{"id":129536,"date":"2020-03-11T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=129536"},"modified":"2020-03-11T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:07:36","slug":"players-championship-winners-long-underdogs-at-tpc-sawgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/players-championship-winners-long-underdogs-at-tpc-sawgrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Championship Odds: Former Winners Long Underdogs, Rory McIlroy Again Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Players Championship, the PGA Tour’s marquee event and so-called “fifth major,” tees off tomorrow at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Defending champion and world No. 1 Rory McIlroy is the betting man to beat, his odds of winning golf’s richest prize at 8\/1.<\/p>\n

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Of the six experts on PGATour.com, two are going with McIlroy, and two with Justin Thomas \u2013 who has the third-shortest odds this week at 16\/1. World No. 2 Jon Rahm is at 12\/1.<\/p>\n

Other popular picks include Patrick Cantlay (20\/1) and Tommy Fleetwood (25\/1). Fleetwood finished T5 a year ago, while Cantlay missed the cut.<\/p>\n

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Though he hasn’t won since November at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in China, McIlroy is playing the best golf of anyone on the planet. Of the six events he’s teed it up at during the 2020 wraparound season, he’s finished no worse than fifth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But at 8\/1 in the 144-player field, which is one of the strongest fields on the golf calendar, many bettors will look elsewhere. And in 2020, several former winners of The Players are opening the week on rather long odds.<\/p>\n

Odds Long on Former Champs <\/b><\/h2>\n

After McIlroy, Rahm, and Thomas, Bryson DeChambeau shares the 20\/1 line with Cantlay.<\/p>\n