Will Zalatoris is a well-liked guess participant on the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship. (Related Press … [+]
The FedEx Cup Playoffs start Thursday in Memphis, and the stakes are excessive. Past the continued competitors of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has unleased its personal Taylor Made purse with a $15 million prize pool at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship.
The 125 participant occasion at TPC Southwind in Memphis will probably be reduce all the way down to the highest 70 factors leaders within the FedEx Cup Standings after Sunday’s ultimate spherical on the 7,243 yard par 70 course. The factors standings will probably be up to date and transferring all through the event, and the 70 remaining gamers will transfer on to subsequent week’s BMW Championship in Wilmington, Delaware.
The odds to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship may even transfer all through the occasion with live wagering choices and adjusted odds after every spherical.
Considered one of hottest Julys on file in Memphis ought to see agency and quick situations over the weekend as temperatures attain 90 levels. The course was hit with heavy rain Tuesday, however ought to dry out. Together with reshaping, re-edging and eradicating some bunkers within the final two years, you may see the grounds crew was onerous at work on the sand and grounds following vital rain forward of the event.
With water in play on 11 holes and almost 6,000 balls discovering water on PGA Tour occasions at TPC Southwind since 2003 (most at any course on Tour), the emphasis on tee-to-green play, accuracy, method play and placing on Bermuda greens will decide which gamers will contend on this 12 months’s FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Main Favorites Odds and Most Guess Golfers to Win in Memphis
In most weeks, we see the main favorites on the prime of the outright win market. This week there are lots of once more, however on the very prime are just a few gamers with mid-range odds producing probably the most cash guess at BetMGM – Viktor Hovland and Will Zalatoris.
- +1000 – Rory McIlroy
- +1400 – Scottie Scheffler
- +1600 – Cameron Smith, Patrick Cantlay
- +1800 – Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele
- +2200 – Jon Rahm, Tony Finau, Matt Fitzpatrick
- +2500 – Will Zalatoris
- +2800 – Jordan Spieth, Sam Burns
- +3000 – Cameron Younger
- +3300 – Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry, Sungjae Im
- +4000 – Viktor Hovland, Jooyung Kim
- +4500 – Billy Horschel
- +5000 – Joaquin Niemann, Russell Henley, Tyrrell Hatton, Corey Connors
- +5500 – Aaron Smart, Max Homa
Hovland has taken 10% of the deal with to win with Zalatoris 9.4%. These percentages, together with the golf odds proceed to alter as bets are available in forward of the opening tee pictures Thursday.
Zalatoris parted ways with his caddie this week, and the top-15 participant in each the world rankings and FedEx Cup Standings remains to be firing for his first PGA Tour win. Zalatoris has eight top-10s this season together with three runner-up finishes, and he’s a preferred choose and guess to get his breakthrough win this week.
Six golfers have taken a mixed 45% of the whole deal with to win the event at BetMGM:
- Hovland
- Zalatoris
- Thomas
- Fitzpatrick
- Morikawa
- Rahm
The 4 favorites to win the occasion have all taken 5% or much less of the whole win deal with – McIlroy, Scheffler, Smith and Cantlay, who has generated simply 1.6% of the cash to win.
Succesful contenders however particular dark horses like Billy Horschel, Max Homa, Shane Lowery, Russell Henley, Joaquin Niemann, Davis Riley, Aaron Smart and Sebastian Munoz have all taken lower than 1% of the whole deal with to win.
player performance outcomes from current occasions held at TPC Southwind when not a FedEx Cup Playoffs occasion and we see Justin Thomas received the 2020 FedEx St. Jude by 3-shots with a -13 below whole of 267. Xander Schauffele, Shane Lowry and Matt Fitzpatrick completed T-6 whereas Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa each completed top-20.
Within the 2021 occasion at TPC Southwind, Abraham Ancer received in a 3-man playoff over Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns. Cam Smith completed T-5, Zalatoris ninth, McIlroy and Jordan Spieth T-12 and Scheffler completed in 14th place.
Matsuyama withdrew from this 12 months’s FedEx St. Jude occasion on Wednesday with a neck damage, however he plans on enjoying subsequent week and sits No. 11 within the present FedEx Cup Standings.
Featured Teams and Holes
Finest buddies Scottie Scheffler (No. 1 in world) and Sam Burns (11) are paired with world No. 2 Cameron Smith on Thursday and Friday with the Golf Channel carrying TV protection from 3-7 p.m. ET. Different key teams to observe who’re thought of contenders embody:
- Rory McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele (No. 3, 4, 5 on the earth)
- Justin Thomas, Tony Finau, Cameron Younger
- Jordan Spieth, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Homa
- Jon Rahm, Billy Horschel, Tom Hoge
- Will Zalatoris, Sungjae Im, Kramer Hickokss
- Viktor Hovland, Joaquin Niemann, J.T. Poston
The featured holes at TPC Southwind are additionally value being attentive to as gamers navigate the course and water hazards. The top caps and par 4’s at holes No. 9 and 18 are each doglegs with water in play. The par 3’s at holes No. 11 and 14 even have water and No. 11 is a brief iron over water to a small island inexperienced whereas 14 is lengthy carry over water to a severely undulating inexperienced and one of many more durable holes on the course.
Scottie Scheffler has had a Participant of the Yr season with 4 wins together with a significant at The Masters. He’s the dominant factors chief within the FedEx Cup Standings. However any of the top-10 golfers within the standings can cross Scheffler if he fails to complete top-10 within the FedEx St. Jude occasion. A playoff occasion win is value 2,000 FedEx Cup factors, and even a fourth place end is value 540 factors – greater than profitable most tournaments on Tour (500).
Nonetheless, all the highest gamers above will probably be transferring onto subsequent week’s BMW Championship playoff occasion as a consequence of their excessive factors standing. However a win for Zalatoris within the FedEx St. Jude Championship can be extra notable for him as his first on Tour. The 25-year-old has a pair of runner-up finishes in two majors this 12 months, however a breakthrough win this week in Memphis may have many extra bettors cashing in on the favored participant.
You’ll be able to guess on it.
