Claiming the coveted PGA Championship title is one of the four steps any golfer needs to take if they want to become a Grand Slam winner.

The second Major of the golfing season is unique in that it's the only Major that only allows professionals to compete, giving it an extra air of prestige.

The event has been running since way back in 1916, when a match play format was used, before converting to strokeplay in 1958 and becoming the tournament we know and love today.

Of course, with great prestige comes great payouts, and the PGA Championship purse is naturally among the biggest in the golfing world.

Winning the Wanamaker Trophy is one thing, but landing a share of the huge purse is a very nice bonus indeed.

While Jack Nicklaus holds the records for the most wins at the PGA Championship (during the strokeplay era), he doesn't come close to featuring on the all-time list of top earners from the event.

Interestingly, when we look at the top 10 earners in PGA Championship history, there are two golfers who haven't actually won the tournament.

Justin Rose takes tenth place, with earnings of $3,540,011 across a whopping 23 events. The British star's best finish at the PGA Championship was a tie for third back in 2012, which earned him $384,500.

Bryson DeChambeau is also on the list in seventh with earnings of $4,636,217. He's racked up that impressive amount from just eight involvements in the PGA Championship, with back-to-back second place finishes in 2024 and 2025 earning him $2,837,332 alone.

It probably doesn't come as much of a surprise, at least when you really think about it, that Brooks Koepka is at the top of the PGA Championship money list. He's won the tournament more than anyone else in the past couple of decades with three triumphs coming in 2018, 2019, and 2023.

Koepka is clear out in front, too, with earnings of $9,456,726 from 13 events putting him well ahead of Tiger Woods, who comes in second place with winnings of $7,354,862 from 23 events.

Woods did win the tournament four times (in 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2007), but the money on offer back then is nothing compared to where the game of golf is now.

With 32 involvements, Phil Mickelson is the golfer in the top 10 who has featured in the PGA Championship the most, and his earnings of $6,510,066 put him third in the all-time list.

That's not much of a shock considering Lefty also made the cut in 27 out of those 32 events with two victories.

He's followed by another two-time winner, Rory McIlroy. His wins in 2012 and 2014 earned him a combined $3,245,000 towards his total of $6,349,228 over the years.

Rounding out the top five is 2025 PGA Championship winner Scottie Scheffler. That win secured Scheffler $3.42m last year, and he's already earned $6,152,768 from just six events.

The rest of the top 10 includes Justin Thomas ($5,672,581) thanks to his two victories at the PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022.

2015 champion Jason Day ($4,369,608) is in eighth place and Xander Schauffele, who won in 2024, comes in ninth with earnings of $4,363,822 across nine involvements in the PGA Championship.

Another triumph this year for McIlroy or Scheffler would send them to the top of the pile ahead of Koepka, but that man will be desperate to add a fourth title to his name and extend his lead at the top of the money list.

Former champion Jason Day has been forced to withdraw from the 2025 Players Championship due to illness.

The Australian won the 2016 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass by four shots at the height of his powers, and had been looking in good form this year heading back to the unofficial fifth Major.

However, the 2015 PGA Championship winner was a late withdrawal from the field, as he pulled out early on Thursday morning ahead of the first round.

Day's spot in the field is being taken up by Danny Walker.

Day has had some lean years after his glorious spell in 2015-6 when he won eight times including his first Major at the PGA Championship and The Players.

The now 37-year-old had five straight Major top 10s during 2015-16 and spent a total of 51 weeks as World No.1, but injury problems and loss of form led to some down years.

He was heading to Sawgrass after a solid start to 2025 though, with a T3 finish at the American Express and a nice T8 at Bay Hill last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Day will have to skip a bid to add a second Players Championship though due to illness again causing him problems.

Prior to the start of the Farmers Insurance Open, a number of big names withdrew from the event at Torrey Pines, including Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Akshay Bhatia and Will Zalatoris.

It now means only five of the world's top 20 will be present in San Diego and, given that the tournament was dominated by seven-time winner, Tiger Woods, some have questioned the magnitude of the event since the Hall of Famer was strolling its fairways.

A two-time winner of the Farmers Insurance Open, Jason Day is a big fan of the tournament, as well as being a good friend of Woods', but acknowledges that the popularity of the event in Torrey Pines has reduced over time, claiming "it’s unfortunate."

Speaking in his press conference on Tuesday, the former Major winner stated: "Back when Tiger was playing and winning, it was the event to come to because of not only how big the tournament was, but what Tiger brought to the event as well, the crowds were huge. But with that being said... I'm very loyal to this area, I'm very loyal to this golf tournament. I love this area, I love the people here. I also love the golf tournament and I love the golf course. I've had a lot of good memories here so that's why I'm very loyal to this place.

"I don't want it to get to a point where we've just kind of forgotten about it because to me, personally, I think of like the wins that Tiger won, like even myself and what that felt like. I remember when I won the playoff against J.B. Holmes on the 16th hole and we were driving back and there were just lines of people down 18 like yelling out, and I feel like the crowds have gotten a little bit less since then.

"It's unfortunate, but I'm hoping that we can change that. I don't know how to change that and give you an answer other than I feel like I'll always be back here. I've missed some years, but I definitely will always support this tournament."

Another player to speak about the impact of Woods is Charley Hoffman, who is making his 27th appearance in the tournament. Having been present for over three decades, the four-time PGA Tour winner claims that the reason for the loss of interest in the event stems from the fact that "the community of San Diego took for granted that Tiger Woods virtually showed up every single year at this event."

He went on to add "(he was) the best player in the world, and competed to win almost every time he played here. We took it for granted. Now a lot of these tournaments, if you had Tiger Woods two or three times through the history of the event, they would be happy... As someone who's played here for over 30 years, you took it for granted that Tiger Woods was going to show up here and the city of San Diego was going to have the best player in the world each and every year at its event.

"We're in reality now with what every other city has to deal with without Tiger Woods or the best player in the world playing here. Unfortunately, Xander, one of the best players in the world, has an injury. He's traditionally played here. Xander's trying to get ready to win more Major championships, there's no reason to push it early in the year and hurt himself more. You're going to see guys taking this week off if it stays on this date, no question."

Lodged in the middle of a seven-week West Coast Swing, which also features three $20 million Signature Events, the Farmers Insurance Open also runs with a Wednesday - Saturday schedule instead of the usual Thursday - Sunday, with the reason due to the NFL's Conference Championship games being on a Sunday.

Speaking about the scheduling, Day stated: "You have Pebble Beach next week and then WM Phoenix Open and then the Genesis Invitational. They're three pretty big tournaments in a row, and do you want to play four big tournaments?

"Pebble's obviously a Signature Event and most guys aren't going to miss that. Waste Management is a total beast in itself because it's a mentally grueling week as well, and then you've got another Signature Event after that in L.A. So do you want to put yourself through a very, very mentally grueling week this week and then play another three events?

"I think most guys' thresholds are around three, two to three weeks in a row. Maybe they (organizers) could spread it out a little bit, or change the way that the tournament's run out on the West Coast, maybe that might help it a little bit. I think the Wednesday start, obviously finishing on Saturday and then competing against the NFL is very difficult."

Watch the final round of the Grant Thornton Invitational today, Sunday 15 December, to see some of the best men's and women's pros playing together in a mixed pairs event, with various TV options, live streams, and the ability to watch from anywhere with a VPN.

The official PGA Tour and LPGA Tour seasons may be over but, after last week's Hero World Challenge, the fun continues with this mixed event on The Gold course at Tiburon Golf Club in Florida.

Back for its second edition after its successful launch last year, the Grant Thornton Invitational sees 16 pairs - each comprised of a pro from the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour - battle it out over a three-day, multi-format tournament.

The 2024 Grant Thornton got underway on Friday 13 December with a Scramble, followed by a Foursome (Alternate Shot) on Saturday 14 Decembe, and will finish off with a Modified Four-Ball on Sunday 15 December.

After two rounds, Patty Tavatanakit & Jake Knapp top the Grant Thornton Invitational leaderboard at –20, followed by Jeeno Thitikul & Tom Kim at –18 and then Jennifer Kupcho & Akshay Bhatia at –17. The 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational winners Jason Day and Lydia Ko are still in the hunt to defend their title in fourth at –15.

Read on for our guide on how to watch Grant Thornton Invitational online, on TV, and from anywhere.

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In the US you can watch the Grant Thornton Invitational on Golf Channel, NBC, the NBC Sports app, and Peacock. All brands are part of the NBC stable, with the broadcaster splitting its coverage across television and online.

The main action from the final two days will be available on NBC if you're a TV viewer and on the Peacock streaming platform for an online simulcast. A Peacock subscription costs a modest $7.99 a month, or $79.99 for the full year.

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Golf fans in the UK can watch the Grant Thornton Invitational on Sky Sports.

The action will always be on the dedicated golf channel, Sky Sports Golf, with three hours of coverage each evening across the three days of competition.

You can get Sky Sports Golf on your television by adding a Sky Sports plan to your existing TV package - prices will vary by provider. To watch online, subscribers can use the Sky Go app, while there are also a number of Sky Sports streaming plans out there. Check out Sky Sports deals and packages for today’s best prices.

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Watch Grant Thornton Invitational in Canada

In Canada, the Grant Thornton Invitational will be broadcast by TSN, which has rights to the PGA Tour in Canada.

Only the final two days of action will be shown, with Saturday's round two shown on TSN3 and Sunday's final round on TSN5.

TV packages vary by provider but if you want a Grant Thornton Invitational live stream, you can sign up to their online platform TSN+. Prices start from $8.99 a month.

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Golf fans in Australia can watch Grant Thornton Invitational on Fox Sports and Kayo, if they can stomach the early starts.

Fox Sports will carry TV coverage on channel 503, while Kayo Sports will offer live streaming of all three rounds.

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Grant Thornton Invitational Pairings

1. Patty Tavatanakit & Jake Knapp –20

2. Jeeno Thitikul & Tom Kim –18

3. Jennifer Kupcho & Akshay Bhatia –17

4. Lydia Ko & Jason Day –15

T5. Andrea Lee & Max Greyserman –14

T5. Celine Boutier & Matthieu Pavon –14

T5. Brooke Henderson & Corey Conners –14

T8. Lauren Coughlin & Cameron Young –2

T8. Allisen Corpuz & Sahith Theegala –12

T10. Nelly Korda & Daniel Berger –11

T10. Maja Stark & JT. Poston –11

T12. Lilia Vu & Luke List –9

T12. Megan Khang & Matt Kuchar –9

T12. Mel Reid & Cameron Champ –9

15. Lexi Thompson & Rickie Fowler –8

16. Gabriela Ruffels & Nick Dunlap –3

Grant Thornton Invitational tee times

Final Round: Sunday, December 15

• 8.40am ET /1.40pm GMT – Thompson & Fowler / Ruffels & Dunlap
• 8.55am ET /1.55pm GMT – Vu & List / Khang & Kuchar
• 9.10am ET / 2.10pm GMT – Stark & Poston / Reid & Champ
• 9.25am ET / 2.25pm GMT – Corpuz & Theegala / Korda & Berger
• 9.40am ET / 2.40pm GMT – Henderson & Conners / Coughlin & Young
• 9.55am ET / 2.55pm GMT – Lee & Greyserman / Boutier & Pavon
• 10.10am ET / 3.10pm GMT – Kupcho & Bhatia / Ko & Day
• 10.25am ET / 3.25pm GMT – Tavatanakit & Knapp / Thitikul & Kim

Grant Thornton Invitational TV schedule

Sunday 15th December - Round Three:

• US (ET): 1pm - 2pm (Golf Channel), 2pm - 4pm (NBC / Peacock)

• Canada (ET): 2pm - 4pm (TSN)

• UK (GMT): 6pm - 9pm (Sky Sports Golf)

• India (IST): 11.30pm - 2.30am (Monday) (Fancode)

• Australia (AEDT): 5am - 8am (Monday) (Fox Sports / Kayo)

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Since its inception in 2022, a number of big players like Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson have joined LIV Golf, but it seems that one player won't be following the move of the Major winners.

Throughout the past few years, Jason Day has remained neutral on the circuit and, despite some reports previously linking the Aussie to a potential move, Day has revealed the reason why he never left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.

Speaking to Code Sports Australia, the Major winner stated that "I didn’t knock it back," in terms of a deal, with the statement meaning he never had the chance to reject an offer from the PIF-backed circuit.

"What happened was, it was a business move to just go in and explore the potential of what would happen. I said (to my agent), 'no worries, I’m happy with where I’m at, but it’s always nice to know.' And they (LIV Golf) said, 'we love Jason, but he’s too injured; he just gets too many injuries.' I don’t blame them.”

It's no secret that Day has had his fair share of injuries throughout his career, with the 36-year-old suffering with back pain, a strained ligament, and vertigo.

Like Koepka, who found a resurgence in form on LIV Golf after revealing one of the reasons for joining the League was due to career-threatening injury problems, Day has also re-found his game, with the move to stay on the PGA Tour seeing him break into the winners' circle at the 2023 Byron Nelson, five years after his last victory.

“I’m so thankful and so happy that I stayed on the PGA Tour,” Day admitted. “I just feel that the Tour was a perfect spot for me.”

Currently, Day has enjoyed some time off from the game following his appearance at the Presidents Cup, with the former World No.1 preparing for his home open, the Australian PGA Championship, for the first time since 2017. The tournament gets underway on the 21st November, as the likes of LIV Golf's Cameron Smith and Major winner, Adam Scott, will feature.

Jason Day plays for the International Team in the Presidents Cup for the fifth time later this week.

Despite that healthy number of appearances, the Royal Montreal Golf Club match in Canada will be his first since 2017, when the team lost to the US at Liberty National, and he has admitted that he has occasionally lacked the drive for the contest in the past.

Day, who qualified automatically for Mike Weir’s side, began by telling reporters he sees plenty of passion in the current crop, which was sometimes lacking in the past – including from himself.

He said: “It’s nice to be able to get into a room and have guys very passionate about trying to win the Cup, which is, I think - back in my day, maybe not a lot of the guys were maybe bought into the Presidents Cup as what I'm seeing now, myself included. I felt like I probably could have done a little bit more.

"But it's nice to be able to sit in those team rooms, hear the guys talk. The tournament has improved dramatically since I first started. The way when you walk into the player area, having the locker rooms, everything like that, it means so much more now than what we had before."

The International Team has a woeful Presidents Cup record, having only one won and tied one other in the 14 editions so far. Day has yet to experience a positive result in his four appearances, while his overall record of 5-11-4 is also underwhelming. The 36-year-old, who made his debut in 2011, admitted that at the start of his career, he was more focused on the PGA Tour.

He said: “I think in my younger days I didn't really look towards the Presidents Cup as something that I wanted to play in because it's such an individual sport, and I never really cared too much to play in the Presidents Cup because all I cared about was playing on the PGA Tour and trying to win.”

He also revealed that he didn’t always feel some of his teammates were fully invested in the match either. “I've really wanted to play in the Presidents Cup,” he said. “My first Presidents Cup I was excited. I'm not sure the team environment was as passionate as we have now.”

Day then admitted that had affected his own motivation further on, notably in 2015, when he won just 0.5 points from his five sessions. He said: “That kind of hurt my drive to want to compete because I'm like, 'well, if some guys aren't wanting to push, then why do I need to push?' That happened when I wasn't as driven in, like, Korea. I wasn't as driven there to compete.”

During the summer, Day finally made his Olympics debut at Le Golf National after he had opted out of the 2016 Games citing concerns over the Zika virus, and he revealed that experience had helped reignite his passion for the Presidents Cup.

“It definitely opened my eyes when I played the Olympics and how much more it means to playing the game of golf and what the game of golf has given me,” he said. “And then obviously seeing the guys and how they are, that definitely opens my eyes to wanting to play as hard as I can for these guys.”

Day is also confident that the Internationals have what it takes to compete this week. He added: "I feel like we have a tremendous team right now from top to bottom. In the past, I'm not sure if the numbers kind of stacked up as well. But this week I think the guys are more than prepared."

Jason Day has produced a number of eye-catching performances so far in 2024, including top-10 finishes in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational and Wells Fargo Championship, but it’s not just his form that has been striking - his clothing has also created plenty of talking points.

The Australian became an ambassador for apparel brand Malbon Golf at the beginning of the year after almost a decade with Nike. However, if his early appearances sporting the typically looser fitting streetwear style of the company created ripples, it exploded at April’s Masters.

There, his baggy pants caused a sensation on social media, while his bold vest with No.313 and the words 'Malbon Golf Championship' unapologetically emblazoned on it was all too much for the staid traditionalists of Augusta National, who asked him to take it off.

Nevertheless, the talking points the unconventional attire raised appeared to be manna from heaven for Malbon, who wrote on social media: "Looks like that time for folks to get mad over clothes again."

Day also saw the funny side, commenting after his second round of the Major: “If it's down breeze, these things puff up pretty quick."

Over five months on from that storm of publicity, Day has no regrets over his decision to team up with the brand. In an exclusive interview with Golf Monthly, he said: “It’s been great for me. The guys on tour sometimes aren’t used to the look, but I think it’s awesome.

“It’s been tremendous being a part of their team. Obviously, they’re very new to the golfing world – 2017 is when they first started everything.

“They’ve got a big footprint in Korea and they’re really getting things going around here, so it’s kind of nice to be able to come out to an event and wear something that no one else is wearing, which is great.”

The brand hasn’t just signed up Day, with other pros, including Charley Hull, joining the fold. That suggests that, despite the stir its clothing has caused, Malbon Golf is here to stay, and Day reassured fans of the unique style that there is far more in the pipeline.

“It’s also so nice to listen to Steve [Malbon] and hear his vision for where he wants to take it," he said. "It’s going to be exciting times going forward because I’m going to wear, not crazy stuff, but it’s crazy for the golf world. But it looks very, very good.”

Regardless of what he wears on the course, the 13-time PGA Tour winner also revealed he still has plenty of ambition to achieve more success in the game. He said:  “I’ve finished second in all of the Majors now and have won one of them. Now my goal is to get the wins in all of them.”

That challenge will begin again at next year’s Masters, but before that, his next appearance will come at the Presidents Cup, albeit wearing the uniform of the International Team rather than the head-turning clothing of Malbon.

Earlier in the month, Day auctioned his Masters vest and it sold for $18,000, a figure that the Australian matched, with the proceeds going to his Brighter Days Foundation.

Jason Day has been World No.1 and won a Major, but pulling on an Australia shirt in the Olympics took him by surprise as he was overcome with nerves at Le Golf National.

Day carded a first round of 69 to sit six shots off Hideki Matsuyama but still in touch after the opening 18 holes of the men's Olympic golf tournament.

Although he's experienced almost everything in the game, pulling on his national team colours just hit a bit different for Day - and he really felt it.

He said looking down at the famous Australian green and gold filled him with a sense of national pride - but also unprecedented nerves.

"This is probably the most nervous I’ve been wearing a set of clothes that you look down and see the colours," said Day after his round.

"The first couple holes caught me off-guard actually quite a lot. I was quite nervous standing over the first tee shot and then it took me a few holes to get over it. 

"It’s amazing, we’re not playing for money this week obviously. We are playing for a medal and you’re here for kind of playing for free. But my point is, is that like it feels totally different. 

"This is the most I’ve felt nervous standing on a tee box wearing a set of clothes that I’m wearing for the first time. It’s a good feeling because it just shows that it means a lot to me, which is good. So I’m happy about it."

Much like Rory McIlroy, Day was surprised but delighted with the bumper crowd that attended the opening day at the stunning Le Golf National.

"I heard the crowd when I was on the putting green, screaming over there, and you go down the stairs, going from 1 to 2 to 3, it was impressive. It's impressive to see how much sport brings a lot of people together.

"It's a beautiful sport, isn't it, firstly, and this is a great golf course. I think it's a great venue. Paris is a really cool spot to come to. Feel very lucky to be able to play in front of a crowd like this for sure."

With golf's reintroduction in Rio 2016 a low key one due to Zika virus and Tokyo being blighted by Covid, this is the first proper Olympic tournament for the sport to showcase at it's best - with a famous venue packed with fans.

Day says there's a "different vibe" about it this year, and although still miles behind the Majors in importance, there's potential for an Olympic gold medal to become almost equally sought after.

"Potentially. That takes time and history. Over time, we're in our third Olympics in since the 1900s. I think at some point it will," Day said of where an Olympic medal could stand in the future.

"Just because there's only one of them, you know what I mean. Currently on the men's side, there's only one gold medal that you can win. 

"It's not like you can jump into swimming and if you're good enough, you can jump into different races. Over time it will just get bigger and bigger."

Jason Day has adopted an interesting strategy to prepare for this week’s Memorial Tournament.

Like many other professional golfers, Day usually travels and stays in an RV during PGA Tour events.

But as a resident of Columbus, Ohio, he has previously managed to stay at home during the Memorial, with Muirfield Village Golf Club only a 30-minute drive from where he lives. 

For this year’s event, however, Day has opted against sleeping in his own bed to stay in his motorhome that is parked on his driveway. 

The 13-time PGA Tour winner revealed that the idea of sleeping in an RV – like he has for many other tournaments – came from his wife after a poor run of results at his ‘home’ event.

“Thirty-minute drive, not too bad,” he said in an interview with Ron Green on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. “I am staying in my bus in my driveway though.”

When asked by Green to explain his unusual living arrangement, Day replied: “So my wife suggested it. In the past, I've had some poor results here and she's said, 'I think you're too relaxed and you're out of structure. And you need to treat it as a tournament week.' So we have a spot where we park our bus in the driveway and, yeah, I'm staying there."

Day said he wasn’t sure why he hasn’t performed well at the Memorial in the past, but hopes the familiarity of his RV will help him this week.

“In team sports you typically play better at your home stadium or if it’s a home game you typically play better because you’ve got the fans. For me I think it’s just a busy week, you’ve got family and friends coming in and out. It is a little bit more of a relaxed week, even though it is a tough golf course.

“But overall I feel good this week. We’ve got three big tournaments coming up in a row, so I’m trying to get as focused as possible.”

After the unique team tournament served up at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, there is a regular PGA Tour event this week with the CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch.

Last year, Jason Day completed a one-shot win over Austin Eckroat and Si Woo Kim for his first PGA Tour win in five years to claim a $1.71m top prize from the overall payout of $9.5m, and there’s an identical sum on offer this week. The runner-up will also receive a substantial payout of $1,035,500 as consolation for just missing out.

While this week’s tournament is not one of the PGA Tour's lucrative signature events, which regularly offer $20m, the figure available is the highest of the regular events so far this season. The Valero Texas Open was the next closest, with a payout of $9.2m.

The payout available this week is also substantially more than the $2.25m up for grabs at the Volvo China Open on the DP World Tour. However, it still falls far short of the $25m in the prize fund for the latest LIV Golf tournament in Singapore.

The winner this week will also accumulate 500 FedEx Cup points, while there are a projected 43 world ranking points available to the champion.

Below is the prize money payout for the CJ Cup Bryon Nelson. 

CJ Cup Byron Nelson Prize Money Payout

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Not only is Jason Day defending the title he won for the second time last year, but he is also one of the highest-ranked players in the field at 22nd. That should give him plenty of confidence that his 13th PGA Tour win could be imminent.

The player in the field with the highest world ranking is Jordan Spieth, who is two places ahead of Day, and he is in search of his first win since the 2022 RBC Heritage. That would prove a timely boost to Spieth, too, who has been somewhat out of sorts of late. With the PGA Championship also now just two weeks away, Spieth will be hoping to find his best form before he begins another attempt to compete a career Grand Slam.

As well as Day and Spieth, seven other players in the world’s top 50 are in the field, including Tom Kim, Min Woo Lee and Sungjae Im, while KH Lee is another two-time winner of the tournament, and he also plays having claimed the title in 2021 and 2022.

Another intriguing name in the field is Kris Kim. The 16-year-old amateur beat Miles Russell in last year’s Junior Ryder Cup, and he makes his PGA Tour debut.

One player who won't be participating is Will Zalatoris. He had been in the field but has withdrawn, to be replaced by Nick Watney.

He caught our attention with his dress sense at The Masters, but Jason Day has also made an equipment change with a new batch of irons in the bag as he looks to get back to the very top of the game.

Day was politely asked to remove his Malbon vest by Augusta National officials, but as well as apparel he's also made a recent equipment change.

The former World No.1 is working his way back up to the higher echelons of the men's game, and as an equipment free agent he's trying to find the right formula in his bag to do so.

Day has tried a variety of different combinations of TaylorMade irons recently, but has now got a mixed set of Srixons in the bag.

With concerns over his spin rate, the Australian has gone for the Srixon ZX5 MKII in his long irons, the 3 and 4-irons, while putting in play the ZX7 MK II in his 5-iron down to PW.

“For me, they spin a little bit less,” Day told GolfWRX.com. “They’re very good out of fairway bunkers, too. 

"I haven’t played too much in the rough yet, so I still need to get an understanding of how they come out of the rough, but for me, it was all about spin control.

“I had tested the previous model to these [Srixon ZX7’s], but I only had one club. And I was getting some inconsistent spin with my previous irons, so I just decided to at least give them another shot. My biggest thing was to take spin off because I was spinning it like crazy.”

Day has been playing something like his old self this year, with four top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour - including a T6 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and a nine-placed finish at the Genesis Invitational.

The former PGA Championship winner also had a decent T30 finish at The Masters this week, having only put his new irons into the bag ahead of the Texas Children's Houston Open a couple of weeks before.

Iron play has been his weak spot throughout the year, ranking way down in 141st in that Strokes Gained Approach stats, and that's something he's looking to fix with his new set-up.

Both his new irons and his ultra stiff True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 shafts are known for lowering spin rates so Day will hope this new combination can improve his approaches and see him get back to his best golf.

Jason Day has admitted that he made a mistake in not competing for Australia at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Back then, Day was not only the top-ranked male Australian but the World No.1, but he chose not to play because of concerns over the Zika virus and the potential consequences of transmitting it on starting a family. 

Eventually, Marcus Fraser and Scott Hend represented the country at the Olympics, but the pair couldn’t add to Australia’s medal tally.

Eight years on and Day is once again one of the world’s top players after recovering from a slump in form that saw him drop to 175th in the world rankings in October 2022.

Day, who is currently ranked 21st, explained after a three-under final round at The Masters that there wouldn’t be a repeat of that decision this year at the Paris Olympics, which start in July. He said: 'll play. If I'm in, I'll play for sure, yeah. I'm looking forward to it.

"I think I made a bit of a mistake not going down to Rio, even though part of it was family-related. I kind of missed out on that, and I probably should have gone. But if I get the opportunity, I'm looking forward to going.”

Several names are still in the frame to join Day, including Min Woo Lee, who is currently the most likely at World No.32, LIV Golf’s Cameron Smith and PGA Tour winner Cameron Davis, but the 36-year-old admitted he didn’t have a preference on who would accompany him.  

He said: “No, I don't. Whoever is playing the great, that would be great. I think Min Woo is playing good solid golf too. And obviously Smithy, playing in LIV you don't get World Ranking points. He needs to play well in the Major championships, trying to shoot himself up the leaderboard.”

Lee admitted he would jump at the chance to join Day on the team. He said: “Yeah, it’s unbelievable. To rep Australia - when you’re a professional, you don’t really get to represent the Australian side.

“Obviously every week, week in and week out you represent Aus, but when you’re an amateur, I got to play for Australia a lot of times, so I do miss putting on the green and gold, and hopefully - obviously Jason is a playing partner and a teammate. That will be really special. My sister is going to be in there, too, so it will be an unbelievable experience. Hopefully it can stay this way and I can play.”

Last month, Smith said he’s “desperately” hoping to qualify. He will bag some much-needed world ranking points for his strong Masters performance, where he seemed set for a top-10 finish. He also has the PGA Championship and the US Open to come as he bids to climb higher than his current 68th in the world rankings. The cut-off for making the team comes the day after June’s Pinehurst No.2 Major.

Davis, who was also eyeing a top-10 finish at Augusta National, went into the tournament 62nd in the world rankings.

Jason Day's apparel has been a big talking point at this year's Masters, with the Australian revealing that, on Friday, he was asked to remove his Malbon Championship Vest by Augusta National.

Speaking on Saturday, following his third round, Day stated: "They asked me to take the vest off yesterday (Friday), the busy one. Respectfully, you do that because it's all about the tournament here, and I understand that. I respect the tournament. That's what we're here to do is try and play and win the green jacket."

Being asked to take off the item of clothing, Day did clarify that it wasn't his decision to wear the vest and that it was Malbon who "scripted" him into the apparel, with the former World No.1 explaining that: "They (Malbon) send you the scripting and say, this is what we want you to wear Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I'm like, okay."

On the first day of the Masters, it was Day's pants that were the big talking point amongst those on social media, with even Sky Sports commentators, Paul McGinley and Sir Nick Faldo, joking that Day ordered a 32" inch waist and got sent a 42". 

Day, himself, acknowledged the jokes flying about, humorously stating: "If it's down breeze, these things puff up pretty quick," before adding "Tiger had baggier stuff on in the early 2000s. He did pretty good. I think it's fine."

Although a reason wasn't given by Augusta National, the incident didn't seem to bother Day, who carded rounds of 75 and 73 to make it inside the cut line and earn a spot into the weekend. On Saturday, the 36-year-old then carded a four-over-par round of 76 to sit in a tie for 46th going into the final day.

Jason Day reaped the dividends of an extensive pre-tournament session with coach Chris Como as he returned to form after an 'awful week' at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

After a positive start to the season, which saw Day notch up three top-ten finishes on the West Coast Swing, the Australian struggled to hit the same heights at Bay Hill, stuttering to a T36 finish.

With the World No. 21's coach in town, the pair worked together extensively to remedy the situation and it was time well spent, with Day firing a bogey-free 67 in the first round of the Players Championship to position himself nicely for the days ahead.

"I did a lot of good quality work with Chris at the start of the week," Day explained after Thursday's action. "I typically don't like to work during the weeks that I'm playing but I hit it awful last week, and I didn't know what was going on.

"I lost a lot of confidence in my hitting. My targets were way too large. We had a two-way miss going on. When that happens, it's hard to commit to any type of shot.

"Just tried to work on some of the technical stuff that we've been trying to get into over the last six months. That's difficult because I've got to teeter on the edge of being a little bit too sore in my back ... I've got to really kind of find a good balance there. I feel like I found a nice balance."

Day has history at this tournament, storming to a four-shot victory to claim the title back in 2016. But health issues and injuries saw him tumble down the rankings before his partnership with Como helped drag him out of his slump.

The 36-year-old broke his five-year winless run at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May last year but acknowledged that things will have to be different this time if he is to win the PGA Tour's headline event for a second time at TPC Sawgrass.

"The tournament went from May to March, so that was a bit of a change," Day said. "The style of the golf course we used to play in May was totally different compared to now. 

"I hit a lot more drivers off the tees. It's a lot more important, super important to hit fairways now, whereas before you'd miss a fairway you'd be like, 'It's not too bad, I can run something up, and it's no problem'.

"Things play a little bit softer now and they're very thick out of the rough. So yeah, the style of the game is different"

Former PGA Championship winner Jason Day has signed a deal to take equity ownership in footwear brand, Payntr Golf while helping to launch a new shoe collection.

Called the 'X1 Proto', Payntr's latest model will be tested by Day throughout the 2024 PGA Tour season prior to it hitting shelves in the Fall. The Australian is currently wearing the company's 'X 006 RS' shoe.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Payntr was founded by three long-time sports performance footwear experts, Mike Forsey, Michael Glancy, and David Paynter.

The brand - which recently launched the the Trainer X001 at the 2024 PGA Merchandise Show - says it is guided by the principle: 'Performance Multiplied.'

Commenting on the deal, Day said: “Over the last several years, Payntr Golf and their footwear has made a name for themselves amongst many professional golfers on Tour.

“When the opportunity to join this team, and their mission to give golfers a true on-course performance advantage, was proposed, it fit perfectly.

"Their golf footwear expertise and attention to detail is unmatched. But for me, having the unique opportunity to work closely as an owner on a collaborative collection from concept to reveal was key to the full partnership coming together.”

Day is said to be "actively involved in the design and development process" of the X1 Proto, a collection which will combine his "signature style elements" with Payntr Golf's proprietary propulsion technology and advanced comfort features.

As a result, the golf footwear brand - which ranks among the best golf shoes available - say the X1 Proto is "both distinctive and performance-driven."

"We are thrilled to partner with Jason on this exciting venture," said Mike Forsey, co-founder and president of Payntr Golf. "His unparalleled expertise and passion for the game will continue to be invaluable in creating a truly innovative golf footwear collection with a new tech classic style to elevate the on-course experience of golfers around the world."

The former Adidas ambassador also signed an apparel deal with Malbon Golf during the off-season and has been wearing a number of eye-catching outfits during the early part of the 2024 PGA Tour season.

Jason Day has become the first Malbon Golf ambassador on the PGA Tour after signing a deal with the Los Angeles-based clothing company ahead of the 2024 season.

Day will bring excellent form into the first week of the PGA Tour's 2024 campaign at The Sentry after he lifted the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational title last month alongside New Zealander, Lydia Ko.

But the Australian won't be dressed in his iconic Nike attire when he tees it up at the Kapalua Plantation Course. Day had been with Nike since 2016 - reportedly signing a $100million deal with the sporting giant back then - but has opted to end his seven-year association with the brand in order to become a pioneer for the relatively fresh-faced Malbon.

Day also split with TaylorMade in January 2021 and is an equipment free agent. Since then, the Australian has experimented with several brands - including Ping, Titleist and Bridgestone, the latter of which he has a deal with for golf balls.

Malbon - the lifestyle brand inspired by the game of golf - was established by "culture and golf enthusiasts" Stephen and Erica Malbon back in 2017 and has continued to gain popularity due to what they call "its unmistakable branding and playful curation."

Malbon says its ultimate aim is simple - "to inspire today’s youth to participate in the greatest game on earth." And despite possessing less than 50 staff, Malbon has taken its first steps into professional golf by signing the former World No.1, putting its apparel on show to the world at this week's Sentry tournament in Hawaii.

Malbon's gain is Nike's loss, at a time where the global behemoth could also be about to part ways with its most famous ambassador. An increasing number of reports have suggested Tiger Woods could be about to move on from Nike after almost 30 years.

And during the most recent PNC Championship at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando - just before Christmas - Woods failed to quash talk when asked about the Nike rumors which have been circulating with increasing fervour.

A reporter asked: “There’s been a lot of chatter the last month or so on your relationship with Nike, and where that’s going. Can you give any clarity to that?”

With his hands fixed on his hips, Woods replied: “I’m still wearing their product.”

The journalist then pressed for a different response via a more direct question: "Is this the end of it, coming up?"

Woods said: “I’m still wearing their product.”

And at a time in the year when most golf contracts begin and end, Nike will be comforted by the fact that stellar names such as Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Nelly Korda appear to be sticking with the Swoosh.

Baltusrol Golf Club In Springfield, New Jersey has hosted many famous occasions in the game’s history across its two courses, and it's one of the most revered in the US.

Its beginnings were decidedly humble, though. The club was established in 1895, and named after the man who farmed the land of its location - Baltus Roll. Originally, it had just a single nine-hole course designed by George Hunter.

That soon changed when it was expanded to 18 holes three years later, and it was the catalyst for some memorable tournaments coming to the club, including the 1901 US Women’s Amateur and US Open in 1903 and 1915.

Despite that early recognition, in 1918 the Old Course was flattened to make way for the Lower and Upper Courses on the recommendation of A.W. Tillinghast. Both opened four years later.

It’s hard to argue with that decision. The Upper Course hosted the US Open in 1936 and the US Women’s Open in 1985. However, the Lower Course has become even more revered, thanks partly to Robert Trent Jones’ lengthening of it ready for tournament play in 1948, a task that was repeated by his son, Rees Jones, in 1992.

Since that original work in the 1940s, the Lower Course has hosted the US Open four times, including in 1967, where Jack Nicklaus famously edged out Arnold Palmer to the title in an epic duel, and another Nicklaus win in 1980, his fourth and last title in the Major. The clubhouse also displays all four of Nicklaus’s scorecards from that tournament.

The course also memorably hosted the 2005 PGA Championship, where Phil Mickelson claimed the first of his two titles. It was the scene of the 2016 tournament, too, where Jimmy Walker beat Jason Day by a shot to clinch his sole Major to date.

The Lower Course has also hosted the US Women’s Open twice, in 1961 and 1985, while it hosts the second women's Major of 2023, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

In other words, this is a course fully immersed in the history of golf in the US. It’s not surprising the club has held so many top events, either. As well as offering a solid test of championship golf, it’s known for its outstanding beauty and rich history, and was even designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2014.

In 2018, Gil Hanse was tasked with making it even better, and set about the restoration of the Lower Course in an effort to bring back elements of Tillinghast's original design that included the removal of many of its trees. 

Fairway bunkers have also been added to the second and fifth holes, while greens have increased in size by around 20%. Some of the greenside bunkers have been moved, too, while the second and 17th holes see the return of formidable sand pits, containing not just sand, but also plants and grass.

As for the Tudor-style clubhouse, it was built in 1909 after the original - a converted farm house - burned down. It also has the distinction of being the first clubhouse to host a US president after William Howard Taft visited in 1912.

The club is private, meaning playing it will not be easy as a non-member. Those who do wish to join will reportedly need around $150,000 in initiation fees, with annual dues of around $18,500, making it one of the most exclusive golf clubs in the country. Even if you have the budget, there’s no guarantee you’ll be accepted as a member though. That’s because those who join do so by invite only.

More realistic for most will be to play as a guest of a member, although for some lucky members of the media, another option before a big tournament is to tee it up as part of a media day.

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Scoring records are being broken left, right and center at the US Open this week as Los Angeles Country Club poses slightly less of a stern test that many are used to in America's national open.

Considered to be 'golf's toughest test', the 123rd US Open has been somewhat of a birdie-fest at the top of the leaderboard, with Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele becoming the first players in history to shoot 62s in a US Open. Fowler tied the 36-hole scoring record and also made 18 birdies in his first 36 holes, the most ever in a US Open.

Not everyone has been tearing it up though, with LACC still able to catch out players with its fast, sloping fairways and greens as well as thick rough. The golfers who didn't quite bring their 'A games' have struggled, and there's plenty of big names who are heading out of Los Angeles early.

The top-60 and ties make it through to the weekend at the US Open, and the cut mark fell at two-over-par, meaning that anyone at +3 or worse missed out.

Perhaps the biggest and most notable name is Phil Mickelson, who has finished runner-up six times in the US Open and only needs the fabled trophy to complete the career grand slam.

Lefty was one-under-par after 18 holes but a 74 on Friday meant he missed the cut for the third time in the past four years with a score of three-over-par, agonisingly just a single stroke shy of making it to the weekend.

The most surprising performance came from Justin Thomas, with the two-time Major winner finishing towards the bottom of the leaderboard after two days at 14-over-par. It hasn't exactly been a stellar year for Thomas so far, after missing the cut at The Masters and now US Open to go with his T65th at the PGA Championship.

Thomas reportedly said his score was "humiliating and embarrassing" and described his performance as the "lowest I’ve felt."

Justin finished 36 holes a total of 24 strokes behind his close friend Rickie Fowler, and another close friend of theirs, the 2015 US Open winner, Jordan Spieth also missed the cut. Spieth joined Mickelson at three-over to miss out by a single stroke.

Another big name Max Homa, playing in his home city, also missed out on four-over. Justin Rose also posted four-over despite a valiant effort on Friday. He shot a two-under 68 but the damage was done on Thursday with a 76.

Other Major winners to be going home early are Justin Rose, Jason Day, Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer, Francesco Molinari and Keegan Bradley.

Notable players to miss the cut at the US Open:

• +3 Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth
• +4 Max Homa, Justin Rose
• +5 Adam Scott
• +9 Jason Day
• +14 Justin Thomas

View all the scores on the US Open website

As the US Open gets underway there will be golf fans around the world putting bets on players who could lift the trophy at the end of the week. Within the field, there are a number of the top players who might claim the third men's Major of the year, with Brooks Koepka just one of those individuals.

Certainly, going into the tournament it'll be hard not to bet against the American, with Koepka finishing second at the Masters in April before securing a third PGA Championship. However, that is exactly what one individual has done, with one punter putting a bet of $27,600 on Koepka to not win the US Open! 

At Los Angeles Country Club, Koepka has the chance to claim a sixth Major and third US Open but, according to Prophet Exchange co-founder, Jake Benzaquen: "Large bet we took just now: One user bet $27,600 on Brooks Koepka NOT to win the US Open. The bet would pay $1,705 if Brooks loses."

The odds of this are -1600 (1/16) and, for context, Koepka is +1100 (11/1) to actually win at LACC this week. He wasn't the favourite though before play got underway, with World No.1 Scottie Scheffler just +700 (7/1) to pick up yet another title in 2023.

It's not the first time that we have seen some large bets put on Major championships. Back in 2019, one unidentified punter bet $85,000 dollars, in Las Vegas, all on Tiger Woods to win the 2019 Masters. Famously, the American won a fifth Green Jacket, with the lucky punter securing a $1.2 million payday!

Another sizeable bet came the year prior to Tiger's, when one punter almost won £108,000 off £5. In the treble bet, the individual predicted Haotong Li to win the Dubai Desert Classic at odds of +10000 (100/1), with Jason Day then claiming the Farmers Insurance Open at odds of +2000 (20/1).

Unfortunately, Rory McIlroy, who was the third part of the bet, was unable to secure the Masters in 2018 as he finished in a tie for fifth, with Patrick Reed picking up his first Major title by a shot. McIlroy's odds at the time were +900 (9/1).

The 2023 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday is set to get underway at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Patrick Cantlay will try to secure his third outright win at the Memorial Tournament in the past five years. He’s currently 10/1 to pull off the win, which would be his first of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season. Of course, Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm, the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked golfers in the world, sit atop the outright betting leaderboard. 

It’s a newly Designated event, which means the 120 golfers in the field are among the best on the Tour. We get action from all of the top performers, plus a ton of value on quality players that are flying under the radar based on current form or historical performances at Muirfield. Jack Nicklaus designed this course in his hometown of Dublin, Ohio, and he’s made continuous tweaks to it over the decades since its inception on the PGA Tour in 1976. 

Precision will continue to be the way to stay atop the leaderboard at this course, as the doglegged fairways, fast-paced Bentgrass greens, and various hazards will challenge all phases of a player’s game. It will be worth it, with an elevated purse worth $20 million with $3.6 million reserved for the outright winner, plus 550 FedExCup points that will be crucial down the stretch with only a dozen events remaining before the FedExCup playoffs invite the top 70-ranked players on the PGA Tour later this summer. 

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Previous Winners

• 2022 - Billy Horschel (-13)
• 2021 - Patrick Cantlay (-13)
• 2020 - Jon Rahm (-9)
• 2019 - Patrick Cantlay (-19)
• 2018 - Bryson DeChambeau 

Relevant Betting Stats

• Strokes Gained Tee-to-Green
• Strokes Gained Off-the-Tee
• Driving Accuracy percentage
• Scrambling
• Sand save percentage

Course Layout

Muirfield Village Golf Club is a par 72 that tips over 7,500 yards. Designed by Jack Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead and opened nearly 50 years ago, this course has undergone several restoration efforts to implement a modern feel on a track that was inspired and named after Nicklaus' Open Championship win several decades ago. The greens are now fully Bentgrass, removing the old Poa Annua mixture, while several tee boxes have been adjusted with moves closer and further from certain holes. The final five holes on the back nine at Muirfield will be the toughest test, with what’s known as the hardest hole saved for last on the par 4 18th. 

There are four par 5s this week, creating more birdie and eagle opportunities, while the greens are roughly 5,000 square feet in regulation, putting them on the smaller side of average on the PGA Tour. The rough is nearly four inches in some spots, while water hazards, including a few creeks, rear up along and across certain fairways. High temperatures should keep the Bentgrass moving quickly, while the fairways will need to be hit to avoid deep rough that could create havoc on approach shots. Ultimately, precision off the tee and approaching the green will be paramount to success. Unless of course, players can navigate the high-velocity Bentgrass with their putter. 

Top Players To Bet For Outright Memorial Tournament Winner

Patrick Cantlay (+1000) (Bet $100 to collect $1,100) Get the best Patrick Cantlay odds at FanDuel

It might be a bit too obvious, but taking Patrick Cantlay’s outright odds at 10/1 feels like a steal, especially since he’s won twice in the past four events at Muirfield Village. The Californian is still seeking his first outright win of the season, but he’s collected seven T10 finishes, including a T9 at the second major during the PGA Championship. There are numerous metrics backing Cantlay this week, whether he’s ranked fourth in total strokes gained, seventh tee-to-green, first in total driving, and finding greens in regulation at over a 70 percent clip. Confidently back Cantlay’s precise irons and accurate putting into getting him his third win at The Memorial Tournament since 2019. 

Jason Day (+2800) (Bet $100 to collect $2,900) Go to FanDuel for the best Jason Day odds

Jason Day hasn’t won at The Memorial Tournament, but he came close in 2020, drawing a T4 finish here in July 2020. The 35-year-old Aussie just ended his five-year win drought at the AT&T Byron Nelson, so expect his confidence and game to be fully dialed in and rolling at one of the most difficult par 72 courses that he’ll face this season. Day is ranked 13th in strokes gained putting, 16th in total driving, and second in scrambling, and averages 4.36 birdies per round, which is seventh-best on the PGA Tour. At 28/1, we’re getting fantastic value betting on Day to collect his 14th career win, his second outright of the year, and first at Muirfield Village.

Sahith Theegala (+6000) (Bet $100 to collect $6,100) FanDuel has the best Sahith Theegala odds

Sahith Theegala is due for his first outright win on the PGA Tour. He’s earned seven T10 finishes this season and secured a T5 finish at Muirfield Village in 2022. The Californian has slipped outside the top 50 in his last two events played, including the second major of the season at the PGA Championship, which is why Theegala is such an immense value at 60/1 entering this Designated event. His metrics aren’t as eye-popping as other players. Still, Theegala had a lot of success at The Memorial Tournament in his debut last year and should rebound nicely, so don’t hesitate to sprinkle on his longshot 60/1 odds for his first career win on the PGA Tour. 

Fresh off his first PGA Tour victory in five years at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Jason Day has decided not to play a practice round ahead of the second men's Major of the year in order to recharge his batteries.

The Australian has worked hard to rebuild his golf swing following a slump in form that saw him plummet down the world rankings, and arrives at the 2023 PGA Championship among the favourites to get his hands on the Wanamaker Trophy come Sunday evening in New York.

But he'll have to do it without ever having played Oak Hill's East Course that has been compared to Winged Foot and Bethpage Black by some of the game's biggest names. The 35-year-old admits "it sucks" he can't prepare how he'd like to, but insists his best chance of adding to his lone Major title is if he's mentally recovered from last week's exploits.

"I haven't played the course," Day said. "Unfortunately, I haven't seen the course. I most likely probably won't see the course today. I'm just not fighting anything, I just want to make sure that I'm mentally prepared and mentally ready for tomorrow. 

"If I come in tomorrow tired and exhausted, it won't do me any favours, so I'm just going to try and take it easy. It's not the first time I've come into the Major championship not playing a practice round.

"From what I understand and listening to the comments from the guys that have been talking about the golf course and everyone saying how difficult it is, that this style is going to be a lot more difficult than previous PGA Championships. 

"It's most likely going to be more of a [hit] to the centre of the green, putt to the pin locations, grab your birdies when you can, and then just kind of survive. That's why it sucks to not be able to prepare the way I want to."

While it might not be the ideal Major preparation, Day added that he was "very grateful" still to be able to play golf for a living after suffering with a debilitating back injury that nearly forced him to hang up his clubs. The Australian credits a chance meeting with Chris Como while Tiger Woods was struggling with the chipping yips for helping to resurrect his career, and has now set his sights set on reclaiming the World No. 1 spot.

"I would say, yeah, I do," Day added, when asked if he felt validated for all the hard work he's put in. "But once again, it would be nice to get another Major. It would be nice to get back to No. 1. So there's things that are beyond that. It's a good step in the right direction I would just say."

As for how Woods reacted to Day's first win since the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship... "I can't say what he said because a lot of it was like F-words in it."

Day gets his PGA Championship first round underway alongside Keegan Bradley and Bryson DeChambeau at 9.06am local time (2.06pm BST).

The 2023 PGA Championship heads back to Oak Hill Country Club this week for the first time since 2013, as 156 of the world’s best players will be teeing it up. It will also mark the second time this year that the PGA Tour’s best will meet LIV Golf’s best, as the outcast Tour’s players will be allowed to compete (if they qualified) in the 105th edition of the PGA Championship. Let’s take a closer look at my top five in the field this week with the potential to take home the top prize. 

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PGA Championship Course - Oak Hill Country Club, Pittsford, NY

Designed by legendary golf architect Donald Ross, Oak Hill Country Club outside of Rochester, New York is made for events like this one. Already having hosted a Ryder Cup, US Open, US Amateur, and major Senior events, this is the fourth time it’s hosted the PGA Championship. With greens featuring entirely bentgrass, they also come in smaller than average at just 4,500 square feet on average.

PGA Championship Power Rankings

Scottie Scheffler (+360) Bet $100 to collect $460 The best Scottie Scheffler odds are at DraftKings

Coming into the week as No. 1 on Tour in SG: Tee-to-Green, Scottie Scheffler plays best when the lights are brightest. In 13 events played this season, he has made all 13 cuts, finishing in the top 25 in all but one event, and in the top 10 nine times, including two outright wins. 

Jon Rahm (+750) Bet $100 to collect $850 DraftKings has the best Jon Rahm odds

Just as we saw in his Masters win just last month, Rahmbo might just still be getting better. A threat to rattle off a run of birdies anywhere at any time, Jon Rahm is a real contender here.

Patrick Cantlay (+1600) Bet $100 to collect $1,700 Head to DraftKings for the best Patrick Cantlay odds

For me, Patrick Cantlay is the best guy playing every week yet to win a Major. He’s been dialed as of late as well, finishing top 25 or better in eight straight events, including four top 5s. 

Xander Schauffele (+1600) Bet $100 to collect $1,700 Go to DraftKings for the best Xander Schauffele odds

Seemingly always the bridesmaid and never the bride, Xander Schauffele knows how to score in majors, and this course fits his game even better than most. 

Tony Finau (+2200) Bet $100 to collect $2,300 For the best Tony Finau odds head over to DraftKings

Arguably the second-best player in the world without a Major, Tony “Big Tone” Finau has four outright wins in the past 12 months coming into this one. If he can get the putter going, anything can happen here.

The 2023 PGA Championship is set to get underway this week from Oak Hills Country Club in Rochester, New York. We haven’t seen this site host the PGA Championship since Jason Dufner’s win a decade ago. There are plenty of talented veterans still competing in the field this week from 2013, including Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, and Adam Scott. Oak Hills CC is a demanding par 70 that runs nearly 7,400 yards. Two par 5 holes evenly distributed along the front and back nine are the only birdie opportunities. Still, even these holes run long and have the Bentgrass greens flanked by undulations and relocated sand bunkers.

Don’t expect a flurry of birdies from any player consistently through four rounds. The winning scorecard in 2013 was -10-under-par from Dufner, who went a scorching -7-under-par in Round 2 to climb into the lead and never look back. Scott managed a T5 finish, while McIlroy and Day wound up with T8 finishes in 2013. McIlroy won the PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014 but has yet to secure an outright win at Oak Hills. LIV golfers Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka are also the betting favorites to be competitive atop the leaderboard throughout the weekend. We saw Koepka and Jon Rahm battle throughout the weekend at Augusta National, with Rahm producing more birdies and clutch shots than Koepka down the stretch on Sunday to win the first major of the season.

The second major of the PGA Tour season means we’re getting a loaded field to construct our DFS lineups. The number of birdies we’re accustomed to seeing from players will likely drop, while the bogeys could go up. Fortunately, in DFS, bogeys are not penalized as much as birdies and eagles are rewarded, so scrambling to save par may wind up being the new premium for this week.

I’ve identified six of my favorite prospects to target on DraftKings and FanDuel ahead of the first round on Thursday. Keep reading to find out which golfers should be prioritized in lineups to help cash a few DFS contests at Oak Hill during the 2023 PGA Championship. 

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Jon Rahm ($11,400)

No surprise to anyone, World No. 1 ranked golfer Jon Rahm is the outright betting favorite and the most expensive player to roster in lineups on DraftKings. The 28-year-old star golfer has four outright wins and earned his first win at The Masters just over a month ago to secure the first major of the season. Rahm’s game is impeccable. Whether he’s crushing the driver, dialed in with precision irons, or sinking a 20-foot putt, the Spaniard is on top of his game and tends to start and finish with a lot of red numbers. At $11,400, we’re paying a premium to get Rahm into our lineups, but I’d prefer his skillset and current form to anyone else in the field at this salary. 

Xander Schauffele ($9,900)

Xander Schauffele has quietly been stacking better and better finishes in his last five solo events played. The 29-year-old Californian has improved from a T39 at Arnold Palmer Invitational in early March to T19, T10, fourth, and runner-up, most recently during the Wells Fargo Championship. Schauffele has managed to collect 15-19 birdies in each of his last four events played and has logged at least 107 fantasy points in DraftKings lineups across his last two events. Schauffele went T13 at Southern Hills last season, and his precise irons ranked fourth in total strokes gained will make him an asset in every DFS lineup this week. He’s a no-brainer in lineups at under a $10,000 salary on DraftKings.

Adam Scott ($7,800)

The 42-year-old Aussie has logged consecutive T5 and T8 finishes at the Wells Fargo Championship and AT&T Byron Nelson, going -8-under-par in the final round at the latter event this past weekend. Scott is available to roster at a ridiculously low salary, plus he managed a T5 finish here at Oak Hills during the 2013 PGA Championship. Adam Scott ranks inside the top 40 for strokes gained around the green and off-the-tee while also ranking highly in sand save percentage, which may wind up being a necessary skillset to possess with the relocated bunkers at Oak Hill CC. Scott has the current form and course history of being appealing, so factoring in his low salary of $7,800, he becomes a must-add prospect in DraftKings lineups.

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Patrick Cantlay ($11,300)

One of my favorite prospects in DFS and from an outright betting context is Patrick Cantlay. He’s been consistently producing T25 finishes or better across his last six events, including three finishes inside of the top five, which means the California native is getting closer to winning his first career major. Cantlay has won eight times in his career, including the BMW Championship during the FedExCup playoffs last August, but adding the Wanamaker Trophy to his collection would be a huge achievement. Cantlay is ranked sixth in total strokes gained, including eighth tee-to-green and third off-the-tee, while also ranking second in total driving and 18th in strokes gained putting. With hardly a flaw in his game, other than pace of play, Cantlay is a nice value and a quality blue-chip to lock into FanDuel lineups this week at Oak Hills. 

Jason Day ($9,900)

We just watched Jason Day end his five-year win drought with a one-stroke win at -23-under-par during the AT&T Byron Nelson this past weekend. The Aussie golfer has 13 career wins, including the 2014 PGA Championship, which means Day is built for big moments against loaded fields. Don’t expect 156 fantasy points on FanDuel based on what Day produced at the AT&T Byron Nelson, but he’s recorded four T25 finishes, including three T10 finishes, across his past six events played. Whether we focus on his 11th-ranked strokes gained putting, 16th strokes gained approaching the green, or 15th in total driving, Day is the complete package and has a ton of confidence entering this major at Oak Hills CC, so we are obligated to invest accordingly at under $10,000 on FanDuel.

Adam Svensson ($8,400)

We’re landing a cheap salary for Canadian golfer Adam Svensson ahead of the 2023 PGA Championship. Svensson’s last four finishes have gone T52, MC, T41, and T27, so there isn’t a lot of optimism at the moment, which is captured by his reduced salary on FanDuel. He has two T10 finishes, including outright at the RSM Classic in late 2022, while he’s collected five T25 finishes in 19 events, missing four total cuts. As bad as his finishes have been recent, Svensson is ranked 33rd in total strokes gained, including 40th putting, while ranking 16th in scrambling. Scrambling will be vital at Oak Hills to save par while battling small square footage Bentgrass greens, which is a big reason why I’m recommending investing in Svensson as a strong salary-saving option at $8,400 on FanDuel this week.

Jason Day has revealed how a chance encounter with Chris Como while Tiger Woods was suffering with the chipping yips helped resurrect his career.

The Australian spent 51 weeks as the World No. 1 between 2015 and 2017 and clinched his first and only Major to date at the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

Lifting the Wanamaker Trophy was his second win of four in six starts as Day established himself as the force to be reckoned with in the men's game, before running into injury problems and a loss of form that saw him plummet down the rankings.

He has since rebuilt his golf swing to make it less strenuous on his body and is now back among the world's top 20 having fallen almost outside the top 200, but it could have been very different were it not for the surprise short game issues that plagued Woods.

"When Tiger was going through the chipping yips, Tiger invited me out to kind of go over chipping technique and everything like that," Day told The Sydney Morning Herald. "Chris Como had seen a ton of 3D bio-testing of my chipping and they wanted to pick my brain, I guess, about what I thought and all that stuff in regards to the chipping.

"And I remember coming out of that meeting with Tiger and Chris and thinking, 'There’s something about Chris’. He’s very quiet, listens very intently, but you could tell that he knew a lot about the game and knew it at a deeper level, what the club should be doing.

"There was just something about him that drew me to him, so I just knew when I talked to him about the golf swing that he was very switched on."

Such were Day's issues that he became renowned for withdrawing from events, either due to his debilitating back problems or as a result of his vertigo symptoms. After his first win in five years at the AT&T Byron Nelson, the Australian admitted the extent to which the physical impacted the mental, and how close he came to hanging up his clubs for good.

"There were definitely times when I thought, 'You know what, I’m done playing the game'. Just because of the stress it was putting on me and what it was doing to my health," he added.

"Mentally, I was not there and I wasn’t confident in myself. I honestly felt like I didn’t have the game and that maybe I was one of those guys that had a really good career and injuries hurt me and through the battling of injuries and trying to get back to the top, maybe I was one of those guys who was going to go out that way.

"But I didn’t want to look back on my career and know that I didn’t give it a good shot to get back."

It’s time for the second major of the 2023 PGA Tour season! Oak Hill Country Club is the site for this event, located in Rochester, New York. The last time we saw the PGA Championship played at Oak Hill CC came back in 2013 when Jason Dufner recorded a monstrous -7-under-par second round to climb up the leaderboard early and hold onto the lead for the final two rounds. Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Jason Day, and Dustin Johnson were some notable names who managed a T10 finish here a decade ago, so it will be interesting to see how well each of these golfers performs throughout the week.

As it goes with nearly all PGA Tour majors, birdies will be much harder to come by compared to recently played events like the AT&T Byron Nelson, Wells Fargo Championship, and Mexico Open at Vidanta. A big reason for minimal red scorecards can be attributed to the numerous par 4 holes that tup well over 400 yards, opening with back-to-back par 4s on the front nine while closing out the back nine with three more par 4s that all exceed 460 yards. Distance and accuracy will be premium skills to possess off the tee and approach the green. Bentgrass greens mean putting surfaces will run fast, while the square footage of these greens is on the smaller side, flanked by relocated white sand bunkers and undulations surrounding the greens.  

The field is loaded with talent, just like every major, led by Jon Rahm at 7/1 and Scottie Scheffler close behind at +750. Let’s look at the outright betting odds, course layout, and players who possess the skill and form to raise the Wanamaker Trophy at the 2023 PGA Championship during the second of four majors scheduled on the PGA Tour. 

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Previous Winners

• 2022 - Justin Thomas (-5)
• 2021 - Phil Mickelson (-6)
• 2020 - Collin Morikawa (-13)
• 2019 - Brooks Koepka (-8)
• 2018 - Brooks Koepka (-16)

Relevant Betting Stats

• Greens in Regulation percentage
• Scrambling
• Strokes Gained Off-the-Tee
• Sand Save percentage
• Strokes Gained Putting

Course Layout

Oak Hill Country Club East Course is a par 70 that tips just south of 7,400 yards. Designed by Donald Ross, the course underwent updates in 2020, adding exclusively Bentgrass greens and bunker relocations, while also incorporating a new drainage system and reducing the number of trees on the property. Oak Hill CC last hosted the PGA Championship in 2013, meaning golfers who have prior experience here like Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott could be facing several new elements that will force them to adapt during the first couple of rounds. 

Only one par 5 exists on the front nine and back nine, with four par 3s evenly distributed, creating challenging conditions to maintain a red scorecard. Players will face five consecutive par 4s from Hole 6 - Hole 10 while closing out with three consecutive par 4s on the back nine. The fairways are more open than we've seen in recent events, but the greens are on the smaller side, so players who can find greens in regulation or scramble consistently will climb the leaderboard. While there are a limited number of water hazards to navigate, doglegged fairways and small Bentgrass greens will demand precision all weekend.

Top Players To Bet For Outright PGA Championship Winner

Jon Rahm (+750) (Bet $100 to collect $850) FanDuel has the best Jon Rahm odds

This isn’t a surprising pick, in fact, it is considered a chalky investment to back Jon Rahm. Even with all of the labels you can put on betting the outright favorite, Rahm has hardly any flaws in his game this season. Whether it’s his driver, irons, or putter, the 28-year-old Spaniard seems to have no trouble producing red on his scorecard. He’s battled through adversity, too, getting off to sluggish starts or a poor round in the middle of an event, only to wind up storming back with four outright wins and eight T10 finishes in 12 events this year. Rahm went out quietly at Southern Hills during the 2022 PGA Championship, but I expect a vastly improved result in 2023. Hop on 7/1 odds now before they shorten in the coming days.

Brooks Koepka (+2100) (Bet $100 to collect $2,200) Go to FanDuel for the best Brooks Koepka odds 

We could wind up seeing Brooks Koepka battling Jon Rahm for the outright win, just like we saw during the first major at The Masters a month ago. The LIV golfer has won two of the previous five PGA Championship events, winning consecutively in 2018 and 2019. Back and knee injuries have hampered Koepka, but he’s still one of the best drivers of the golf ball in the game. If he can sink a few more putts on the Bentgrass surface, which wound up being a huge obstacle down the stretch at Augusta National, then Koepka will return huge value at 20/1 odds, which is essentially 3x value we’re landing betting on Rahm.

Matthew Fitzpatrick (+3300) Bet $100 to collect $3,400 Head to BetMGM for the best Matthew Fitzpatrick odds

I don’t often back Matthew Fitzpatrick, but his game is built for a course like Oak Hill. The 28-year-old Englishman just beat Jordan Spieth during a multi-hole playoff at RBC Heritage, and he earned his first career win during the U.S. Open last year, so Fitzpatrick is rounding into form nicely ahead of the 2023 PGA Championship. He logged a T5 finish at Southern Hills last year and could be in store for another strong finish this time, ranking 21st in total strokes gained, including 23rd putting and 24th in total driving, which combines accuracy and distance. Fitzpatrick is also a top-20 scrambler, which will be a massive asset to lean on during the rigors of Oak Hill. I love the value we’re getting at 28/1 for Fitzpatrick’s outright odds this week, so don’t hesitate to lay a unit accordingly. 

Sam Burns (+4600) (Bet $100 to collect $4,700) For the best Sam Burns odds go to FanDuel

Sam Burns is a highly volatile player who can be frustrating to bet on because he looks untouchable when he’s dialed in. Last year, the 26-year-old Louisiana native logged a T20 finish at Southern Hills and had finishes of sixth, T29, and T15 until missing the cut at Wells Fargo Championship a couple of weeks ago. Burns is ranked fifth in strokes gained putting, which will come in handy on the Bentgrass surfaces, while he ranks 21st in total driving. Around the green and par 3 holes tend to be obstacles for Burns, but he is ranked 57th in scrambling, which is good enough to overcome errant approach shots. It’s 50/1 for a reason, but I like the strengths Burns possesses and acknowledge that if he can gain momentum early, he’ll be a riser up the leaderboard once the cut line is enforced and the field is whittled in half on Saturday. It helps that he converts 36.7 percent of his birdie attempts, which is eighth-best on the PGA Tour, while also ranking fifth in one-putt percentage. A slow start typically eliminates Burns from contention, but at a course where birdies will be fleeting, Burns has a chance to gain the edge with his powerful driver and accurate putting. 

The final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson gave viewers an extremely enthralling watch, with multiple players in contention throughout at TPC Craig Ranch. However, after a nine-under-par final round of 62, it was Jason Day who came out on top, as he picked up his first PGA Tour title since May 2018.

Throughout the final day, more than 11 golfers could have laid claim to the trophy, with seven players tied for the lead heading into the back nine. At the end of play though, it was the Australian who landed the decisive blow, with Day securing the title on Mother's Day, just a year after his mother unfortunately passed away with cancer.

Going into the final day, the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Tyrrell Hatton were in contention, but it was actually Zecheng Dou, Austin Eckroat and Ryan Palmer who shared a three-way tie at the top of the leaderboard.

Both Dou and Eckroat were in search of their first PGA Tour titles and, out of the blocks, it was the duo who pulled away through five holes, with Dou standing at 19-under and Eckroat at 18-under. Just a few holes later though, the pair would slightly slip up, allowing for the chasing pack to pull into contention.

Going into the back nine, 18 players were within two shots of the lead and, during the early stages of the back nine, that number wasn't moving. One thing that was noticeable though was that experience was showing, as Scheffler, Day and Si Woo Kim rose to the top of the congested leaderboard.

Day though found an extra gear and, after back-to-back birdies at the 14th and 15th, he found himself top by two. Things were far from over though, with Kim keeping hot on his heels with birdies at the 14th and 16th.

As both parred the 17th, it would come down to the par 5 18th, with Day holding a one shot advantage. As both struck their drives, it was advantage Kim, with Day forced to lay-up and Kim finding the greenside bunker. However, the Australian would play a stunning third, with both men making birdies to remain in identical circumstances.

Day was now just one group away from the winner's circle, with his 23-under score one shot better than Kim. The 35-year-old still had to wait on Eckroat though, who could eagle the 18th to force a playoff.

Thankfully, for Day, the American couldn't convert his lengthy eagle putt at the last and, as a result, Day picked up his first PGA Tour victory in 1,835 days, with the win his 13th of his career. What's more, the round of 62 tied his career-low final-round score on the PGA Tour.

AT&T Byron Nelson 2023 Live Stream

K.H. Lee made history last year at the AT&T Bryon Nelson by winning the tournament two years in a row, joining players Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, and Tom Watson as the only golfers to do so in tournament history. 

However his task at achieving a three-peat will be tough given the standard of some of the players in the field this week. Jordan Spieth may have withdrawn with a wrist injury but Scottie Scheffler is back after skipping Wells Fargo. Hideki Matsuyama, Jason Day, Tom Kim, Tyrrell Hatton and Adam Scott are just some of the well-known names in the field for this week.

This marks the final event prior to the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club so we may even see a win and get in kind of situation occur. Below are all the broadcast and streaming details for the event.

AT&T Byron Nelson Live Stream: How to watch from outside your country

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US TV Schedule - 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson

All times EST

Thursday, May 11: 4pm-7pm (Golf Channel)

Friday, May 12: 4pm-7pm (Golf Channel)

Saturday, May 13: 1pm-3pm (Golf Channel), 3pm-6pm (CBS)

Sunday, May 14: 1pm-3pm (Golf Channel), 3pm-6pm (CBS)

NBC's Golf Channel will televise action during the week and CBS will takeover when the tournament heats up over the weekend. Bearing this in mind you can access the Golf Channel through streaming options such as AT&T TV Now and fuboTV.

AT&T TV Now starts at around $55 a month but does have a 7-day free trial. While fuboTV also offers the Golf Channel and 100+ other channels and also has a 7-day free trial.

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UK TV Schedule - 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson

Thursday, May 11: 5pm-midnight (Sky Sports Golf)

Friday, May 12: 5pm-midnight (Sky Sports Golf)

Saturday, May 13: 5pm-11pm (Sky Sports Golf)

Sunday, May 14: 5pm-11pm (Sky Sports Golf)

In the UK, Sky Sports should be your first port of call as Sky Sports Golf will televise action from the event. At the moment Sky has some great deals on Sky Sports for those looking to upgrade and those looking sign up to Sky for the first time.

You can get all eight Sky Sports Channels in HD for just £25 a month which not only includes all the golf action, but you can also watch the football, cricket, Formula 1, NFL and a whole host of other sporting events.

Australia TV Schedule - 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson

Thursday, May 11: 10.30pm-6am Kayo Sports (Fox Sports)

Friday, May 12: 11.30pm-9am Kayo Sports (Fox Sports)

Sunday, May 14: 3am-8am Kayo Sports (Fox Sports)

Monday, May 15: 3am-8am Kayo Sports (Fox Sports)

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As ever, Aussies out of the country can access their favorite streaming service just like they would at home can use a VPN to watch their PGA Tour live stream of choice.

AT&T Byron Nelson Tee Times

(Selected)

• 8:23am - Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee (10)
• 8:34am - Tom Kim, Hideki Matsuyama, Tyrrell Hatton (10)
• 8:45am - Matt Kuchar, Aaron Wise, Scott Stallings (10)
• 1:33pm - Davis Riley, Seamus Power, Tom Hoge (1)
• 1:44pm - Scottie Scheffler, K.H. Lee, Jason Day (1)
• 1:55pm - Si Woo Kim, Richard S. Johnson, Taylor Montgomery (1)

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Only one week remains between now and the second major championship of the year, as this week’s AT&T Byron Nelson Course at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, will serve as the final chance for many to qualify for the PGA Championship next week. As you would expect, in addition to this not being a Tour-designated event, this week’s field is relatively weak, made even weaker today by the withdrawal of Jordan Spieth. 

Even still, two-time champ K.H. Lee is in the field, as is world No. 2 Scottie Scheffler, who comes into the week looking to build momentum ahead of major No. 2. Let’s take a closer look at the course and who may find success in Texas.

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AT&T Byron Nelson Odds

AT&T Byron Nelson Course - TPC Craig Ranch, McKinney, TX

Coming in at 7,468 yards, TPC Craig Ranch is a Par 71 that comes in slightly over the Tour average. Featuring Bentgrass greens, as many tracks do in this part of the country, it would be wise to take a look at players who do well on that surface in terms of SG: Putting.

AT&T Byron Nelson Power Rankings

Scottie Scheffler (+360) (Bet $100 to collect $460) Head to DraftKings for the best Scottie Scheffler odds

By far the most talented player in this field, Scottie Scheffler's short odds are nearly warranted at just inside of 4/1 to win this event. He’s also a Texas local and has had success at this course before, with an average of 68.25 over his two events played here.

K.H. Lee (+2200) (Bet $100 to collect $2,300) DraftKings has the best K.H. Lee odds

Both of his career Tour wins have come here, and there’s no better horse for the course on the entire Tour than K.H. Lee at Craig Ranch. 

Tyrrell Hatton (+1200) (Bet $100 to collect $1,300) The best Tyrrell Hatton odds are at DraftKings

A slow start to 2023 was made up for last week with a T3 at Quail Hollow, and Tyrrell Hatton always does well in weak fields. 

Tom Kim (+1600) (Bet $100 to collect $1,700) Go to DraftKings for the best Tom Kim odds

Cooling off significantly following a red-hot 2022, Tom Kim comes into the week with success here in the past, a T17 in his only start here. Could be a great week to get back on track ahead of next week’s PGA Championship. 

Jason Day (+1400) (Bet $100 to collect $1,500) DraftKings has the best Jason Day odds

With a very light name in terms of star power, this could be the week Jason Day finally breaks through during this resurgence in his career.

After a stop in North Carolina for latest designated event the Wells Fargo Championship, the PGA Tour heads to Texas for the AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch.

Last year, K.H. Lee successfully defended his title in a low scoring final day when he edged out Jordan Spieth by a shot. The South Korean returns for this year’s event hoping for a hat-trick of wins. The man he beat last year had been in the field, too, but he has now withdrawn due to injury.

After opting to skip last week’s event, World No.2 Scottie Scheffler appears in his home state. The 26-year-old has been in excellent form this year, with wins in the WM Phoenix Open and Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass the standouts in a string of impressive results. 

Tyrrell Hatton put in a strong performance in last week’s event, finishing tied for third, and he will be keen to keep that momentum going before preparations begin for next week’s second Major of the year, The PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club.

Elsewhere, rising star Tom Kim has gone off the boil a little in recent months, and is without a top-10 finish since January’s tie for sixth in The American Express. The World No.19 will be hoping this is the week his form heads back towards its best in time for next week's Major.

Another high-profile player eager to go into next week’s event in good form will be 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama. This will be the Japanese player’s first start since his tie for 15th at this year’s Augusta National tournament, as he goes in search of his first win since January 2022.

Sung Kang won the tournament in 2019, and he is looking for his first win since, while 2018 winner Aaron Wise also plays.

Other players to keep an eye on include Australian former World No.1s Jason Day and Adam Scott. Each has won the tournament, with Day achieving it in 2010 and Scott winning two years before him. World No.30 Tom Hoge, who finished tied for third in the Players Championship, appears too.

While it’s not a designated event, this week’s tournament should still have an excellent atmosphere thanks to the introduction of stadium hole similar to those at TPC Scottsdale for the WM Phoenix Open and the Grange Golf Club for LIV Golf Adelaide.

Players are competing for a purse of $9.5m, of which the winner will earn $1.71m.

Below is the full breakdown of the prize money and field for the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson.

AT&T Byron Nelson Prize Money Breakdown

AT&T Byron Nelson Field

• Alexander, Tyson
• An, Byeong Hun
• Armour, Ryan
• Baddeley, Aaron
• Bae, Sangmoon
• Barnes, Ricky
• Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
• Blair, Zac
• Blixt, Jonas
• Bramlett, Joseph
• Brehm, Ryan
• Brown, Scott
• Bryan, Wesley
• Byrd, Jonathan
• Chalmers, Greg
• Champ, Cameron
• Chappell, Kevin
• Cink, Stewart
• Cole, Eric
• Cone, Trevor
• Coody, Parker
• Coody, Pierceson
• Cook, Austin
• Crane, Ben
• Daffue, MJ
• Day, Jason
• Dou, Zecheng
• Dufner, Jason
• Duncan, Tyler
• Eckroat, Austin
• Endycott, Harrison
• Ernst, Derek
• Frittelli, Dylan
• Garnett, Brice
• Gerard, Ryan
• Ghim, Doug
• Gligic, Michael
• Glover, Lucas
• Gómez, Fabián
• Gordon, Will
• Goya, Tano
• Grant, Brent
• Gribble, Cody
• Griffin, Ben
• Haas, Bill
• Hadley, Chesson
• Hadwin, Adam
• Hahn, James
• Haley II, Paul
• Hall, Harry
• Harrington, Scott
• Hatton, Tyrrell
• Herman, Jim
• Hickok, Kramer
• Higgo, Garrick
• Higgs, Harry
• Hoffman, Charley
• Hoge, Tom
• Hubbard, Mark
• Hughes, Mackenzie
• Jaeger, Stephan
• Kang, Sung
• Killeen, J.J.
• Kim, Michael
• Kim, S.H.
• Kim, Si Woo
• Kim, Tom
• Kizzire, Patton
• Knauth, William
• Knox, Russell
• Kodaira, Satoshi
• Kraft, Kelly
• Kuchar, Matt
• Kuest, Peter
• Laird, Martin
• Lamely, Derek
• Landry, Andrew
• Lashley, Nate
• Lebioda, Hank
• Lee, K.H.
• Lee, Min Woo
• Lipsky, David
• List, Luke
• Long, Adam
• Lower, Justin
• Matsuyama, Hideki
• Matthews, Brandon
• McGirt, William
• McGreevy, Max
• McNealy, Maverick
• McNeill, George
• Meissner, Mac
• Merritt, Troy
• Micheluzzi, David
• Montgomery, Taylor
• Moore, Ryan
• Mullinax, Trey
• Murray, Grayson
• NeSmith, Matthew
• Noh, S.Y.
• Norlander, Henrik
• Norrman, Vincent
• Novak, Andrew
• Núñez, Augusto
• O'Hair, Sean
• Ogilvy, Geoff
• Palmer, Ryan
• Pan, C.T.
• Percy, Cameron
• Piercy, Scott
• Points, D.A.
• Power, Seamus
• Rai, Aaron
• Ramey, Chad
• Redman, Doc
• Riley, Davis
• Roy, Kevin
• Scheffler, Scottie
• Schenk, Adam
• Schmid, Matti
• Schwab, Matthias
• Scott, Adam
• Shelton, Robby
• Sigg, Greyson
• Sloan, Roger
• Smalley, Alex
• Smotherman, Austin
• Spaun, J.J.
• Stallings, Scott
• Stanley, Kyle
• Stevens, Sam
• Streb, Robert
• Stroud, Chris
• Stuard, Brian
• Suh, Justin
• Thompson, Davis
• Trahan, DJ
• Trainer, Martin
• Tway, Kevin
• Van Pelt, Bo
• Van Rooyen, Erik
• Walker, Jimmy
• Watney, Nick
• Werbylo, Trevor
• Werenski, Richy
• Westmoreland, Kyle
• Whaley, Vince
• Wise, Aaron
• Wu, Brandon
• Wu, Dylan
• Young, Carson
• Yuan, Carl

The PGA Tour returns to Texas for the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. Located just outside of Dallas, TPC Craig Ranch has been the site for South Korean golfer K.H. Lee’s recent dominance, as the 31-year-old is looking to defend his title successfully for the third consecutive year. After winning this event for his first career win in 2021, Lee returned to set the course record in 2022 at -26-under-par, beating Jordan Spieth by one stroke with a blistering -9-under par final round. The three-peat hasn’t occurred in over a decade, and it’s been nearly 100 years since a player has won their first three events at the same course.

While Jordan Spieth just withdrew due to a wrist injury and World No. 1 golfer Jon Rahm won’t be in attendance, Scottie Scheffler returns to headline a deep field at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson. Scheffler should have plenty of support from friends and family in the crowd, while other notable golfers such as Tyrrell Hatton, Jason Day, Tom Kim, and Hideki Matsuyama round out the top five outright betting odds. It’s a great time to be constructing DFS lineups, as there are a lot of high-value prospects to acquire at a course that offers frequent birdie opportunities.

I’ve uncovered six of the best prospects to acquire on DraftKings and FanDuel ahead of Thursday’s opening round. Continue reading to find out who these golfers are and what each one should be prioritized in your lineups as they get set to tee off at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson.

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Scottie Scheffler ($11,900)

We’re starting off chalky with Scottie Scheffler, but he’s going to deliver points in abundance this weekend. The Texas native improved from a T47 finish in here 2021 to a T15 finish last year, plus he’s ranked second in total strokes gained, including first in tee-to-green and off-the-tee. The putter has been Scheffler’s issue this season, but he hasn’t dipped below a T12 finish since the Fall, consistently logging T12 finishes or better. He’s expensive for a reason. Prioritize Scheffler in lineups of all shapes and sizes.

Tom Hoge ($8,500)

Tom Hoge performed well at TPC Craig Ranch in 2022, delivering a T17 finish hovering between -4 to -5-under par in every round. The 33-year-old American has been the definition of inconsistent lately, posting consecutive MCs following a T3 at The Players Championship. Hoge packs a punch with some of his metrics, though, ranking first in strokes gained approaching the green and 34th in strokes gained tee-to-green. He’s decent with the putter, too, as it's ranked 50th in strokes gained putting. Plus, Hoge is ranked 40th in total driving, which blends accuracy and distance, so he’s built to dominate TPC Craig Ranch yet again in 2023. At $8,500, Hoge is a fraction of the cost of Scheffler, so don’t hesitate to lock him into DraftKings lineups.

Stephen Jaeger ($8,200)

Stephan Jaeger is a value at the AT&T Byron Nelson despite only logging one T10 finish in 18 events played this season on the PGA Tour. The 33-year-old German went T38 here in 2022, which isn’t great, but he’s been hovering around T25 finishes in three of his previous four events played, including a T27 at the Wells Fargo Championship. One thing Jaeger does very well is strokes gained around the green, where he ranks eighth, while he is also ranked 27th in strokes gained tee to green. Plus, Jaeger finds greens in regulation at a 70 percent rate, ranked 13th on the PGA Tour. He’s a decent scrambler too, which bodes well for his outlook at TPC Craig Ranch, elevating Jaeger as a value play on DraftKings. 

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Hideki Matsuyama ($11,300)

We haven’t seen Hideki Matsuyama on a course since Augusta National when he logged a T16 finish. The Japanese golfer has three T15 finishes or better in each of his last three events played, so with roughly a month off to prepare for the AT&T Byron Nelson, expect Matsuyama to perform well against the field. Last year, Matsuyama drew a T3 finish at -24-under-par, going -10-under par in the final round to surge up the leaderboard. If we get anything close to that performance this week, your lineups will be set up for immense success. Pay up to acquire Matsuyama’s high floor and ceiling in FanDuel lineups at TPC Craig Ranch ahead of Thursday’s opening round. 

Tom Kim ($11,100)

20-year-old South Korean prodigy Tom Kim burst onto the scene in 2022, and he’s been among the hottest commodities in DFS for nearly all of the events he’s competed in this year. Kim has four T10 finishes, but most of those came during January or earlier in the season, so he’s been riding a bit of a slump lately. Kim logged a T17 finish during his PGA Tour debut here last season, starting off with a modest -2-under par but steadily gaining confidence and finishing at -18-under par. He’s one of the best golfers with irons, ranking 22nd in total strokes gained, while he is ranked fifth in scrambling, which was a big reason why K.H. Lee has won consecutive events at TPC Craig Ranch. We’re paying up to get Kim in lineups, especially with his recent form, but his upside is too enticing to pass up.

Pierceson Coody ($8,800)

Texas native Pierceson Coody has a fantastic name but an even better golf swing. The 23-year-old turned professional in 2022 and competed at the University of Texas during his collegiate career, so he should be familiar with the terrain at TPC Craig Ranch. Factor in the number of birdie opportunities that will present themselves. Suddenly, Coody becomes a high-value prospect to acquire in FanDuel lineups despite producing only one T15 finish in five events this season. It’s risky, but the payoff will be significant at $8,800, so let’s invest in Coody to replicate his outing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational from a couple of months ago and let it ride. 

The AT&T Byron Nelson is set to begin on Thursday from TPC Craig Ranch. Located just outside of Dallas, Texas, K.H. Lee will attempt to defend his outright title here for the third consecutive time, making him the first player to achieve this feat in over a decade. Last year, Lee scorched TPC Craig Ranch, setting the course record at -26-under-par, including an opening round at -8-under-par and a closing round at -9-under-par. Lee wound up needing every bit of that scorecard though, as Jordan Spieth was nipping at his heels down the stretch on Sunday in 2022, falling just short at -25-under-par. 

This year, Scottie Scheffler is the outright betting favorite at 5/1 odds, followed by Spieth at 10/1. Both players are natives of Texas and, more specifically, Dallas, so expect the crowd to be heavily biased toward their hometown heroes throughout the weekend. Other golfers that oddsmakers expect to do well this weekend include Tyrrell Hatton (14/1), Jason Day (16/1), and Tom Kim (20/1), rounding out the top five outright betting favorites. Of course, we just saw Wyndham Clark pull off a dominant outright win at The Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club this past weekend, delivering a huge 75/1 payout for bettors who invested early.

Let’s take a look at the top-ten betting odds, course layout, and a few players with the current form, skill set, and historical success at TPC Craig Ranch to prioritize for outright bets ahead of Thursday’s opening tee times at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson. 

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AT&T Byron Nelson Betting Odds

2023 AT&T Byron Nelson Betting Preview

Previous Winners

• 2022 - K.H. Lee (-26)
• 2021 - K.H. Lee (-25)
• 2019 - Sung Kang (-23)
• 2018 - Aaron Wise (-23)
• 2017 - Billy Horschel (-12)

Relevant Betting Stats

• Strokes Gained Off-the-Tee
• Greens in Regulation percentage
• Scrambling
• Driving Accuracy
• Strokes Gained Approaching the Green

Course Layout

AT&T Byron Nelson is hosted at TPC Craig Ranch, which is a par 72 course that runs just north of 7,400 yards. Designed by Tom Weiskopf and opened nearly 20 years ago in 2004, TPC Craig Ranch tends to produce a lot of birdies and red scorecards. The Rowlett Creek forms a consistent water hazard on a number of the holes at this course, with plenty of sand bunkers flanking the Bentgrass greens and running parallel next to the Zoysia fairways. The fairways are slightly doglegged, but the Creek and sand traps provide most of the difficulty at a course that produces a lot of red scorecards. 

Bentgrass greens mean that the Stimpmeter will likely run up to 13 feet, indicating quicker velocity than Bermuda greens, which have been the surfaces recently played on at events leading up to AT&T Byron Nelson. The size of the greens is also another layer of the difficulty here, as they tend to run below average in square footage surface area, forcing precision with approach shots. Players will need to be ready to deploy their sand wedges, as large sand bunkers will gobble up errant lies off the tee or approaching the green. 

Top Players To Bet For Outright AT&T Byron Nelson Winner

Scottie Scheffler (+450) (Bet $100 to collect $550) DraftKings has the best Scottie Scheffler odds

It’s chalky to recommend the outright betting favorite, but it doesn’t make much sense to fade the No. 2 ranked golfer in the world right now. Scottie Scheffler returns from a multi-event absence following a T11 finish at RBC Heritage and will have plenty of friends and family in the crowd cheering him on at TPC Craig Ranch. In this course, Scheffler improved from 2021 to 2022, going from a T47 to a T15. Scheffler is remarkable in most metrics, excluding strokes gained putting, where he ranks 99th on the PGA Tour. If he can get the flat stick to be a bit more consistent on these Bentgrass greens, he’ll be in the driver’s seat to earn his first win at AT&T Byron Nelson. Hop on these odds now before they shorten even more ahead of Thursday’s first round.

Jordan Spieth (+900) (Bet $100 to collect $1,000) Head to DraftKings for the best Jordan Spieth odds

Similar to Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth is a local golfer who will have a ton of support in the crowd at TPC Craig Ranch. Last year, he closed in on K.H. Lee but couldn’t sink a birdie putt or eagle chip on the final two holes, allowing Lee to successfully defend his title by breaking a course record at -26-under-par. Spieth recently let a win slip out of reach at the RBC Heritage in a playoff matchup against Matt Fitzpatrick, so with a couple of weeks to rest and practice for AT&T Byron Nelson, expect the 29-year-old Texan to start hot, logging previous finishes of runner-up and T9. His odds have shortened from 10/1 to +950, so don’t wait until it’s too late; get Spieth’s outright odds now by heading over to place a wager at DraftKings Sportsbook

Byeong Hun An (+5000) (Bet $100 to collect $5,100) Go to DraftKings for the best Byeong Hun An odds

31-year-old Byeong Hun An will make his debut at TPC Craig Ranch this week and is a relatively long shot at 50/1 odds for his outright win. However, An possesses some of the key metrics that will help him stay near the top of the leaderboard at this event, including ranking second in strokes gained around the green, 31st in strokes gained tee-to-green, and seventh in driving distance average. He’s not good at finding greens in regulation, but that’s why the South Korean native is ranked 44th in scrambling, recovering, and saving par or delivering birdies. An averages birdies on over 23 percent of holes played this season, ranked inside the top 40 on the PGA Tour. An tends to start hot and grow colder the longer an event goes, but at 50/1, it’s enticing enough to sprinkle on his outright odds at AT&T Byron Nelson this weekend.

Joseph Bramlett (+6500) (Bet $100 to collect $6,600) For the best Joseph Bramlett odds, go to DraftKings

Joseph Bramlett is my biggest outright longshot at 65/1 odds entering Thursday’s opening round. The 35-year-old American has had two very different finishes at AT&T Byron Nelson in the past two events. In 2021, Bramlett logged an impressive T7 finish (-19) in 2021 but regressed to a T51 (-13) finish in 2022. Bramlett logged his third T10 finish at The Mexico Open at Vidanta a couple of weeks ago, which also happened to be a birdie fest on an easier course. It’s the same situation at TPC Craig Ranch this week. Bramlett converts over 69 percent of greens in regulation and averages 70.5 for his scoring average, ranked 41st on the PGA Tour. It’s far from a guarantee, but at 65/1, let’s invest small capital on Bramlett’s outright odds and watch him attempt a bounce-back from his forgettable outing here in 2022.

The Wells Fargo Championship has been a staple on the PGA Tour for the last two decades and is annually held at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. This tournament nearly always attracts a strong field, but this year might be its best one yet, as the event has been granted elevated status. Unfortunately, the top-two players in the world and winners of the two biggest events of the season, Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, have both opted to skip this event and spend their time preparing for the upcoming PGA Championship at Oak Hill. 

Rory McIlroy, three-time winner of this event, will still be in attendance to defend his 2021 Quail Hollow title. He will be met by a worthy crop of challengers that includes Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland, Jordan Spieth, Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im, Cameron Young, Jason Day, and Matt Fitzpatrick, amongst others. Many of the top American and International players will be extremely familiar with the task at hand this week, as the President’s Cup was held at Quail Hollow back in September. While course conditions will differ, the George Cobb design always presents a difficult test.

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Wells Fargo Championship: Course Preview

Quail Hollow

The Quail Hollow Club was designed in 1961 by George Cobb but has undergone a number of changes in the last decade by Tom Fazio. The famed architect changed the first hole from a short par five to a long par four and divided the par-five fifth hole into a new par three fourth hole and par four fifth hole. The course now plays as a par 71 and stretches over 7,500 yards on the scorecard, making it one of the longest and toughest golf courses on the entire PGA Tour. All four of the par threes at Quail Hollow traditionally play over par, and the sixth hole can tip out to over 250 yards. Two par fours, eight and fourteen, can be drivable, but the other nine par fours all measure greater than 450 yards! In fact, five par fours measure 480 yards, with the ninth and sixteenth holes both topping out at over 500 yards. Overall, only five holes at Quail Hollow feature over a 15% birdie rate, while 13 holes feature over a 15% bogey rate!

Quail Hollow is a big and brawny golf course, and since the Fazio changes ahead of the 2017 PGA Championship, all four of the champions here, Justin Thomas, Jason Day, Max Homa, and Rory McIlroy have averaged over 313 yards off the tee. McIlroy and Thomas both finished top two in driving distance, and Day and Homa finished top 20. Distance off the tee is incredibly helpful at the Cobb track, as is long iron play, as over 50% of all approach shots come from over 175 yards. I will primarily be looking to identify players who average over 310 yards off the tee and are elite long-iron players with a passable short game and a strong track record of success at long and difficult golf courses.

Mexico Open Key Stats

• Proximity 175 yards plus
• Driving Distance
• Strokes Gained on Long Golf Courses

Wells Fargo Championship: Outright Winner

Sungjae Im (+2500) (Bet $100 to collect $2,600) Get the best Sungjae Im odds at DraftKings

I have been riding Sungjae Im for multiple weeks now, and after extremely close calls at the RBC Heritage and Zurich Classic, I see absolutely no reason to hop off. The two-time PGA Tour winner is playing some of the best golf of his career, and he is riding a string of six straight top-25 finishes, including a 16th at the Masters and a sixth at the Players Championship. 

I love his fit on this golf course as well, as Im ranks seventh in this field off the tee on long golf courses, sixth overall on long golf courses, fourth in difficult scoring conditions, and 21st in overall long iron play. The 25-year-old gained 4.4 strokes off the tee and 2.8 strokes on approach in his last stroke play event and has done just about everything this season but find the winner’s circle. Quail Hollow is the perfect track for the young Korean to pick up PGA Tour win number three.

Justin Thomas (+2200) (Bet $100 to collect $2,300) DraftKings has the best Justin Thomas odds

By Justin Thomas’ standards, 2023 has been his most disappointing season in years. I still have a ton of reason for optimism given the fact that his ball-striking remains intact, and what better venue to regain form than where he won the PGA Championship in 2017? Even in a down year, Thomas still has seven top-25 finishes in nine starts this season, and he has gained over five strokes ball-striking in three of his last five starts. 

While the biggest reasons for his struggles this season include a downturn in iron play and an incredibly shaky flat-stick, he still statistically possesses the best short game in this entire field, and he is driving the ball great as well. The approach play is certainly not up to his lofty baseline, but it is still strong enough to lead me to believe he is close enough to winning golf tournaments again if he can just find himself a positive putting week. I’ll gladly take my chances on one of the best players in the world at depressed odds returning to form at a familiar and welcome venue.

This week, we’re back for another exciting stop on the PGA Tour at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The 2023 RBC Heritage just became a designated event, which means the majority of the best golfers on the Tour will head eastward from Augusta to the coastal shores of the low country in South Carolina for a chance to compete at Harbour Town Golf Links. It’s a par 71 track that runs just over 7,200 yards, featuring 3,700 square foot Bermudagrass greens, which is a much different test than players were dealt during The Masters. Ball striking and accuracy off of the tee and tee-to-green become more critical at the RBC Heritage, as the putting surfaces are a bit slower on Bermuda at 12.5 feet via the Stimpmeter.

It was exciting to watch Jon Rahm win his first Green Jacket after strong opening and closing rounds, battling the elements and delivering sensational iron play, and putting in to outplay Brooks Koepka down the stretch. My recommended DFS plays were a mixed bag of results. Jordan Spieth could’ve been in contention if not for a +4 round on Saturday, delivering a six-under-par closing round to climb into a T4 finish. Patrick Cantlay (T14), Sungjae Im (T16), and Justin Rose (T16) all logged T16 finishes or better, while Rory McIlroy suffered a huge disappointment by missing the cut at +5. Even Jason Day, who began The Masters at -5-under-par, imploded after making the cut, winding up T39 (+5) due to an absurdly high round of 80 on Sunday. Despite McIlroy and Day falling flat, the other four plays were commodities in DraftKings and FanDuel lineups, so hopefully, you tailed them and wound up cashing a few DFS contests. 

I’ve scoured the RBC Heritage slate and have identified six of my favorite prospects who can help us cash our DraftKings and FanDuel lineups at the RBC Heritage. Let’s find out why each player should be prioritized in DFS lineups ahead of Thursday’s opening tee times from Harbour Town Golf Links. 

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Jordan Spieth ($10,400)

We’ve heard Jordan Spieth talk about the mental exhaustion he’s experiencing due to an increased PGA Tour schedule, but that won’t stop me from recommending the defending champion at RBC Heritage. Spieth can be a bit volatile at times, but he’s one of the best bounce-back players on the PGA Tour and ranks 27th in strokes gained tee-to-green, which is a significant metric to adhere to when playing a short, precision course like the one we’re getting at Harbour Town. Spieth is also ranked 19th in strokes gained around the green, and the intermediate cut surrounding most of the Bermudagrass greens creates ideal conditions for him to collect his fifth T10 finish in 12 events played this season. He’s nearly $1K cheaper than Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, so consider Spieth a high-value blue-chip prospect to insert into DraftKings lineups this week. 

Tony Finau ($9,400)

Tony Finau has been a bit underwhelming since the 2023 PGA Tour season began; however, he’s consistently hovering around T25 finishes in 10 of 11 events played. The 33-year-old has some of the best irons, ranking fourth in total strokes gained, including fifth tee-to-green, third approaching the green, and 22nd in strokes gained putting. Finau has produced 12-21 birdies in each of his previous five events, yielding anywhere from 61.5 - 89.5 DraftKings fantasy points in DFS lineups. The last time Finau competed at RBC Heritage, he logged a T33 finish, staying below par in all four rounds. At $9.4K on DraftKings, we’re getting solid value by inserting Finau into lineups, so go ahead and add him with confidence, especially since his skill set aligns with the challenges of a course like Harbour Town. 

Justin Thomas ($8,900)

I have to be fully transparent here; recommending Justin Thomas is not something that I do a lot. However, he’s among the best strokes-gained tee-to-green players on the PGA Tour, ranking 11th, while no one performs better around the green. The putter has been Thomas’ Achilles heel this season, as he’s ranked 145th in this metric, but at Harbour Town, irons reign supreme. Few players do it better and more consistently than Thomas, so at an $8.9K salary on DraftKings, consider Thomas a massive value addition to lineups. Previous finishes of T35 and T8 at the RBC Heritage, combined with the motivation we can expect from Thomas after missing the cut at Augusta National last week, make him an ideal candidate to roster in DFS lineups. 

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Scottie Scheffler ($12,100)

It’ll be fun to watch Scottie Scheffler acclimate to Harbour Town for the first time in his career. You read that correctly. The World No. 1 ranked golfer will make his debut at RBC Heritage following its recent upgrade as a designated event on the PGA Tour. Scheffler is the best player when it comes to strokes gained tee-to-green, which we saw at Augusta, but the putter flared up and prevented him from contending on Sunday. That won’t be the case at Harbour Town, where irons and play around the green can reward players with red scorecards. We’re paying up for Scheffler at $12,100 on FanDuel, but he’s still $100 cheaper than Jon Rahm, plus his strengths fit the layout of Harbour Town. It’s always a bit nerve-wracking backing a player making his debut at a course, but we’re talking about Scheffler, not a value bin commodity. Let’s ride the hot hand, which hasn’t dipped below a T12 finish since October. 

Tommy Fleetwood ($9,700)

Since RBC Heritage tends to reward quality iron players, 32-year-old Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, is someone to prioritize in DFS lineups. Not only are we landing good value at a reduced salary, but Fleetwood has been solid in previous outings at Harbour Town, logging a T10 finish here in 2022 and a T25 back in 2019. He’s ranked 12th in strokes gained tee-to-green, second in strokes gained around the green, and 25th approaching the green. He’s one of the rare quality iron players who possess a consistently good putter, ranking 53rd in strokes gained putting. The key to Fleetwood’s success will be scrambling on the small greens, as he ranks outside the top 100 in hitting them in regulation while performing well with scrambling closer than 30 yards and from the rough. At a sub-$10K salary on FanDuel, I like Fleetwood’s floor and ceiling quite a bit, so plug him in. 

Chris Kirk ($9,600)

Staying in the mid-$9K range, Chris Kirk jumps off the board in terms of value. The 37-year-old is recently removed from his fifth outright win at The Honda Classic, which he’s followed up with two more T25 finishes, including a T10 at Valero. Kirk missed the cut at RBC Heritage last year but drew a T7 finish in 2021, staying below par in all four rounds and saving his best for the second and fourth rounds to climb into the top ten. He’s ranked 16th in total strokes gained, which includes 32nd tee-to-green, 12th around the green, and 24th putting. Kirk is also ranked inside the top ten when it comes to sand save percentage, which bodes well for him confronting the dozens of sand traps scattered throughout Harbour Town. Kirk is the best player in three-putt avoidance and has 63 - 84 FanDuel fantasy points in three of his previous four events, so he’s another rare player with quality putting and irons blended together to form an ideal prospect at RBC Heritage. 

Jon Rahm has admitted that his decision to play in this week’s RBC Heritage is to honour a commitment, even though his appearance comes just days after he won The Masters.

As one of the PGA Tour’s top players, the 29-year-old is expected to appear in most designated events. This week’s Harbour Town tournament is one of those higher-profile tournaments, so a strong field will participate despite it arriving so soon after the first Major of the year.

Players are allowed to skip one of the events, and Rahm admitted he’d considered it before ultimately deciding to stick to his word. He said: “It did cross my mind, but I made a commitment earlier in the year, and I want to honour that commitment. I also, talking to Kelley, I put myself in the shoes of not only the spectators, but the kids as well. If I was one of the kids, I would want to see the recent Masters champion play good or bad, just want to be there.”

While 17 of the world’s top 20 are in the field this week, there are some notable absentees, including World No.3 Rory McIlroy, who withdrew earlier in the week. Former World No.1 Jason Day and 2021 Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama, each of whom played last week, are also not appearing in South Carolina.

Still, Rahm explained he isn’t playing to make up the numbers, despite fatigue setting in after his Augusta National win, and has his sights set on claiming the Tartan Jacket. He said: “I still intend to hopefully do the jacket double and taking this one home. I’m not going to parade myself, right?

“But it did cross my mind, and obviously I think it would have crossed anybody’s because I was so tired. But that’s why I decided to come in yesterday afternoon and take it easier and just give my body a rest before I got into competition mode.”

It’s understandable why Rahm was so tired after his Masters win. As well as his first Major title since the 2021 US Open, the occasion was emotional for several other reasons, which weren’t lost on him.

He explained: “There’s so many factors that made it so, so special. Being Seve’s birthday, Easter. Last Sunday it was Seve’s birthday, a Spanish man won, which is Sergio. Adam, our player-caddie number was 49, right? April 9th. Seve’s 40-year anniversary from his second win. The list goes on and on and on. There’s so many things that made it special in that sense.”

While this week’s tournament is unlikely to provide the highs of last week, Rahm laer reiterated his desire to win. He said: “I can promise you that every time I tee it up in a tournament, it’s going to be to win. It may feel better or worse, but I intend to try my hardest to win.”

It may only be days since the conclusion of the 2023 Masters at Augusta National, but another high-profile tournament follows hot on its heels. That’s because the sixth designated event of the PGA Tour season takes place with the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town.

The top players have an obligation to play in the majority of designated events, and that means a stronger field than usual will be appearing in South Carolina this week.

There are some notable absentees. World No.8 Will Zalatoris has had back surgery which will keep him out for the rest of the PGA Tour season, while World No.3 Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from the tournament despite it being the second designated event he will miss in 2023. Former World No.1 Jason Day and 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama are skipping this week's tournament too.

Despite those withdrawals, there are still 17 of the world’s top 20 taking part this week. Jon Rahm returned to the World No.1 position following his Augusta National win, and he heads the field hoping to take that stunning form into this week’s tournament. 

Rahm is the first Masters champion to play the following week on the Tour since Jordan Spieth in 2015, so it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on given the short time period between that gruelling victory and this week’s event. On the subject of Spieth, he is the defending champion following his defeat of Patrick Cantlay in a playoff last year.

Spieth has played in 11 PGA Tour events as defending champion and has yet to hold onto the title, so he will be hoping to draw a line under that unenviable run this week. It will be far from easy for the World No.16, though. As well as World No.4 Cantlay, he will also be up against the likes of 2022 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland and Justin Thomas, who are all in the world’s top 10.

Beyond that, big names including two-time Major winner Collin Morikawa, US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Cameron Young also play. Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Tyrrell Hatton, Sungjae Im, Tom Kim and Kurt Kitayama, who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, complete the list of those appearing from the world’s top 20.

Aside from Spieth, the field is packed with former winners too, including 2021 victor Stewart Cink, Webb Simpson, who won in 2020, and 2019 champion CT Pan.

Overall, the scene is set for an enthralling tournament as players compete for a purse of $20m, with $3.6m on offer to the winner. That is a larger amount than the purse on offer at The Masters, which was set at $18m, with $3.2m awarded to Rahm.

Below is the prize breakdown and field for the 2023 RBC Heritage.

RBC Heritage Prize Money 2023

RBC Heritage Field 2023

• Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
• Bhatia, Akshay
• Bradley, Keegan
• Brehm, Ryan
• Bryan, Wesley
• Buckley, Hayden
• Burns, Sam
• Cantlay, Patrick
• Champ, Cameron
• Cink, Stewart
• Clark, Wyndham
• Conners, Corey
• Damen, Joel
• Davis, Cam
• Detry, Thomas
• Donald, Luke
• Dufner, Jason
• Duncan, Tyler
• Echavarria, Nico
• Els, Ernie
• English, Harris
• Finau, Tony
• Fitzpatrick, Matt
• Fleetwood, Tommy
• Fowler, Rickie
• Fox, Ryan
• Frittelli, Dylan
• Furyk, Jim
• Gay, Brian
• Ghim, Doug
• Gibson, Tommy
•  Glover, Lucas
• Griffin, Ben
• Griffin, Lanto
• Grillo, Emiliano
• Hadley, Chesson
• Hedwin, Adam
• Hahn, James
• Hardy, Nick
• Harman, Brian
• Hatton, Tyrrell
• Henley, Russell
• Herbert, Lucas
• Herman, Jim
• Hickok, Kramer
• Higgo, Garrick
• Hodges, Lee
• Hoge, Tom
• Homa, Max
• Horschel, Billy
• Hossler, Beau
• Hovland, Viktor
• Hubbard, Mark
• Hughes, Mackenzie
• Im, Sungjae
• Jaeger, Stephan
• Johnson, Zach
• Kim, Si Woo
• Kim, Tom
• Kirk, Chris
• Kisner, Kevin
• Kitayama, Kurt
• Kizzire, Patton
• Knox, Russell
• Kodaira, Satoshi
• Kraft, Kelly
• Kuchar, Matt
• Laird, Martin
• Landry, Andrew
• Lashley, Nate
• Lee, K.H.
• Lee, Min Woo
• Lipsky, David
• List, Luke
• Long, Adam
• Love III, Davis
• Lower, Justin
• Lowry, Shane
• Malnati, Peter
• Martin, Ben
• McCarthy, Denny
• McGreevy, Max
• McNealy, Maverick
• Merritt, Troy
• Mitchell, Keith
• Montgomery, Taylor
• Moore, Ryan
• Moore, Taylor
• Morikawa, Collin
• Mullinax, Trey
• NeSmith, Matthew
• Palmer, Ryan
• Pan, C.T.
• Pendrith, Taylor
• Piercy, Scott
• Poston, J.T.
• Power, Seamus
• Putnam, Andrew
• Rahm, Jon
• Rai, Aaron
• Ramey, Chad
• Reavie, Chez
• Redman, Doc
• Riley, Davis
• Rodgers, Patrick
• Rose, Justin
• Ryder, Sam
• Schauffele, Xander
• Scheffler, Scottie
• Schenk, Adam
• Schwab, Matthias
• Scott, Adam
• Sigg, Greyson
• Simpson, Webb
• Smalley, Alex
• Smotherman, Austin
• Spaun, J.J.
• Spieth, Jordan
• Stallings, Scott
• Stevens, Sam
• Straka, Sepp
• Streb, Robert
• Streelman, Kevin
• Suh, Justin
• Svensson, Adam
• Tarren, Callum
• Taylor, Ben
• Taylor, Nick
• Theegala, Sahith
• Thomas, Justin
• Thompson, Davis
• Thompson, Michael
• Todd, Brendon
• Tway, Kevin
• Van Rooyen, Erik
• Walker, Jimmy
• Wallace, Matt
• Werenski, Richy
• Willett, Danny
• Woodland, Gary
• Wu, Brandon
• Young, Cameron
• Young, Carson

After watching Jon Rahm win his first Green Jacket at The Masters, most of the PGA Tour’s top players will travel over the Georgia and South Carolina border to one of the most iconic vacation spots on the East Coast of the United States. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is where Harbour Town Golf Links is located, which will be the course hosting the 2023 RBC Heritage. It’s now a designated event on the PGA Tour, meaning players will be competing for more FedExCup points and a bigger purse en route to the FedExCup playoffs slated to begin later this Summer. The biggest name to withdraw, amid some controversy, is Rory McIlroy, who failed to make the cut at The Masters and has subsequently withdrawn from the RBC Heritage. 

Scottie Scheffler is set to make his debut at Harbour Town, while Rahm and Patrick Cantlay round out the top three outright betting favorites. Last year, Cantlay lost a sudden-death playoff to Jordan Spieth, who currently has the fifth-highest odds of winning and defending his title from a year ago. It’s important to note that Spieth has come out following his T4 finish at Augusta, speaking about exhaustion and his schedule, so it’ll be interesting to monitor his performance at Hilton Head. Other notable players to pay attention to include Collin Morikawa, Tony Finau, Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton, Jason Day, and Justin Thomas, who all rank 12th or better in strokes gained tee-to-green this season. Finding the greens on a shorter course is the recipe for a red scorecard, which is why quality iron players should be prioritized from a betting context this weekend. 

Let’s look at the top-ten betting odds, course layout, and a couple of players with the experience, skill set, and current form to win outright ahead of Thursday’s opening round at the 2023 RBC Heritage.

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2023 RBC Heritage Odds

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Previous Winners

• 2022 - Jordan Spieth (-13)
• 2021 - Stewart Cink (-19)
• 2020 - Webb Simpson (-22)
• 2019 - C.T. Pan (-12)
• 2018 - Satoshi Kodaira (-12)
• 2017 - Wesley Bryan (-13)

Relevant Betting Stats

• Strokes Gained Tee-to-Green
• Strokes Gained Off-the-Tee
• Driving Accuracy
• Sand Save percentage
• Strokes Gained Approaching the Green

Course Layout

Harbour Town Golf Links is a par 71 that runs just north of 7,200 yards. While it isn’t one of the lengthier courses, it puts a premium on finesse. Ball striking and accuracy with irons are going to keep players atop the leaderboard, as the Bermudagrass greens are some of the smallest on the PGA Tour, measuring 3,700 square feet on average. It’s twice as small as Augusta National and four times smaller than the links courses overseas so errant tee shots will create many problems.

Overseeded Bermudagrass is the surface on the fairways, rough, and greens, which will run roughly 12.5 feet via the Stimpmeter. It won’t be quite as fast as the Bentgrass surfaces at Augusta, but it has enough pace to get chips and long putts into the hole. Rows of low-hanging trees blanket narrow fairways, while the water hazards tend to pop up on the tee-to-green par 3s. Designed by the legendary golf architect Pete Dye, along with friend and golf icon Jack Nicklaus, Harbour Town has been the location for the RBC Heritage for over five decades. It’s been modified recently to bolster the sand bunker locations, with a few holes extended in length to create additional challenges. 

Top Players to Bet for Outright RBC Heritage Winner

Scottie Scheffler (+850) (Bet $100 to collect $950) FanDuel Sportsbook has the best odds for Scottie Scheffler this week

Somehow, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is making his debut at Harbour Town this week. The 26-year-old logged a T10 finish at The Masters but has recorded two outright wins and hasn’t dipped outside of a T12 finish since The CJ Cup in October. Scheffler ranks first in strokes gained tee-to-green, which is a huge contributor towards his price as the outright betting favorite. 8/1 is fairly short as far as odds go, especially during a course debut, but Scheffler was dialed in with his irons at Augusta last weekend and should be able to transfer that momentum into a strong showing at Hilton Head. There’s no one better at finding the greens in regulation than Scheffler at 74.03 percent, so don’t hesitate to lay a hefty wager on the outright favorite making his debut at the RBC Heritage.

Patrick Cantlay (+1200) (Bet $100 to collect $1,300) Get the best odds for Patrick Cantlay at DraftKings Sportsbook

Last year, Patrick Cantlay came up short against Jordan Spieth in a playoff round at Harbour Town, but he had three rounds at three-under-par or lower. The 31-year-old is ranked first in par 5 scoring average, putting from three feet and scrambling from the fringe. We’re really here for Cantlay’s irons, which are powerful and precise, ranking sixth in total strokes gained, including seventh tee-to-green. He’s equipped with a reliable flat stick on the greens and is ranked second in total driving, accounting for accuracy and distance, so birdies should be plentiful during Cantlay’s return to the RBC Heritage. Cantlay’s previous finishes here are second, MC, T3, and T7, so he’s going to be a contender once Sunday afternoon arrives. Get ahead of it while his odds are sitting at 12/1. 

Viktor Hovland (+2200) (Bet $100 to collect $2,300) Head to DraftKings Sportsbook for the best Viktor Hovland odds

After crushing the first round of The Masters at -7-under-par, Viktor Hovland wound up with two rounds over-par en route to a quiet T7 finish. The 25-year-old Norwegian will be another notable talent making his debut at Harbour Town on Thursday, as its recent status as a designated event has drawn the top players from the PGA Tour, which includes Hovland. He has juicy value currently at 22/1 odds for his outright win probability, so we need to take advantage of the low expectations that sportsbooks have towards Hovland. He’s ranked 15th in strokes gained tee-to-green, eighth in strokes gained off-the-tee, and 29th in strokes gained approaching the green. Additionally, Hovland is ranked fourth in total driving and is 21st in scrambling, which bodes well for his ability to save par if he cannot sustain greens in regulation. Let’s lay a unit on Hovland, who has recorded an outright win in each of his previous three years on the PGA Tour. 

Rory McIlroy endured a miserable Masters and missed the cut in his ninth attempt at securing a career Grand Slam at Augusta National.

The Northern Irishman avoided the media following his exit and was next expected to appear at this week’s RBC Heritage at Harbour Town, the latest of the PGA Tour’s big-money designated events. However, the PGA Tour has now announced that the 33-year-old has withdrawn from the South Carolina tournament.

No reason has been given for McIlroy’s withdrawal, but, interestingly, it will be the second designated event he has missed in 2023 after he skipped the first of the year, January’s Sentry Tournament of Champions.

Players are allowed to skip one of the events or risk missing out on the full PIP Award money that those who qualify for it would be entitled to. After finishing in the top three in the two years of the award so far, McIlroy is a shoo-in to rank highly again. However, it is possible that, like Tiger Woods, who won’t lose any PIP money coming to him despite missing many events, McIlroy will also escape penalty.

In January, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan was asked what would happen should a player other than Woods miss more than one designated event, with McIlroy used as an example.

He replied: “Guys are going to play the events. So that’s the policy. I have discretion, OK? This is something we haven’t done before. So ultimately, if that happens, then that’s, going back to your earlier question, at the end of the day, I’ll work with our team, I’ll understand the situation, and we’ll make a decision.”

Another player who had been expected to appear this week is World No.8 Will Zalatoris. However, the American has undegone surgery which will see him miss the rest of the PGA Tour season. Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama are also missing from the field, which is now reduced to 143.

Despite those withdrawals, another strong field is expected this week, including new Masters champion Jon Rahm, as players compete for a share of the $20m purse.

On Sunday morning, Tiger Woods withdrew from The Masters, with the 15-time Major winner "reaggravating" his plantar fasciitis foot injury. It was certainly a wise decision from the American, especially when a video surfaced of Woods visibly struggling on the 17th hole as play was suspended due to the severe weather conditions.

Speaking about the withdrawal, Jason Day, who is good friends with the five-time Green Jacket winner, stated: "He looked like he was laboring pretty hard yesterday. It was obviously difficult to watch because he had to come back out and then play through all that yesterday morning, and then he had to take a little bit of a break and come back out and play again."

It's no secret that Woods had the bad side of the draw when it came to the weather, with the 47-year-old forced to return on Saturday morning to complete his second round. He battled valiantly though and, in the process, equalled the record of consecutive cuts made at Augusta National.

Historically, Woods has always struggled with injuries throughout his career, and that led to Day to describe a story at the 2022 PGA Championship, a tournament which Woods withdrew from after once again struggling with his right leg.

Speaking on Sunday, the Australian stated: "I was talking to him at the end of last year, and then he was saying the reason why he pulled out of the PGA was a screw went through the skin on Saturday or whatever it was. I don't know how bad it is this time... it just sucks that he's not here playing."

Asked if he had reached out to Woods following his withdrawal, Day said: "At some point I will. Obviously not today. I'll give him some time. I'm sure everyone is reaching out to him right now. Like I said, you can all see how he's feeling on TV. I don't know what he's feeling internally, how bad it is."

As Woods now rests and recuperates, we will hope to see him at Oak Hill for the PGA Championship at the end of May but, first and foremost, we wish Tiger a speedy recovery!

What Is Jason Day's Net Worth?

Jason Day has achieved just about everything there is to in the game of golf. Major champion, multiple-time PGA Tour winner, Presidents Cup player, World No.1, there isn't much he hasn't done.

However, just how much is the popular Australian worth? Well, a specific number is tricky to estimate but there have been reports it could be as high as $50 million. Given his success, earnings, and the caliber of sponsorship partners he has, this is not really surprising. 

Speaking of earnings, Day has made more than $50m on the PGA Tour coming from over 320 events. The peak of his career came in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 he won the Farmers Insurance Open, RBC Canadian Open, PGA Championship, The Barclays and then the BMW Championship. This resulted in prize money of over $9m for the year, $1,800,000 of that from his Major win. 

In 2016, he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Dell Matchplay, and The Players Championship. This meant he collected another cool $8m. Since then, he has struggled with injuries and loss of form, but has still collected more than $1m a year in PGA Tour earnings, including $2.6 million after securing the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson

Jason Day has had a long list of sponsors throughout his career, including some truly massive brands and companies like TaylorMade, Adidas, Full Swing, Lexus and Rolex. 

But, in terms of current sponsors, arguably his biggest is Nike which kits him out in apparel and shoes for tournaments. He also has a partnership with NetJets, but we are uncertain if he has any equipment contracts at the moment given there are five different brands represented in his gear setup.

Day, along with his wife Ellie, founded the Brighter Days Foundation, which "partners with local nonprofit organizations that deliver high quality programs and services with measurable, impactful results, ensuring that every dollar raised goes back into the local community." 

Day's earnings have allowed him to have a pretty amazing home and golf setup in Columbus, Ohio. We saw this setup in a PGA Memes YouTube video and Day was the tour guide. We saw a simulator that sits next to robotic green that can be adjusted to various slopes and grades. 

Additionally, we saw an insane practice area featuring three different greens (one for iron shots, one for putting and one for short game), plus a 160-yard par-3. It has three different bunkers with different kinds of sand: one to mimic the sand at Muirfield Village, another with Oakmont-style sand and a third pot bunker which is filled with the kind of sand you’ll find on links courses in the United Kingdom.

After the disruptions of Friday and Saturday, the weather has finally abated in Georgia, paving the way for a fascinating Masters Sunday at Augusta National. Brooks Koepka leads Jon Rahm by two at the conclusion of the third round, with a host of challengers ready to pounce should the leading duo falter.

Koepka was four clear when the third round resumed on Sunday morning but had his advantage halved over the closing 12 holes. Still, the American is in pole position to win his fifth Major championship and will tee off in the last group with Rahm at 2.33pm local time (7.33pm BST).

Behind, Viktor Hovland and Patrick Cantlay got themselves back into contention and make up the penultimate group.

One player who won't be in action is Tiger Woods, who withdrew due to injury. The 15-time Major champion was seen limping badly in the cold and wet Saturday conditions and said he had reaggravated his plantar fasciitis after battling to tie the record for the most consecutive cuts made at the Masters with Gary Player and Fred Couples.

Players started the third round in three-balls from the 1st and 10th in a bid to make up for the various weather delays, but will return to two-balls for Sunday's final round.

The Masters tee times - Final round 

All times EDT/BST, *indicates 10th tee start

12.30pm/5.30pm: Tony Finau, Sahith Theegala

12.39pm/5.39pm: Tom Kim, Keegan Bradley

12.49pm/5.49pm: Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth

12.58pm/5.58pm: Ryan Fox, Taylor Moore

1.08am/6.08pm: Sungjae Im, KH Lee

1.17pm/6.17pm: Joaquin Niemann, Cameron Young

1.27pm/6.27pm: Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick

1.36pm/6.36pm: Gary Woodland, Jason Day

1.46pm/6.46pm: Justin Rose, Shane Lowry

1.55pm/6.55pm: Xander Schauffele, Patrick Reed

2.05pm/7.05pm: Collin Morikawa, Sam Bennett (A)

2.14pm/7.14pm: Hideki Matsuyama, Russell Henley

2.24pm/7.24pm: Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay

2.33pm/7.33pm: Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm

*12.30pm/5.30pm: Tyrrell Hatton, Max Homa

*12.39pm/5.39pm: Chris Kirk, Scott Stallings

*12.49pm/5.49pm: Cameron Smith, Sepp Straka

*12.58pm/5.58pm: Tommy Fleetwood, Abraham Ancer

*1.08pm/6.08pm: Si Woo Kim, Sam Burns

*1.17pm/6.17pm: Seamus Power, Adam Scott

*1.27pm/6.27pm: Harold Varner III, Harris English

*1.36pm/6.36pm: Zach Johnson, Mackenzie Hughes

*1.46pm/6.46pm: Talor Gooch, Thomas Pieters

*1.55pm/6.55pm: Charl Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson

*2.05pm/7.05pm: Mito Pereira, Fred Couples

*2.14pm/7.14pm: Billy Horschel, J.T Poston

*2.24pm/7.24pm: Keith Mitchell

Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters, 14 years after his last win at Augusta. That was considered a miracle at the time, following his injuries, but he was in good form and had won the 2018 Tour Championship not that long before. Now, he's bouncing back again and maybe this time we need to temper expectations.

Last year Woods put a smile on many a golf fan's face when he made the cut for the 23rd time in his career at this course, with 1996 being the only time he's ever missed the weekend at The Masters. This time though he's got to put his body through immense pain again, and will it all prove too much, as it did at the PGA Championship and Open Championship in 2022?

Let's look at the latest Tiger Woods Masters Odds to see if there is a sensible way to bet on Woods, without needing him to perform heroics once more at The Masters.

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He couldn't again, could he? It seems so unlikely that Tiger Woods wins a sixth Green Jacket, especially with the leg injury he is currently dealing with. 

He made the cut in his last start when making the weekend at Riviera, but in his past two major starts, he has missed the cut or withdrew, with injuries halting his ability to get around the course.

We should not be looking for Woods to win this weekend, with so much young talent chasing a Masters win, and with the likes of Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Jason Day still looking for their first Green Jacket, it would be a shock to see Woods win a sixth instead.

Tiger Woods Masters Odds: Top 5 Finish (+1400) Bet $100, to Win $1500 at DraftKings

Again this still seems unlikely. Chances are, even if Woods made it to Sunday within a few shots of the top 5, the stress on his body would likely take over and a tough final round could be on the cards.

Woods shot 72-76 over the weekend when defending in 2019, and he shot 78-78 last year when making the cut. This suggests his body does not allow him to compete at the very top for four rounds anymore.

Tiger Woods Masters Odds: Top 10 Finish (+700) Bet $100, Win $800 at FanDuel

Tiger Woods has played at Augusta 24 times in his career, and finished inside the top 10 on 14 occasions, including his five wins. 

That means he has finished inside the top 10 over 58% of the time. Can he improve on that record, or will father time catch up with Woods this week at Augusta?

Tiger Woods Masters Odds: Top 20 Finish (+240) Bet $100 to win $340 at DraftKings

17 out of 24. That is the amount of times Tiger Woods has finished inside the top 20 at Augusta. That is almost a 71% strike rate, as he very rarely fell out of the top few pages of the leaderboard at The Masters.

If you are looking to play any plus-money Masters Bets this week on Tiger Woods this  might be the one, as he could just about hang on for this finish, if he can recover ahead of his Sunday round in time.

Last year Woods was 19th heading into the weekend, but he was playing for the first time in 17 months that weekend, and rust certainly caught up with him.

Woods took another seven-month break after missing the cut at St. Andrews at last year's Open Championship, but he did play as recently as February, as he made the cut and posted two rounds in the 60s at Riviera.

Will that be enough to see him on over the weekend, if he finds himself inside the top 20 again? Again this looks a tough task even for the GOAT, but this is the best plus-money bet you can place on Tiger, unless you want to take the pessmistic appeoach and wager on him to miss his second Masters cut in 25 attempts.

Bryson DeChambeau has seemed to confirm that his former friend and Ryder Cup teammate Tiger Woods has cut him off following the Golfing Scientist's move to LIV Golf.

DeChambeau joined the Saudi-backed start-up circuit last year for a fee reported to be north of $125m and as well as being suspended from the PGA Tour, it appears that he has lost strong PGA Tour supporter Tiger Woods as a friend and mentor.

The pair regularly played practice rounds together and paired at the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris where they went down 5&4 to Molinari and Fleetwood, dubbed 'Moliwood', in the Saturday afternoon foursomes.

DeChambeau was asked by Golfweek's Adam Schupack if anyone from the PGA Tour has cut him off post-LIV, with the 2020 US Open champion responding: “Yeah, definitely, I’m sure you can guess who.

“Yeah, I’m not going to throw anyone under the bus. He’s been a great friend. I texted him on his birthday. It is what it is.

"He has his viewpoints on it and thinks we’re potentially hurting his record. If anything, nobody is ever going to touch his record. That’s just it, that’s the bottom line. There’s a chance to grow the game even more and I hope one day he’ll see the vision that we all have out here.”

It seems like evidence of another friendship going by the wayside since the emergence of LIV, with Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy's public fallout attracting headlines over the past 12 months. McIlroy was a groomsman at Garcia's wedding but stated there was "no way" the pair would rekindle. Garcia said the Northern Irishman was "lacking maturity."

Not all friendships are in tatters, though. Bubba Watson this week said that he is playing in the Masters Par 3 contest next week with PGA Tour friends and that it was the media stirring things up.

“I'm going to be honest, man. It's only awkward in the media,” the two-time Masters winner said.

“I've talked to people that are going to be there. I'm going to sign up with Jason Day and Cam Young in the Par 3. Some guys have already asked me to play some practice rounds. Media is the only one that is pushing it. I have nothing against anybody."

DeChambeau also told Golfweek that he's spoken with Dallas-based players like Jordan Spieth and Will Zalatoris multiple times, so it seems that the only player to cut him out so far at least is Tiger Woods.

The pair will both be at Augusta National next week for the 2023 Masters. Before that, though, Bryson tees it up at Orlando's Orange County National in the third event of the LIV Golf League. 

His Crushers GC side won the first event of the season in Mexico but his own form has been lacking. Since joining LIV last June, the former World No.4's two best finishes were 10th-places in the 48-man fields. He finished the first year in 21st place overall and is currently 34th in the standings after two events.

Bubba Watson says he’ll be playing the Par 3 Contest at the Masters with Jason Day and Cameron Young after insisting the relationship between LIV and PGA Tour golfers is “only awkward in the media”.

Much has been made about the meeting of the two golfing factions at Augusta National when LIV Golf stars will take on their PGA Tour counterparts in the first Major of the year.

The Masters always has the biggest and most prolonged build-up due to its position in the calendar, but it’s even bigger this year due to the on-going split in professional golf.

And there has been shots fired continually from both sides, with departing LIV golfers taking aim at Jay Monahan while PGA Tour players such as Rory McIlroy have criticised LIV boss Greg Norman.

Apart from McIlroy’s much-publicised spat with Sergio Garcia and his exchange of words with Patrick Reed in Dubai, most players insist that the main beef is between officials of the two organisations and not the players.

Brooks Koepka has insists nobody is angry with players who have decided to go to LIV, and Watson has always said the same – with the two-time Masters champion reiterating the fact ahead of his return to Augusta.

“I'm going to be honest, man. It's only awkward in the media,” Watson said ahead of the third LIV Golf League event of the season in Orlando.

“I've talked to people that are going to be there. I'm going to sign up with Jason Day and Cam Young in the par-three. Some guys have already asked me to play some practice rounds.

“Media is the only one that is pushing it. I have nothing against anybody. If you change jobs, I'm not mad at you. If you start reporting for somebody else, hey, man, it's a better decision for you and your family. Have at it.” 

Rory McIlroy right to defend PGA Tour

Watson can also see where McIlroy is coming from as perhaps the most outspoken LIV critic, saying the Northern Irishman is “protecting his entity, man. He's protecting his business, which is fine.”

The 44-year-old is looking forward to play in the Par 3 Contest, after seeing changes Augusta National has made to the short course.

“First of all, it was amazing. I didn't know that they changed the par-3 course,” Watson added after a seeing it on a recent visit.

“When I drove in to go to the cabin, I was over there by the par-3 course, and so to see the first six holes change was crazy in what they did in that amount - I think 150 days to change that was crazy.”

With The Masters edging nearer and nearer, it's becoming clear as to who will qualify and make it to Augusta National. Currently, there are still some places up for grabs, and now, following the Quarter Finals of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, we know that an extra four players will be teeing it up at the first Major of the year.

According to projections made by the Official World Golf Ranking after the Quarter Finals at Austin Country Club, Harris English is projected to be No. 44, Keith Mitchell No. 46 and Min Woo Lee No. 47, with Jason Day also qualifying after a strong showing on Saturday. It's worth noting that these are the players who had not previously qualified for the Masters, but will be appearing due to the fact they will be inside the World's Top 50 on the 27th March. 

Upon hearing the news, Min Woo Lee posted a message to his social media accounts, with the Aussie stating: "To my team, family, friends and fans. I’m delighted to tell you some news. We are heading back to heaven on Earth. Augusta, see you soon @TheMasters." Certainly the news will be a big boost for Lee, who just two weeks ago suffered a dismal performance at The Players Championship having been in contention going into the final day.

Lee will be joined by his fellow countryman, Day, who has enjoyed a stellar start to his 2023. The 35-year-old produced a great showing in the WGC Match Play and arguably should have beaten World No.1, Scottie Scheffler, before he required medical assistance after suffering with allergies.

Currently, the former Major winner has four top-10 finishes in 2023 and will easily qualify for The Masters having missed the event last year for the first time in 11 years. What's more, he also has a great record round Augusta National, with five top-10 finishes, including a runner-up spot in 2011.

With the full field all but confirmed, the final spot at The Masters will go to the winner of the Valero Texas Open, with J.J Spaun managing the feat last year with a two-shot victory.

Although the predicted rankings will be cheerful news for the four mentioned, you have to feel for Lucas Herbert who, after losing to McIlroy by the slimmest of margins in his Last 16 tie, is predicted to finish 51st in the Rankings. This means that it's unlikely he will be making an appearance in Georgia, where he made his debut last year but missed the cut.

Potentially the final WGC-Match Play takes place at Austin Country Club this week, as 64 of the world’s best players compete in tournament.

Players who can compete in the tournament are the top 64 in the world rankings on 13 March minus LIV Golf players whose applications to compete this year were reportedly denied by the PGA Tour. Meanwhile, PGA Tour players Justin Thomas and Justin Rose are also absent this year meaning the cut-off for this year’s tournament is World No.77.

Each group of four competes in a round-robin format over the first three days, with one point awarded for a win and half a point for a tie. The group winners then progress to the final knockout phase for the last two days of action featuring the last-16, quarter finals, semi-finals and final.

Last year, Scottie Scheffler won the tournament, and the World No.1 will be widely expected to progress from a group with Tom Kim, Alex Noren and Davis Riley.

Elsewhere, one of the most intriguing-looking groups is the one featuring World No.2 Jon Rahm, who will be up against 2021 winner Billy Horschel, Keith Mitchell, who impressed many with his finish of fifth in the Genesis Invitational, and a resurgent Rickie Fowler.

World No.3 Rory McIlroy will be confident of easing through his group, which sees him take on Keegan Bradley, Denny McCarthy and Scott Stallings, particularly if – as reported – he has found a solution to his recent problems off the tee. The Northern Irishman is looking for his second title after his win in the 2015 tournament.

Another standout group features World No.6 Max Homa facing 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, 2019 winner Kevin Kisner and Justin Suh completing the line-up.

Group nine, which is headed by World No.11 Collin Morikawa, should also be interesting considering he is up against two-time winner Jason Day. The former World No.1 has shown signs of returning to his best form this year, with four top-10 finishes. Adam Svensson and Victor Perez are the other two in the group.

Below are the groups and match-ups for the 2023 WGC-Match Play, along with player rankings from one to 64.

WGC-Match Play Field And Groups 2023

Group 1
Scottie Scheffler (1)
Tom Kim (17)
Alex Noren (38)
Davis Riley (54)

Group 2
Jon Rahm (2)
Billy Horschel (22)
Keith Mitchell (39)
Rickie Fowler (49)

Group 3
Rory McIlroy (3)
Keegan Bradley (20)
Denny McCarthy (48)
Scott Stallings (52)

Group 4
Patrick Cantlay (4)
Brian Harman (25)
K.H. Lee (35)
Nick Taylor (55)

Group 5
Max Homa (5)
Hideki Matsuyama (18)
Kevin Kisner (42)
Justin Suh (63)

Group 6
Xander Schauffele (6)
Tom Hoge (23)
Aaron Wise (40)
Cam Davis (64)

Group 7
Will Zalatoris (7)
Ryan Fox (29)
Harris English (37)
Andrew Putnam (56)

Group 8
Viktor Hovland (8)
Chris Kirk (28)
Si Woo Kim (34)
Matt Kuchar (59)

Group 9
Collin Morikawa (9)
Jason Day (32)
Adam Svensson (44)
Victor Perez (51)

Group 10
Tony Finau (10)
Kurt Kitayama (19)
Adrian Meronk (45)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (60)

Group 11
Matt Fitzpatrick (11)
Sahith Theegala (26)
Min Woo Lee (41)
J.J. Spaun (61)

Group 12
Jordan Spieth (12)
Shane Lowry (21)
Taylor Montgomery (47)
Mackenzie Hughes (50)

Group 13
Sam Burns (13)
Seamus Power (30)
Adam Scott (33)
Adam Hadwin (53)

Group 14
Tyrrell Hatton (14)
Russell Henley (31)
Lucas Herbert (46)
Ben Griffin (62)

Group 15
Cameron Young (15)
Sepp Straka (27)
Corey Conners (36)
Davis Thompson (57)

Group 16
Sungjae Im (16)
Tommy Fleetwood (24)
J.T. Poston (43)
Maverick McNealy (58)

Prior to the 11th March 2023, nobody had bettered a round of 63 around TPC Sawgrass, with nine players holding the course record at the iconic venue, the most recent being Dustin Johnson in 2022.

Now though, on a perfect day in Florida, Tom Hoge has become the new benchmark, with the 33-year-old American firing 10 birdies and eight pars in a demolition job of TPC Sawgrass. As one of those golfers who previously held the record, Colt Knost seemed to be happy for Hoge... sort of!

Knost, who was playing a round with his friend, Scott Harrington, positioned his phone on the seat of the golf cart and watched with interest as Hoge faced a putt of 10-feet on the par 5 ninth (his final hole of the day.)

In the video, which was posted to Harrington's Twitter and Instagram, Knost screams "NO!" as the putt drops into the hole for birdie, with the former US Amateur champion responding: "No, he made it. Golf history. It's over, guys," along with a few choice words which we won't repeat!

It didn't help that Harrington, who filmed the whole thing, let out the most sarcastic sympathetic comment of "oooh Colt!" before humorously laughing at his buddy with the words: "Shed a tear for Colt!"

Knost, who now works on the CBS Golf team, is good friends with a lot of the current crop of PGA Tour talent and, when he shot his course record at The Players Championship in 2016, he could have shot 62 if he hadn't bogeyed his final hole.

Former players who have also shot 63 include Fred Couples, Greg Norman, Roberto Castro, Jason Day, Martin Kaymer, Knost, Webb Simpson, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.

After last week’s relatively low-key Honda Classic on the PGA Tour, the fourth elevated event of the year takes place with the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.

That means, like the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the WM Phoenix Open and the Genesis Invitational, another field loaded with some of the best players in the world competes.

One of those is the defending champion, World No.2 Scottie Scheffler, who claimed his second of four victories of 2022 with a one-shot win over a chasing pack containing Billy Horschel, Tyrell Hatton and Viktor Hovland. It the tournament goes anything like the other event Scheffler has played in as champion this year, the WM Phoenix Open, he will be a happy man come Sunday evening considering his successful defence of the title at TPC Scottsdale.

If Scheffler does pull off the trick again, he will be the first player to successfully defend multiple tournaments in a season since Tiger Woods in 2007. The three players who finished runner-up last season are all back too, hoping to go one better this year. Of those, Hatton will surely fancy his chances considering he won the tournament three years ago.

So far, 2023, has been largely defined by one player – Jon Rahm. The Spaniard bagged his third win since the turn of the year at Riviera Country Club two weeks ago, when a nip-and-tuck final round with Max Homa finished with Rahm emerging on top after a two-shot win. While Homa was clearly despondent not to claim victory, his runner-up performance was enough to taking into the top 10 for the first time in his career. The World No.8 will be hoping to build on that in Florida this week.

As well as Scheffler and Hatton, four other former winners are in the field this week - 2011 champion Martin Laird, Jason Day, who won in 2016, Francesco Molinari, who claimed victory three years later and 2018 winner Rory McIlroy. Much of the focus will be on the performance of the Northern Irishman, who has slipped from first to third in the world rankings since the turn of the year despite winning the Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour in January.

By his recent high standards, the two tournaments that have followed, In Arizona and at the Riviera Country Club, have been underwhelming for McIlroy, who finished tied for 32nd and tied for 29th in each respectively. He’ll be looking to recapture the form of five years ago with this week’s tournament. Based on his previous performances in the tournament, the omens are good. His previous eight consecutive finishes at Bay Hill, he has only finished lower than tied for 13th on one occasion, in 2016.

Others in the top 10 competing this week are World No.4 Patrick Cantlay, World No.6 Xander Schauffele, the man directly beneath him in the rankings, Will Zalatoris, World No.9 Justin Thomas and World No.10 Collin Morikawa.

Last week’s winner Chris Kirk also appears, along with the man he beat in the playoff, Eric Cole, while other notable names include US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick, Keith Mitchell, who won plenty of admirers for his performance in the Genesis Invitational, where he finished fifth, and 2022 Arnold Palmer Award winner Cameron Young.

Overall, 43 of the world’s top 50 compete, as they battle it out for a purse of $20m, of which the winner will receive $3.6m with the runner-up claiming to $2.18m.

Below is a full breakdown of the prize money and field for the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.

Arnold Palmer Invitational Prize Money 2023

Arnold Palmer Invitational Field 2023

• Aberg, Ludvig
• Alexander, Tyson
• An, Byeong Hun
• Baddeley, Aaron
• Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
• Bradley, Keegan
• Bramlett, Joseph
• Brehm, Ryan
• Buckley, Hayden
• Burns, Sam
• Cantlay, Patrick
• Cink, Stewart
• Clark, Wyndham
• Cole, Eric
• Conners, Corey
• Coody, Pierceson
• Dahmen, Joel
• Davis, Cam
• Day, Jason
• Detry, Thomas
• Donald, Luke
• English, Harris
• Finau, Tony
• Fitzpatrick, Matt
• Fleetwood, Tommy
• Fowler, Rickie
• Fox, Ryan
• Glover, Lucas
• Gordon, Will
• Griffin, Ben
• Grillo, Emiliano
• Hadwin, Adam
• Hammer, Cole
• Hardy, Nick
• Harman, Brian
• Harrington, Padraig
• Hatton, Tyrrell
• Henley, Russell
• Herbert, Lucas
• Higgo, Garrick
• Hodges, Lee
• Hoffman, Charley
• Hoge, Tom
• Homa, Max
• Horschel, Billy
• Hossler, Beau
• Hovland, Viktor
• Hughes, Mackenzie
• Im, Sungjae
• Johnson, Kamaiu
• Johnson, Zach
• Kim, S.H.
•  Kim, Si Woo
• Kim, Tom
• Kirk, Chris
• Kisner, Kevin
• Kitayama, Kurt
• Kizzire, Patton 
• Koch, Greg
• Laird, Martin
• Lawrence, Thriston
• Lee, K.H.
• Lee, Min Woo
• Lingmerth, David
• Lipsky, David
• List, Luke
• Lower, Justin
• Lowry, Shane
• Malnati, Peter
• Matsuyama, Hideki
• McIlroy, Rory
• Meronk, Adrian
• Merritt, Troy
• Mitchell, Keith
• Molinari, Francesco
• Montgomery, Taylor
• Moore, Taylor
• Morikawa, Collin
• Mullinax, Trey
• NeSmith, Matthew
• Noren, Alex
• Palmer, Ryan
•  Pendrith, Taylor
• Power, Seamus
• Putnam, Andrew
• Rahm, Jon
• Rai, Aaron
• Reavie, Chez
• Riley, Davis
• Rodgers, Patrick
• Rose, Justin
• Ryder, Sam
• Schauffele, Xander
• Scheffler, Scottie
• Schenk, Adam
• Scott, Adam
• Shelton, Robby
• Sigg, Greyson
• Simpson, Webb
• Smalley, Alex
• Spaun, J.J.
• Spieth, Jordan
• Stallings, Scott
• Straka, Sepp
• Streelman, Kevin
• Suh, Justin
• Svensson, Adam
• Tarren, Callum
• Taylor, Ben
• Taylor, Nick
• Theegala, Sahith
• Thomas, Justin
• Thompson, Davis
• Todd, Brendon
• Westmoreland, Kyle
• Willett, Danny
• Wise, Aaron
• Woodland, Gary
• Young, Cameron
• Zalatoris, Will

The PGA Tour just provided a sudden-death playoff matchup at the Honda Classic, and now we’re getting a star-studded field in Orlando, Florida, during the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Located at the challenging Bay Hill Club & Lodge, constructed and designed by the late golfer Arnold Palmer, players will have to deal with lengthy, narrow fairways and numerous water hazards. It’s a different layout than PGA National, where Chris Kirk outdueled rookie Eric Cole on the 18th hole twice in a row last weekend. However, there are still a lot of strategically placed sand bunkers, doglegged fairways, and water hazards to remind players that they’re competing in the Sunshine State.

It’s always a blast setting DFS lineups in bigger PGA Tour events, as we can land huge value with proven players. Of course, paying up for a couple of blue chip prospects is often a necessity, but playing contrarian in a talented field of 120 players that includes Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, and others becomes much easier to execute. There is an added layer of difficulty on tough courses like Bay Hill, which will see heavy winds throughout the four-day forecast. Ball-striking power and precision will be even more important when it comes to staying atop the leaderboard and grinding out birdies. After all, birdies and eagles are the premium currency when playing PGA DFS. Cashing contests rely heavily upon a player’s ability to log red scores, outweighing the occasional bogey by 3X the point value. Don’t be afraid to roster players who go for it and wind up with a decorated scorecard. 

I’ve identified six of my favorite prospects who will help us cash our DraftKings and FanDuel lineups. Let’s find out why each of these players should be prioritized ahead of Thursday’s opening tee times. 

DraftKings - $50,000 Maximum Salary (6 players)

Max Homa ($9.7K)

One of the best players on the PGA Tour at this moment, Max Homa has two outright wins in seven events played, including a runner-up against Jon Rahm in his most recent event at Genesis. There are very few weaknesses that the 32-year-old California native possesses, ranking 12th in strokes gained tee-to-green and fifth in strokes gained putting while ranking 18th in total driving. He’s a complete player and has three events with at least 116.5 FPPG on DraftKings, so we’re landing a slight discount at $9.7K compared to paying over $10.6K for Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, or Jon Rahm. 

Jason Day ($8.5K)

It’s been seven years since Jason Day won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but he’s been rounding into form lately. The 35-year-old has been a professional on the PGA Tour circuit for 17 years, and he’s enjoyed 12 outright wins, but he’s been delivering T10 finishes in each of his previous three events. The New Zealand native has at least 85.5 FPPG on DraftKings during this stretch. His game is built for a difficult Florida course such as Bay Hill, as Day ranks first scrambling from 10-20 yards and first in putting from 15-20 feet with a 37.25 percent conversion rate, which will come in handy on the speedy Bermudagrass greens. Consider Day a massive discount and a must-add salary saver.

Sahith Theegala ($7.9K)

Sahith Theegala is still searching for his first outright win since becoming a full-time PGA Tour member last season. He’s only missed one cut and has finished with over 90 FPPG in two of his previous three events, bouncing back from a lackluster outing at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The 25-year-old missed the cut at Bay Hill in 2022, so he has plenty of motivation to avenge his poor performance. At this price, it’s hard to say no to rostering Theegala in multiple DraftKings lineups. 

 FanDuel - $60,000 Maximum Salary (6 players)

Scottie Scheffler (11.8K)

My favorite blue chip prospect worth a steep salary in DFS this weekend is none other than the defending Arnold Palmer Invitational champion, Scottie Scheffler. We’ve already seen Scheffler defend his title at the WMPO a couple of weeks ago. While he didn’t produce at the dizzying rate we’ve grown accustomed to during the Genesis Invitational during his most recent event, he never strayed above -1-under-par in any round. Prior to Genesis, Scheffler had four consecutive events with at least 123 FPPG on FanDuel, relying on a powerful driver and sharp irons to compete in any field at any course. 

Seamus Power ($9.2K)

As I mentioned earlier in this article, finding high value in the cheaper salary range becomes an easy task on big slates like the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Seamus Power fits the billing for this type of player. The 35-year-old Irishman has been quietly stringing together four T25 finishes since January, only producing one round over par in his past 16 rounds played. Power is ranked seventh in strokes gained putting, which is a massive asset to acquire in DFS, plus he is ranked fourth in par 3 scorings. At just $9.2K on FanDuel, which gives users an additional $5K salary to use compared to DraftKings, Power is a safe floor addition to your lineups. 

Si Woo Kim ($8.8K)

There were a few years where Si Woo Kim disappeared from being an outright winner after notching a win at The Players Championship in 2017, but the 27-year-old South Korean native has regained his rhythm this season. Kim won the Sony Open in Hawaii back in January and has stayed inside of the top 25 in three of his past four events, missing the cut at Genesis. With a week to rest and prepare for Bay Hill, where Kim logged a T26 finish in 2022, he should be able to rely on his driver accuracy and approach shots to set himself up for birdie opportunities throughout the weekend. He’s a high-risk, high-reward prospect but at $8.8K on FanDuel, Kim is good enough to cash lineups with other featured studs. 

The Sunshine State will continue to be the site for the upcoming Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Florida. After witnessing the first sudden-death playoff in several months on the PGA Tour at the Honda Classic this past weekend, expect more fireworks and dramatic finishes at Bay Hill. If not due to the challenging course, then certainly because of the improved field. 

Scottie Scheffler returns to defend his title after winning the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational but he’s not the outright betting favorite. That accolade goes to Jon Rahm, who is playing unconsciously this season, winning three of six events outright, including his last performance at The Genesis Invitational a couple of weeks ago. Rahm is +650, followed by Rory McIlroy at +800, who previously won at Bay Hill in 2018. McIlroy hasn’t looked nearly as dominant in the two PGA Tour events he’s competed at since mid-February, drawing T32 and T29 finishes at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and Genesis. However, he did win The CJ Cup back in October, before going on to win more on the DP World Tour, so McIlroy definitely still packs a punch and holds his own in a highly competitive field. Max Homa is another budding superstar, winning twice outright in seven events this season while losing as the runner-up to Rahm at Genesis in his last appearance. 

Let’s check out the top-ten betting odds, course layout, and a few players who warrant serious consideration to win outright ahead of Thursday’s opening round at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational. 

Arnold Palmer Invitational Betting Odds

Sportsbooks and oddsmakers have a lot of confidence in Jon Rahm as the outright betting favorite. It’s no surprise, however, it’s important to remember the Spaniard’s meltdown at the Farmers Insurance Open in late January, where he went +2 in the final round, allowing Homa to climb the leaderboard and secure the sixth win of his ten-year career. While +650 odds is a hefty payout in a vacuum, it’s relatively low for PGA betting value, so there are other more tempting players to invest in ahead of Thursday’s opening round at Bay Hill. 

McIlroy is due for a big outing but he’s still sitting high at 8/1 odds, which doesn’t offer us quite the satisfactory payout that other big-time players have been designated. Nearly all of the players with top-ten odds entering the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational are elite ball-strikers who either possess a strong driver or great putting ability. Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion and he’s getting overshadowed, despite proving that he’s capable of repeating at an event during his outright win at the WMPO a few weeks ago. 10/1 odds is solid and we’ve seen Scheffler stay poised in the big moments numerous times throughout the past two seasons, plus he ranks inside the top ten for strokes gained tee-to-green, off-the-tee, and greens in regulation with a 75 percent conversion rate. There are a lot of players with much lower odds and higher value that also catch my eye, including Will Zalatoris (22/1), Sam Burns (40/1), and Keith Mitchell (60/1). 

Let’s explore the course layout more, along with previous winners, relevant betting stats, and a few of my favorite golfers to bet on as outright winners ahead of the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational. 

Arnold Palmer Invitational Betting Preview

Previous Winners

• 2022 - Scottie Scheffler (-5)
• 2021 - Bryson DeChambeau (-11)
• 2020 - Tyrrell Hatton (-4)
• 2019 - Francesco Molinari (-12)
• 2018 - Rory McIlroy (-18)

Relevant Betting Stats

• Driving Accuracy
• Sand save percentage
• Greens in Regulation percentage
• Scrambling
• Strokes Gained: Putting

Course Layout

Bay Hill Club & Lodge has been on the PGA Tour circuit since it was officially opened in 1979. Under the vision of owner and renowned late golfer, Arnold Palmer, who was among the first to install Tifway Bermudagrass. It’s a par 72 that tips at 7,381 yards, while featuring more par 5s than PGA National last weekend during the Honda Classic, creating more birdie opportunities.

Conversely, there are numerous water hazards, strategically placed sand bunkers, and doglegged fairways that are lined with trees and plenty of surrounding rough to avoid. The greens are fairly small like they were at PGA National, while the par 3s average 215 yards, making them a bit longer than traditional par 3 holes. The par 5 holes average over 550 yards in length, so while there is room for an errant shot, distance, and accuracy remain pivotal in conquering Bay Hill. Of course, it also helps to have a red-hot putter to create an edge at a course that has only scored lower than -14-under-par on a handful of events since 2007. Suffice it to say there won’t be a lot of red scorecards at Bay Hill this weekend.  

Top Players to Bet for Outright Winner at Arnold Palmer Invitational

Scottie Scheffler (+1000) (Bet $100 to collect $1,100) Get the best Scottie Scheffler odds at DraftKings

The defending champion at Bay Hill is getting slightly disrespected by sportsbooks and oddsmakers. Yes, Scottie Scheffler has started a bit slower than he did in 2022, but that was an absurd pace that should not be expected every season. Plus, Jon Rahm has won half of the events that he’s competed in thus far, stealing a lot of the shine from Scheffler, who quietly goes about his business. Whether it’s hitting the greens in regulation on 75 percent of his attempts, or ranking 28th in driving distance and accuracy, Scheffler is a poised, cerebral player with a lot of confidence and skill to successfully defend his title for the second time this season. 10/1 is a solid payout based on these opening odds ahead of Thursday’s first round, so go ahead and sprinkle accordingly. 

Max Homa (+1800) (Bet $100 to collect $1,900) The best odds for this pick are at DraftKings

Max Homa nearly pulled off his third win of the season at The Genesis Invitational but couldn’t keep up with Jon Rahm despite outplaying him for the outright win at the Farmers Insurance Open a few weeks beforehand. The 32-year-old California native is ranked second in overall putting average, first in par 3 birdies, and has a powerful driver that is well-equipped to keep Homa in the mix near the top of the leaderboard. T17, T10, and T24 are Homa’s three previous finishes at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, so with the way he’s trending to start 2023, landing 18/1 odds is incredible value to acquire. 

Will Zalatoris (+2400) (Bet $100 to collect $2,500) Head to FanDuel to get the best Will Zalatoris odds

A back injury has kept Will Zalatoris from competing in only four PGA Tour events this season. However, the 26-year-old native of California is one of the more talented ball strikers, and he typically saves his best round for Sunday, averaging 65.3 in Round 4 this year. Zalatoris is ranked seventh for greens in regulation at 73.4 percent, averages 306 yards per drive, and is ranked 27th in strokes gained putting, which is an area he’s markedly improved. Previous finishes of T38 and T10 at Bay Hill should have bettors feeling confident about backing Zalatoris despite the highly competitive field he’ll be joining in Orlando. 

Keith Mitchell (+5500) (Bet $100 to collect $5,600) Looking for Keith Mitchell odds head over to DraftKings

Keith Mitchell has been lingering near the top of leaderboards for the past few events but hasn’t quite pieced it all together yet this season. The 31-year-old American has two T5 finishes in his last three events, while only falling outside of the T25 once since missing the cut at the Sony Open in mid-January. Most importantly, Mitchell’s only outright win came in Florida at the Honda Classic back in 2019, so he’s comfortable playing Bay Hill’s rigorous course. Mitchell has logged T5 and T6 finishes at the Arnold Palmer Invitational back in 2019 and 2020, while regressing outside of the T25 in his most recent two appearances. His odds to win outright have already begun to climb, so get in while the value is still massive at +5500, especially with an extra week of rest and practice to properly prepare.

The Arnold Palmer Invitational was founded in 1979 as the successor to the Florida Citrus Open Invitational, and since 1979 the event has been hosted at the iconic Bay Hill Club and Lodge.

It is one of only five tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule that has an invitational status, which basically just means a smaller field. Yet with the event being granted elevated status, which has essentially just come to mean that all of the best players in the world will be in attendance competing for a $20 million dollar purse, the field has been raised to 136 players.

Once again, all of the best players in the world will be in attendance, including Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, Tony Finau, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland, Sungjae Im, Will Zalatoris, as well as former winners like Jason Day, Francesco Molinari, and Tyrrell Hatton.

With the PLAYERS Championship right on deck, the Tour is now reaching the meat and potatoes of the Florida Swing, and while we always miss champions walking off the 18th for congratulations from Arnold Palmer, his presence lives on at one of the premier events of the year.

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Arnold Palmer Invitational Course Preview

Bay Hill Golf Club & Lodge

The Florida Swing gets off to an incredibly difficult start, and if you thought PGA National was hard, just wait until you see the task at hand at the iconic Dick Wilson venue.

Bay Hill Club plays as a par 72, tipping out to 7,466 yards, and last year, it played as the third toughest course on the PGA Tour. Bay Hill has always been challenging, but in 2019 they hired a new superintendent who actually made the fairways a touch wider, but shaved off a great deal of rough surrounding the water and bunkers, making it far easier for balls to roll into hazards.

He also made the existing rough far thicker, and Bay Hill definitively features the thickest rough on the PGA Tour outside of the U.S. Open. Since Flynn took over in 2019, the winning scores have been -12, -4, -11, and -5. Last year, it featured the hardest set of par threes on the PGA Tour and the second-hardest set of par fours on the schedule as well.

For this reason, it is absolutely essential for players to score on the four par fives, which have historically ranked as the four easiest holes on the course. Ultimately, Bay Hill requires an extremely balanced attack of powerful driving, par-five scoring, elite long iron play, and a deft touch around the greens. Over the years, every single winner has been near the top of the field in either driving distance, par-five scoring, proximity to the hole, or scrambling. Any player that is non-elite in at least one of those three skill sets is an easy cross-off for me, and I am extremely excited to watch the best in the world take on such a difficult test.

Arnold Palmer Invitational Key Stats

• Long-term Proximity 200 yards plus
• Strokes Gained Around the Green: Bermuda-grass courses
• Strokes Gained Off the Tee: Long golf courses

Arnold Palmer Invitational Picks and Predictions: Outright Winner

Will Zalatoris (+2500) (Bet $100 to collect $2,600) The best odds for this Will Zalatoris pick are at FanDuel

While typically one of the most popular selections in the betting market week in and out, Will Zalatoris has not been a player I have invested much in over the past couple of years. That changes this week for me, as I believe this is an ideal spot for the rising star.

Zalatoris answered all questions about his lingering injury history with a fourth-place finish at the Genesis where he gained 3.9 strokes off the tee, four strokes on approach, 2.4 strokes around the green, and 2.4 strokes putting. I love buying in on players that are coming off a week where they gained strokes in all four major categories, which is the exact type of well-rounded approach that is extremely necessary at a course like Bay Hill.

The Wake Forest alumnus remains one of the best drivers of the ball on long golf courses, as well as the best long iron players in the field. My only concern is the short game, but even that has been trending in the right direction. Will Zalatoris will be the first to admit that his favorite style of golf is U.S. Open conditions, and with the rock-hard greens and extremely thick rough, Bay Hill is as about as close to a U.S.-Open-like set up that players will see on the PGA Tour all season.

As you can see above, Will Zalatoris is as long as +2500 to win this week, and as short as +1800. This is a $700 difference in payout, so ensure you are comparing the odds this week, before placing your outright wager on Will Zalatoris to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Hideki Matsuyama (+6600) (Bet $100 to collect $6,700) PointsBet has the best odds to Hideki Matsuyama to win this week

At this current moment, there’s nothing really jumping off the page about Hideki Matsuyama, but that is of course reflected in his number. In terms of pure value, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better bet on the board than the former Masters champion. I love to pounce on players that are coming off a missed cut in which they gained strokes in both ball-striking categories, which was certainly the case for Matsuyama at Riviera. Last week, he gained 0.7 strokes off the tee and 1.6 strokes on approach.

Of course, he fell victim to a faulty putter but on the whole, Hideki has been much better of late, and he’s actually gained strokes putting in his last four appearances on Bermuda grass. Grabbing a player of Hideki’s caliber at this high of a number provides a great deal of flexibility in creating a card with multiple elite players this week, and I would not be the least surprised if the Japanese superstar reminded us that he is still a top-20 player in the world and picked up PGA Tour victory number nine in Orlando. 

As you can see, Hideki Matsuyama is as big as +6600 to win this week, and even at +5500, he looks like a big price to win. With that said, ensure you are taking advantage of PointsBet or BetMGM Sportsbook's odds, so that you can win $6,700, rather than $5,500!