PGA Tour Picks: St. Jude Classic Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 6/5/2013

As usual, I will recap last week's recommendations on the PGA Tour before looking to this week's event, which is the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, the final tournament before the U.S. Open. Was it a shocker that American Matt Kuchar won last week's star-studded Memorial Tournament? Not at all.

PGA Tour Picks: The Memorial Tournament Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/29/2013

Thankfully, the PGA Tour is out of Texas this week as I haven't had much luck in the few Lone Star State events in 2013. At least last week's winner at Colonial I definitely had heard of: Boo Weekley, who won for the first time in five years. He edged Matt Kuchar, the 36- and 54-hole leader, by a shot. Ironically, Weekley has won a tartan jacket now in all three career victories (RBC Heritage the other two).

PGA Tour Picks: Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/22/2013

Before looking at this week's second stop on the mini-Texas Swing with the Crowne Plaza Invitational at storied Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, let's recap my recommendations from last week's Byron Nelson. Yet again, a relative unknown took home his first PGA Tour victory, this time 26-year-old South Korean Sang-Moon Bae.

PGA Tour Picks: Byron Nelson Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/15/2013

Is Tiger Woods good for the game of golf? Of course he is. Ratings skyrocket whenever he's in contention, and PGA Tour pros now make obscene purses because of the Tour's boom in popularity due to Woods. With all due respect to any before him, Woods is the first golfer to become a pop culture world-wide icon (not always for good reasons).

PGA Tour Picks: The Players Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/8/2013

Before I take a look at this week's Players Championship -- and don't call it the "fifth major" because that's simply a marketing ploy and not something players believe -- I have to look back at last week's Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.

PGA Tour Picks: Wells Fargo Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 5/1/2013

We had yet another first-time PGA Tour winner last week in Billy Horschel, and you could almost see it coming -- I mentioned he was "interesting" at 28/1 to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Horschel had three straight Top-10 finishes entering that tournament and a Tour-high 22 straight cuts made.

PGA Tour Picks: Zurich Classic of New Orleans Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/24/2013

Almost hit on my second winner of this PGA Tour season last week at the RBC Heritage but instead had to settle for another near-miss in 2013 as Luke Donald finished third behind Graeme McDowell and Webb Simpson. Donald did pay off at +125 on a Top-10 finish, and I also hit on a playoff as the winning margin with McDowell beating fellow former U.S. Open champion Simpson on the first extra hole.

PGA Tour Picks: RBC Heritage Betting Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/17/2013

I would have to rank last week's Masters as among the five most exciting/unusual I have ever watched. Tiger Woods didn't win -- nor did I expect him to -- but once again stole the spotlight from the rest of the field with an illegal drop on No. 15 Friday. It was an incredibly unfortunate break that his approach hit the pin and ricocheted into the water, but there's still no excuse for Tiger not knowing the rules. Is it stupid a rules official on hand didn't tell him he couldn't then drop from about two yards back from his original spot?

2013 Masters Picks: Golf Odds and Predictions with Props
by Alan Matthews - 4/10/2013

Did you know that pretty much every year betting action on the Masters is more than the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship combined (occasionally you have to take the U.S. Open out of there)? There are a few reasons for this in my opinion. From a pure betting perspective, football is still a long ways off and college basketball just ended.

PGA Tour Picks: Valero Texas Open Props Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 4/2/2013

I'd like to tell you that I saw D.A. Points' victory coming last week at the Shell Houston Open, but that's clearly false. The 36-year-old American arrived at the tournament having failed to break 70 in his last nine rounds on the PGA Tour and had missed seven cuts in nine events this year. But Points drained a 13-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win the tournament by a shot. It gives Points a two-year exemption and entry into this year's Masters, just the second time he will play the year's first major.

PGA Tour Picks: Shell Houston Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/27/2013

Frankly, I would have been embarrassed to head into the Masters not having picked a winner on the PGA Tour this season despite coming close a few times. Thanks to Tiger Woods, I no longer have to type with a bag over my head.

PGA Tour Picks: Arnold Palmer Invitational Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/20/2013

Only a few weeks left in March for me to land my first tournament winner of 2013 -- perhaps it happens this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. I did forecast Tiger Woods winning there a year ago, although that's not exactly rocket science considering Tiger's track record at the tournament.

PGA Tour Golf Picks: Tampa Bay Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/13/2013

On the surface, one might be inclined to start worrying about the San Antonio Spurs. After all, they have lost two of their past three games, allowing a whopping 136 points in a shocking home blowout loss to Portland and then 107 in a rout at injury-ravaged Minnesota on Tuesday.

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Cadillac Championship Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 3/6/2013

I didn't much like world No. 1 Rory McIlroy's chances of repeating last week at the Honda Classic at PGA National, but, wow, did I never see that coming. McIlroy was the golden boy of golf entering this year, but now his reputation is in tatters. He missed the cut in his season-opening event in Abu Dhabi and then lost in the first round of the WGC-Match Play. Many believed he would find his groove at the Honda, but after scrambling to shoot even par in the first round, McIlroy withdrew on his ninth hole in his second round while at 7-over-par.

PGA Tour Picks: The Honda Classic Props Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/27/2013

I couldn’t be happier that the PGA Tour begins its Florida Swing this weekend with the Honda Classic at the PGA National Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens on the Sunshine State’s East Coast. Much like last year, I failed to hit on a 2013 tournament winner on the opening West Coast Swing (came close twice). However, in 2012 I did hit on the Honda Classic winner and then again a few weeks later at Bay Hill up in Orlando. The fact that I chose the two best players in the world to win those events, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, respectively … well, it is what it is.

PGA Tour Picks: WGC-Match Play Championship Props Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/19/2013

It’s a shame that Brandt Snedeker and Phil Mickelson will be missing from this week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at the par-72 Ritz Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain (at 7,791 yards, it’s the longest course on PGA Tour) outside of Tucson, Ariz. If the two Americans, ranked No. 4 and No. 9, respectively, were in the field, this might be one of the most anticipated Match Play events ever with Snedeker’s early dominance on Tour and Mickelson’s wire-to-wire win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

PGA Tour Props Betting: WGC-Accenture Match Play First-Round Matchups
by Alan Matthews - 2/19/2013

Because I believe that this week’s World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play is the best betting event of the golf season (and some nice bracket practice for the NCAA Tournament), I will be breaking down the event at Dove Mountain outside Tucson, Ariz., into two stories. One an overall look at whom I like to win each bracket and the championship, and this one breaking down every single first-round match on Wednesday. The field features 64 of the Top 66 ranked players in the world, with Americans Brandt Snedeker (minor injury) and Phil Mickelson (family vacation) not in the desert.

PGA Tour Picks: Northern Trust Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 2/13/2013

This week’s PGA Tour stop is at historic Riviera Country Club in the shadow of Hollywood for the Northern Trust Open, so you would think most players would want to tee it up. However, no golfer on the planet deserves this week off more than Brandt Snedeker.

PGA Tour Picks: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Odds
by Alan Matthews - 2/6/2013

Before getting to this week’s PGA Tour stop at the nation’s top public course, let’s review the recommendations from last week’s Waste Management Open outside of Phoenix. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a lot of faith in Phil Mickelson despite his previous success at the tournament. Lefty hadn’t been playing all that well for a while, but he was utterly dominant at TPC Scottsdale. Mickelson opened with a 60 that could have been a 58 and went wire-to-wire for the third time in his pro career by finishing at a tournament-record 28-under and four shots ahead of the field.

PGA Tour Picks: Waste Management Open Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/30/2013

The golf world is back on its correct orbit. By that I mean that Tiger Woods overshadows every tournament, even those he doesn’t play in. That is indeed the case for this week’s Waste Management Open outside Phoenix. Tiger isn’t in the field after a dominating win last week at Torrey Pines, his record eighth victory on the same course in a PGA Tour event – that includes the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey, his last major victory. Tiger now has 75 career wins, just seven behind Sam Snead’s career record.