Following Dustin Johnson‘s Tour Championship and 2019-20 FedEx Cup victory, the 2020-21 PGA Tour season starts up Thursday with the Safeway Open at Silverado Resort and Spa. Below, we look at the betting odds to win the 2020 Safeway Open and make our PGA Tour picks and best bets.
The event serves as a bridge between the Tour Championship and next week’s US Open. As a result, this is one of the weakest fields we’ve seen since the PGA Tour returned to play in mid-June. Mark Hubbard is the top golfer in attendance by the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings at No. 22.
2020 Safeway Open Championship Betting Picks – Favorite
Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Tuesday at 9:20 a.m. ET.
Phil Mickelson (+2000)
Mickelson went without a PGA Tour victory in the 2019-20 season and his FedEx Cup Playoffs run ended with a missed cut at the opening Northern Trust. He used his time off to go wire-to-wire for victory in his debut on the over-50 PGA Tour Champions.
He returns to one of the weaker PGA Tour fields in which he has played in quite some time. It’s an event where he finished eighth in 2017 and third in 2018 but missed the cut last year. He ranks fourth among those in attendance with 1.60 strokes gained per round at Silverado Resort, according to Data Golf. He’s the rightful betting favorite.
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2020 Safeway Open Betting Picks – Contender
Luke List (+6000)
List has played 14 career rounds at this venue with an average of 1.03 strokes gained per round. He missed the cut last year but was fourth in 2019. Like Mickelson, his 2019-20 PGA Tour season ended with a missed cut at The Northern Trust roughly two months after he won the Korn Ferry Challenge on the secondary tour. He finished T-10 in a loaded PGA Tour field at the Memorial Tournament.
2020 Safeway Open Betting Picks – Long shot
Kristoffer Ventura (+8000)
Ventura is representative of the betting value we haven’t seen since the PGA Tour returned to play. Marquee events loaded with the PGA Tour’s best golfers have capped the range bettors could look at when betting outright winners.
The two-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2019 will play this event for the second straight year following a 62nd-place finish in 2019. He’s an excellent putter and should improve on a career-best PGA Tour result of T-18 at last year’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
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