2022 Bermuda Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Denny McCarthy is favoured on the golf odds.
This is one of the newest events on the Tour, only dating to 2019. It used to be an opposite-field event of the WGC-HSBC Champions and was elevated to full FedExCup status and now is going forward – although it’s one of the smaller purses on Tour.
Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton is the host track, and it’s a short 6,825 yards or so playing to par 71. However, with its seaside setting, elevation changes and several doglegs, it’s not exactly able to be overpowered. Players have to take a 15-minute ferry ride from the hotel to the golf course. Each year, tournament exemptions are awarded via a local qualifier for Bermudians. No. 16, a par 3 at 235 yards, is spectacular as players must hit over an ocean inlet to a narrow green.
“You’ve got to be so much more precise,” said 2021 winner Lucas Herbert, who navigated tricky wind conditions over the weekend en route to a 15-under total. “You’ve got to be really good at understanding how the wind moves around the golf course. It’s not the longest golf course we play on Tour, but the test is not about the length, it’s all about controlling the golf ball.”
Last year, Herbert came from four down on Sunday with a 69 to win by one shot over Danny Lee and Patrick Reed. Herbert, the event’s first international winner, needed only a combined 50 putts on the weekend. Canadian Taylor Pendrith shot a course-record 61 in Round 2 and led after three rounds but ballooned to a 76 on Sunday to finish T5.
Bermuda Championship Golf Odds
Denny McCarthy is the +1600 favourite. He finished T37 on Sunday at The CJ Cup in South Carolina and is yet to win on the PGA Tour. McCarthy’s best result in this event is T4 in 2020. Thomas Detry is +1800 with Seamus Power, Mark Hubbard, Adrian Meronk and Aaron Rai each +2200.
Detry was +T22 in his tournament debut here last year. The Belgian has one Top 10 in three PGA Tour events in the new season. Power was T12 here last year. Hubbard was T22. Meronk, a Polish star and DP World Tour winner, is in the field on a sponsor exemption. It’s his third career PGA Tour start. Rai was T62 here last year.
The biggest-name player in the field is a guy who has no chance to win: John Daly at +100000. He’s in on a sponsor exemption.
No Canadian has won here, although as noted above Taylor Pendrith was in potential position last year but he’s not in the field this time. Adam Svensson finished T22, David Hearn T39, Adam Hadwin T46, and Matt Hill and Nick Taylor missed the cut. Taylor is +4000 this week with Michael Gligic +7000 and Hearn +15000.
Bermuda Championship Golf Predictions
Take 2020 winner Brian Gay for a Top 10 as he always plays well here, but the winner is Russell Knox at +3500. He hasn’t been worse than T16 in three trips to Bermuda and has two Top 25s in the early Tour season.