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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

Phil Mickelson grabs a club during the final round of the 2020 PGA Championship. (Photo Credit: Kelvin Kuo – USA TODAY Sports)

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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 plays his shot from the second tee during the third round of The Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. (Photo Credit: Aaron Doster – USA TODAY Sports)

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 hits the 9th hole tee during the final round of the Barracuda Championship. (Photo Credit: Andrew Wevers – USA TODAY Sports)

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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The top 125 golfers from the FedExCup standings descend on TPC Boston this week for the 2020 Northern Trust. The course hosts this event for the first time, but it was the previous home of the Dell Technologies Championship from 2003-2018. Below, we look at the betting odds to win the 2020 Northern Trust and make our PGA Tour picks and best bets.

2020 Northern Trust Betting Picks – Tier 1

Bryson DeChambeau tees off on the 4th hole during the final round of the 2020 PGA Championship. (Photo Credit: Kyle Terada – USA TODAY Sports)

Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Monday at 4:10 p.m. ET.

Bryson DeChambeau (+1200)

DeChambeau is the co-favorite to win along with Justin Thomas. DeChambeau enters the week fourth in the FedExCup standings and sixth in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings.

He’s first on the PGA Tour this season in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee with an average of 1.175 per round. The Scientist won the 2018 Dell Technologies Championship held at TPC Boston and the 2018 Northern Trust at Ridgewood Country Club. Those victories were well before revolutionizing his game during the midseason pause and picking up his sixth career win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

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2020 Northern Trust Betting Picks – Tier 2

Byeong Hun An looks on from the 11th hole during the third round of the 2020 PGA Championship. (Photo Credit: Kyle Terada – USA TODAY Sports)

Byeong Hun An (+9000)

An is coming off a T-22 finish at the PGA Championship, where he oddly lost 0.84 strokes per round off the tee but gained 0.99 strokes putting per round, according to Data Golf. It was a rare good putting performance that could have him on track for a course where his usual strengths of SG: Approach and SG: Around-the-Green will shine.

He tied for 31st at the 2018 Dell Technologies Championship with 1.44 total strokes gained per round. He’s 31st in the FEC standings and needs a quality finish to secure a trip to East Lake for the Tour Championship in two weeks.

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2020 Northern Trust Betting Picks – Long shots

Doc Redman hits his tee shot on the sixteenth hole during the third round of the Wyndham Championship. (Photo Credit: Rob Kinnan – USA TODAY Sports)

Doc Redman (+12500)

Redman remains at an appealing price following his T-3 finish at last week’s Wyndham Championship. He averaged 1.25 SG: Off-the-Tee and 2.67 SG: Tee-to-Green for the week. He’s 22nd for the season in SG: Off-the-Tee.

The 22-year-old is 55th in the Golfweek rankings and 60th in the FEC standings.

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