Deutsche Bank Championship Golf Odds and Betting Picks

If you are looking for this week’s PGA Tour stop on Thursday and can’t find it anywhere on TV, don’t panic. That’s because the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston, the second tournament of the four-event FedExCup  playoffs, begins on Friday and concludes on the Labor Day Monday holiday in the United States. World No. 1 Jason Day is the +600 favourite on Sports Interaction’s golf odds.

FedExCup Playoffs

Only the Top 100 in the points advanced to Boston following last week’s Barclays event, won by American Patrick Reed. He finished at 9-under 275 to edge Sean O’Hair and Emiliano Grillo by a shot. Reed’s first win of the season jumped him to No. 1 in the points standings, 380 more than Day. He finished fourth, two shots back after we predicted a Top-10 finish for the Aussie. That’s the good news. The bad was our pick to win was Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, but the 2016 British Open winner withdrew after a first-round 74 due to pain in his surgically repaired right knee. He is set to play this week as of now and is +1600 on golf odds. Stenson won this tournament in 2013 on the way to taking the FedExCup.

Those golfers who failed to advance from the Barclays to this week were Shawn Stefani, Canada’s Graham DeLaet, Kyle Stanley, Zac Blair, Jonas Blixt, Peter Malnati, Robert Streb, Shane Lowry, Blayne Barber, Lucas Glover, Keegan Bradley. They all had a chance to advance entering the weekend but couldn’t finish high enough. Anirban Lahiri, Brett Stegmaier, Robert Garrigus, Seung-yul Noh, David Toms, Luke List, Michael Kim, Cameron Tringale, Francesco Molinari, Mark Hubbard, Boo Weekley, Troy Merritt, Ben Crane and Andrew Loupe all either missed the cut or withdrew and couldn’t move on.

The “bubble boy” at No. 100 in the points is Chad Campbell.  The Top 70 in the points advance to next week’s BMW Championship in Indiana. As for Day, he does have a good track record in the Deutsche Bank Championship but hasn’t won it. He was 12th last year, seventh the year before, third in 2011 and second in 2010.

Deutsche Bank Championship Odds

World No. 2 Dustin Johnson is +1000 on PGA odds to win. He was 18th last week and is third in the points standings. Johnson was 44th in this tournament year but has finished fourth twice. Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy are both +1200. Spieth was 10th last week and missed the cut here last year but still won the FedExCup. McIlroy is still looking for his first PGA Tour win this year and was 31st last week. He won the 2012 Deutsche Bank Championship.

The defending champion is American Rickie Fowler and he’s +2500. He finished at 15 under, one shot ahead of Stenson. The Swede had a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole on Monday for a tie but just missed. No player has won this tournament twice in the playoff era.

TPC Boston is a par 71 measuring at 7,297 yards. The course record is a 61, which is shared by Canada’s Mike Weir in his first round in 2008 and Vijay Singh (2006). Each of the past six Deutsche Bank Championship winners have come from behind on the final day.

Canada’s Adam Hadwin is No. 91 in the points so he has work to do this week. He was T64 last week at 5 over. Hadwin hasn’t played this tournament previously. Countryman David Hearn is 92nd in the points after finishing 53rd last week at 3 over. He missed the cut in this tournament last year.

Deutsche Bank Championship Betting Pick

Day should be in the top 10 again, but bet another Australian, Adam Scott, to win at +2200 on golf odds. He finished fourth last week and has three Top-10 finishes at this tournament since 2010.