The biggest news from the world of professional golf is the impending merger among the PGA, the DP World Tour and LIV Golf, the league funded by the Saudi government that plucked away a number of the PGA’s top stars with huge contracts and the opportunity to get a true off-season. It will be interesting to see how that merger ends up working in practical terms, but the landscape of professional golf has been fundamentally shifted. This week’s PGA Tour event is the RBC Canadian Open at the Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Toronto, the last event ahead of the U.S. Open next week in Los Angeles. Let’s look at the odds for contenders (+10000 or better) as well as our golf betting suggestions.
Golf Betting News: RBC Canadian Open Preview
| Contender Odds (+10000 or better) | |
|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | +450 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | +1100 |
| Sam Burns | +1200 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young | +1400 |
| Corey Conners, Justin Rose | +1800 |
| Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood | +2000 |
| Sahith Theegala | +3000 |
| Keith Mitchell | +3500 |
| Adrian Meronk, Matt Kuchar, Adam Hadwin | +4000 |
| Nicolai Hojgaard, Byeong Hun An | +4500 |
| Adam Svensson, Ludvig Aberg | +5500 |
| Nick Taylor | +6000 |
| Aaron Wise, Joseph Bramlett | +7000 |
| Alex Smalley, Maverick McNealy, Mackenzie Hughes | +7500 |
| Eric Cole, Michael Kim, Brendon Todd, Sam Stevens | +8000 |
| Taylor Pendrith, Aaron Rai, Ben Martin, Harry Hall, Michael Thorbjornsen | +9000 |
| Brandon Wu, Akshay Bhatia, Will Gordon, David Lipsky, Webb Simpson | +10000 |
Bet on the RBC Canadian Open!
Shane Lowry
has finished T2 and T10 here in 2022 and 2019, the last two years the event took place. The course is different, but early reports out of Oakdale indicate that the course will play easy, with several par-4s that players can drive as well as some short par-5s. Lowry finished T16 at the PGA Championship and T12 at The Memorial last week, so his game is improving. Last week, he gained 4.5 strokes on approach, and in this field, he ranks second over the last 24 rounds int hat metric. He is fourth in Strokes Gained: Ball-Striking and 12th in Strokes Gained: Total. This is a field that has quality at the top but not a lot of depth, so smart picks down the odds list could pay off.Eric Cole
finished T24 at The Memorial last week, giving him three top-25 finishes in his last four tournaments. He is 10th in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, sixth in Strokes Gained: Total and 24th in Strokes Gained: Ball-Striking over the last 24 rounds in this field. He has also shown that he can excel at different course types, as he showed with a runner-up finish at the Honda Classic and that T5 in Mexico. Golfers will need lots of birdies to win this week, and Cole is eighth in total birdies over the last 24 rounds in this field and 13th in avoiding bogeys.Mackenzie Hughes
returns home to Canada for this tournament, and in his three PGA starts in his native country, he has come in T8, T14 and T28. Across those tournaments, he is averaging 1.38 Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, giving him the seventh best number in this field (among anyone who has played this tournament at least twice). He did miss the cut at The Memorial last week, but his irons gained him 2.6 strokes on Friday, a promising sign coming into this tournament. His putter let him down last week, but given his history, that seems more like an outlier than a problem. When he gets on a shorter course that prioritizes putting and mid-range iron play, he’s had plenty of successes, such as at his win at the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall.Live RBC Canadian Open Betting Odds For Today
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