AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: PGA Tour Golf Odds and Predictions

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Background

Arguably the most spectacular course in the USA and certainly among public tracks is Pebble Beach Golf Links, and that’s the primary host of this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA Tour. But the other two courses where this event is held are no slouches, either.

Because this is a pro-am, all players will play the par-72 Pebble Beach (only 6,816 yards), par-72 Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula’s par-71 Shore course once each over the first three rounds before the cut. Then, Pebble Beach solely hosts the final round. Pebble hosted the U.S. Open last year for the sixth time and American Gary Woodland won by three shots for his first major title.

This tournament debuted in 1937 as the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, and numerous big-name celebrities are in the field every year. Actor Bill Murray and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers play annually. This year, recently-retired New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning will play and alongside brother Peyton. Wayne Gretzky also will play again. The field consists of 156 pros and 156 amateurs, with each PGA Tour member assigned an amateur partner. Thus, the rounds can take much longer. While there’s the typical cut for the professionals, the pro-am teams are cut to 25 after 54 holes.

A total of 13 players have won this tournament multiple times, with Phil Mickelson and Mark O’Meara each having done so a record five times. A few players have won this tournament and a U.S. Open at Pebble. Mickelson is not one of them. Tiger Woods is, but he doesn’t play this tournament any longer.

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Betting Favourites

Dustin Johnson is one of those multiple-time winners here, doing so in 2009 & ’10 and also has been runner-up twice. No surprise he’s the +600 clear-cut favourite. DJ has played just one PGA Tour event this year and was T7 at the year-opening Tournament of Champions. He did play last week on the European Tour in Saudi Arabia and was second.

Patrick Cantlay is +1200 and then a drop-off to Jason Day and Paul Casey at +2000 each. Day has been Top 6 here in five of the past seven visits but yet to win it. Casey was a runner-up to Mickelson last year. In 2019, Lefty became the oldest winner in tournament history at 48 (now 49). He shot a final-round 65 – he had to finish on Monday morning as rainy conditions pushed things back. Mickelson finished at 19-under 268, three up on Casey, and is +2500 to repeat.

Canadian Golfer Odds

No Canadian has won here – only Americans, two Australians and a Fijian. Mike Weir was runner-up twice, by four shots to Johnson in 2009 and by four to Mickelson in 2005. Jim Nelford lost in a playoff to Hale Irwin in 1984. Stan Leonard was runner-up to Lloyd Mangrum by five in 1948.

Adam Hadwin (+6600) was T18 last year, Nick Taylor (+15000) T28, while Mackenzie Hughes (+50000) and David Hearn (+25000) each missed the cut.

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Predictions

Take Johnson and Brian Gay for Top 10s (Gay has been past two years), but Day finally breaks through and wins this tournament.