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a]:underline [&>a]:text-team-secondary"> Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are tied for the most career top ten finishes, with 198 top ten finishes.

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Tiger Woods' career pursuit of winning the most majors has somewhat dimmed the great achievement of being in the hunt for a major in the first place and doing so consistently in a career. With the Masters upon us, the first chance at being in the mix for 2015 has arrived, and with it, an opportunity for 11 of the top 25 in the Official World Golf Ranking to get their first top-10 finish in the Masters.

Three of them -- Patrick Reed, J.B. Holmes and Chris Kirk -- are seeking their first top-10 finish in any of the four majors. If they do, they will duplicate Arnold Palmer's 60-year-old feat from the 1955 Masters, when his tie for 10th was his first top-10 finish in any major. But for the following group of top-25 players in the world, they have top-10s in other majors but have yet to have a Masters top-10: Henrik Stenson (0 for 9 Masters), Dustin Johnson (0 for 5), Martin Kaymer (0 for 7), Hideki Matsuyama (0 for 3), Kevin Na (0 for 4), Billy Horschel and Victor Dubuisson are both 0 for 1, and Brooks Koepka is in his first Masters.

Jordan Spieth and Jimmy Walker will try to remain perfect. They made their Masters debut in 2014 and each had a top-10. Also trying to stay perfect, in a different sort of way, are defending champion Bubba Watson and Zach Johnson: the only times they were in the top-10, they won, Bubba in 2012 and 2014, and Johnson in 2007.

The all-time leaders in top-10 finishes in professional majors resembles a slow growth chart. It takes a long time to see movement. Although it doesn't take the place of winning, piling up top-10s shows you've been a historically significant player for a long time. Jack Nicklaus is a dominant No. 1 with 73, well ahead of Sam Snead and Tom Watson with 46 each. After the last five seasons and 20 majors, three players have broken into the top 10 on the all-time list. Woods added six top-10s and moved from T-8 to a tie for sixth with Arnold Palmer at 38. Phil Mickelson added seven top-10s and went from 12th to a T-8 with Gene Sarazen at 36. And Ernie Els had five top-10s and is now solo 10th with 35 top-10s.

Rickie Fowler's 2014 season in the majors was record-breaking for a non- winner. His top-10 finishes in all four majors was the 23rd time that has happened. Twelve times it has happened to a player who didn't win any of the four, but Fowler had the lowest cumulative total of this dozen, his finishes adding up to 12 (T-5 at the Masters, T-2 at both the U.S. and British Opens, and T-3 at the PGA). Next best all-time with combined finishes of 17 are Jack Nicklaus in 1977 (2nd at Masters and British, T-10 at U.S. Open, 3rd at the PGA) and Ernie Els in 2004 (2nd at the Masters and British, T-9 at U.S. Open, and T-4 at the PGA).

Also of note, Nicklaus still has the longest span between first and last top-10s in the modern era at 38 years, with Snead at 37 and Watson 35. And Sergio Garcia is now tied with Ed Dudley for the dubious but not insignificant honor of having the most top-10s without a victory in one; he and Dudley -- more positively known as Augusta National's head pro for 25 years -- both have 19 top-10s and are tied for 35th all-time.

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Scottie Scheffler spent an extra night in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which typically wouldn’t be such a drag if not for his wife Meredith being pregnant back home in Dallas and awaiting the couple’s first child later this month.

But Mother Nature had other plans, forcing Scheffler to return to Harbour Town Golf Links on Monday morning to play his final three holes of the 2024 RBC Heritage and wrap up his fourth PGA Tour title in his past five starts.

One week and one day after Scheffler slipped into the famed Green Jacket awarded to the Masters champ for the second time in three years, the 27-year-old Texan added another colorful jacket – this time in trademark Tartan – to his closet and became the first reigning Masters champion to win the RBC Heritage since Bernhard Langer in 1985.

Scheffler, who was 4-under through 15 holes in the final round and 20-under overall when play was suspended due to darkness on Sunday, made two pars and a finishing bogey and signed for a 3-under 68 on Monday, three shots better than Sahith Theegala (68) and four better than reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark (65) and past FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay (68). Scheffler banked another $3.6 million to surpass $18 million in earnings this season – and it’s still April.

“I didn’t show up here just to have some sort of ceremony and have people tell me congratulations,” said Scheffler of avoiding a post-Masters victory hangover. “I came here with a purpose.”

CBS Sports roving reporter Colt Knost, who grew up with Scheffler following him around Dallas’s Royal Oaks Golf Club, already has one of the best nicknames in golf: The Big Gravy. But he may have earned another one – Knost-radamus – for a prediction seemingly as accurate as those of the 16 th century French astrologer Nostradamus. In February 2022, when Scheffler won his first Tour title at the WM Phoenix Open, Knost proclaimed him to be “a worldbeater,” and added, “Now that he’s got that first one, I think the floodgates are going to open for him.”

Scheffler’s latest triumph is his 10 th career title, the first player to win that many times (or more) in three seasons since Dustin Johnson did so between 2015-16 and 2017-18. There’s no indication that this flood of success for the world No. 1 will stop any time soon. Did Knost imagine Scheffler would dominate on the PGA Tour? “I really did,” he said. “He never plays badly and he’s one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met. He will never just go through the motions.”

Theegala, who recalled playing against Scheffler for the first time in the Starburst Junior Golf Classic at Waco, Texas, didn’t remember ever beating Scheffler, who is a year older than him, in a single junior tournament. Competing with Scheffler, who leads the Tour in 30 statistical categories this season, hasn’t gotten any easier lately. “It’s pretty epic,” Theegala said of Scheffler, who has shot even par or better in all 40 rounds this season and became the first player to win four times in five starts since Tiger Woods in 2007-08. “I was talking to Carl, my caddie, walking to 15 tee box. I was like, I grew up watching the end of Tiger, got to see Rory, DJ, Jordan, like all these guys kind of dominate for a period of time, and I was like, we could be in the midst of something really, really special.”

Some observers suggested that Scheffler would skip the RBC Heritage but Scheffler said he never wavered in his commitment to the tournament. After winning the Masters, Scheffler flew home to Dallas to be with Meredith and didn’t show up to Hilton Head until Tuesday. He played only a nine-hole practice round on Wednesday and spotted much of the field a head start, shanking a bunker shot at his third hole in the first round, making double bogey and needing two late birdies to post 69. He trailed by six and complained of fatigue. But after recharging his batteries, he didn’t make a single bogey or worse until the 72nd hole of the tournament, and even in that case Scheffler said he was counting that one as a par as he played the smart shots with a comfortable lead. He stormed back with a 65 on Friday and was lurking three back before reminding everyone who is boss with a bogey-free 63 to claim a one-stroke lead.

Are you kidding me?! 💥 Scottie Scheffler is doing Scottie Scheffler things. @RBC_Heritage pic.twitter.com/by9vn6dplU — Golf on CBS ⛳ (@GolfonCBS) April 21, 2024

In the final round, Scheffler laid down the hammer early, chipping in at the par-5 second hole from 53 feet for eagle. His bump-and-run, executed to perfection, marked his 11 th hole-out of the season. He tacked on a birdie at the par-5 fifth and strung together six consecutive pars before the horn blew. When play resumed he wedged to 6 feet for another birdie at 13. When he made his lone blunder, pull-hooking a 4-iron into the water due to mud on his ball at the par-5 15th, he took a penalty drop and carved a beautiful shot to 11 feet. Darkness had fallen and he could’ve wait until Monday to strike the par putt but he opted to play on and sank it for good measure. While that snapped a streak of 53 consecutive holes without recording a score of more than a four on his card, dating to the 15 th hole in his first round, he pumped his fist with glee for keeping a clean card (to that point).

“I felt like I was due for one to drop,” said Scheffler, whose closing bogey gave him a winning total 19-under 265. “So I figured might as well hit it now.”

Clark mounted an early charge, making an eagle and six birdies in his first 11 holes to inch within a stroke of the lead. But his effort to run down Scheffler was spoiled at the 12 th hole when Clark tried to punch between trees. His ball struck one of them squarely and ricocheted out of bounds. He made double bogey.

“It was kind of fun for a little bit,” said Clark, who improved to a career-best ranking of No. 3 in the world. “Seemed like maybe we had a chance to do something crazy.”

Only Mother Nature could prolong Scheffler’s victory another day. Play was suspended due to inclement weather at 4:28 p.m. ET, for two hours and 32 minutes. The delay meant they ran out of daylight.

But on Monday, Scheffler capped off winning for the fourth time this year, all of them Signature events. He finished tied for second in the only tournament he did not win during his scorching run. For the week, he topped the field of 69 in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, SG: Tee to Green, SG: Approach the Green and scrambling.

“We’re watching greatness right now,” CBS’s Jim Nantz said. “It doesn’t happen all the time, but it sure is fun when you find yourself witnessing something like this.

Nantz’s NFL broadcast partner, former Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo, who played in the Invited Celebrity Classic on PGA Tour Champions last week, estimated he’s played around 500 rounds with Scheffler and said he’s never failed to break 70.

“Which is insane,” said Romo who played with him the week before the Masters at Brook Hollow, a Dallas club. “I have not seen a guy hit a golf ball like this since Tiger back in the 2000s when I played with him, the way he was striking the ball, the compression, the trajectory, the spin rate. It was impressive, and I was like, ‘He ain’t losing that tournament.’ ”

No one stopped him at the RBC Heritage either. Could Scheffler be on his way to a season for the record books? That may depend whether history repeats itself — all 10 of his wins have come in the months of February, March and April. So, time will tell if Scheffler can continue to dominate when the calendar flips to May – just don’t bet against the floodgates closing any time soon.

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Scottie Scheffler reacts after a putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage ... [+] golf tournament, Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

The world’s top-ranked golfer is dominating the PGA Tour. Scottie Scheffler won the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Monday morning following a weather delay and restart late Sunday—his fourth win in his last five starts. He added a tartan plaid jacket to his second green jacket at The Masters , which followed wins at The Players Championship and Arnold Palmer Invitational .

Scheffler carded an 8 under par 63 on Saturday to take a 1-stroke lead over Sepp Straka and 2 strokes ahead of his final round playing partner at The Masters, Collin Morikwa. Both those players shot a 1 over par 72 in the final round to fall back.

Scheffler entered Sunday’s final round as the -165 favorite on FanDuel Sportsbook to win the tournament with Straka and Morikawa both +650 and Masters runner-up Ludvig Aberg +1100 sitting 3 shots behind. Scottie was +450 to win at the start of the RBC Heritage .

Golf’s 27-year-old superstar was 3 under par through 11 holes Sunday and 19 under par with a 4-shot lead over six players when play was suspended before resuming 2 1/2 hours later at 7 p.m. ET. Scheffler played three more holes and took a 5-stroke lead into Sunday evening as play was suspended for darkness.

Early Monday he finished off the $20 million signature event with a 3-shot victory at 19 under par to earn another $3.6 million and take his season total to over $18 million. His bogey on the 18th hole ended a streak of 68 consecutive holes at par or better. Sahith Theegala finished second while Patrick Cantlay and Wyndham Clark T3 and Justin Thomas part of a 4-way tie for fifth.

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Justin Ray, golf Lead Data Analyst, added a number of posts on X to show Scheffler’s run of dominance. Beyond Scottie being the last player since Tiger Woods in 2008 to win four times in a five-start stretch on the PGA Tour, this post about Scheffler holding the lead following a round 31 times on Tour the past three seasons speaks to Scottie’s spectacular play and dominance. The next closest player to have led or co-led following a round is 16 times.

Scheffler ramains the No. 1 ranked player in the Official World Golf Rankings for the 49th consecutive week. His win at Harbour Town was also the 10th of his career on Tour. It took him 51 tournaments to win his 10th PGA Tour title following his first win. Tiger Woods did it in 59 events with David Duval the fastest from wins 1 to 10 at 33 starts.

Scheffler’s strokes gained stats are simply staggering. Scheffler ranks No. 1 in SG: Total, Tee to Green, Approach, No. 2 Off the Tee and top-10 Around the Green. He’s continued to win despite ranking outside the top 150 in SG: Putting. Scheffler gained more than a stroke both off the tee and on approach shots in his first three rounds at Harbour Town. He has done this in 27.2% of his rounds over the last three seasons. The rest of the PGA Tour has done it 4.7% of the time.

Scheffler then finished off another victory with a strong performance on Sunday at Harbour Town that included this chip-in for eagle from 53 feet off the front right short rough on the Par 5 at hole No. 2.

He’s now played 40 rounds in 2024 and has yet to shoot a round over par. It’s 44 in a row dating back to last year’s Tour Championship in August. Tiger Woods currently holds the Tour record at 52 rounds shooting par or better, which he set during the 2000-01 season.

Scheffler’s desire to win and determination to be the best is shining through despite any pressure that may mount. He’s nearly locked up 2024 PGA Tour Player of the Year honors before the end of April, and commented on his play and performances following rounds 3 and 4 while dealing with any added pressure.

Internally, do you feel less pressure compared to a few months ago when you're out there playing?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: It's tough to answer. I mean, I talked about it a bit at the end of last week. I really love winning, and I don't really like losing at all. It's one of those things where I try to manage the expectations of myself, kind of get that stuff out of the way and then go out there and compete.

Scheffler also added 700 FedEx Cup Playoffs Points to his total by winning the Signature Event at the RBC Heritage. He tops the points list with 3,915 - more than double Wyndham Clark (1,892) with Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg and Sahith Theegala next at more than 1,500 points.

Scheffler is scheduled to compete in the Wells Fargo Championship May 9-12 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, NC - another $20 million Signature Event. He should be a first-time father by then with wife Meredith expecting their child very soon.

“I definitely will enjoy the birth of my first child, and my priorities will change very soon, so golf will be fourth in line, but I still love competing,” he said last Sunday in the Butler Cabin at The Masters .

He competed at the highest level again without a letdown to win the RBC Heritage. Scheffler will enter the next major as the +450 favorite at the PGA Championship May 16-19 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, KY. FanDuel Sportsbook also has Scheffler at +6500 odds to win the Grand Slam and all four majors this year.

Scottie Scheffler is showing no signs of letdown and fans and bettors continue to support him despite ultra-low odds to win not seen since Tiger Wood’s dominance.

You can bet on it.

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Scottie Scheffler enters Tiger territory with fourth win in five starts

Scottie Scheffler looked human as recently as Thursday, when his shank out of a bunker on Harbour Town’s third hole led to a double bogey in the first round of the Heritage. The flub was understandable: Scheffler was only four days removed from his second Masters win , and he spoke openly about his fatigue and lack of preparation entering the Heritage, an elevated event on the PGA Tour schedule that featured a strong, invitation-only field.

After a pedestrian 2-under-par 69 amid favorable scoring conditions in the tournament’s first round, Scheffler sat in a tie for 26th place, six shots behind leader J.T. Poston. At the end of Monday’s weather-delayed final round in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Scheffler stood atop the leader board by three strokes, winning his fourth tournament in five starts to continue his Tiger Woods-esque run of dominance.

Woods was the last male golfer to win four times in five starts, in 2007 and 2008. Scheffler’s lone miss in this absurd run? A tie for second at the Houston Open, where he missed a short putt that would have forced a playoff with eventual champion Stephan Jäger.

In his past 50 starts, Scheffler has nine wins, 22 finishes in the top three and 34 finishes in the top 10.

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“Coming into this week, I didn’t have my usual prep work,” Scheffler, who became the first golfer since Bernhard Langer in 1985 to follow up a Masters win with a victory the next week at the Heritage, told CBS Sports after clinching the victory. “Got off to a slow start on Thursday, but I played some real nice golf in the middle of the tournament.

“Yeah, it’s nice to be done.”

Scheffler’s wife, Meredith, is due to give birth to the couple’s first child in the next few weeks, and the world No. 1 has said he would have exited mid-tournament had she gone into labor. But the baby has yet to arrive, which gave Scheffler time to complete the Masters-Heritage double. Scheffler probably will not play again until next month’s PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, where he will attempt to become only the eighth golfer to win the first two major championships of the year (the last was Jordan Spieth in 2015).

That double bogey at the third hole Thursday would be Scheffler’s last above-par hole until an inconsequential bogey at No. 18 on Monday, when his win was well in hand. He went a combined 14 under in the second and third rounds to take the lead entering Sunday, and his 3-under 68 in the final round cinched the deal.

Sahith Theegala also shot a 68 in the final round to finish alone in second place. Wyndham Clark and Patrick Cantlay were another stroke back in a tie for third.

Sunday’s final round was halted by darkness with a few players left on the course after heavy rain rolled through Hilton Head Island, causing a long delay. The tournament resumed at 8 a.m. Eastern on Monday, and Scheffler finished with two pars and the bogey at 18.

If we are to assume that Ted Scott, Scheffler’s caddie, gets paid on the usual 5-7-10 scale (5 percent of a player’s winnings for making the cut, 7 percent for a top-10 finish, 10 percent for a victory), he has made somewhere in the vicinity of $1.78 million already this year. If Scott were a golfer, that would rank in the top 50 on the money list .

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2024 PGA Championship odds, field: Surprising PGA picks from golf model that has hit 11 majors

Sportsline's proven model simulated the pga championship 2024 10,000 times and revealed its pga golf picks for valhalla golf club.

The 2024 PGA Championship is quickly approaching, as Valhalla Golf Club gets set to host the world's top golfers beginning on Thursday, May 16. It's been a 2024 PGA Tour season marked by Scottie Scheffler asserting his dominance. The No. 1-ranked player in the world secured his second career major victory at the Masters and has finished on top of the leaderboard four times in 2024. He comes into the PGA Championship 2024 with momentum, but he'll be challenged by a loaded 2024 PGA Championship field that is stacked with fellow major champions, including Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth.

The latest 2024 PGA Championship odds list Scheffler as the 4-1 favorite. He's followed by Jon Rahm (9-1), McIlroy (10-1), Koepka (16-1) and Ludvig Aberg (16-1) on the PGA odds board. Tiger Woods, a 15-time major champion, is one of the 2024 PGA Championship longshots at 125-1. Before locking in any 2024 PGA Championship picks of your own, entering PGA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings or FanDuel, or finalizing PGA Championship props and PGA Championship Pick Six entries, be sure to see the 2024 PGA Championship golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now with the PGA Championship 2024 field taking shape, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.

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One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2024 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka, a three-time PGA champion and one of the favorites, stumbles and doesn't even crack the top 10. Koepka has five major tournament wins on his resume and a reputation for elevating his level of play in big events. However, his last two major starts haven't gone well as he was 45th at the Masters, which followed a 64th-place finish at last year's Open Championship. He's failed to shoot par in each of his last seven rounds at major tournaments.

After notching three tournament wins in 2023, including last year's PGA Championship, it has been tough sledding for Koepka in 2024. He has no victories, or even top-fives, and across his six starts, he has three times as many finishes outside the top 25 (three) as he has inside the top 10 (one). He played Valhalla at the 2014 PGA Championship and finished in a tie for 15th place, but that placement ranks just eighth out of his 11 career PGA Championship starts.

Another surprise: Collin Morikawa, a 25-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. Morikawa has the game to finish near the top of the leaderboard at Valhalla. The 27-year-old has won six times on the PGA Tour, which includes two major championships.

Morikawa also secured a third-place finish at the 2024 Masters and enters the 2024 PGA Championship ranked fifth in driving accuracy (77.61%), 23rd in birdie average (4.33) and 27th in one-putt percentage (42.80%). He ranks just 106th in greens in regulation percentage (65.02%), but if he's striking the ball well at Valhallal, he'll have a shot at winning another major championship.  See who else to pick here .

How to make 2024 PGA Championship picks

The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds of 25-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the PGA Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters .

2024 PGA Championship odds, field

Get full 2024 PGA Championship picks, best bets, and predictions here.

Scottie Scheffler 4-1 Jon Rahm 9-1 Rory McIlroy 10-1 Ludvig Aberg 16-1 Brooks Koepka 16-1 Xander Schauffele 18-1 Viktor Hovland 20-1 Patrick Cantlay 20-1 Wyndham Clark 20-1 Cameron Smith 22-1 Joaquin Niemann 22-1 Collin Morikawa 25-1 Sam Burns 25-1 Max Homa 25-1 Matt Fitzpatrick 28-1 Tom Kim 28-1 Jordan Spieth 30-1 Bryson DeChambeau 30-1 Tony Finau 30-1 Dustin Johnson 30-1 Justin Thomas 33-1 Hideki Matsuyama 35-1 Jason Day 35-1 Cameron Young 35-1 Tommy Fleetwood 40-1 Rickie Fowler 45-1 Min Woo Lee 50-1 Sungjae Im 50-1 Shane Lowry 50-1 Tyrrell Hatton 50-1 Brian Harman 55-1 Corey Conners 60-1 Patrick Reed 65-1 Justin Rose 65-1 Russell Henley 65-1 Sahith Theegala 65-1 Keegan Bradley 75-1 Adam Scott 80-1 Talor Gooch 90-1 Gary Woodland 100-1 Kurt Kitayama 100-1 Daniel Berger 100-1 Louis Oosthuizen 125-1 Tiger Woods 125-1 Si Woo Kim 125-1 Keith Mitchell 125-1 Thomas Pieters 125-1 Abraham Ancer 125-1 J.T. Poston 125-1 Sepp Straka 125-1 Mito Pereira 150-1 Harris English 150-1 Phil Mickelson 150-1 Ryan Fox 150-1 Adam Hadwin 150-1 Sergio Garcia 150-1 Seamus Power 175-1 Denny McCarthy 175-1 Robert MacIntyre 175-1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175-1 Davis Riley 175-1 Aaron Wise 175-1 Marc Leishman 175-1 Billy Horschel 200-1 Harold Varner III 200-1 Jason Kokrak 200-1 Mackenzie Hughes 225-1 Francisco Molinari 225-1 Joel Dahmen 250-1

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Zurich Classic of New Orleans 2024 picks and best bets for PGA Tour golf this week

W e're heading down to New Orleans, TPC Louisiana in Avondale to be more specific, this week for the only team event on the PGA Tour , the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. There are some big names in this field with the favorites, Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele along with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, headlining this field.

This is one of the tougher golf tournaments to handicap as you not only have to look at the statistics for each individual player, but also considering how teammates mesh, how they've performed in previous team settings, and there's also just a bit of luck involved with this format, frankly. When you have two rounds of best ball and two rounds of alternate shot, things can get crazy.

It's been a rough couple of weeks as we were down 3.7 units at The Masters and then 0.5 units last week when we had to just go with our picks on X/Twitter. But we're back here and really trying to crack the formula to climb out of this brutal cold streak. Let's get into our Zurich Classic picks for the week and do just that.

Note:  All odds are courtesy of BetMGM unless otherwise noted. Odds will be updated when made available. For more betting picks and advice, check out BetSided .

Golf betting record in 2024 through Texas: 13-84-0, -18.73 Units (1-34 on outrights and longshots | -0.5 units at RBC Heritage) | One and Done Total for 2024: $6,331,817 (Shane Lowry at RBC Heritage, $42,600)

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PGA Tour expert picks for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans: Winner, Top 10 and One and Done

Top 10 pick for the zurich classic of new orleans: tom hoge/maverick mcnealy (+210).

This is exactly what I'm looking for with a pairing that should have a lot of success. Over the last 20 rounds, Tom Hoge is the fourth-best player in this field on approach (1.033 strokes gained) and has been reeling off Top 20 finishes as a result of that and a solid putter. Meanwhile, Maverick McNealy's short game has been stellar all year, but he's gaining slightly on approach and is 15th in strokes gained tee-to-green (1.066) over the last 12 rounds. He's coming into form and this pairing should absolutely gel perfectly to compete, especially after seeing Hoge finished T13 here with Harris English last year.

Outright Winner pick for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (0.5 Units): Doug Ghim/Chan Kim (+5000)

One thing about the Zurich Classic is that we often see teams just get hot and pop. So I'm going with that strategy for my winner pick with the team of Doug Ghim and Chan Kim. This is team no-putt, to be quite sure, as they've combined to lose about 1.25 strokes on the greens over the last 12 rounds. But Kim actually leads this field in strokes gained tee-to-green over that span (1.437). Ghim, meanwhile, struggled at Valspar and Houston on approach, but got back to his DNA to gain over 2.0 strokes on approach at the Valero. I think he finds his ball striking and am just hoping this ball-striking tandem gets a hot putter collectively to contend.

One and Done Pick for Zurich Classic of New Orleans: Tom Hoge/Maverick McNealy

We've already covered this one and I absolutely love the pairing. There is winning upside for this pairing but I think the way their form is right now combined with the match of their games has me believing that the floor is also extremely high, which is a great spot to be in for a regular-field One and Done pick.

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Davis thompson/andrew novak to finish top 10 (+333).

This is another team that just seems to blend extremely well. Andrew Novak has been a stalwart on approach, ranking 11th in this field in strokes gained (0.745) over the last 12 rounds. His around-the-green play, however, has seen him losing significant strokes (0.288) over that span. Davis Thompson, on the other hand, has been a Top 30 driver in this field while Novak has been outside the Top 50 but has struggled on approach. Yet, he's gaining 0.769 strokes around the green and more than a half stroke putting over the last 12 rounds. A bit of a flier, but this blend of what these players are doing well provides great upside.

Matt Fitzpatrick/Alex Fitzpatrick to finish Top 5 (+450)

People, myself included, were a bit too intrigued about the Fitzpatrick Brothers pairing last year when Alex simply didn't have any status and wasn't all that fresh. But Matt has been coming into form since figuring out a weighted driver issue with three straight Top 30 finishes. Meanwhile, Alex has been playing a lot on the DP World Tour with four Top 20 finishes in his seven starts in 2024 while also finishing T23 at Corales this week. With a comfy family pairing and the steady form of both Fitzpatricks of late, I like the upside for this team to contend.

Dylan Wu/Justin Lower to finish Top 20 (+210)

We're taking a little bit of a flier here, but Dylan Wu and Justin Lower both come in on three straight made cuts. Meanwhile, Lower has three straight Top 28 finishes, including a T28 at Corales last week. Wu's finishes haven't been as strong, but his approach play is Top 20 in the field over the last 12 rounds (0.658 strokes gained). Lower has also gained more than a half stroke on approach over that span, but his short game has been dialed, something Wu has been basically dead even with. I'm always going to fall back on approach play which these guys are showing, though, and if Wu's short game can cooperate, they could indeed pop.

Longshot Pick to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (0.1 Units): Mac Meissner/Austin Smotherman (+10000)

Way down the board, we're taking a small swing with the Meissner/Smotherman team. Meissner has two missed cuts in his last four starts, but the other two are a T10 and T26 showing. He's also gaining strokes in every category over that span. Smotherman, meanwhile, finished T50 at Corales but finished T9 on the Korn Ferry Tour two weeks prior. The KFT requires elite scoring to compete, and Smotherman has been in that world. I think he can reel off birdies in best ball and this pairing should be solid based on skill sets. That's worth a sprinkle at 100/1.

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Patrick Cantlay, Hideki Matsuyama commit to June 6-9 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield

Two-time Memorial Tournament winner Patrick Cantlay and 2014 Memorial champion Hideki Matsuyama have committed to play the PGA Tour event June 6-9 at Muirfield Village Golf Club .

Cantlay, ranked No. 8 in the world, won the Dublin-based tournament in 2021 and 2019. He has two top-10 finishes in nine starts this season. Matsuyama , ranked 15th, has three top-10s in 10 starts, including a win at the Genesis Invitational.

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Most of golf's top-rated players are expected to come to Muirfield. As one of the PGA's designated “signature” events , the Memorial will see its field reduced from 120 players to between 70 and 80 this year, and there is a bigger payday awaiting the winner.

The Memorial will have a purse of $20 million, as it did in 2023, but the winner’s share increases to $4 million, which is 20% of the total. 

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Miles Russell, 15, wows with 20th-place finish in first pro start on Korn Ferry Tour

Fifteen-year-old Miles Russell made a hard push up the leaderboard at the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, rising to as high as tied for third place.

Russell shot a final-round 66 and was 14-under-par for the week at the event at Lakewood National in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. After a bogey on 18 he was tied for 15th as he walked off the course. He finished in a 10-way tie for 20th place.

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Russell, who is 15 years, five months and 19 days old, became the youngest player to make the cut in a Korn Ferry Tour event after shooting first- and second-round scores of 68 and 66, including a front-nine 31 on Thursday.

The left-handed Russell followed that up with a 70 on Saturday, well within his stated goal of a top 25 in his first professional start (he’s playing on a sponsor exemption). He did far better than that, grabbing an early birdie on the par-4 4th, then going birdie-birdie-bogey-birdie-birdie-par-birdie-birdie over the next eight holes. That’s 6 birdies, one par and one bogey against two par 3s, three par 4s and three par 5s.

7 birdies in the last 10 holes 😳 Miles Russell moves into T3 at the LECOM Suncoast Classic. pic.twitter.com/jlYUIuSQOn — Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) April 21, 2024

With a top-25 finish, Russell is automatically eligible for next week’s Veritex Bank Championship in Arlington, Texas.

Russell and Guan Tian Liang are the only players younger than 16 to make a cut in a PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour event. Russell drew praise from Phil Mickelson on X , the latter giving a fellow left-handed golfer praise for “playing such incredible golf.”

He broke one of Tiger Woods’ records last year, becoming the youngest player to be named the AJGA Player of the Year. Russell, who is from Jacksonville Beach, Fla., is a high school freshman who has also won the Junior PGA and Junior Players Championship events. He shot a 66 at TPC Sawgrass in the latter. Russell said that he began playing golf at age 2 and broke par by age 6.

Russell told reporters Friday that he has a sponsor exemption into the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship in November. In the meantime, he expects to continue to play AJGA events as well as elite amateur tournaments.

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