2024 Farmers Insurance Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Xander Schauffele is favoured on the golf odds.
Tiger is hoping to play once a month this season including the four majors and under normal circumstances he would absolutely play this tournament as he has won it a whopping seven times and also won the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. However, Woods isn’t expected to make his 2024 debut until next month’s Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles, a tournament that benefits Tiger’s foundation and an event he hosts. When we do see Tiger, it will be without the famous Nike swoosh on his shirt as he and the company recently ended their 27-year relationship that helped make Woods a billionaire.
Yes, this tournament runs Wednesday-Saturday to avoid the final round being opposite the NFL’s conference championship weekend on Sunday when golf would be an afterthought for most sports fans/bettors.
Players competed on three courses last week at The American Express up the California coast and will do so on two at Torrey Pines: The South Course is the main and is a par 72 at 7,765 yards, while the North is also a par 72 at 7,258 yards. Golfers play a round on each ahead of the 36-hole cut and then just the South on the weekend.
Seven other past winners here are in the field including California native and 2023 winner Max Homa. He came from five shots off the lead to finish at 13-under 275 and two shots ahead of fellow American Keegan Bradley. Homa closed with a 6-under 66 and has now won four of his six career titles in California. He was born in Burbank, earned his degree from Cal and lives in Valencia, just north of Los Angeles.
Relative unknown Sam Ryder shared the first-round lead and was all alone atop the leaderboard after the second and third rounds but blew up on Saturday. A double bogey at the par-4 15th hole dropped him out of the lead. Ryder finished tied for fourth, four shots behind Homa, after a 3-over 75.
Homa is joined at Torrey Pines by 2022 champion Luke List, 2019 champion Jason Rose and past winners Jason Day (2015 and ‘18), Brandt Snedeker (2012 and ‘16), Scott Stallings (2014) and Nick Watney (2009).
Perhaps we should bet a longshot this week as the three PGA Tour winners this season have been Chris Kirk at +20000, Grayson Murray at +40000 and last week Nick Dunlap at +30000 as he captured The American Express to become the first amateur to win on Tour in 33 years (Phil Mickelson in 1991). At 20 years and 29 days, Dunlap was the youngest amateur to win an event in the history of the Tour.
Farmers Insurance Open Golf Odds
Bet on the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open
American Xander Schauffele is the +900 favourite. He comes off a T3 at the American Express, finishing two behind winner Nick Dunlap. Schauffele was one of five runners-up here in 2021 to Patrick Reed, who won by five and is now with LIV, and was 13th last year.
Collin Morikawa is +1000 with defending champion Max Homa +1100, Patrick Cantlay +1200 and Sungjae Im +2000. Morikawa finished third here in 2023 and his lone Tour start this year was a T5 at the season-opening Sentry.
Homa also has played just that event so far with a T14. Homa’s win at Torrey Pines was his lone Tour title last year, although he won the Nedbank Golf Challenge on the DP World Tour in November. Cantlay has a best of 12th here but shot at 76 Sunday at the American Express to finish T52. Im was T25 on Sunday and has been Top 10 here the past two years.
No Canadian has won this event. Al Balding finished runner-up to Arnold Palmer twice, and Graham DeLaet was second in 2014 with four other golfers. Adam Hadwin was the top finisher last year at T44 despite a final-round 76, while Taylor Pendrith was T60. Adam Svensson and Michael Gligic missed the cut. Svensson is +8000 this week with Mackenzie Hughes +10000, Pendrith +10000, Ben Silverman +35000 and Roger Sloan +50000.
Farmers Insurance Open Golf Predictions
It’s high time for Xander Schauffele (+900), a San Diego native, to win here as he had that runner-up mentioned above and a T7 at the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
