Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds
Will Zalatoris is favoured on the golf odds.
If we are being honest, we won’t see some of golf’s biggest stars play again until the rescheduled Masters starting Nov. 12.
This event began in 2016 as a lower-tier Web.com Tour event and became an opposite-field PGA Tour event in 2018. Opposite-field tournaments don’t have near the same purses or benefits to a winner (like a Masters invitation) as normal events do. The Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship was again to be an opposite-field event of the WGC-Match Play back in late March but both were postponed/cancelled due to the coronavirus. One benefit of this tournament moving to September is that it’s now a full FedExCup points event and the winner will get a 2021 Masters invite.
The Corales Puntacana Championship, the first-ever Tour event in the Dominican Republic (located on easternmost point of the island), is played at the Puntacana Resort & Club’s Corales course, a par 72 at 7,666 yards (one of the longest courses on Tour). It’s a beautiful track. Perhaps expect the winning score to be 18-under 270 as it has been each of the past two years.
Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship Betting Odds
Zalatoris is only in the field on a sponsor exemption and is the +1200 favourite. Zalatoris has spent the past two seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour. He won a tournament on it in July and is tops on that tour’s points list and money list. He played in the U.S. Open last week and finished T6.
Arguably the biggest name in the field is Henrik Stenson, and he’s +2500 to win. The Swede missed the cut at the U.S. Open.
No Canadian has won this tournament yet, but Mackenzie Hughes was a co-runner-up with Chris Stroud by a shot to Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell last year. McDowell took the lead from Stroud with a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th and shot a final-round 69h. Hughes closed with a bogey for a 66 on Sunday. He’s +1600 this week. McDowell is +5000 to repeat.
Ben Silverman finished T12 at 12 under last year and David Hearn T18 at 11 under. Roger Sloan, Corey Conners and Adam Svensson missed the cut. Conners is the +1400 second-favourite this week. Both he and Hughes missed the cut at the U.S. Open. Hearn is +10000 and Sloan +12500. Sloan didn’t play last week and missed the cut two tournaments ago at the Safeway Open. Hearn last played there too and was T14.
Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship Predictions
For the first time doing golf previews here at Sports Interaction, we are projecting a Canadian winner: Hughes.