Travelers Championship: PGA Tour Golf Picks, Predictions, and Tee Times
Wyndham Clark shook up the golf world with his stunning march to victory at the US Open. However, his first major tournament win and second victory of his PGA Tour career have done little to move the oddsmakers, who have listed the 29-year-old American well back of the favorites as a +5000 on the PGA Tour odds to win this weekend at the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands.
Here’s a look at how the newly crowned US Open champ stacks up on the PGA Golf odds, as well as other value bets, ahead of Thursday morning’s tee off at the 2023 Travelers Championship.
Wyndham Clark Sports Checkered Record at Travelers
With his US Open win, Clark has now recorded seven top ten performances this season including the first win of his career last month at the Wells Fargo Championship, where he outpaced a stacked field that featured Xander Scauffele, Max Homa, Justin Thomas, and Patrick Cantlay.
The challenge now facing Clark is to extend that momentum to the Travelers, where he has missed the cut in three of five career appearances. However, he also showed flashes of his vast potential at this event, claiming a share of 15h place while shooting four sub-70 rounds in 2019.
With five top six finishes and two wins in his past nine PGA Tour appearances, it is quickly becoming apparent that Clark has finally turned the corner on a tough start to his pro career. Accordingly, golf betting fans should be all over him while the value lasts. In addition to backing him as a +5000 bet to win this weekend, the 2017 Pac-12 champion also is worth getting behind as a +6000 bet to be the round one leader.
Eckroat Thriving Under Pressure
It will be tough to top Clark in the race to claim dark horse pick of the year honours, but Austin Eckroat is making a good case. The 24-year-old took another big step in his development last week while riding a final round rally to a 10th-place finish at the US Open, which he opened by shooting a record-tying -6 over the first nine holes.
Eckroat finished 47th in his sole previous appearance at the Travelers two years ago, which was highlighted by a second-round 66. Overall, Eckroat has shot 65 or better in five of his past 16 rounds, and it would be no surprise to see his Travelers Championship odds improve dramatically from their current position at +11600.
Eckroat’s sizzling final round performance on Sunday at LACC makes him an intriguing +8100 wager to lead after round one, and he still offers solid value as a +900 bet to crack the top ten for the third time this season.
Travelers Championship Value Bets
There has been at least one hole-on-one shot in 11 of the past 13 editions of the Travelers Championship including three aces at this event two years ago. However, with no aces getting shot in two of the past three editions, it is worthing looking at the +100 odds of that trend continuing this time around.
Matt Fitzpatrick struggled last weekend in his bid to defend his US Open title, settling for a share of 17th place. However, his woes pale in comparison to Justin Thomas, who missed the cut for third time since the Masters last weekend, and has failed to break par in each of his past 10 rounds.
That adds value to Fitzpatrick’s -112 odds to outpace Thomas in matchup betting. Indeed, considering his recent woes and his inability to make the cut in two of his past four appearances at this event, Thomas cannot be overlooked as a +191 bet miss the cut once again this weekend.
Top Picks: Wyndham Clark first round leader (+6000); Austin Eckroat top ten (+900); Justin Thomas miss the cut (+191)
2023 Travelers Championship Tee Times
Thursday tee times 1st tee Tee time Players 6:45 a.m. Ryan Palmer, Taylor Pendrith, Will Gordon 6:55 a.m. Ryan Moore, Kevin Streelman, S.H. Kim 7:05 a.m. Jimmy Walker, Kelly Kraft, Kramer Hickok 7:15 a.m. Sepp Straka, Jim Herman, Tyler Duncan 7:25 a.m. Taylor Moore, Billy Horschel, Chad Ramey 7:35 a.m. Nico Echavarria, Adam Svensson, Gary Woodland 7:45 a.m. Cameron Champ, Richy Werenski, Andrew Putnam 7:55 a.m. J.T. Poston, Martin Laird, J.B. Holmes 8:05 a.m. Brendon Todd, Shane Lowry, Scott Stallings 8:15 a.m. Chez Reavie, Tom Hoge, Brian Gay 8:25 a.m. Troy Merritt, Lee Hodges, Ben Griffin 8:35 a.m. Kevin Tway, David Lingmerth, Davis Thompson 8:45 a.m. Carl Yuan, Brett Stegmaier, Michael Thorbjornsen 12 p.m. Peter Malnati, Nick Watney, Joseph Bramlett 12:10 p.m. C.T. Pan, Mark Hubbard, Eric Cole 12:20 p.m. Scott Piercy, Aaron Rai, Harry Hall 12:30 p.m. Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler 12:40 p.m. Tony Finau, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler 12:50 p.m. Viktor Hovland, Rory McIlroy, Tom Kim 1 p.m. Jason Day, Sungjae Im, Tommy Fleetwood 1:10. p.m. Corey Conners, Seamus Power, Zach Johnson 1:20 p.m. Garrick Higgo, Stewart Cink, Adam Scott 1:30 p.m. Doug Ghim, Callum Tarren, Ben Taylor 1:40 p.m. Adam Long, Russell Knox, Matthias Schwab 1:50 p.m. Ben An, Stephan Jaeger, Max McGreevy 2 p.m. Zecheng Dou, Ludvig Aberg, Sam Bennett 10th tee Tee time Players 6:45 a.m. Austin Eckroat, Austin Smotherman, Min Woo Lee 6:55 a.m. David Lipsky, Justin Suh, Sam Stevens 7:05 a.m. Beau Hossler, Thomas Detry, Dylan Wu 7:15 a.m. Patrick Cantlay, Harris English, Sahith Theegala 7:25 a.m. Emiliano Grillo, Keegan Bradley, Xander Schauffele 7:35 a.m. Wyndham Clark, Max Homa, Justin Thomas 7:45 a.m. K.H.Lee, Joel Dahmen, Cameron Young 7:55 a.m. Matt Wallace, Kurt Kitayama, Hideki Matsuyama 8:05 a.m. Davis Riley, Mackenzie Hughes, Cam Davis 8:15 a.m. Ben Martin, Sam Ryder, Alem Smalley 8:25 a.m. Matt NeSmith, Doc Redman, Tyson Alexander 8:35 a.m. Michael Kim, Adam Schenk, Andrew Novak 8:45 a.m. Paul Haley II, Vincent Norrman, Ryan Blaum 12 p.m. Nate Lashley, Zac Blair, Carson Young 12:10 p.m. Danny Willett, Chesson Hadley, Greyson Sigg 12:20 p.m. Jason Dufner, Charley Hoffman, Kevin Yu 12:30 p.m. Erik van Rooyen, Lucas Glover, Brian Harman 12:40 p.m. Si Woo Kim, Russell Henley, Ryan Brehm 12:50 p.m. J.J. Spaun, Robert Streb, Matt Kuchar 1 p.m. Nick Hardy, Lucas Herbert, Kevin Kisner 1:10. p.m. Trey Mullinax, Luke List, Webb Simpson 1:20 p.m. Andrew Landry, Lanto Griffin, Francesco Molinari 1:30 p.m. James Hahn, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Hayden Buckley 1:40 p.m. Patton Kizzire, Denny McCarthy, Robby Shelton 1:50 p.m. Patrick Rodgers, Brandon Wu, Justin Lower 2 p.m. Andrew Svoboda, Kyle Reifers, Benjamin James