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Following his Gold Medal triumph in the Toyko Olympics, Xander Schauffele is part of a stacked 66 player field that will compete this week in the World Golf Championship FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Nine of the top-10 players in the FedEx Cup standings are scheduled to peg it up in the final WGC event of the season taking place at TPC... 

There’s no need to worry for those who didn’t get an invitation to the WGC. That’s because the PGA Tour is holding an alternate field tournament this week. The Barracuda Championship returns to Tahoe Mountain Club for the second straight playing with the full-field consisting of young players looking to make their mark and veterans trying to stockpile valuable FedEx Cup points. As... 

Following a thrilling week in Japan for the Olympic competition it’s back to the grind of the PGA Tour with this week’s stop in Memphis for the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind. He has yet to win a major on Tour but Xander Schauffele is an Olympic gold medalist after topping the field last week. He and several other players make the long ... 

With only 70 players invited to the WGC this week in Memphis there is a need for another tournament. Voila, the Barracuda Championship fills the void as an alternate field event. That also means a less than sparkling field will assemble at the Tahoe Mountain Club. This is the only PGA Tour stop featuring the Modified Stableford scoring system, which credits points based on how pla... 

The PGA Tour takes a week off as some players head to the Olympics in Japan. Some of the luster of winning a gold medal in golf has been lost, as this year’s Olympics have no fans and the overall level of excitement is down. That does not mean we won’t have an exciting event, as there are still many top players who will be trying to win the gold medal. Collin Morikawa is trying to add to his exc... 

Olympic golf action begins this week in Japan with Collin Morikawa listed as the favorite. The 60-man field is not as strong as it could have been as World No. 1 Jon Rahm and World No. 6 Bryson DeChambeau withdrew due to COVID. Morikawa is listed at odds of +675, while Xander Schauffele is the second choice in the Olympic golf betting odds at +905. The action in Japan begins on Thursday, and tha... 

After a thrilling weekend across the pond you can expect a more subdued atmosphere this week when the PGA Tour heads to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota for the third playing of the 3M Open. There is a dip in the talent pool with several big names taking the week off following the sixth major of the ‘super season’. Nonetheless we will see a strong field of players at the top of the odds board led by fo... 

With major season behind us there are just a few tournaments remaining on the schedule before the FedEx Cup playoffs begin. With players looking to improve their status or make a late run time is running out. Coming a few days after The Open Championship, the 3M Open is back to its spot on the rotation and there are a few big names dotting the top of the leaderboard. Dustin Johnson opened as the betting... 

Golf’s major championships are like the Super Bowl for sports bettors. And with The Open Championship the final major of the ‘Super Season’, this is the last chance this year to make some additional coin on a little side action. The proposition bets are plentiful for the 149th Open and BookMaker.eu has everything you need. With the return of The Open after a one-year COVID induced lay... 

The oldest and most prestigious tournament in professional golf is back on the slate with the world’s best players vying for the Claret Jug in the 149th playing of The Open Championship. Fresh off his first career major victory when he closed as the betting favorite at the U.S. Open, Jon Rahm again tops the odds board, though the competition will be stiff. Rahm is one of four major wi... 

Serving as an alternate field event to The Open, the The Barbasol Championship will attract a field of younger players and savvy veterans fighting for status on the PGA Tour and valuable FedEx Cup points. And like The Open, last year’s event was shuttered due to COVID giving Jim Herman an extended stay as defending champion. Herman will attempt to become the first two-time wi... 

The oldest and most prestigious golf tournament in the world is back on after being canceled last year due to COVID. And while most of the world is returning to some sense of normalcy, the 149th playing of The Open Championship is still being touched by the virus. We’ve already seen a number of players withdraw due to COVID-related issues, but that won’t prevent the best in the world ... 

With nearly all of the top players on the PGA Tour competing in The Open Championship, those who didn’t qualify for the final major of the ‘Super Season’ will have a chance to pick up some scraps at the alternate field Barbasol Championship, taking place this week at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Playing alongside The Open since its debut in 2015, the Barbasol was canceled last year due to COVID. Jim Herman, who captured the title in 2019, is joined by Aaron Baddeley as forme... 

The last PGA Tour stop before the final major of the season takes place this week in the Quad Cities area with the 50th playing of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. The tournament returns after being a COVID casualty last year and its unlucky spot on the schedule has most big name players absent; either taking the week off ahead of The Open Champions... 

While it’s not the strongest field in a PGA Tour event, fans of the John Deere Classic are just happy the tournament has returned to the rotation. A casualty of the COVID pandemic last year, the JDC plays opposite a Rolex Series event on the European Tour and is just a week ahead of the season’s final major, so the field is scrawny. There may be a lack of big names but there’s... 

The celebrity golf series known as ‘The Match’ has been hugely popular with fans and punters since the first edition was played in 2018 featuring PGA Tour royalty Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. The last two installments pitted two-man teams squaring off and once again that’s the case. The duo of Mickelson and Tom Brady will reunite to square off against Bryson DeChambeau and another NFL legend Aaron Rodgers in a modified alternate ball format on Tuesday, July 6, in this made for TV event. DeCha... 

One member of the PGA Tour will have a joyous Holiday weekend with the final round of the third Rocket Mortgage Classic concluding on Independence Day. In its brief existence we’ve seen some crazy things happen at the Detroit Golf Club. Two years ago late qualifier Nate Lashley led wire-to-wire for the win. Last year tournament favorite Bryson DeChambeau outlasted Matthew Wolff... 

Can lightning strike twice? Bryson DeChambeau hopes so as he heads to Detroit Golf Club this week looking to defend his Rocket Mortgage Classic title. Positioned as the betting favorite ahead of last year’s event, DeChambeau rolled to a three-shot victory over Matthew Wolff. And once again DeChambeau is slotted at the top of the odds board as a prohibitive favorite for only the... 

I guess the name of this week’s tournament is fitting. The PGA Tour hits the road again making the trek from one side of the country to the other for the annual Travelers Championship. Though it takes place just a few days after the U.S. Open, the field is notable for its big-name players. After a late meltdown at Torrey Pines, Bryson DeChambeau emerged as the betting ... 

After a thrilling weekend of golf on the California coast the PGA Tour heads across the country to just outside Hartford where a loaded field assembles for this week’s Travelers Championship. Jon Rahm will deservedly take the week off after winning at Torrey Pines for his first major championship, but plenty of stars always show up to play this event. Bryson DeChambeau... 

Sportsbooks go all out when golf’s major championships are on the schedule. That means this week’s U.S. Open will have plenty of wagering opportunities when the field pegs it up at Torrey Pines Golf Club. With an expanded proposition bet menu, avid and novice golf fans have something to keep them interested over four days. One cool prop would be how many times the networks give a shot of ... 

Golf’s elite gather along the shores of the Pacific Ocean this week for the second U.S. Open of the elongated season. I guess golf fans can thank the global pandemic for something. After much of the previous campaign was wiped out by COVID, Tour officials reimagined the schedule adding a pair of major championships to the docket. The 2020 U.S. Open was the second event of the new season w... 

The re imagined PGA Tour schedule has six major championships being played. The U.S. Open is one of the tournaments being played twice. The first major of the new season took place back in September with Bryson DeChambeau taking home the hardware at Winged Foot in New York. The field travels across the country for the originally scheduled U.S. Open, which takes place this week at Torrey P... 

COVID is still out there as I’m sure Jon Rahm will let you know. The virus cost Rahm a shot at a victory last week and for the second straight year also forced the cancellation of the RBC Canadian Open, which was originally slotted for this week. Instead of taking a week off ahead of the year’s third major, the PGA Tour heads to South Carolina for the one-off Palm... 

Lingering COVID challenges in Canada were too much for the PGA Tour to overcome forcing the cancellation of that country’s national open for the second year in a row. In its place this week is the one-time Palmetto Championship at Congaree, which will be the third tournament contested in the state of South Carolina this season. Despite being the lead up to the...