WGC-Mexico Championship: Golf Odds And Predictions
Here’s a look at the Sports Interaction favourites and some notables in this year’s WGC-Mexico Championships at the par 71 Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City. Check out the complete betting odds for the WGC-Mexico Championship here.
WGC-Mexico Championship Background
Allow me to take my own quick detour for a moment before looking at this week’s PGA Tour event. The 2018 U.S. Open is held at very difficult Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, from June 14-17. Jordan Spieth is the current Sports Interaction favourite at +728. The USGA made an interesting change Monday as the U.S. Open will no longer feature an 18-hole Monday playoff if there’s a tie after 72 holes. Instead, it will now be a two-hole aggregate playoff with sudden death after that if golfers are still deadlocked. There hasn’t been a playoff in a U.S. Open since 2008, when Tiger Woods memorably beat Rocco Mediate in 19 holes – still the last major Tiger has won. This format change falls in line with the other majors; the Masters is sudden death, the PGA Championship is three-hole aggregate and the British Open is four-hole aggregate.
WGC-Mexico Championship Player Odds
Tiger, incidentally, has jumped up to +2600 to win the U.S. Open after his impressive tie for 12th last week at the Honda Classic. Justin Thomas was the winner, beating relative unknown Luke List in a sudden-death playoff. It’s the second victory of the 2017-18 wraparound season for Thomas, last year’s PGA Tour Player of the Year and FedEx Cup champion. He is up to No. 3 in the world and +800 to win this week’s World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship at the par 71 Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City. Thomas was fifth last year. There is no cut in this limited-field event.
It’s only the second year of this tournament; it replaced the former Tour stop at Doral in Miami. Doral is owned by Donald Trump and you can decide for yourself whether the PGA Tour took that event away because of some things Trump said when he was running for president. That this tournament is so new makes it tough to handicap, although the longer hitters would seem to be favored with the altitude. Then again, that helps everyone’s length.
Few hit it as long as world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who is the +600 favourite and the defending champion. He had a four-shot lead at one point in the final round last year, fell behind by one to Jon Rahm but got a key birdie on No. 15 and finished at 14-under 270 and one shot ahead of England’s Tommy Fleetwood. DJ is the only player to have won each of the four current WGC events. He took last week off.
Rahm is +1200. He shot a final-round 68 last year and was third at 12 under. Rahm hasn’t played on the PGA Tour the past two weeks. Spieth is +1200 and Fleetwood +1600. Spieth, who also took last week off, was 12th a year ago.
Big names such as Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Henrik Stenson and Hideki Matsuyama are skipping this week’s tournament.
Canadian Golfer Odds
No Canadian has ever won this event. Mike Weir is the lone from the country to win any WGC event, taking the 2000 Bridgestone Invitational. Adam Hadwin is +7500 and the only Canadian in the field. He played two weeks ago at the Genesis Open and was tied for sixth, his second-best result of the season. It’s his debut here.
WGC-Mexico Championship Predictions
Take Johnson and Justin Rose for Top-10 finishes, but the winner is Belgium’s Thomas Pieters at +4000. He was fifth last year and comes off a solid 13th-place finish at the Honda Classic. Pieters has three career European Tour wins but none yet on the PGA Tour (WGC events are part of both tours).