Memorial Predictions? – Syndication Server

The 2020 Memorial Tournament is set to tee off Thursday with a star-studded field featuring 23 of the top 25 golfers in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings, including Tiger Woods. Below, we’ll look at the best prop bet offering at BetMGM and make our PGA Tour picks and best bets for the 2020 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.

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2020 Memorial Tournament: Matchup bets

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Jon Rahm vs. Collin Morikawa (-118)

Morikawa was victorious at this venue last week in the Workday Charity Open. The course is expected to undergo some minor alterations this week and will see faster greens and thicker rough. It won’t matter for Morikawa. Take him as only a modest favorite. Rahm tied for 27th last week and lost 0.25 strokes per round around the greens, according to Data Golf.

Rickie Fowler vs. Gary Woodland (-106)

Fowler and Woodland are both veterans of this event with multiple top-10 finishes each. Woodland fared better last week, finishing T-5 at 12-under par to Fowler’s T-22 at minus-8. Take the US Open champ with the conditions and field being more reminiscent of a major.

Webb Simpson (-118) vs. Xander Schauffele

Simpson was off last week while Schauffele finished T-14 at 10-under. Take the two-time winner in 2020 in a pick ’em. Simpson has 12 more career rounds played at Muirfield Village GC than Schauffele.

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2020 Memorial Tournament: Placing bets

Top 5: Patrick Cantlay (+375)

Cantlay tied for seventh last week on the back of a final-round, 7-under 65. The 2019 Memorial champ hasn’t finished outside the top 20 in a PGA Tour event since the Safeway Open and should improve on last week’s finish despite the stronger field.

Top 10: Abraham Ancer (+450)

Ancer ranks 11th on Tour this season in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green and SG: Approach. He finished T-14, 2nd and T-11 in the first three events back before taking the last two weeks off. Expect the strong form to continue in his third appearance at this event.

Group B: Viktor Hovland (+400)

Hovland’s the biggest long shot in a group with Morikawa (+320), Rahm (+320), Simpson (+375) and Schauffele (+375). Hovland led the field in SG: Off the Tee and SG: Tee-to-Green last week and his third-place finish was his best result since play resumed.

Top Austrian: Bernd Wiesberger (+170)

Wiesberger has higher odds than Sepp Straka (+150), who finished T-14 last week at 10-under in his debut at Muirfield Village. Wiesberger won three times on the European Tour in 2019 and ranks 96 spots higher in the Golfweek rankings.

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2020 Memorial Tournament: First-round leader bet

Rory McIlroy (+2200)

McIlroy leads the PGA Tour with 1.883 SG: Tee-to-Green through 27 measured rounds this season. His Round 1 scoring average of 67.56 through nine events is also No. 1 on Tour. He has four top 10s here since 2010.

Adam Hadwin (+7000)

Hadwin sat second last week after an opening round of 6-under 66. He broke par in just one other round last week, but still managed to finish 35th.

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Tiger Woods is one of 23 members of the top 25 in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings in the field for this week’s Memorial Tournament, beginning Thursday at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Below, we look at the BetMGM PGA Tour betting odds and make our picks to win the 2020 Memorial Tournament.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy returns to play for the first time since a T-11 finish at the Travelers Championship. Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa all seek to defend wins in their last tournaments.

2020 Memorial Tournament Betting Picks – Tier 1

Jul 12, 2020; Dublin, Ohio; Collin Morikawa celebrates his Workday Charity Open victory. (Photo Credit: Adam Cairns – The Columbus Dispatch via USA TODAY NETWORK)

Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Monday, July 13 at 11:45 a.m. ET.

Collin Morikawa (+2000)

Morikawa shares just the sixth-best odds to win this week. Justin Thomas, who Morikawa toppled in a Sunday comeback ending in a playoff, is the tournament’s co-favorite with DeChambeau at +1000.

While Muirfield Village GC is expected to undergo some quick alterations this week to change tee boxes, rough length and green speeds, it’s still the same venue. The field will be considerably stronger, but Morikawa is still well worth a bet at 20-1 as he looks to go back-to-back on the same course.

New to sports betting? A $10 bet on Morikawa to win the 2020 Memorial Tournament returns a profit of $200. The same bet on Thomas would return a profit of just $100.

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Daniel Berger (+4000)

Berger hasn’t participated in an event since following up his resurgent victory at the Charles Schwab Challenge with a T-3 finish at the RBC Heritage. He enters this week with the longest odds of any winner since the PGA Tour’s restart.

He gained averages of 1.36 strokes per round on approach and 1.90 strokes per round from tee-to-green in his win at Colonial Country Club, according to Data Golf. He hasn’t played this event since finishing 67th in 2016, but claimed his first victory at the FedEx St. Jude Classic the week after.

2020 Memorial Tournament Betting Picks – Tier 2

Jun 27, 2020; Cromwell, Conn.; Abraham Ancer chips onto the 15th green at the Travelers Championship. (Photo Credit: Bill Streicher – USA TODAY Sports)

Abraham Ancer (+5000)

Ancer has been playing some of the best golf of his career since the PGA Tour returned to play and enters the week 16th in the Golfweek rankings. He was T-14 at the Charles Schwab Challenge, second at the RBC Heritage and T-11 at the Travelers Championship. He’s 11th on Tour this season while gaining 0.795 strokes per round on approach through 34 measured rounds.

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Sergio Garcia (+7000)

Garcia is fourth on Tour with 1.653 Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green through 18 rounds on the 2019-20 season. He has averaged 1.63 strokes gained per round over 16 career rounds at Muirfield Village GC. He hasn’t played here since a 45th-place finish in 2008, but was a co-runner-up in 2001 and has three top-10 results in eight events in 2020.

2020 Memorial Tournament Betting Picks – Long shots

Jul 12, 2020; Dublin, Ohio; Rory Sabbatini at the Workday Charity Open. (Photo Credit: Joseph Maiorana – USA TODAY Sports)

Rory Sabbatini (+10000)

Sabbatini finished in a five-way tie for 17th last week, with a Sunday round of plus-1 that knocked him out of the top 10. He gained 1.13 strokes per round from tee-to-green last week and broke 70 in each of his first three rounds of the Workday Charity Open. He’s sixth among those with a minimum of five rounds played at Muirfield Village with 2.02 strokes gained per round at this venue.

Shane Lowry (+12500)

Lowry is coming off of a 39th-place finish last week at Muirfield with opening and closing rounds of 69 bookending his tournament. He uncharacteristically lost 0.72 strokes per round off the tee, though was able to gain 0.95 strokes on approach.

The odds are far too high for the reigning Champion Golfer of the Year.

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