2020 Tour Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
The winner of the tournament also claims the $15 million FedExCup grand prize. Dustin Johnson is favoured on the golf odds.
The Top 30 in points following last week’s BMW Championship outside Chicago qualified for the Tour Championship – Webb Simpson was locked into a high spot in the points so he decided to withdraw from the BMW. Tiger Woods was not one of those to reach the finale, and he is the only player to win the Tour Championship three times.
In an effort to add more drama, the Tour changed the format at the Tour Championship starting last year where the FedExCup points leader starts the tournament at 10 under par. Second place in the points is 8 under, third is 7 under, fourth is 6 under and fifth 5 under. Then there’s a sliding scale for groups of five after that, with the bottom five in the points beginning at even par.
Other than that, the tournament is a typical stroke play event. Obviously, it’s unlikely those starting at even par are going to make up 10 strokes on the points leader, but in theory every player can win the tournament. Because it’s such a small field, there is no cut.
The Tour Championship debuted in 1987 as the Nabisco Championship and has been the final event of the FedExCup playoffs since those debuted in 2007. It has been held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta since 2004 (and was a few times before that as well). The course is a par 70 at around 7,320 yards.
Not only does the winner now take the FedExCup and all that money, but he gets a five-year Tour exemption. The 2020-21 wraparound season begins immediately next week in California.
Tour Championship Betting Odds
Johnson enters atop the points standings and thus tees off Thursday at 10 under. He’s +167 to win. DJ lost in a wild playoff to Jon Rahm at the BMW Championship on Sunday. That it went to a playoff was amazing as Johnson had to sink a winding 43-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to force it. Johnson hasn’t won this tournament but has a handful of Top 10s, with a best of fifth in 2018.
Rahm is No. 2 in the standings and thus starts at 8 under. He’s +279 to win the Tour Championship for the first time. His best finish was seventh in 2017. Rahm made an even longer putt than Johnson did in Sunday’s playoff to win.
Justin Thomas entered last year’s tournament as the points leader and at 10 under but only finished at 13 under and tied for third. He begins this year at 7 under and is +594. Thomas hasn’t won this event but hasn’t been worse than seventh the past four years.
Rory McIlroy began the 2019 event at 5 under but won it at 18 under to claim his second FedExCup. Only he and Tiger have won two of those. Rory starts at 3 under this year and is +2400. McIlroy and his wife are expecting their first child at anytime now, and Rory has said he will withdraw if he gets the call during the tournament.
Mike Weir is the lone Canadian to win this tournament, finishing at 14-under 270 in 2001 and edging out Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els and David Toms by a shot. Corey Conners was the only player from Canada in last year’s field and finished T26 at 3 over. He was 14th entering Sunday but shot a 74.
The lone Canadian in the field this year is Mackenzie Hughes, and he starts at even par. He’s +22000 to win in his Tour Championship debut.
Tour Championship Predictions
Thomas is way overdue to win at East Lake and will do so Sunday to join Tiger and Rory as the only two-time FedExCup champions.
