PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship Golf Betting Odds

In the wake of the United States losing the Ryder Cup to Europe again on Sunday, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Fall Series resumes this Thursday with the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi. American Akshay Bhatia, left off the Ryder Cup team, is favoured to win on the golf odds.

Team USA nearly staged the greatest Ryder Cup comeback ever in Sunday singles at Bethpage Black in New York but would lose overall by a score of 15-13. The Europeans hadn’t won the event on American soil since 2012 and certainly will be favoured to retain it two years from now at Adare Manor in Ireland.

There is one Ryder Cup player in the field at the Sanderson Farms Championship, and it’s not even an American but Denmark’s Rasmus Højgaard. He went 0-2 for Europe as a Ryder Cup rookie. His twin brother Nicolai also is here. Europe vice captain Francesco Molinari and American assistant Brandt Snedeker are also playing.

But for obvious reasons following the Ryder Cup, it’s a very watered-down field with Bhatia the highest-ranked player in the world set to play at No. 34. Min Woo Lee, J.T. Poston and Sam Stevens are the other golfers ranked inside the Top 50 in the world who teeing it up.

This tournament has been part of the PGA Tour schedule since 1968 and has been played in the fall in Jackson since 2014. The defending champion is Taiwan’s Kevin Yu. He made a birdie on the 72nd hole last year and then birdied No. 18 again in a playoff to beat Beau Hossler for his first PGA Tour title.

That sent Yu to the Masters and the PGA Championship for the first time in 2025. He has not had a good year, though. Keith Mitchell looked in control last year two shots ahead with five to play but imploded and didn’t make the playoff. He had a 35-foot birdie putt to win it and it grazed the left edge of the cup. Mitchell then missed the four-foot comebacker for par.

It was the third straight year there was a playoff. Seven of the past 10 winners at the Sanderson Farms Championship have now been first-time PGA Tour winners. I liked Nick Hardy last year, but he finished T28. Country Club of Jackson is again the host track, a par 72 at approximately 7,460 yards. It’s considered a ball-striker’s course and will take well into double digits under par to win barring unusual weather.

Sanderson Farms Championship Golf Odds

The USA’s Akshay Bhatia is the +1600 favourite. He was T11 last time out at the Procore Championship and came 13th in his prior appearance at the Tour Championship. Bhatia plays here for the first time since a 43rd in 2023. He has two career wins but not this year with four Top 10s.

Davis Thompson (+2000), Min Woo Lee (+2000), Michael Thorbjornsen (+2200), J.T. Poston (+2800) and defending champion Kevin Yu (+2800) round out the favourites. Thompson, looking for career Tour win No. 2, was T19 last time out at the Procore and was 16th here last year. Lee plays here for the first time and hasn’t played on the PGA Tour since mid-August. He was T5 in his most recent DP World Tour event a couple of weeks ago in France. Thorbjornsen, eyeing his first win, debuted here with an eighth in 2024. He was T13 last time out at the Procore. Poston has a best result of third in the tournament but hasn’t played a PGA Tour event since the second leg of the FedExCup playoffs.

Not very likely that Yu joins Dwight Nevil (1974) as the only repeat winners of the tournament as Yu has just two Top 10s this year with nine missed cuts.

Canadians have had a lot of success in the event. Dan Halldorson won in 1986, Richard Zokol did in 1992, Nick Taylor in 2014 and Mackenzie Hughes in 2022 in a playoff over Sepp Straka. Last year, Hughes was the top finisher at T8, while Roger Sloan was T61. Adam Svensson missed the cut. Hughes is +3500 this week with Adam Hadwin +12500, Ben Silverman +15000 and Svensson +17500.

Sanderson Farms Championship Golf Predictions

Take Canadian Mackenzie Hughes for a Top 10 at +320, but the winner is Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo at +3500. The two-time Tour winner was T4 last time out at the Procore and has an 11th and fifth in two of his past three trips to Mississippi.