2024 Sony Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds

Three players enter the 2024 Sony Open tied as co-favourites on the golf odds.

For obvious reasons easy travel reasons, several guys who played last week at The Sentry on Maui will also tee it up this week, although not all of them. Since The Sentry headed to Hawaii in 1999, 17 of the 25 Sony Open winners also played Kapalua the week prior. Only six golfers have ever won both Hawaii Tour events. This will also be the PGA Tour debut for several guys who qualified for 2024 off the Korn Ferry Tour.

Waialae Country Club, a par 70 at 7,044 yards, has hosted the Sony Open since 1965 and is shorter, flatter and narrower than last week’s track at Kapalua. Being a par 70 that means only two par 5s, and they conclude each nine. The par-3 17th at 194 yards parallel to the ocean is considered the signature hole.

It usually takes at least 20 under to win the Sony Open, but South Korea’s Si Woo Kim did so last year at 18-under 262, one shot better than relative unknown American Hayden Buckley, who had a two-shot lead at the start of the final round. The two were tied entering the final hole. Kim’s approach from 236 yards in a fairway bunker tumbled onto the green. He took two putts from 40 feet for birdie. Buckley was up next and missed his birdie try. His two bogeys on Sunday came on putts of 5 feet and just inside 4 feet, and he failed to birdie the two par 5s at Waialae.

Kim shot a final-round 64 and Buckley a 68. The last repeat winner of the Sony Open was American Jimmy Walker in 2015, and he is one of five players to win here twice. Last year was Kim’s fourth career Tour victory and he hasn’t won since.

International players have taken the tournament in three of the past four seasons even though many top Europeans like Rory McIlroy don’t come over to the USA until usually late January.

There will be one local favourite at least in the field as the University of Hawaii’s Blaze Akana has qualified for the Sony Open for the second consecutive year after winning a local qualifier for the state’s top amateurs last month. Last year, Akana was the first UH golfer to compete in the Sony Open since David Saka in 2011 but missed the cut following rounds of 71-72.

Sony Open Golf Odds

Rising young star Ludvig Aberg, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton are each +1600 favourites. Aberg shot a final-round 63 at The Sentry on Sunday to finish T47 and makes his debut here. Fitzpatrick comes off a T14 at The Sentry and hasn’t played here, either. Ditto Hatton, who was also T14 on Sunday.

Chris Kirk won The Sentry on Sunday by a shot over Sahith Theegala thanks to a final-round eight-under 65. Kirk had started the final round with a one-shot lead. It was the third straight year the winner at Kapalua posted a Sunday round of eight under or better. Kirk was third here last year and also has a pair

of runner-up finishes at the Sony Open. He’s +2800 to become the seventh golfer to ever win both Hawaii Tour events in one year. Defending champion Si Woo Kim was T25 on Sunday at The Sentry and +4000 to repeat here.

Two fairly big-name players will return to the Tour this week in big-hitting Gary Woodland (+10000), who had brain surgery in September, and Will Zalatoris (+4000), who hasn’t played an official Tour event since last March due to back surgery. Kevin Kisner (+20000), who made his debut as an analyst for NBC Sports at The Sentry, returns to playing status and has finished in the Top 5 here a few times but not won.

No Canadian has won the Sony Open. We liked Corey Conners to do so last year, but he finished T12. Nick Taylor was the top Canadian at T7. Adam Svensson was T41, while Mackenzie Hughes and Michael Gligic missed the cut. Conners is +2800 this week (four straight Top 12 finishes at Sony Open) with Svensson +5000, Adam Hadwin +5000, Nick Taylor +8000 and Taylor Pendrith +8000