All eyes will be in Scotland to see who will capture the Open Championship but the PGA Tour is in action in Auburn, Alabama for the second annual Barbasol Championship. There is a huge opportunity this week for a young unheralded player to seize the moment and grab a win or a veteran to resurrect their career with a win.
The highest ranked player in the field is Jason Bohn +4000 at No. 97 so this week is wide open and any one of the 156 participants could win.
Players to keep your eye on this week include Will Wilcox +5000, who finished second a year ago, veterans K.J. Choi +7100 and David Toms +3200 who both may have one more shining moment left in their careers, Ricky Barnes +5550 who contended last year and Lee McCoy who is making his third PGA Tour start after having an outstanding college career at Georgia.
RTJ Golf Trail-Grand National - Lake course will host the event for the second consecutive year. The track measures 7,302 yards and plays to a par 71. There are 11 courses on the property and the Lake course is the most challenging and course designer Robert Trent Jones Sr. lauded Grand National’s locale as the best for a golf complex that he’d ever seen. Twelve holes of the Lake course run along the shore of 600-acre Lake Saugahatchee and the views are spectacular.
Current Barbasol Championship Golf Odds at BookMaker Sportsbook:
Martin Laird +2000
Kyle Reifers +2100
Boo Weekley +2200
David Hearn +2300
Ben Martin +2550
Robert Castro +2650
Robert Garrigus +2800
Hudson Swafford +3050
David Toms +3200
Chad Campbell +3150
Bud Cauley +3500
Graham DeLaet +3200
Wes Roach +3750
Patrick Rodgers +3875
Jason Bohn +4000
Aaron Baddeley +4500
Blayne Barber +4650
Sam Saunders +5000
Will Wilcox +5000
Chad Collins +5250
John Senden +5500
Ricky Barnes +5550
Nick Taylor +6000
Thomas Aiken +6600
Cameron Tringale +6650
K.J. Choi +7100
Andrew Landry +7000
Shawn Stefani +7500
Hunter Mahan +7750
Angel Cabrera +8000
Chris Stroud +8250
Si Woo Kim +10000
Zac Blair +12500
Steve Marino +13000
Morgan Hoffmann +13050
Spencer Levin +13300
FIELD - Any other player +300
TV Schedule: Thursday-Friday, 5-8 p.m. - Golf Channel. Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.
ODDS ANALYSIS
K.J. Choi +7100 would much rather be playing on the other side of the ocean this week but must take advantage of the opportunity this week against a weaker field and make some noise. The veteran is running out of time to pick up one more win before he hangs it up. Choi at +7100 offers gamers the best VALUE on the board.
If you like playing the longshots, Zac Blair +12500 is the play. He needs a high finish to earn valuable FedEx Cup points to maintain his status for next year. The year is almost over and time for Blair to make a move with a high finish this week in Alabama.
One to FADE. Where have you gone Hunter Mahan +7750 - once a top player in the world, Mahan’s game has seen better days as he continues to struggle just to make a cut. Golf is a brutal game, just ask Mahan.
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The Barbasol Championship is scheduled for July 14-17, 2016. RTJ Trail - Grand National will host the event and the Golf Channel will televise the event live.
