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Golfweek’s JuliaKate Culpepper recaps the week’s top stories in golf including Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning defeating Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in “The Match: Champions for Charity.”
Golfweek’s JuliaKate Culpepper recaps the week’s top stories in golf including Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning defeating Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in “The Match: Champions for Charity.”
Take part in USA TODAY’s free trivia game around The Match: Champions for Charity and show off your golf knowledge.
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The Match: Champions for Charity is finally here, pitting Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning against Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in a charity golf match to raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.
USA TODAY has released a new, special trivia game around The Match: Champions for Charity, which you can take part in absolutely free. It’s easy to participate and adds some extra excitement to Sunday’s event; the questions are a mixture of golf-related prop-bet-like questions to outright winners, who will do various aspects the best and more.
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Sunday, May 24.
The live event will be broadcast starting at 3 p.m. ET.
Medalist Golf Club at Hobe Sound, Florida
TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN; Pre-match coverage: Bleacher Report app
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Highlighting the best prop bets for The Match II between Tiger Woods-Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson-Tom Brady, with PGA Tour betting odds, picks and best bets.
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Tiger Woods teams up with Peyton Manning Sunday to battle Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in The Match: Champions for Charity. The sequel to the Woods vs. Mickelson showdown from Nov. 2018 is being held at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla. and will begin at 2 p.m. ET. Below, we look at the best prop bets for The Match II and make our picks.
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Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Wednesday, May 20 at 3 p.m. ET.
Woods/Manning: -223 | Mickelson/Brady: +160 (Price Boost: +180)
Woods and Manning, the rightful favorites, carried -208 odds Monday. With a $10 bet at the current price point returning a profit of just $4.81 with an outright win, the play is to HOLD until Sunday in wait of a higher number.
Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson were sizable favorites over Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff ahead of the TaylorMade Driving Relief event last week, but the line came much closer on the day of the match. Expect similar movement this week – especially with the inclusion of the famous NFL quarterbacks and a broader, sports-starved audience – to get the best odds on the favorites closer to tee time.
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Even amid a poor start to the 2020 PGA Tour season, Mickelson, ranked 222nd in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings, was outdriving Woods (16th) 301.1 yards to 291.1. The two PGA Tour pros share the +130 odds, but Mickelson is the pick.
Both Manning and Brady are +700 but don’t overthink this one. They’re still amateur golfers. Note: Per BetMGM rules, the ball has to be in the fairway to count.
Though we’re trusting the pros above, the playing field becomes a little more level on the short par-3 fourth. It’s the shortest of the four par 3s at Medalist at just 191 yards in length.
Manning is typically the better golfer of the two future Hall of Fame QBs with a handicap of 6.4 to Brady’s 8.1, but on such a short hole chase the value with Brady holding the longest odds.
The teams will play the Four-Ball (Best Ball) format on the front nine with the better score of each twosome counting as the team score on each hole. As such, the first nine holes will primarily be Woods vs. Mickelson.
Trust in Woods’ superior world ranking and better play earlier in the 2020 season. The halftime odds are much more appealing for the favorites than their outright odds, and things will become much less predictable with a modified alternate shot format being played on the back.
The expectation is that The Match II will go right down to the wire and the final hole, if not a playoff. It’s a charity event and it’s being televised; organizers will do all they can with various side bets and challenges to draw this out to an exciting finale.
Once there, stick by the opening favorites to pull off a dramatic victory. Woods will have his revenge over Mickelson, and Manning has plenty of reasons for wanting to get back at Brady.
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Looking at the betting odds and making our best bets for The Match: Champions for Charity between Tiger Woods-Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson-Tom Brady.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are going head-to-head once again in The Match: Champions for Charity Sunday, May 24, at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla. Woods will be joined by future Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning, while Mickelson teams up with Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady for a charity match raising money for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Also see: How to Watch Driving Relief: McIlroy-Johnson vs. Fowler-Wolff odds and bets
Below, we’ll look at the early betting lines for the first-of-its-kind golf event. The two teams will play the Four-Ball (Best Ball) format on the front nine. They’ll then switch to a modified alternate shot format for the back nine where each member of the twosomes will tee off with alternate shot being played from the best first shot.
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Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Saturday, May 9 at 9 a.m. ET.
Woods/Manning: -200 vs. Mickelson/Brady: +150
Woods and Manning open as fairly heavy favorites in the charity exhibition. Woods, the defending Masters champion, sits 16th in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings amid the PGA Tour’s pause due to the pandemic. Mickelson has slipped all the way to 222nd in the world ranking after missing the cut in four of his last six professional events.
Manning also holds an edge over Brady, playing to a handicap of 3.5 to Brady’s 8.
While Mickelson bested Woods one-on-one after four playoff holes the last time around in 2018 at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, NV, the favorites are the ones to back at Medalist. Woods is one of many PGA Tour pros who calls it his home course, and he’s pairing up with the better of the two amateurs.
Back WOODS/MANNING at -200. A $10 bet will return a profit of $5 with a win. There are sure to be more prop bets released in the build-up to the event, and we at SportsbookWire will have you covered.
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When is it? Sunday, May 24. Coverage begins at 2 p.m. ET.
Where is it? Medalist Golf Club, Hobe Sound
Television broadcast: TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN
Pre-match coverage: Bleacher Report app
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