2020 Memorial Tournament: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Bryson DeChambeau is the favorite on the golf odds, but the bigger news is the restart debut of Tiger Woods.
Muirfield Village hosted last week’s Workday Charity Open, a one-off event that replaced the cancelled John Deere Classic in Illinois, which is set to return in 2021. The John Deere simply couldn’t function normally or turn a profit during a coronavirus pandemic. Collin Morikawa won the Workday Charity Open on Sunday in a three-hole playoff over Justin Thomas. Morikawa is +2300 this week with Thomas at +1100.
Speaking of the pandemic, the PGA Tour was set to allow a limited number of fans (about 9,000 per day) to return this week at the Memorial Tournament, but with the coronavirus spiking in nearly every state in the USA that plan has been scuttled. The Tour has announced no fans will be allowed at any events this rest of this year.
Muirfield Village was set up a bit differently last week and should play tougher for the Memorial as a par 72 at around 7,400 yards. The 72-hole Memorial record is 268 by Tom Lehman in 1994 and the 18-hole mark is 61 by John Huston in 1996.
Muirfield, located in Dublin, Ohio, was founded and designed by the legendary Jack Nicklaus, who also serves as tournament host. He grew up in that area and starred at Ohio State University. Muirfield has hosted both the Ryder Cup (1987) and Presidents Cup (2013).
As an invitational, there will be a smaller field this week. The winner gets a three-year Tour exemption instead of the standard two.
2020 Memorial Tournament Odds
We picked Rickie Fowler to win last week at +2800, and he was eighth entering Sunday but shot a final-round 73 to finish T22. Fowler is +4100 this week.
Morikawa and Thomas both finished at 19-under 269. DeChambeau (+1000) took last week off but won the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit the week before. He won here in 2018, beating Byeong Hun An and Kyle Stanley in a playoff. Last year, DeChambeau was T22.
Woods (+1700), who last teed it up in a competitive event in mid-February at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles and finished dead last, has won this tournament a record five times – last in 2012. Woods was T9 last year at 9-under 269. He next PGA Tour victory would be No. 83 overall, breaking a record with Sam Snead.
Patrick Cantlay won last year at 19-under 269, two ahead of Aussie Adam Scott. Cantlay shot a bogey-free final round of 8-under 64. He’s +1400 to repeat and was T7 on Sunday.
No Canadian has won this tournament. Mike Weir was one of four runners-up in 2008 by two shots to Kenny Perry. Adam Hadwin was T52 last year at 1 over and Corey Conners T65 at 4 over. They were the only two Canadians in the field. Hadwin’s best result here is T11 and he’s +7700, while Conners debuted last year and is +12100. Hadwin was T35 on Sunday and Conners T39. Mackenzie Hughes is +20000 and Nick Taylor is +22200.
Memorial Tournament Golf Predictions
Back DeChambeau and Tiger for Top 10s but the winner at +1400 is Rory McIlroy, who is usually favoured in a tournament these days. He hasn’t won here but has four Top 10s.