2021 AT&T Byron Nelson: PGA Tour Betting Odds
It’s still going to be a good field, with four of the world’s Top 10 scheduled to play. Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson opened as +1000 co-favourites on the golf odds.
This tournament debuted way back in 1944 and was won by its eventual namesake in the legendary Byron Nelson, who grew up in the area. For much of its history this was the only PGA Tour stop named after a professional golfer. There are now two: The Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida.
The AT&T Byron Nelson is played at TPC Craig Ranch. It’s a par 72 at 7,468 yards. The course has hosted events on the lower-tier Korn Ferry Tour but this is the first time it will host a PGA Tour event and will do so for at least the next five years. The 2020 tournament was cancelled by the COVID pandemic, so the defending champion is South Korea’s Sung Kang – it was his first Tour title and remains his only one.
Kang had to play 27 holes on Sunday two years ago at Trinity Forest due to a rain delay Saturday and birdied Nos. 14-16 to shoot a final-round 67 and beat out Matt Every and Scott Piercy by two shots. Kang’s 23-under 261 score matched the vent record set the year before by Aaron Wise. Kang shot a 61 (tied course record) in Round 2 and was the 11th international winner of the tournament since 2000 and second Korean-born player to win the AT&T Byron Nelson, joining Sangmoon Bae in 2013. Piercy, incidentally, didn’t have a single bogey all weekend.
Kang is a +35000 long shot to repeat, while Piercy is +17500.
AT&T Byron Nelson Golf Odds
Bryson DeChambeau had an interesting time in Charlotte last week at the Wells Fargo Championship won by Rory McIlroy, who is not playing this week. DeChambeau thought he had missed the cut so already had chartered a flight back home to Dallas. By the time the three-hour flight on the private aircraft touched down, he was inside the cut. DeChambeau flew back and ended up T9. He has missed the cut in two trips to this event, but remember it’s at a different course now.
Dustin Johnson is still world No. 1 but hasn’t had a top-10 finish on Tour since February and didn’t play last week. He was T13 his last time in this tournament four years ago. Rahm surprisingly missed the cut in Charlotte. It’s his debut in this event.
Dallas native Jordan Spieth is +1200 with Daniel Berger at +1800. Spieth got his first PGA Tour win in four years in April at the Texas Open. Last month, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese player to win the Masters – he’s now arguably the most popular athlete in that golf-crazy country – and is playing for the first time since. He’s +2000.
No Canadian has won this tournament – Mike Weir was a runner-up by two shots to Brendon Todd in 2014. Two years ago, Roger Sloan was MDF, while Mackenzie Hughes, David Hearn, Adam Svensson, Ben Silverman and Nick Taylor missed the cut. Sloan is +27500 this week with Michael Gligic +30000 and Hearn +40000.
AT&T Byron Nelson Golf Predictions
Harder to handicap this week with the new course; take Spieth and Rahm for Top 10s, but the winner at +6000 is Matt Kuchar. He took last weekend off and usually contends in this tournament. Kuchar also was T12 earlier this year at the Texas Open so perhaps Texas-style golf suits him.
