AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am odds, predictions and PGA Tour picks

We look at the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am odds, and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions to win

The No. 1 golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking and reigning Masters champion, Dustin Johnson, returns to the PGA Tour following a victory at the European Tour’s Saudi International last week. He is among a solid field of 156 golfers teeing it up at Pebble Beach Golf Links for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Below, we look at the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am odds, and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions to win.

This year’s event will look considerably different due to COVID-19 protocols. There will be no celebrity pro-am portion of the tournament and golf will be played on just two courses – Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course – instead of three. The cut will be made after the standard 36 holes instead of 54.

Johnson, who’s playing his first PGA Tour event on the mainland since his Masters victory, is a prohibitive betting favorite at BetMGM following his Saudi International win. He’s +350 as the only member of the top five in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings in attendance.

While acknowledging Johnson’s high chance of winning this event for the third time, we’ll look for some better value.

2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am picks – Favorite

Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Monday at 1:05 p.m. ET.

Jason Day (+3000)

Day has never won this event, but he was a co-runner-up in 2018 as one of six top-10 finishes in his last eight appearances. He missed the cut each of the last two weeks, but those performances have now helped to boost his odds at a course where he has had great success.

Day gained strokes off-the-tee, from tee-to-green and around-the-green last week, but he lost 2.62 strokes per round with the putter over his 36 holes. Trust in his driver and irons while expecting his putter to get right at a familiar venue.

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2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am picks – Contender

Kyoung-Hoon Lee (+9000)

Lee was the co-runner-up to Brooks Koepka last week in Phoenix. He vaulted from No. 263 to No. 142 in the OWGR with his best finish on the PGA Tour. He’s a two-time winner on the Japan Tour and previously had a top PGA Tour finish of T-5 at the 2019 RSM Classic.

Lee led the field last week in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green and SG: Around-the-Green. His odds are far too high coming off of that well-rounded performance.

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2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am picks – Long shot

Brian Gay (+25000)

Gay missed the cut in each of his last two events following a 72nd-place finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii and T-29 at the Sentry of Tournament of Champions, but he’s just four events removed from his victory at the Bermuda Championship, albeit in a much weaker field.

He tied for 38th last year, seventh in 2019 and eighth in 2018. He was solid from tee-to-green and on approach all three of those years and didn’t rely too heavily on his putter. Port Royal Golf Course, the home of the Bermuda Championship, was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., who also designed Spyglass.

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Kyoung-Hoon Lee gains entry to Arnold Palmer Invite a day after car accident

Kyoung-Hoon Lee got in the Arnold Palmer Invitational by coming off the alternate list on Thursday when Francesco Molinari withdrew.

Kyoung-Hoon Lee has experienced a good bit of luck this week in Orlando on two different levels. The 28-year-old gained entry into this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational by coming off the alternate list on Thursday morning when defending champion Francesco Molinari withdrew. It came a day after walking away from a car accident unscathed a day earlier.

According to a story on pgatour.com, Lee and his wife were driving to Bay Hill Club & Lodge mid-morning on Wednesday for a practice round. Lee was in the passenger seat as his wife made a left turn. An oncoming car, however, didn’t stop. It plowed right into the Lees.

“When I saw the car coming,” Lee said through an interpreter, “I was scared, like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ It was like the whole thing was kind of in slow motion.”

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The couple was driving a courtesy car, an SUV that sustained little damage. The other vehicle, however, was a different story.

“I felt sore in the morning, but after I got the tee time, I couldn’t feel it,” said Lee, who had a first-round 72. He played with Rory McIlroy (66) and Justin Rose (73).

Neither Lee nor his wife went to the hospital after the accident but were seen by medics upon arriving at Bay Hill. Lee’s wife did not come to the golf course to watch play on Thursday.

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