PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds: RBC Heritage Predictions
The PGA Tour heads from Texas to beautiful Hilton Head Island in South Carolina this week for the RBC Heritage with another excellent field. World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is favoured on the golf odds.
The RBC Heritage usually is played the week after the Masters and thus is one of the most “carefree” events on the PGA Tour. Organizers are well aware that many players are mentally fried after playing the first major of the year at Augusta National, so this is a family-friendly fun event and billed as such.
Even with all those perks most top players would skip the tournament in a normal season, but this is anything but a normal season so it’s a stacked field – although Tiger Woods is not playing. It will be an expanded field as well as part of the coronavirus-related changes.
This tournament has been played annually since 1969 at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island – it’s the biggest professional event in South Carolina, and Hilton Head is one of the top golfing vacation spots on the East Coast in the USA.
Harbour Town Golf Links, which has an iconic red-and-white lighthouse behind the 18th green, feels a bit like a course in Scotland in some ways and the winds will certainly be a factor. It’s a par 71 measuring 7,100 yards. The 18-hole record is a 61 by a couple of guys and the 72-hole mark a 264 by Brian Gay in 2009.
RBC Heritage Golf Odds
It’s the first time McIlroy is playing here since 1999 when he was 19 years old. He hadn’t finished outside the Top 5 on the PGA Tour all season until Sunday when he was T32 at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. McIlroy is +1100 this week on the PGA golf odds board.
Bryson DeChambeau is +1300 after finishing T3 on Sunday. Daniel Berger (+3500) beat Collin Morikawa (+2500) in a playoff in Texas. Sunday’s 66 was Berger’s 28th straight round at par or better this season.
The defending champion is Taiwan’s C.T. Pan (+12500), who shot a final-round 4-under 67 to jump from fifth entering Sunday and earn his first Tour win. He finished at 12-under 272 to edge 2014 Heritage champion Matt Kuchar by a shot. Kuchar, playing ahead of Pan, birdied his final hole to put the pressure on by drawing within a stroke, but Pan was able to par the 18th. Dustin Johnson, a South Carolina native, led after 54 holes but imploded with a final-round 77.
No Canadian has won this tournament. Jim Nelford finished runner-up by two shots to Fuzzy Zoeller in 1983 when it was called the Sea Pines Heritage – that tied for Nelford’s best-ever Tour finish along with the 1984 Bing Crosby Pro-Am when he lost in a playoff to Hale Irwin.
With no RBC Canadian Open this year, two Canadians were given sponsor exemptions – Michael Gligic (+50000) and David Hearn (also +50000). Adam Hadwin (+9000) was T48 last year at +1, Mackenzie Hughes (+25000) T63 at +5 and Corey Conners (+8000) missed the cut after rounds of 74-72. So did Roger Sloan (+50000), who finished dead last at plus-13 following two rounds.
RBC Heritage PGA Predictions
Take Kuchar and Johnson for Top 10s, but the winner is Kevin Streelman at +10000. He has been sixth and seventh the past two years here and also has a third at Harbour Town. Streelman missed the cut this past weekend but sometimes having extra time off can be an advantage.
