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Sarah Fobes
Wells Fargo Championship: PGA Golf Odds and Predictions
The Wells Fargo Championship
The PGA Championship’s new May date has it starting two weeks from Thursday, and that means this week’s Wells Fargo Championship will be the final tune-up event for some big-name golfers. We speculated after his stirring Masters victory that Tiger Woods would play this tournament. Even tournament organizers thought he would. He won here in 2007 and was in the field a year ago.
However, Tiger is planning on playing less this year overall to try and stay healthy, and last Friday afternoon’s deadline to commit passed without him doing so. Thus, it’s most likely that Woods won’t play between the Masters and PGA Championship because he hasn’t played next week’s event, the Byron Nelson, since 2005.
Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte is a par 71 measuring 7,554 yards – it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship won by American Justin Thomas at 8 under. The course shouldn’t play that hard this week. Because Quail Hollow had to be prepared for the PGA that year, it didn’t host the 2017 version of the Wells Fargo Championship. Otherwise, it has ever year since the tournament debuted in 2003. Thomas had to withdraw from this year’s field with a wrist injury.
Wells Fargo Championship Betting Favourites
The event’s only two-time winner is Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, and he’s the +600 Sports Interaction favourite. McIlroy’s first PGA Tour victory was here nine years ago, and in 2015 he shot a tournament-record 21-under 267 to win by seven shots. McIlroy was 16th last year.
Aussie Jason Day is the defending champion and +1000. Day took a two-shot lead into the final round, lost it but then got it back with a birdie on No. 16 and finished at 12 under, two shots clear.
Rickie Fowler and Justin Rose are each +1100. Fowler was the 2012 champion, beating McIlroy and D.A. Points in a playoff. He has two other Top 5s in the course since. Rose has two Top 5s here and hasn’t played since a surprising missed cut at the Masters.
Canadian Golfer Odds
No Canadian has won this tournament. Adam Hadwin is +10000 to be the first. He has played this course four times (including the PGA), missing the cut twice and with a best finish of 16th last year. Nick Taylor is +15000, so are Mackenzie Hughes and David Hearn. Ben Silverman is +25000 and Roger Sloan +30000. Taylor has missed the cut in three all-time visits. Hughes has two missed cuts and a 59th.
Wells Fargo Championship Winner Prediction
Bet McIlroy and Phil Mickelson for Top 10s – Lefty has a ton of those here but yet to win – but the winning pick at +3500 is Patrick Reed. He was runner-up at the 2017 PGA here and eighth last year.
