US Open Betting Predictions: Major and Season-Long Golf Props Odds
by George Monroy - 6/10/2015

The golf scene is set to kick into overdrive this week with the FedEx St. Jude Classic beginning June 11 and the US Open on June 18. The big storylines heading into the next two weeks will focus on Tiger Woods, who just played one of the worst rounds of golf in his entire career, and the brewing rivalry between Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth.

PGA Tour Picks: Memorial Tournament Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/2/2015

I'm sure the TPC Four Seasons resort in Irving, Texas, will go down as the most memorable location in Aussie Stephen Bowditch's life. Bowditch shot a final-round 64 on Sunday to win the AT&T Byron Nelson for his second career PGA Tour win. Bowditch also had his wedding reception there. He moved to north Texas a decade ago after essentially throwing a "dart at a map" and met his future wife Amanda, who grew up in the area.

PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Byron Nelson Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/26/2015

I don't like to lead these stories with pessimistic views of things, but I know that world No. 2 Jordan Spieth is kicking himself right now. Spieth so badly wants to win a PGA tournament in his home state of Texas, and he was potentially in position to do so last week at Colonial. Spieth was right there with a handful of others but suffered his only bogey of Sunday on the par-3 16th, and he fell one shot short of winner Chris Kirk.

PGA Tour Picks: Crowne Plaza Invitational At Colonial Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/20/2015

Without question, 100 times out of 100 if a sportsbook gives me odds for the field against one player to win a golf tournament, I'm taking the field. Won't even think twice. But then once in a blue moon the unthinkable happens, and that was the case last week as Rory McIlroy -- priced at +350 vs. the field at -500 -- dominated at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte for his second career win there (his first Tour win in 2010 was at Quail Hollow).

PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/13/2015

I've always been a fan of Rickie Fowler's game on the course, but that dude is now my idol for his game off it. I'm sure if you watched the end of Sunday's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass you saw the kiss that Fowler laid on his incredibly gorgeous bikini model girlfriend Alexis Randock. Fowler got $1.8 million for the biggest win of his young career and then got to go home with that. Well done sir!

PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/6/2015

So I guess we can cool our jets a little bit on wondering if Jordan Spieth has passed Rory McIlroy as the best player in the world. McIlroy reminded everyone who the world's top-ranked player was last week at the World Golf Championship-Match Play event by beating Gary Woodland in the finals, never trailing once in the match.

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/28/2015

Sometimes the most deserving golfer doesn't always win a tournament. That was not the case at all last week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans as England's Justin Rose didn't make a single bogey over his final 66 holes -- just think about that; Rose had a bogey and double on his first six holes -- to win his seventh career PGA Tour event. Rose finished at a tournament-record 22-under 266 to beat out Cameron Tringale by a shot and Boo Weekley by two.

PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/21/2015

I usually pick Jim Furyk to win a couple of tournaments a year. He's a great player who always seems to be in contention -- in recent years, however, he would get uptight with a final-round lead and falter. That wasn't the case last week at Hilton Head as Furyk won the RBC Heritage in a playoff for his first tournament title in nearly five years, spanning 100 events. Over that winless stretch alone, he still made more than $14.8 million. Is it too late for me to become a pro golfer?

PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/15/2015

If it wasn't clear before that the era of Tiger and Phil being the "rivalry" to watch on the PGA Tour is in the rear-view mirror in terms of relevance, Jordan Spieth's spectacular win at the 2015 Masters officially stamped this year and likely the next several as Jordan vs. Rory as the key rivalry in golf.

2015 Masters Picks: Odds and Expert Golf Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/8/2015

To casual golf fans or those stuck in the still-lousy weather up in the American north, the golf season truly begins with the first major of the season, the Masters. Nothing like seeing all the azaleas blooming and sunny skies when you are stuck in Michigan or Maine wherever still shoveling out snow. Before I touch on the Masters, as usual I will recap my success (or lack thereof) the previous week.

2015 Masters Odds: Handicapping Tiger Woods Prop Bets
by George Monroy - 4/8/2015

Will Tiger Woods ever win another major? The question has been on the table for so long that it has already begun to lose its significance and meaning. The further the golf world gets from that magical Monday afternoon in 2008, when Woods last won a major, the easier it is to forget how great he used to be. His U.S. Open win nearly six years go, while playing on a broken leg and still sinking a high-pressure shot to force a sudden-death playoff hole against Rocco Mediate, will forever be remembered as one of the greatest moments in sports history.

2015 Masters Props Odds with Expert Betting Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/7/2015

I will do my normal PGA Tour event preview for the 2015 Masters, the Super Bowl of golf, on Wednesday as usual. Today, however, I will examine some of the hundreds of player props available at the sportsbooks -- taken from Bovada and Sportsbook.ag. This is always one of my favorites betting weeks of the year with the college basketball National Championship Game, baseball's Opening Day and the Masters.

2015 Masters Top-5 Finish Futures Odds with Picks and Predictions
by Dave Schwab - 4/7/2015

The first major of the season in professional golf gets underway this Thursday with first round action from Augusta in this year’s Masters. There is a whole new crop of young guns at the top of the list of Bovada’s futures odds for this year’s event. While there are a number of different ways to bet on the Masters, some of the best value lies in the betting odds for a Top-5 finish.

2015 Masters Odds with Expert Predictions and Analysis
by George Monroy - 4/6/2015

Two names are dominating the 2015 Masters headlines: Rory McIlroy for his shot at making history, and Tiger Woods for announcing that he will in fact play the event. One name is dominating headlines because of what his future might hold, while the other is dominating headlines because of his past. McIlroy has a chance at becoming only the third person in PGA Tour history to win three straight majors while also completing a career grand slam all before his 26th birthday.

PGA Tour Picks: Shell Houston Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/31/2015

We finally have our first two-time winner of the current PGA Tour golf season as Jimmy Walker won in his hometown of San Antonio last week at the Texas Open. Well, technically Walker lives 35 miles away in Bourne, but he grew up attending the Texas Open, so it had to feel sweet.

PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/25/2015

I'm happy to eat a little crown when necessary. I would have bet anyone who offered $100 at 500/1 odds last week that Matt Every wouldn't win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill over a strong field. There was NO chance of that with the way Every had played since his surprise win a year ago.

PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/18/2015

There has been some really exciting final-round golf on the PGA Tour this year, and last Sunday at the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook in the Tampa Bay area was no exception as Jordan Spieth birdied the third playoff hole with a 28-foot putt to beat Patrick Reed and Sean O'Hair (they all finished at 10 under). It's good thing Spieth made it because it had some pace and likely was going to be at least four-feet long if he didn't.

PGA Tour Picks: Valspar Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/11/2015

Last week at the big-money WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral's Blue Monster, Dustin Johnson proved he's all the way back from his personal problems by winning in just his fifth tournament since a return from what he and the PGA Tour called a "self-imposed" six-month leave of absence. Johnson shot a 3-under 69 to finish at 9 under, one ahead of J.B. Holmes, who led Johnson and Bubba Watson by five entering the final round. However, Holmes ballooned to a final-round 75. Even more impressive, Johnson had missed the cut the previous week at the Honda, but he contended twice on the California Swing.

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/4/2015

I was very happy to see good-guy Padraig Harrington win the Honda Classic on the first stop of the PGA Tour's Florida Swing at PGA National. I had mostly forgotten about the multiple-time major championship winner. He beat rookie Daniel Berger in a Monday playoff at the Honda, site of his first PGA Tour victory a decade prior. It was Harrington's first win since he won the 2008 PGA Championship only a few weeks after taking the British Open. Harrington, who lost his Tour card last year, needed a sponsor's exemption just to play the Honda. He won't have to worry about an exemptions for a while now.

PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Odds and Expert Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/25/2015

The 2014-15 golf season had largely seen well-known players -- at least to those who follow the sport a bit more than casually -- win the tournaments thus far. That changed last week on the final leg of the California Swing, the Northern Trust Open at Riviera outside Los Angeles.