As expected, there was considerable turnover atop the 2020 US Open leaderboard Friday at Winged Foot Golf Club. Patrick Reed (+450) holds the 36-hole lead at minus-4, with Bryson DeChambeau (+500) second at 3-under par. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were among those to miss the cut at 2020’s second major.
Below, we look at the outright betting odds heading into the weekend and make our PGA Tour picks and best bets entering Round 3 of the 2020 US Open.
2020 US Open Round 3 betting picks – Favorite
Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Friday at 8:10 p.m. ET.
Hideki Matsuyama (+2000)
Matsuyama enters the weekend four shots off the lead at even par following a second round of 1-under 69. He leads the field with 4.50 Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green per round, according to Data Golf, and is ninth in SG: Approach (2.31).
While he hasn’t won on the PGA Tour (or anywhere) since 2017 and doesn’t have a major win, he remains 14th in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings. He has seven career top 10s in majors, including a T-2 at the 2017 US Open.
The five-time career PGA Tour winner is ninth by the betting odds, and two of his wins came in star-studded World Golf Championship events.
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2020 US Open Round 3 betting picks – Contender
Rory McIlroy (+3300)
McIlroy’s still very much in this tournament despite sitting T-22 at plus-3 after a second round of plus-6 76. He ranks second in the field for the tournament with 1.71 SG: Off-the-Tee and has corrected the putting struggles that had plagued him since the PGA Tour’s return in mid-June.
It was his 2.54 strokes lost around the green that cost him in Round 2. He ranked just 63rd on Tour in that metric in the 2019-20 season but averaged 0.108 strokes gained per round.
His odds are vastly inflated from his pre-tournament number and the No. 2 golfer in the world is worth a shot.
2020 US Open Round 3 betting picks – Long shot
Will Zalatoris (+30000)
Zalatoris entered the week of the US Open 10th in the Golfweek rankings, even though he hadn’t played a PGA Tour event since the 2018 Wyndham Championship.
A star on the Korn Ferry Tour, he’s poised to make a charge up the leaderboard on moving day. He’s third in the field through 36 holes in SG: Off-the-Tee and 11th in SG: Tee-to-Green, but is averaging 1.13 strokes lost putting per round.
The greens will continue to get tougher through the weekend, but it will help create a more level playing field. He’s worth a small wager with a $10 bet returning a profit of $3,000 while sitting eight strokes off the lead.
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