2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: PGA Tour Betting Odds

There will be no pro-am team competition in 2021. World No. 1

World No. 1 Dustin Johnson was the +350 favourite on the golf odds but has since withdrawn, so it’s now Patrick Cantlay favoured.

Typically, golfers play once each over the first three rounds on three courses for this tournament: par-72 Pebble Beach Golf Links (7,051 yards), par-72 Spyglass Hill (7,041 yards) and par-71 Monterey Peninsula Shore course (6,958). However, due to COVID restrictions the Monterey course is out of the rotation this year and thus there will be a traditional 36-hole cut with the final two rounds solely at Pebble Beach, which has hosted the U.S. Open six times and may be the most well-known public course in the United States.

A lot of movie stars, musicians and athletes tee it up in the pro-am team competition here — Wayne Gretzky, for one, is a regular. Amateurs team with a professional with all 156 pairings playing the first three days and then the low 24 playing Sunday at Pebble Beach to determine an amateur champion. Only 10 times in tournament history has a player won the pro-am title and the tournament title in the same year. That has been scrapped due to COVID, although there will be a one-day charity amateur event Wednesday. There will be no spectators allowed at the tournament, either.

This event began back in 1937 but there were a few years it wasn’t contested (World War II) and this will be its 75th anniversary. The 72-hole record is 22-under 265 was set by Brandt Snedeker in 2015, but the Monterey Peninsula course was in play then.

Americans have won this tournament all but four times, with Mark O’Meara and Phil Mickelson each having been victorious a record five times. Lefty’s most recent win – and probably his final victory on the PGA Tour – was here in 2019. When Pebble hosted the U.S. Open that year, Gary Woodland won.

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Johnson didn’t play on the PGA Tour last week but instead in the Saudi Invitational on the European Tour, and he won that. It was DJ’s first win since last November’s Masters but his third in his past eight worldwide starts. Johnson won here in 2009 & ’10. He has five Top 5s in the tournament since. Late Monday night, he withdrew without giving a reason. Travelling all the way from the Middle East may have had something to do with it.

Cantlay had been the +1000 second-favourite but is now the +663 betting leader with Johnson out. Then there’s a drop-off to Daniel Berger (+1300), Paul Casey (+1500), Will Zalatoris (+1600), Jordan Spieth (+1900) and Jason Day (+1900). Cantlay has a best result of T9 here. Casey was a runner-up to Mickelson (+3900 this week) in 2019. All those odds got shorter with Johnson out.

Spieth won here in 2017 but that was back when he was among the best players in the world. That guy is largely gone, although Spieth did finish T4 Sunday in the Waste Management Open in the Phoenix area. Brooks Koepka won that but isn’t in the field this week.

No Canadian had won this tournament, although four times one had finished runner-up – including Mike Weir twice. That drought ended a year ago when Nick Taylor finished at 19-under 268 to beat out American Kevin Streelman by four shots. Taylor shot a first-round 63 and held the solo lead after every round, the first player to do that in this tournament since Mickelson in 2005.

Taylor had three eagles on the week, including his first hole in Round 1. It was Taylor’s second career PGA Tour victory (Sanderson Farms Championship in 2014), and he hasn’t won since or come close to doing so. The last repeat winner was Johnson in 2010.

Michael Gligic was T55 last year, while Adam Hadwin, Mackenzie Hughes and David Hearn missed the cut. Taylor is +4200 this week with Roger Sloan +25600 and Gligic at +47600. The others aren’t playing.

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Predictions

Take a Top 10 on Cantlay and Day (four straight Top 5s here but no win), but the winner at +3200 is Streelman (had been +5000). He hasn’t been worse than sixth the past three years here and had that runner-up in 2020.