2022 Canadian Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Scottie Scheffler is favoured on the golf odds.
Because the Canadian Open is held the week before the U.S. Open and still with COVID restrictions at the border, several top players are not competing. Also this week is the first-ever event of the big-money, Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series in London.
Former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson surprised the golf world last week when he committed to that, as did fellow well-known PGA Tour players Sergio Garcia, Kevin Na (he resigned from the PGA Tour over the weekend), Louis Oosthuizen, Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel and Lee Westwood. Those mostly Europeans weren’t a surprise playing in London, but DJ sure was. He had previously said he was committed to the PGA Tour – which did not grant its members a release to play in the event. RBC decided to end its relationship Johnson, who won this tournament in 2018, and former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell after they were included in the field. It’s possible the PGA Tour could ban all those players from this year’s U.S. Open.
St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto is the host course for the 2022 RBC Canadian Open and is a par 70 at around 7,010 yards. It has hosted this event five times, last in 2010 when Sweden’s Carl Pettersson won by a shot at 14 under.
The tournament’s defending champion is Rory McIlroy, who had an event-record total of 258 (22 under) in 2019 to win by seven shots at Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
The Canadian Open is back after a two-year COVID-induced hiatus.
The defending champion is Rory McIlroy. They’ll be joined by the likes of Justin Thomas, Cameron Smith and Scottie Scheffler. #PGATour@ZeeManGolf gives us his best bets. pic.twitter.com/2pMcOynLmC
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The RBC Canadian Open Golf Odds
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the +800 favourite as he makes his event debut. He comes off a runner-up a couple of weeks ago at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy are each +900. As we mentioned above, McIlroy is the defending champion in what was his first time playing the tournament. Thomas was T20 here in 2019 in his lone visit.
Sam Burns is +1200 with Cameron Smith +1400. Burns has won three times this season, including last time he teed it up at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas. It’s his debut here. Smith last played the Canadian Open in 2017 and missed the cut.
Haskins Award winner Chris Gotterup will make his debut on the PGA Tour as a professional and is +30000. That award goes to the top collegiate golfer in the USA. The last player to make his Tour debut as a pro at the RBC Canadian Open was Collin Morikawa in 2019. He tied for 14th and is now one of the world’s top players – but not in this week’s field.
A handful of Canadians have won their national championship but not since Pat Fletcher in 1954. Mike Weir was in position to win in 2004 with a three-stroke lead on the back-nine Sunday but faded and lost in a playoff to Vijay Singh. There are 21 Canadians in the field this year and we won’t list them all here but Corey Conners is +1900 with Mackenzie Hughes +4700, Adam Hadwin +5200, Nick Taylor +10100 and Adam Svensson +12700. Weir makes his 29th appearance in the tournament, the third-most all time, and is +43500.
The RBC Canadian Open Golf Predictions
Like McIlroy and Thomas for Top 10s, but the winner is Shane Lowry at +1800. He was T2 in 2019 and T12 the year before at this tournament and comes off a T32 at the Memorial on Sunday.
