2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic: PGA Tour Betting Odds
Bryson DeChambeau is favoured on the golf odds.
This event has only been around since 2019 and replaced the former Quicken Loans National event that had been held in the Washington, D.C. area. The Rocket Mortgage Classic will be the last time some guys tee it up before the British Open, which starts July 15. With this being played on the July 4 holiday weekend and with Phil Mickelson (+6600 to win) committing to play here for the first time, organizers expect sellouts every day after no fans were allowed in 2020. The field features 11 major winners.
Detroit Golf Club’s North Course is a par 72 at around 7,370 yards and opened more than 100 years ago. Via ShotLink data it’s the flattest course on the PGA Tour. It was upgraded before the first Rocket Mortgage Classic in 2019. It’s not a tough track as Nate Lashley won at 25-under 263 in the inaugural event – Lashley was the last player in the field that year and led wire-to-wire — and Bryson DeChambeau won last year at 23-under 265.
Harris English, who won the Travelers Championship on Sunday in the Hartford area in an epic eight-hole playoff over Kramer Hickok, is not in the field. That was the second-longest sudden-death playoff in Tour history. The longest? The Motor City Open in 1949 played in a Detroit suburb of Northville, Mich., won by Cary Middlecoff and Lloyd Mangrum after 11 playoff holes. Yes, co-winners because the playoff dragged on so long that it was dark and officials decided to simply end it with the players’ mutual consent. Hickok is playing this week and is +12500.
Rocket Mortgage Classic Golf Odds
Last year, Bryson DeChambeau won by three shots over Matthew Wolff and became the first PGA Tour player since 2004 to lead a tournament in driving distance, along with shots gained off the tee and putting. Wolff had started the final round with a three-shot lead but had five bogeys over his first 10 holes. DeChambeau is +750 to repeat. He didn’t play here in 2019 and comes off a T19 Sunday at the Travelers Championship.
Patrick Reed is +1400 with 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama and Webb Simpson both +1600. Reed has played here both years and was T5 in 2019 and missed the cut in 2020. Matsuyama has been T21 and T13 in his two trips. Simpson was T8 last year in his tournament debut. Nate Lashley is +15000 to become the event’s first two-time winner. He missed the cut a year ago.
Adam Hadwin was the top Canadian finisher last year at T4, seven shots behind DeChambeau. Roger Sloan, David Hearn and Michael Gligic missed the cut. Hadwin is +10000 this week with Mackenzie Hughes +12500, Nick Taylor +20000, Sloan +30000, and Hearn and Gligic each +50000.
Rocket Mortgage Classic Golf Predictions
Take DeChambeau and Simpson for Top 10s, but the winner is Sepp Straka at +8000. He comes off a Top 10 at the Travelers and has been T8 and T11 in his two trips to Detroit.