castle Stuart in northern Scotland and win by a shot over Tyrrell Hatton, with Nicolas Colsaerts, Danny Lee and Matteo Manassero a shot further back.
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2016 Scottish Open Odds with Expert Betting Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/5/2016

Dustin Johnson, you made me look bad! I really didn't expect good results from Johnson at last week's World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron. After all, DJ was playing for the first time since a very emotional win at the U.S. Open. Hard to be focused, I figured.
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PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/28/2016

Bobby Hurley I'm very familiar with. He was a former All-American point guard and two-time national champion at Duke who is currently the head basketball coach at Arizona State. Billy Hurley III? Can't say I knew too much about the guy, but he won the Quicken Loans National at Congressional outside Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Quicken Loans National Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/21/2016

I predicted my fifth winner of the season at last week's U.S. Open at storied Oakmont outside Pittsburgh, but I'm not sure I've ever been so irritated watching a golf event. OK, I had to hedge a bit last week as I believed that either American Dustin Johnson or Aussie Jason Day was going to win the tournament. So I took a prop of those two, Rory McIlroy and Justin Spieth at +130 against the field (-170). And Johnson got that major championship monkey off his back, a year after blowing the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, by shooting 4-under 276 to win by three shots.
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2016 US Open Golf Picks: Best Props Odds with Expert Betting Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 6/15/2016

The second major of the season in professional golf gets underway this Thursday with the opening round of the US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh. The US Open is often considered the toughest test the top golfers in the world face each year. This year's venue could be especially difficult considering that five strokes over par was good enough to claim the title the last time this tournament was contested at Oakmont in 2007.
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PGA Tour Picks: 116th US Open Golf Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/14/2016

Go ahead and rule out Daniel Berger winning this week's second major of the year on the PGA Tour, the 116th U.S. Open. That's because no player has ever won the week before the Open and then taken that tournament in the same year.
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PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/7/2016

Bird vs. Magic. Ali vs. Frazier. McGirt vs. Curran. Some of the great sporting rivalries in American history. OK, I'm kidding about that last one, but little-known golfers William McGirt and Jon Curran topped a very strong field at the Memorial Tournament last week. The duo finished at 15 under, and McGirt beat Curran on the second playoff hole to win his first PGA Tour event in his 165th career start.
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PGA Tour Picks: Memorial Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/31/2016

Four! Yes, I'm aware that when alerting other golfers to a potentially wayward shot that it's spelled fore. But I'm saying "Four!" because I hit on my fourth winner of the 2015-16 golf season on Sunday with Jordan Spieth taking home the Dean & DeLuca Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth, Spieth's first professional win in his home state.
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PGA Tour Picks: Dean & DeLuca Invitational Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/24/2016

Apparently I picked Sergio Garcia to win a tournament a week too early. The Spaniard was my choice to win the Players Championship two weeks ago but couldn't manage that. Garcia did take home the AT&T Byron Nelson on Sunday, beating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Those two finished at 15-under 265. Koepka handed the win to Sergio by driving into the water on that first playoff hole.
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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Byron Nelson Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/17/2016

With all due respect to Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, there's little question that right now the world's best golfer is Aussie Jason Day, and that has been the case since right after last year's British Open. Day was brilliant at the Players Championship in going wire-to-wire to win the event, at 15-under 273, for the first time in his career. He was the first wire-to-wire winner at TPC Sawgrass in 16 years, and it was Day's seventh victory overall in the past 17 starts.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/10/2016

I'm not sure what the most unlikely tournament win in PGA Tour history is, but I feel confident saying that James Hahn's victory last week at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte has to be on the list of among the most unlikely this decade. Was good karma with this guy or what? First off, he entered the tournament having missed eight straight cuts this season. He didn't break 70 in any of those events as you would imagine. His scoring average was 73.4, and he was 30 over par.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/3/2016

Last week's Zurich Classic of New Orleans was a mess weather-wise, forcing not just a Monday finish but also the tournament was shortened to 54 holes (first event shortened since the 2013 opener in Hawaii). And Brian Stuard got his first PGA Tour win by beating Jamie Lovemark on the second playoff hole. Amazingly, Stuard never bogeyed a single hole in the tournament. In addition to making all 40 of his putts inside 10 feet, Stuard led the field at 2.849 in strokes gained/putting.
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PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic Of New Orleans Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/26/2016

At last week's Valero Texas Open against a pretty weak field, my choice to win the tournament was Charley Hoffman at a nice Bovada price +3000. My logic was that Hoffman had played every Texas Open since the tournament moved to TPC San Antonio and hadn't finished worse than T13. He was third there in 2013 and second in 2011.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/19/2016

Two weeks ago at Augusta, England's Danny Willett became maybe the best European player most golf fans hadn't heard of to win his first PGA Tour event (and has since joined the PGA Tour). On Sunday at the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island, another guy with a great resume on the European Tour, South African Branden Grace, won his first title on the PGA Tour.
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/12/2016

It's really hard not to root for Jordan Spieth. Everything you hear and read is that he's a great young guy with his head on his shoulders and not some pompous ass like Tiger Woods often was at the height of his fame. So it was doubly crushing to watch Spieth melt down Sunday on the par-3 155-yard 12th hole at the Masters, the shortest hole at Augusta National. He hit two in the water at that hole -- I can't even explain what happened on the second one from the drop area -- to put up a quadruple-bogey seven. Spieth had taken just eight total shots on No. 12 over the first three rounds.
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2016 Masters Picks with Odds and Expert Golf Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/5/2016

Just going to be honest with you upfront and say I had barely heard of PGA Tour golfer Jim Herman before he won last week's final tune-up for the Masters, the Houston Open. But from what I've read about the 38-year-old journeyman who used to work for Donald Trump as a PGA professional and teaching pro, I'm happy for him. Herman, ranked 191st in the world at the start of the week, got his first win in his 106th start on the Tour.
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2016 Masters Betting Picks for Best Props on the Board
by Dave Schwab - 4/5/2016

Professional golf's first Major of the year tees off this Thursday with first-round action in the 2016 Masters at Augusta National Golf Course. Picking an outright winner in a tournament filled with the best golfers in the world can be a daunting task, but Bovada has offered up a pair of player props that gives you the option of grouping together the 'best of the best' in an effort cash in on one of golf's most popular betting events.
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PGA Tour Picks: Houston Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/29/2016

So I think I'm going to place a futures wager on an Australian winning a gold medal at this summer's Rio Olympics. Right now, Aussies own the golf world following Jason Day's win at the WGC-Match Play on Sunday, his second straight PGA Tour victory this season and the fourth in the past five tournaments by an Aussie -- Adam Scott went back-to-back a few weeks ago in Florida.
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Jordan Spieth Odds to Win the 2016 Masters with Expert Picks and Predictions
by George Monroy - 3/24/2016

When speaking about the Masters, Jordan Spieth should be the first name on everyone's mind. The young pro captivated the golf world last season, winning consecutive majors and keeping the talk of a calendar year Grand Slam alive and well for a few months. Spieth produced a legendary 2015 by winning both the Masters and US Open to start the year and became only the sixth player in the tour's history, and first since Tiger Woods in 2002, to win both events back to back.
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Jason Day Odds to Win the 2016 Masters with Expert Picks and Predictions
by George Monroy - 3/22/2016

Outside of the golf world, Jason Day might be best known for LeBron James crashing into his wife during a Cleveland Cavaliers game a few months ago. Inside the golf world, however, Day has crashed the Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy face-of-golf party and turned it into a three-man race. If the 28-year-old Day can finally have his breakthrough moment in the Masters, after a number of excruciating close calls, the triumvirate of Spieth, McIlroy and Day may be ready to bring the sport back into the mainstream.
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PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-Match Play Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/22/2016

Last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill, the final event of the Florida Swing, Australian Jason Day shot a final-round 2-under 70 to win by one over Kevin Chappell. Day got up-and-down twice over his final five holes, including on No. 18. From a greenside bunker about 100 yards from the hole, Day blasted out to within four feet and drained the par putt to go wire-to-wire.
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PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/15/2016

I don't follow college golf, so I've never heard of Georgia senior Lee McCoy. But apparently the guy has major game. McCoy was arguably the biggest story at last week's Valspar Championship in the Tampa Bay area. He finished the week at 4-under 280, which was good for sole fourth place and would have meant a nice check of around $292,000. Except of course that would have ended McCoy's amateur career.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/8/2016

I'm not sure what was more newsy last week on the PGA Tour: that Adam Scott won his second straight event or that WGC-Cadillac Championship "host" Donald Trump didn't say upstage the whole tournament at his own resort. The Aussie Scott found himself down by as many as six shots at Trump Doral's Blue Monster on a windy Sunday but beat out Bubba Watson by a shot for his 13th career PGA Tour win -- and Scott made that rally despite two final-round double-bogeys.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/1/2016

Not too long ago, Australian Adam Scott was No. 1 in the world and the brightest rising star in golf. But as seems to happen only in golf, as someone like former No. 1 David Duval can attest, his game left him. It appears Scott is back to form -- even though he can't anchor his putter any longer -- as he won the Honda Classic, the opening of the Florida Swing, on Sunday at PGA National.
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PGA Tour Picks: Honda Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/24/2016

Quite a week that Bubba Watson had last week. He passed a kidney stone on Monday (you don't know pain until you do that). Watson made an appearance on the TV show "Girl Meets World." Never heard of it, but cool. He also got to see his 3-year-old son play drums with Justin Bieber as well as take in an excellent Warriors-Clippers game in Los Angeles.
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PGA Tour Picks: Pebble Beach Pro-Am Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/9/2016

You know how Hall of Famer John Elway ended his NFL career in style by going out on top after winning a second straight Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos? Or how Peyton Manning is likely going to follow the lead of his boss and do the same after winning Super Bowl 50 on Sunday?
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PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Phoenix Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/2/2016

That's what I'm talking about! We are only a few tournaments into the calendar year, but already I have nailed a winner as American Brandt Snedeker took last week's PGA Tour Famers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines outside San Diego.
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PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/26/2016

Happy to see Jason Dufner back as a winner on the PGA Tour as he took last week's CareerBuilder Challenge by beating David Lingmerth in a playoff. It was Dufner's fourth career victory but first since the 2013 PGA Championship when he looked poised to join the elite talents in golf. Dufner is one of the good guys on Tour and is very popular among players.
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PGA Tour Picks: CareerBuilder Challenge Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/20/2016

I took a much-needed vacation last week so didn't preview the Sony Open, the second and final tournament of the Hawaii Swing. And that's probably good I didn't because I guarantee you that I wouldn't have even mentioned in passing Fabian Gomez, who was the winner of the first full-field event of 2016.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hyundai Tournament of Champions Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/6/2016

This coming golf season has the potential to be one of the most exciting in years. It's clearly the start of a new era on Tour. The Tiger Woods/Phil Mickelson dynamic that dominated the PGA Tour is all but over. Tiger is still recovering from back surgery; there's a very good chance he doesn't play at all in 2016 and it seems a long shot that Woods ever wins another event, much less a major.
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PGA Tour Picks: Franklin Templeton Shootout Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 12/8/2015

Here's hoping that Bubba Watson stops winning golf tournaments because Watson is one of the most entertaining players on the PGA Tour -- off the course and on it -- but he says he will retire if he ever rises to No. 1 in the world rankings. "If I ever become No. 1 in the world - ever, somehow - I'm walking away. I'm walking away on top. But let's be honest, nobody here's voting on that, right? Everybody thinks I'm not going to do that," Watson said on Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hero World Challenge Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 12/1/2015

I accurately predicted a South African would win last week's Alfred Dunhill Championship, the season-opening European Tour event in South Africa. I just happened to pick the wrong one. My choice was defending champion Branden Grace, who was the +400 favorite. He finished a solid T8, but the winner was countryman Charl Schwartzel, who finished at 15-under 273 to beat out France's Gregory Bourdy by four shots. I knew Schwartzel, the +600 second-favorite, had the best track record of any player at that tournament but he hadn't been playing great in 2015.
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European Tour Picks: Alfred Dunhill Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/24/2015

Well hello Dolly! Great way to end the PGA Tour calendar year as I correctly hit on Kevin Kisner winning last week's RSM Classic in Georgia. In the final round Sunday, Kisner shot a 64 to claim his first win on the PGA Tour. Other than Graeme McDowell a couple of weeks ago, all the winners on the 2015-16 PGA Tour schedule have been first-timers thus far.
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PGA Tour Picks: The RSM Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/17/2015

We had our first Monday finish of the new PGA Tour season at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico -- albeit not purposefully -- and we almost had our first back-to-back winner on Tour in 2015-16. Scotland's Russell Knox, who had won the big-money WGC-HSBC Champions tournament two weeks ago in China as an alternate and for his first-ever Tour win, had a one-shot lead at El Camaleon Golf Club on his 72nd hole but drove into a fairway bunker, hit his approach shot short of the green and made bogey.
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PGA Tour Picks: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/10/2015

Last week at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions event in China, we saw the best field that we will for the rest of 2015, including pretty much every top European player. So of course fairly little-known Scot Russell Knox won the tournament for his first career PGA Tour win. That has been a trend in the early going of the new season.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-HSBC Champions Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/3/2015

It was only a matter of time before Justin Thomas got his first PGA Tour win as he's one of the most promising young players around, and he cashed in last week in Kuala Lumpur by taking the CIMB Classic. Thomas shot a final-round 66 to finish at a tournament-record 26-under 262 and hold off Adam Scott (final-round 63) by a shot. Thomas birdied Nos. 15, 16 and 17 following a double bogey at the short par-4 14th.
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PGA Tour Picks: CIMB Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/27/2015

With a very weak field last week in Las Vegas for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, I expected a fairly no-name player to win the second tournament of the new season. And I was more right than I knew as someone named Smylie Kaufman was the victor. I'm obviously fairly plugged into the golf scene to write this series but I never heard of that guy.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shriners Hospitals For Children Open Odds
by Alan Matthews - 10/20/2015

Kudos to you if you knew who Emiliano Grillo was before he took the first PGA Tour event of the new season, the Frys.com Open in Napa, Calif., last week. I had only heard of the 23-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Argentina because he won the Web.com Tour Championship a couple of weeks ago to earn his PGA Tour card. A lot of golf experts believed that Grillo was a top candidate for Rookie of the Year this season.
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PGA Tour Picks: Frys.com Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/14/2015

Welcome to the start of the 2015-16 PGA Tour wraparound season, and it's an unusually solid field this week at the Frys.com Open at Silverado Country Club in Napa, Calif. The PGA Tour included a stipulation that basically forced a few of the world's top players to compete here (see below).
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PGA Tour Picks: The Presidents Cup Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/6/2015

My pick to win at East Lake in Atlanta was Justin Rose while still expecting new world No. 1 Jason Day to capture the FedEx Cup. I wasn't overly high on Jordan Spieth as he had scuffled a bit in the playoffs after an otherwise amazing year. But Spieth finished at 9-under 271 to beat out Danny Lee and Rose by three shots -- so I did hit on Rose as the top European finisher. Dustin Johnson was my choice as top American and he finished T5.
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PGA Tour Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/22/2015

How absurdly good is Jason Day playing on the PGA Tour right now? The Aussie dominated at the BMW Championship, the third event of the FedEx Cup playoff, last week. He opened with a 61 and never looked back, finishing at 22-under 262 to win by six shots and rise to No. 1 in the world for the first time in his career. Day also kept alive his chances to win PGA Tour Player of the Year honors. It's going to be either him or Jordan Spieth.
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PGA Tour Picks: BMW Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/15/2015

Before I go into this week's BMW Championship, the third event of the PGA Tour's four FedEx Cup playoff tournaments, let's quickly recap the Deutsche Bank Championship over Labor Day Weekend. You may need a reminder since the Tour was dark last week. Rickie Fowler won the event at 15-under 269, beating Henrik Stenson by a shot -- and that hurt me deeply because Stenson was my choice to win.
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PGA Tour Picks: Deutsche Bank Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/2/2015

How great is it to be a golf fan these days? Sure, it was incredibly entertaining to see Tiger Woods in his prime, but he pretty much was destroying the field. He never had a true rivalry -- no, I don't think Phil Mickelson really was one. They rarely contended together in big-time tournaments.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Barclays Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/27/2015

The PGA Tour's 2014-15 regular season wrapped up last week at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro. I know the ratings on the weekend were way up this year because Tiger Woods was tied for the lead after 36 holes. He needed no worse than a solo second to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/18/2015

Great ending at the final major of the season at Whistling Straits on Sunday as Aussie Jason Day won the PGA Championship for first Grand Slam title after coming close so many times. It clearly overwhelmed Day as he was very emotional after taking his final putt on Sunday. The title of best active player not to win a major now leaves his back and probably jumps on Dustin Johnson's.
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2015 PGA Championship Picks with Golf Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/12/2015

I did have a European taking last week's big-money WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club, it certainly wasn't Irishman Shane Lowry, who was the winner. The 28-year-old won his first PGA Tour event by finishing at 11-uner 269, two shots ahead of Bubba Watson. Lowry started Sunday's final round in the penultimate group and two strokes behind Jim Furyk and Justin Rose. Lowry tied Watson for the day's low round of 66, with Lowry's 4-under not including a single bogey. Lowry made it interesting on the 72nd hole when his tee shot went way left, but he hit a great shot through the trees and into within 11 feet of the hole.
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PGA Championship Odds: Predictions for Top-5 Finish Betting Props
by Dave Schwab - 8/12/2015

Professional golf's final major of the season gets underway this Thursday with the opening round of the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, WI. One of the big storylines this week is the return of this tournament's defending champion, Rory McIlroy, who missed last month's Open Championship with an ankle injury.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/5/2015

Last week's Quicken Loans National in Virginia was really the best example of how handicapping winners in a golf tournament is such a crapshoot for the most part (and why I often stick to Top 10s). Troy Merritt got his first career PGA Tour win in 96 starts by shooting a 4-under-par 67 on Sunday to beat Rickie Fowler by three strokes. Troy Merritt!?!?
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PGA Tour Picks: Quicken Loans National Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/29/2015

Now I know why I'm not a professional athlete. You know, other than having no particularly great talent in any sport. I didn't think that Aussie Jason Day would do much last week at the Canadian Open after coming up just short of that British Open playoff and yet another agonizing near-miss at a major. Flying across the pond to a mid-level event? Nah, Day wasn't going to be focused. Plus he hadn't played the Canadian Open in years.
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PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/21/2015

I'll bet that PGA of America officials, who run the final major championship of the season, the PGA Championship, are still upset that Jordan Spieth came up one shot short of getting into the British Open four-hole aggregate playoff on Monday and having a chance to complete the Grand Slam at the PGA. Spieth made a brilliant birdie on 16 to get into a share of the lead but bogeyed No. 17 and just missed a birdie putt on 18 to miss the playoff.
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2015 Open Championship Picks: Odds and Expert Props Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 7/15/2015

Professional golf's third major of the season gets underway early this Thursday with first-round action in this year's Open Championship, also known as the British Open, on the Old Course at fabled St. Andrews in Scotland. The biggest storyline this week will be 21-year old Jordan Spieth's bid to win his third straight major after already capturing the title in this year's Masters and US Open.
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2015 British Open Picks: Odds and Expert Golf Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/14/2015

I have no problem admitting when I am flat-out wrong, and boy was I wrong at last week's John Deere Classic in Illinois. I questioned why world No. 2 Jordan Spieth was even playing instead of being overseas and either practicing for the British Open at the Old Course at St. Andrews or at least competing in the Scottish Open to get used to links golf.
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PGA Tour Picks: John Deere Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/7/2015

We had another first-time winner on the PGA Tour in 2015 last week at the Greenbrier Classic as Danny Lee won a four-man playoff in West Virginia. Lee, David Hearn, Kevin Kisner and Robert Streb -- not exactly household names -- were tied at 13-under after four rounds on the Old White TPC course. Lee got the win when he parred the second hole of the sudden-death playoff, eliminating Hearn after Kisner and Streb were bumped on the first playoff hole.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Greenbrier Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/2/2015

There was no question that American Bubba Watson was the best player in the watered-down field at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut last week, but the best player rarely wins those types of events. Bubba did, going off as the +1200 heavy Bovada favorite. Watson birdied the second extra hole to beat England's Paul Casey in a playoff.
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PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/24/2015

I told you that the Chambers Bay course would be a major story line at last week's U.S. Open and it certainly was -- until it was upstaged by an incredible ending that saw Dustin Johnson lose the tournament and Jordan Spieth win it to get halfway to the season Grand Slam.
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2015 US Open Picks: Golf Betting Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/16/2015

Every year, there are probably a good five tournaments or so on the PGA Tour won by a guy who would make casual golf fans or bettors go, "Who?" That was indeed the case last week as relative unknown Argentine Fabian Gomez won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis for his first Tour victory. Gomez, 36, shot a 4-under 66 Sunday to finish 13-under and four strokes ahead of another rather unknown, England's Greg Owen. Those two each began the day at 9-under.
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2015 US Open Golf Odds: Props Picks and Expert Betting Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 6/16/2015

This year's US Open, which is the second major of the season in professional golf, gets underway this Thursday with first round action from Chambers Bay at University Place in Washington. Rory McIlroy comes in as the favorite to win, but there are a number of contenders ready to bring their A-Game to the Pacific Northwest in search of a win this week.
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US Open Betting Predictions: Major and Season-Long Golf Props Odds
by George Monroy - 6/10/2015

The golf scene is set to kick into overdrive this week with the FedEx St. Jude Classic beginning June 11 and the US Open on June 18. The big storylines heading into the next two weeks will focus on Tiger Woods, who just played one of the worst rounds of golf in his entire career, and the brewing rivalry between Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth.
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PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/10/2015

It's not often that a last-place finisher overshadows the winner of a golf tournament, but then again Tiger Woods doesn't finish last every day. And that's where Woods wound up at last week's Memorial Tournament, which he had won five times previously. Tiger shot an unbelievable 85 in Saturday's third round, the worst round of his pro career. He had a quad, two doubles, six bogeys and one birdie.
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PGA Tour Picks: Memorial Tournament Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/2/2015

I'm sure the TPC Four Seasons resort in Irving, Texas, will go down as the most memorable location in Aussie Stephen Bowditch's life. Bowditch shot a final-round 64 on Sunday to win the AT&T Byron Nelson for his second career PGA Tour win. Bowditch also had his wedding reception there. He moved to north Texas a decade ago after essentially throwing a "dart at a map" and met his future wife Amanda, who grew up in the area.
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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Byron Nelson Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/26/2015

I don't like to lead these stories with pessimistic views of things, but I know that world No. 2 Jordan Spieth is kicking himself right now. Spieth so badly wants to win a PGA tournament in his home state of Texas, and he was potentially in position to do so last week at Colonial. Spieth was right there with a handful of others but suffered his only bogey of Sunday on the par-3 16th, and he fell one shot short of winner Chris Kirk.
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PGA Tour Picks: Crowne Plaza Invitational At Colonial Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/20/2015

Without question, 100 times out of 100 if a sportsbook gives me odds for the field against one player to win a golf tournament, I'm taking the field. Won't even think twice. But then once in a blue moon the unthinkable happens, and that was the case last week as Rory McIlroy -- priced at +350 vs. the field at -500 -- dominated at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte for his second career win there (his first Tour win in 2010 was at Quail Hollow).
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PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/13/2015

I've always been a fan of Rickie Fowler's game on the course, but that dude is now my idol for his game off it. I'm sure if you watched the end of Sunday's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass you saw the kiss that Fowler laid on his incredibly gorgeous bikini model girlfriend Alexis Randock. Fowler got $1.8 million for the biggest win of his young career and then got to go home with that. Well done sir!
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PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/6/2015

So I guess we can cool our jets a little bit on wondering if Jordan Spieth has passed Rory McIlroy as the best player in the world. McIlroy reminded everyone who the world's top-ranked player was last week at the World Golf Championship-Match Play event by beating Gary Woodland in the finals, never trailing once in the match.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/28/2015

Sometimes the most deserving golfer doesn't always win a tournament. That was not the case at all last week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans as England's Justin Rose didn't make a single bogey over his final 66 holes -- just think about that; Rose had a bogey and double on his first six holes -- to win his seventh career PGA Tour event. Rose finished at a tournament-record 22-under 266 to beat out Cameron Tringale by a shot and Boo Weekley by two.
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PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/21/2015

I usually pick Jim Furyk to win a couple of tournaments a year. He's a great player who always seems to be in contention -- in recent years, however, he would get uptight with a final-round lead and falter. That wasn't the case last week at Hilton Head as Furyk won the RBC Heritage in a playoff for his first tournament title in nearly five years, spanning 100 events. Over that winless stretch alone, he still made more than $14.8 million. Is it too late for me to become a pro golfer?
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/15/2015

If it wasn't clear before that the era of Tiger and Phil being the "rivalry" to watch on the PGA Tour is in the rear-view mirror in terms of relevance, Jordan Spieth's spectacular win at the 2015 Masters officially stamped this year and likely the next several as Jordan vs. Rory as the key rivalry in golf.
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2015 Masters Picks: Odds and Expert Golf Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/8/2015

To casual golf fans or those stuck in the still-lousy weather up in the American north, the golf season truly begins with the first major of the season, the Masters. Nothing like seeing all the azaleas blooming and sunny skies when you are stuck in Michigan or Maine wherever still shoveling out snow. Before I touch on the Masters, as usual I will recap my success (or lack thereof) the previous week.
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2015 Masters Odds: Handicapping Tiger Woods Prop Bets
by George Monroy - 4/8/2015

Will Tiger Woods ever win another major? The question has been on the table for so long that it has already begun to lose its significance and meaning. The further the golf world gets from that magical Monday afternoon in 2008, when Woods last won a major, the easier it is to forget how great he used to be. His U.S. Open win nearly six years go, while playing on a broken leg and still sinking a high-pressure shot to force a sudden-death playoff hole against Rocco Mediate, will forever be remembered as one of the greatest moments in sports history.
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2015 Masters Top-5 Finish Futures Odds with Picks and Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 4/7/2015

The first major of the season in professional golf gets underway this Thursday with first round action from Augusta in this year's Masters. There is a whole new crop of young guns at the top of the list of Bovada's futures odds for this year's event. While there are a number of different ways to bet on the Masters, some of the best value lies in the betting odds for a Top-5 finish.
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2015 Masters Props Odds with Expert Betting Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/7/2015

I will do my normal PGA Tour event preview for the 2015 Masters, the Super Bowl of golf, on Wednesday as usual. Today, however, I will examine some of the hundreds of player props available at the sportsbooks -- taken from Bovada and Sportsbook.ag. This is always one of my favorites betting weeks of the year with the college basketball National Championship Game, baseball's Opening Day and the Masters.
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2015 Masters Odds with Expert Predictions and Analysis
by George Monroy - 4/6/2015

Two names are dominating the 2015 Masters headlines: Rory McIlroy for his shot at making history, and Tiger Woods for announcing that he will in fact play the event. One name is dominating headlines because of what his future might hold, while the other is dominating headlines because of his past. McIlroy has a chance at becoming only the third person in PGA Tour history to win three straight majors while also completing a career grand slam all before his 26th birthday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shell Houston Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/31/2015

We finally have our first two-time winner of the current PGA Tour golf season as Jimmy Walker won in his hometown of San Antonio last week at the Texas Open. Well, technically Walker lives 35 miles away in Bourne, but he grew up attending the Texas Open, so it had to feel sweet.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/25/2015

I'm happy to eat a little crown when necessary. I would have bet anyone who offered $100 at 500/1 odds last week that Matt Every wouldn't win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill over a strong field. There was NO chance of that with the way Every had played since his surprise win a year ago.
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PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/18/2015

There has been some really exciting final-round golf on the PGA Tour this year, and last Sunday at the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook in the Tampa Bay area was no exception as Jordan Spieth birdied the third playoff hole with a 28-foot putt to beat Patrick Reed and Sean O'Hair (they all finished at 10 under). It's good thing Spieth made it because it had some pace and likely was going to be at least four-feet long if he didn't.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/11/2015

Last week at the big-money WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral's Blue Monster, Dustin Johnson proved he's all the way back from his personal problems by winning in just his fifth tournament since a return from what he and the PGA Tour called a "self-imposed" six-month leave of absence. Johnson shot a 3-under 69 to finish at 9 under, one ahead of J.B. Holmes, who led Johnson and Bubba Watson by five entering the final round. However, Holmes ballooned to a final-round 75. Even more impressive, Johnson had missed the cut the previous week at the Honda, but he contended twice on the California Swing.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/4/2015

I was very happy to see good-guy Padraig Harrington win the Honda Classic on the first stop of the PGA Tour's Florida Swing at PGA National. I had mostly forgotten about the multiple-time major championship winner. He beat rookie Daniel Berger in a Monday playoff at the Honda, site of his first PGA Tour victory a decade prior. It was Harrington's first win since he won the 2008 PGA Championship only a few weeks after taking the British Open. Harrington, who lost his Tour card last year, needed a sponsor's exemption just to play the Honda. He won't have to worry about an exemptions for a while now.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/25/2015

The 2014-15 golf season had largely seen well-known players -- at least to those who follow the sport a bit more than casually -- win the tournaments thus far. That changed last week on the final leg of the California Swing, the Northern Trust Open at Riviera outside Los Angeles.
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PGA Tour Picks: Northern Trust Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/18/2015

It turns out I was a week early on Brandt Snedeker. He was my choice to win the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines two tournaments ago but finished T19. No way I was going to pick the same guy to win in back-to-back weeks, so he wasn't on my radar last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Naturally, Snedeker did win.
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PGA Tour Handicapping: Tiger Woods Pursuit of Jack Nicklaus for Major Wins
by George Monroy - 2/11/2015

When Tiger Woods last won a major in 2008-a dramatic US Open playoff victory with a broken leg-the question on everyone's mind was not "if" he would ever pass Jack Nicklaus for the most majors won by a professional golfer but "when". Nowadays, after a much-publicized divorce, multiple injuries, disappointing finishes, and no majors to be placed on his mantel, the more apt question is if Woods will ever win his 15th major.
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PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/4/2015

It was a great day of golf as a warm-up to a spectacular Super Bowl in the greater Phoenix area last Sunday as American Brooks Koepka pulled away late at the Phoenix Open for his first PGA Tour win. It was actually his sixth pro win since leaving an All-American career at Florida State behind around three years ago, but the others were in Europe (four on European Challenge Tour, one European Tour win back in November).
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PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Phoenix Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/28/2015

I figured 2014 was a fluke! I came close a handful of times to picking a tournament winner last but wasn't able to do so until my final prediction of the year in late November, and that was on the European Tour. Only three events have been played in the New Year and already, to quote White Sox announcer "Hawk" Harrelson: "You can put it on the board! YES!"
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PGA Tour Picks: Humana Challenge Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/21/2015

The PGA Tour said goodbye to Hawaii for the rest of the year with last week's Sony Open, and American Jimmy Walker won the event for the second year in a row -- just six days after blowing a likely win at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Maui with a late final-round collapse and finishing second.
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PGA Tour Handicapping: Odds to win a Major in 2015
by George Monroy - 1/15/2015

The 2015 golf year does not really begin until the Masters in April, when the entire sport will turn its attention to Augusta National. The big questions heading into the New Year revolve around a certain set of players and whether or not they can win a major in 2015. The golf world, or course, is waiting to see if Rory McIlroy can continue to add to his majors hardware, while other questions revolve around Tiger Woods and if he can ever regain his former glory.
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PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open in Hawaii Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/14/2015

The first tournament of the New Year, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, went extra innings on Monday in Maui as American Patrick Reed beat Jimmy Walker on the first playoff hole for Reed's fourth career PGA Tour win. Reed is only the fourth player in the past 20 years with four wins before age 25, and the other three guys are pretty good: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hyundai Tournament of Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/7/2015

Before we kick off the golfing New Year -- also remember that 2015 is the final year that players can anchor putters to their stomachs -- with the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, allow me to look back at my final golf preview of 2014. That was the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, which closed out the European Tour's 2013-14 season.
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European Tour Picks: DP World Tour Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/18/2014

The final PGA Tour official event of 2014 wrapped up on Sunday, and I'm a bit angry that Charley Hoffman won the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico because I've picked him twice over the past 15 months or so to win an event and he didn't.
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PGA Tour Picks: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/12/2014

At least we finally had a big-name player win on the PGA Tour. It had been a while. American Bubba Watson took the WGC-HSBC Champions event last week in China. It was a great finish as Watson had to hole an eagle bunker chip on the 72nd hole to get in a playoff after teeing off in No. 16 with a two-shot lead only to double bogey (Watson trailed leader Graeme McDowell entering Sunday by two shots). At least four players had a chance at the par-5 18th hole to get to 11 under, but only Watson and Tim Clark were able to do it to set up a playoff. Watson won the playoff with birdie putt back on No. 18, the first playoff hole.
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PGA Tour Picks: World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/5/2014

The first international PGA Tour event of the year was no help in picking a winner as American Ryan Moore won his second straight CIMB Classic title in Kuala Lumpur -- but on a different course than 2013. Thus that's why I wasn't a huge fan of his last week. Moore shot a final-round 5-under 67 to finish at 17 under and beat out fellow American Gary Woodland, who also was runner-up a year ago in a playoff to Moore. Sergio Garcia and Kevin Na also finished tied for second on Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: CIMB Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/29/2014

At last week's McGladrey Classic in Sea Island, Ga., Robert Streb (yep, you got me there) won his first PGA Tour event. He beat two guys I did know, Brendon de Jonge and Will MacKenzie, in a playoff. All three finished at 14-under 266 with MacKenzie falling out on the first playoff hole. Streb, who shot a final-round and career-low 63 to get into extra holes (he was five back after 54 holes), birdied the second playoff hole to eliminate de Jonge, a very good player still looking for his first win. Streb's previous best finish was a runner-up in New Orleans last season.
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PGA Tour Picks: The McGladrey Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/21/2014

I'll just be honest here in that I had barely heard of golfer Ben Martin -- he probably never heard of me, either -- before he was the surprise winner of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. The week before, Martin had shot 78-79 at the Frys.com Open to miss the cut and finish with the second-worst score in the field. So of course he then shot a 20-under 264, highlighted by a third-round 62, for his first Tour win in career start No. 56.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/15/2014

OK, if this golf season is like the last one then I'm probably going to go winless again -- I am just being honest. If I'm a little ticked off it's because I do homework on these tournaments and then guys come from way out of nowhere to win.
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PGA Tour Picks: Frys.com Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/7/2014

Before I begin looking at the first tournament of the PGA Tour's 2014-15 wraparound season -- talk about a short offseason -- let's as usual look back at my results last week where I examined the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
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European Tour Picks: Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/30/2014

With the PGA Tour dark ahead of the 2014-15 opening event next week, the eyes of the golf world will remain on Scotland this week for the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Before I look at that, let's do a quick recap of last week's Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in Scotland.
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2014 Ryder Cup Picks with Golf Betting Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/24/2014

The 2013-14 golf calendar comes to a close this weekend at Gleneagles in Scotland with the 40th Ryder Cup, the biennial team event between the Americans and Europeans that some believe is the biggest event in golf -- yes, bigger than any of the majors. It just might be.
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FedEx Cup Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/10/2014

Alas, it appears I will make it through the entire PGA Tour season without picking a single winner --after four last year -- unless I can nail one of the 29 guys in this week's season-ending Tour Championship. That's not to say it hasn't been a successful season. Done very well on Top-10 finishes and head-to-head results. In all honesty, it's not usually a smart bet to wager on one guy to win a tournament. Too hard to do. But I'll keep on going into next season.
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FedEx Cup Picks: BMW Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/3/2014

It was a great day to start this week for American Chris Kirk, followed by a little bit of depressing news, although on the whole he certainly came out ahead. On Monday, Kirk shot a final-round 5-under 66 at TPC Boston to win the Deutsche Bank Championship (he was 10 shots out after Round 1), the second leg of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs. It was the third win of Kirk's career and easily the biggest, earning him $1.4 million or so and the top spot in the FedEx Cup standings.
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FedEx Cup Picks: Deutsche Bank Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/28/2014

Hunter Mahan by all accounts is one of the good guys on Tour, so it was nice to see him win last week's PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff opening Barclays event in New Jersey for his first title in his past 47 starts and 30 months or so.
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FedEx Cup Picks: The Barclays Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/20/2014

I always thought Colombia's Camilo Villegas would be a pretty big star in the golf world. The former Florida Gator had personality, good looks -- he was featured in the magazine GQ in 2006 and on People's "Hottest Bachelors" list -- and a game to match. Villegas won the 2008 BMW Championship and Tour Championship (finishing second to Vijay Singh in the FedEx Cup playoffs) as well as the 2010 Honda Classic.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/14/2014

The first three Grand Slams of the 2014 season frankly were rather boring. Bubba Watson (Masters), Martin Kaymer (U.S. Open) and Rory McIlroy (British Open) each deserved to win, no question, but there was no drama. The 2014 PGA Championship more than made up for that and it had to be the most exciting final round of a major in at least a few years.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/30/2014

This is why projecting a winner of a golf tournament is so darn hard. Last week South African Tim Clark entered the Canadian Open having made just 10 cuts in his past 20 events. He was an afterthought. So of course he won the tournament, with Jim Furyk continuing his concerning trend of blowing 54-hole leads.
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PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/23/2014

As usual, I will take a look back before looking ahead to this week's PGA Tour event, the RBC Canadian Open, and by far my favorite statistic from last week's 143rd British Open was that Rory McIlroy's father made about $150,000 more than Tiger Woods did.
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2014 British Open Picks with Betting Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/15/2014

Freaking Brian Harman! It looked like my 2014 winner's drought would finally end last week at the John Deere Classic. I went with Zach Johnson, who is from nearby Des Moines. Johnson shook off a recent slump to shoot 21-under, which wins this tournament every other year but three. Alas, Harman was better by one shot to take his first PGA Tour victory in his 88th career start. Some compare Harman (5-foot-7) to Jim Furyk because he's such a little guy who plays gritty golf.
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PGA Tour Picks: John Deere Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/9/2014

For anyone who says that golfers are athletes, I give you Argentine Angel Cabrera. That said, "El Pato" is one of my favorite golfers because Cabrera is usually boom or bust, and he generally looks like he's having a ball regardless. Cabrera, 44, came pretty much from nowhere last week at the Greenbrier Classic by two shots over George McNeill.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Greenbrier Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/2/2014

Last week at the Quicken Loans National at Congressional, Justin Rose beat unknown Shawn Stefani in a playoff. Both players tried to give it away. Rose hit into the water on 18 and had to make a 15-foot bogey just to get into the playoff. Then Stefani hit into the drink on the first playoff hole, also No. 18. Rather shocking that Congressional played harder for this tournament in some regards than when the U.S. Open was there in 2011 and Rory McIlroy shot a record 16-under. Rose and Stefani finished at just 4-under.
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PGA Tour Picks: Quicken Loans National Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/24/2014

Last week's Travelers Championship outside Hartford pretty much summed up how impossible it has been to project winners on Tour this season. Needless to say I didn't expect much from Kevin Streelman at the tournament. Not that he's an unknown, but the guy had missed four straight cuts heading into the event and hadn't had a Top 10 since the first tournament of 2014 in Hawaii.
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PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/18/2014

They say close only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes, but the way the 2013-14 golf season is going for projecting winners, I'm relatively pleased with myself that American Dustin Johnson finished T4 at last week's U.S. Open at Pinehurst. I had him as my winner, and he wasn't close to that, finishing 10 shots behind Germany's Martin Kaymer. But, hey, fourth.
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2014 US Open Expert Picks with Golf Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/10/2014

About the only thing I can tell you for sure about this week's US Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina is that Ben Crane won't win it. How do I know that? No player has won a PGA Tour event the week before the US Open and then taken that tournament.
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US Open Golf Betting Cheat Sheet
by George Monroy - 6/9/2014

The second major of the 2014, the US Open, is set to begin on Thursday June 12 at the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. The tournament may not carry its usual luster because of the absence of golf's biggest name, Tiger Woods, but there are still plenty of reasons to pay attention, and big names to follow, during the sport's biggest event of the summer.
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PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/4/2014

Quite a wacky finish to Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament in Ohio last week, finally won by 22-year-old Hideki Matsuyama, a Japanese phenom who was low amateur at the 2011 Masters and will be winning more tournaments on the PGA Tour.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Memorial Tournament Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/28/2014

The final round of the 2014 Masters was rather drama-free. Thus, I have no problem saying the most exciting day of golf so far this year was last Sunday. In his first tournament as the world's No. 1 player Adam Scott won the Colonial, a tournament he only entered late because he wanted to make sure he played at least one event as the world's top-ranked player.
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PGA Tour Picks: Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/21/2014

I'd like to say I played golf once with Todd Brendon, err. Brendon Todd. That I knew him well and also knew the day was coming soon when he would win his first PGA Tour event. I'd like to say that. I've never heard of Brendon Todd. Todd deserved the victory at last week's Byron Nelson Championship, leading the field in scrambling and beating out a pretty good leader board with a final-round 66 -- the only bogey-free round of the contenders -- to edge former Masters champion Mike Weir (wow, where's he been?) by two shots.
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PGA Tour Picks: Byron Nelson Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/14/2014

It seems inconceivable that last week's victory at the Players Championship was just the second-ever PGA Tour win for ex-world No. 1 Martin Kaymer of Germany. The other was the 2010 PGA Championship. During that span he missed more than twice as many cuts (nine) as he had finishes in the Top 10 (four).
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PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/7/2014

At least I was familiar with the guy who was the latest unlikely winner on the PGA Tour this season. That would be J.B. Holmes, who took the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte last week for his first Tour win since 2008 and jumped from No. 242 to 68th in the world.
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PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/30/2014

I think it's fair to say that frustration is setting in for me on these weekly golf predictions stories. I have followed the PGA Tour very closely for years, but I had 100 percent never heard of last week's winner of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, South Korean Seung-Yul Noh.
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PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/23/2014

Well, I was right and wrong last week. Right in that a guy who doesn't bomb it of the tee would win the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island because that was usually the case. Wrong in that I believed Matt Kuchar, Mr. Consistent, would struggle a bit in the wake of a Masters hangover.
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/16/2014

Ratings were down for the 2014 Masters and so was the overall interest at the sportsbooks. Whereas the Masters usually takes by far the most action of any golf tournament in a given year, I could see whichever major Tiger Woods returns for first this year passing it up. That's how much Tiger drives the needle.
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2014 Masters Picks with Betting Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/9/2014

I'm going to quickly recap last week's picks at the Shell Houston Open instead of a more in-depth look back as usual because there are so many Masters props that I could write at least five stories alone on the season's first major championship that begins Thursday at historic Augusta National.
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2014 Masters Betting: Top-Five Finish Futures Odds
by Dave Schwab - 4/8/2014

This Thursday at the storied Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia, play gets underway with the first of four rounds in this season's Masters Tournament. The Masters is professional golf's first of four Majors that are played throughout the season and one of the most prestigious events in all of sports.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shell Houston Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/2/2014

What would a Masters be like without both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson? The huge news this week was that Tiger would be forced to skip Augusta after undergoing back surgery. It's fair to say his availability for the U.S. Open also is in jeopardy, and maybe he decides to just take the rest of the year off to get fully healthy.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/26/2014

Now I'm just getting irritated with this golf season. I'm 0-for Hawaii, 0-for-California, 0-for Arizona and now zip-for Florida. I have never gotten to April without picking at least one winner. So perhaps it's good news the PGA Tour moves on to Texas this week from the Florida Swing.
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PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/19/2014

I continued my 0-for-2014 last week at the Valspar -- although to be fair it's been an unusual start to the year in terms of winners -- as Australian John Senden won for the first time in eight years. He was in a three-way tie entering No. 16 on Sunday but chipped in for birdie on that extremely tough hole, and that propelled him to a one-shot win over Kevin Na.
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PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/12/2014

American Patrick Reed, just 23, says he's one of the five-best players in the world right now. Can you disagree? Reed, who played collegiately at Augusta State University, beat a very strong field last week at new-look Doral, taking the WGC-Cadillac Championship by a shot over Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/5/2014

Before I get to this week's big-money, limited-field WGC-Cadillac Championship at a totally overhauled Blue Monster at Doral, let's look back to last week's Honda Classic, which is quickly becoming the most interesting non-major PGA Tour event on the annual schedule.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Golf Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/27/2014

One of the great things about golf is that it's probably the most honorable sport around. Players are expected to call penalties on themselves and almost always do when aware of them. Can you imagine NBA players self-policing themselves and calling fouls in the NBA Finals like they do on the playground? Or Rafael Nadal admitting a Novak Djokovic shot was in and not out as was called by the referee in the fifth set of a close match at Wimbledon?
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/18/2014

I'm going to be very happy to see the PGA Tour finish its West Coast Swing this week at the WGC-Accenture Match Play because it's been an 0-for thus far for me picking winners on Tour this year. Florida, however, has been very good for the past few years doing these stories.
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PGA Tour Picks: Northern Trust Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/12/2014

Let this sink in for a moment: Jimmy Walker is the best player on the planet right now. OK, that's somewhat hyperbole, but you can't argue Walker's resume. The 35-year-old American has been around quite a while, but he got his first Tour win in career start No. 188 back in October at the Frys.com Open, the first event of the new wraparound season.
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PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Odds
by Alan Matthews - 2/5/2014

OK, I am pondering a change to my picking style on these PGA Tour events. I've never made it this deep into a season without recommending a winner. Well, I've made it through February without doing so but not this far into a season tournament-wise (this is No. 12). Maybe the new wraparound schedule has messed up my betting equilibrium.
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PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Phoenix Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/29/2014

What a disappointing Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines last week! It was golf fans' first chance this year to see both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the same tournament, and both had huge previous success on the San Diego course. Yet come Sunday, neither was playing in the final round of a tournament in which they both started in more than 20 years.
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PGA Tour Picks: Farmers Insurance Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/22/2014

You can't argue that Patrick Reed didn't deserve his second career PGA Tour title last week at Humana Challenge. Reed broke the Tour record for relation to par for the first 54 holes, finishing at 27 under Saturday to take a seven-stroke lead into the final round. The previous mark was 25 under, last shot by Steve Stricker in the 2010 John Deere Classic; Pat Perez also had a 25 under at this tournament in 2009. Stricker still holds the stroke record of 188 through 54 set on a par-71.
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PGA Tour Picks: Humana Challenge Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/15/2014

Only in golf -- OK maybe bowling and darts too -- can a player potentially find his prime in his mid-30s. Reason No. 47 why golf isn't a true sport, but I digress. American Jimmy Walker was a stellar amateur player, and great things were expected from him on the PGA Tour, but he mostly flopped. He just needed to hit his mid-30s, apparently.
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PGA Tour Picks: Sony Open of Hawaii Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/8/2014

So does it make me a golf nerd that I was watching the final round of the PGA Tour's Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Monday during the breaks of the BCS National Championship Game? Well, I was. Zach Johnson continued building off his excellent 2013 season by shooting a final-round 66 at Kapalua to win the event by a shot over reigning Rookie of the Year Jordan Spieth, who had a one-shot lead on back nine Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Hyundai Tournament of Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/2/2014

Look, I understand that golfers are independent contractors. They pay their own way to tournaments and their caddies out of their pockets. But it just makes you realize how wealthy and privileged some of these guys are when the turn down the chance to play in Hawaii for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and at worst pocket tens of thousands of dollars just for showing up at the beautiful Plantation Course at Kapalua on Maui.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: 2014 Major Championship Winners
by Alan Matthews - 12/24/2013

The 2013-14 PGA Tour season is already underway with the new wraparound schedule, but for all intents and purposes it really doesn't kick off until the Hyundai Tournament of Champions next week in Hawaii, and of course I'll be previewing that and all tournaments as usual. Some casual golf fans would argue a typical season really doesn't begin until the Masters in April at Augusta. It's usually northerners who think that way because they are stuck up in the cold and snow and unable to get back on the links until around the Masters.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: Franklin Templeton Shootout Picks
by Alan Matthews - 12/11/2013

It was a very exciting finish to the unofficial Northwestern Mutual World Challenge last week in its final incarnation in California before moving to the Orlando area for 2014. Tiger Woods looked in great position to win his own tournament and get a great springboard for next year.
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Golf Odds and Picks: Northwestern Mutual World Challenge Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 12/4/2013

First I will address last week's Alfred Dunhill Championship results on the European Tour, but then I quickly also want to look at what happened in Australia because I think it has a huge bearing on the golf world in 2014.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: Alfred Dunhill Championship
by Alan Matthews - 11/26/2013

The golf karma gods were very kind last week at the World Cup of Golf in Australia. No, I didn't pick Aussie Jason Day to win the event but sure hoped he would in the wake of losing his grandmother, uncle and six cousins in Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines. And win Day did, shooting a final-round 1-under 70 to beat out Denmark's Thomas Bjorn by two shots. It as Day's first victory since taking the 2010 Byron Nelson Championship in Texas.
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Golf Odds and Predictions: World Cup of Golf Picks
by Alan Matthews - 11/19/2013

It certainly wouldn't suck to be Henrik Stenson right now as he sits on top of the golf world. Despite playing with a wrist injury that forced him out of the pro-am,. the Swede dominated at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai by finishing at a tournament-record 25-under 263 to win the European Tour's Race to Dubai on top of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup title.
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European Tour Picks: DP World Tour Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/12/2013

I will go across the pond this week in my golf column and preview the European Tour's season finale, the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It's essentially the Tour Championship of Europe with the Top-60 players competing for the money title, otherwise known as the Race to Dubai. The PGA Tour is pretty watered down this week at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba in Mexico, so it was a no-brainer choice.
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PGA Tour Picks: The McGladrey Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/6/2013

As good as Dustin Johnson has been in his PGA Tour career, there's no doubt that winning last week's WGC-HSBC Champions is his best victory so far. It almost turned into one of his worst choke jobs as Johnson led by six shots while teeing off on No. 18 on Saturday, only to drive in the water for a double.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-HSBC Champions Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/29/2013

Could this be the year that Ryan Moore goes from promising player to rising star? Moore won the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur last week, beating fellow American Gary Woodland in the first playoff of the 2013-14 season. Moore birdied the first extra hole, which had to be played on Monday morning in Malaysia (Sunday night in the USA). Woodland had a chance to win on the 72nd hole in the near darkness Sunday but just missed a 10-foot birdie putt.
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Golf Picks: CIMB Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/23/2013

The new wraparound 2013-14 schedule seemed to do what it was supposed to last week at the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas as we had a pretty big-name winner, Webb Simpson. Most likely under the old format of the Fall Series where FedEx Cup points weren't at stake, Simpson wouldn't have been playing.
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PGA Tour Picks: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/16/2013

Jimmy Walker: FedEx Cup Champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year!! OK, I'm obviously kidding, but Walker won the PGA Tour season-opening Frys.com Open last week for his first career title in start No. 188. And this has me worrying we are going to see a ton of first-time winners early in the new season much as we did last year. I'm happy for Walker, who will get to play in the Masters for the first time. Rough finish for journeyman Brooks Koepka, who gagged away a four-shot lead with 11 holes left on Sunday.
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PGA Tour Picks: Frys.com Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/8/2013

The 2013 PGA Tour season wrapped up unofficially last week with yet another American victory in the Presidents Cup, and the shortest offseason in sports history already is complete as well. The Tour's new 2013-14 wraparound season begins this Thursday with the Frys.com Open at CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, Calif. It's the last time the course will host the event.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Presidents Cup Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 10/1/2013

It's not an official PGA Tour points event, but this week's Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, site of Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament, is essentially the official end of the 2013 season. The new 2013-14 wraparound season begins next week with the Frys.com Open in California (which I will preview as usual).
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PGA Picks: Tour Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/18/2013

Look, I get that golfers are independent contractors and thus can play when and if they choose. No one is paying their salaries, other than some sponsorship money, and they are responsible for all expenses to travel, pay the caddie, etc. Still, how can anyone take the four-event FedEx Cup playoff seriously if a player can win the $10 million prize despite missing one of the four tournaments?
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PGA Tour Picks: BMW Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 9/11/2013

I knew Henrik Stenson was due to win a tournament as he kept coming so close, but I unfortunately didn't pick the Swede to take the Deutsche Bank Championship before the PGA Tour took last week off. Stenson finished with a tournament-record 22-under 262 for a two-shot win at TPC Boston to take over the lead in the FedEx Cup standings and for his fifth Top-3 finish in his past six starts.
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PGA Tour Picks: Deutsche Bank Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/27/2013

You know that PGA Tour Player of the Year Award that Tiger Woods seemingly had a hammer-lock on? Not so much anymore. Oh, sure, Woods is probably still the favorite with his Tour-high five victories. But Adam Scott's win last week at The Barclays jumped Scott to a career-high No. 2 in the world -- and No. 2 in the FedEx Cup points behind Woods. Scott also has a major title on his resume this year unlike Woods (he does have two WGC victories).
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PGA Tour Picks: The Barclays Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/21/2013

My two-tournament winning streak on picking correct PGA Tour victors ended on Sunday when some guy named Patrick Reed won the Wyndham Championship for his first Tour win. That was the trend for a long stretch earlier this year where a relative unknown would get his first Tour victory. Well-known players had won the previous four events (not counting the two opposite-field tournaments for the British Open and WGC-Bridgestone).
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PGA Tour Picks: Wyndham Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/14/2013

Yep, I'm feeling pretty good about my golf prognostication right now. For the first time in the nearly two years I've been writing weekly golf columns here at Doc's, I have not only picked my first major winner but also been correct back-to-back weeks. This means I almost assuredly jinxed myself for this week's Wyndham Championship.
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PGA Championship Picks with Betting Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/7/2013

I can't exactly pat myself on the back too hard here, but I did predict my second winner of the year -- I'm saying two-and-a-half because of Hunter Mahan's withdrawal at the Canadian Open -- last week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. It's now pretty clear that Tiger Woods simply feels incredibly comfortable at a handful of courses, maybe none more so than Firestone.
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Top Props of the Week: 2013 PGA Championship
by Dave Schwab - 8/7/2013

Professional golf's fourth and final Major of the 2013 season gets underway this week at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. The first of four rounds starts this Thursday, and to get you ready for all the action Bovada has released a full set of prop bet odds for the event. The following is a look at a few these props that offer the best value when it comes to wagering on the tournament.
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PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/31/2013

I just can't catch a break!! While I applaud Hunter Mahan for being the father of the year by leaving last week's Canadian Open with the 36-hole lead -- thus flushing potentially $1 million down the toilet -- I had picked Mahan to win the tournament. I'm glad he did make it home to see the birth of daughter Zoe. Obviously, there's no way of knowing if Mahan would have held on, especially after eventual winner Brandt Snedeker shot a 63 on Saturday.
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PGA Tour Picks: RBC Canadian Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/24/2013

It was a very exciting British Open at Muirfield last week where the players still couldn't solve the course despite very unseasonably warm conditions. That played a part in the greens acting more like Augusta than a Scottish links course.
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2013 British Open Picks with Golf Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/16/2013

Yet another first-time winner on the PGA Tour last week at the John Deere Classic, although I think it's pretty clear that 19-year-old Jordan Spieth won't be stuck on one career win whenever he retires. This kid is going to be a major force on the Tour barring injury or David Duval syndrome. Spieth beat defending champion Zach Johnson and David Hearn in a playoff to become the first teenage winner on Tour in 82 years.
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PGA Tour Picks: Travelers Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/19/2013

When you write for a newspaper or magazine, both of which I have done, you have to be impartial on stories. Your job isn't to influence people -- although columnists (to a degree) and op-ed writers are allowed to -- but inform. The nice thing about writing for Doc's Sports is the point is to influence you with good information. I mention this because I am a Phil Mickelson fan.
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2013 US Open Picks and PGA Tour Golf Odds
by Alan Matthews - 6/12/2013

Last week's St. Jude Classic in Memphis rather summed up this golf year for me on these recommendations. Yet again, a guy I had barely heard of, Harris English, won his first PGA Tour event. Obviously I didn't predict that. I went with Charles Howell III (33/1), and he finished T39.
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Weekly Top Props Odds and Predictions - US Open
by Dave Schwab - 6/11/2013

The US Open is not just golf's second major of the season; it is the toughest test of the year. The USGA is the governing body of this tournament, and its goal with the setup of the course is to make it a true test of par, which, in turn, makes this a grueling test of golf.
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PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/5/2013

As usual, I will recap last week's recommendations on the PGA Tour before looking to this week's event, which is the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, the final tournament before the U.S. Open. Was it a shocker that American Matt Kuchar won last week's star-studded Memorial Tournament? Not at all.
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PGA Tour Picks: The Memorial Tournament Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/29/2013

Thankfully, the PGA Tour is out of Texas this week as I haven't had much luck in the few Lone Star State events in 2013. At least last week's winner at Colonial I definitely had heard of: Boo Weekley, who won for the first time in five years. He edged Matt Kuchar, the 36- and 54-hole leader, by a shot. Ironically, Weekley has won a tartan jacket now in all three career victories (RBC Heritage the other two).
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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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