2022 Fortinet Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Hideki Matsuyama enters the Fortinet Championship as the favourite to win on the golf odds.
It’s is the first of 47 PGA Tournaments on the schedule including the FedEx Cup playoffs. In response to LIV Golf, the Tour has raised purses in several events among a few other perks to keep players from leaving. After this season, the Tour will go back to a calendar-year schedule that is primarily January to August.
Nearly every top player in the world competed last week at the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship so it’s not a great field this week.
The Fortinet Championship has been around under some name since 2007 but has moved around course wise. Silverado Resort and Spa’s North Course in Napa, Calif., is the host for the seventh straight year. It’s a par 72 at around 7,120 yards – the 16th and 18th holes are par 5s — and it’s going to most likely take at least 15 under par to win.
The defending champion is Max Homa, the sixth straight American to win the event. He was trailing by three on the back-nine Sunday but eagled the 12th and then birdied three of his final six holes to finish at 19-under 269 and beat Maverick McNealy by a shot. Homa played holes 16-18 in a stellar 9 under for the week. It was the second straight year the winner shot 65-65 on the weekend following Stewart Cink in 2020. McNealy was largely done in by a double-bogey on 17.
Several graduates of the Korn Ferry Tour will make their PGA Tour debuts and some will return to the big Tour/earned back their cards, including 46-year-old Ryan Armour. Kyle Westmoreland, who spent more than five years in the U.S. Air Force (played collegiately there), got the 25th spot in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals Eligibility Points List to earn his first PGA Tour card – the first Air Force Academy alum to do so.
There is no regular PGA Tour event next week but the Presidents Cup team competition. Canadians Corey Conners and Taylor Pendrith are part of the International Team.
Fortinet Championship Golf Odds
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama is the +1200 favourite. He was T6 here last year and has been third at the tournament twice. Defending champion Max Homa is +1400. Last year, he was second in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green and sixth in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee here. That the winner is from the USA is -244 with a European at +800 and rest of the world at +240.
This event debuted in 2007 as the Fry’s Electronics Open at a different course and Canadian Mike Weir won it. That was the lefty’s eighth and final PGA Tour victory. Adam Hadwin was a runner-up by a shot to Cameron Champ in 2019.
Taylor Pendrith was the top Canadian last year at T36 with Adam Svensson T51, Nick Taylor T64, Michael Gligic T66, and Roger Sloan, David Hearn and Hadwin missed the cut. Hadwin shot a first-round 66 but ballooned to a 77 in Round 2.
Corey Conners has the shortest odds among Canadians this week at +1600. He last played the tournament in 2019 and was T13. Pendrith is +2200. Svensson is +8800 with Gligic +8900, Mackenzie Hughes +14200 and Taylor +17800. Conners is the +170 favourite as top Canadian.
Fortinet Championship Golf Predictions
We’ll go with Chez Reavie at +7400 to win and also an American at -244. Reavie has played here every year since 2012 and not missed the cut once. He was T3 in 2020.