The PGA Tour tees off at one of its marquee events — The Players Championship — which begins first-round play at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday. The tournament regularly attracts one of the best fields of a non-major event, this year featuring 47 of the world’s top-50 ranked golfers. One noticeable […]
The PGA Tour announced its new, nine-year domestic media rights deals on Monday. The 2022-2030 contracts with CBS, NBC, and ESPN+ reportedly represent a 70% increase over previous packages. The PGA’s television ratings have been lackluster this year. NBC’s Honda Classic drew the fewest third and final-round viewers of the […]
The cancelation of major sporting events is spreading. On Monday, the Italian national Olympic committee (CONI) announced that all domestic team sporting competitions, at all levels of play in Italy, are suspended until at least April 3 in response to a growing coronavirus outbreak in the country. It’s the most […]
Citing schedule concerns and desire to focus on the FedEx Cup playoffs, Dustin Johnson said on Monday that he will not participate in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. In a statement sent to Golfweek, his agent, David Winkle, said Johnson wants to concentrate on the PGA Tour’s season-ending tournaments that […]
Backing last week’s PGA Tour winners, Patrick Reed and Viktor Hovland, was difficult for different reasons, but it might be time to think about wagering on them more often. The two golfers won the two PGA Tour events last week, and each paid bettors well. Reed won the WGC-Mexico Championship, […]
The PGA Tour travels south of the border this week for the WGC-Mexico Championship, where the top 72 golfers will play in a high-money event. Even with a lucrative payday in the offing, several star golfers, including Tiger Woods, Brooks Koepka, and Patrick Cantlay are choosing to skip this event. […]
Brooks Koepka and Tiger Woods haven’t had great starts to 2020, but that hasn’t deterred one sportsbook from offering a prop bet on how many PGA Tour wins they’ll earn this year. BetOnline recently posted the wager for both players, laying odds on whether they will win anywhere from zero […]
PGA Tour stars are skipping this week’s WGC-Mexico Championship, opting to take a week off rather than travel south of the border. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Brooks Koepka are all missing the event. In fact, four of the top-10 ranked golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings are taking […]
The Genesis Invitational has one of the strongest fields of any non-major championship golf tournament. Nine of the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings are scheduled to play. The PGA Tour communications department said it is the strongest field since the 2007 Wells Fargo Championship. Top-ranked Rory McIlroy […]
Even though Jason Day didn’t win at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am last Sunday, the Australian was happy he finished fourth. After last year’s battle with a back injury, a condition that forced him to miss the Presidents Cup, the event in Pebble Beach gave him some much needed momentum as […]
Rory McIlroy surpassed Brooks Koepka on Sunday to reclaim the top spot in the Official World Golf Rankings — which now finally reflect his position as the betting favorite to win this week’s PGA Tour event, the Masters, the Fed Ex Cup, and the European Tour’s Race to Dubai. McIlroy […]
It was a good week to bet on golf longshots as Webb Simpson, and Graeme McDowell came through in their respective tournaments. Simpson was a 14/1 pick to win the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. The No. 7th ranked player in the Official World Golf Rankings defeated Tony […]
Forgotten in all the hype of Tiger Woods, and the battle between Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka for the #1 ranking, is Dustin Johnson. For golf gamblers, that may be a costly mistake. Johnson returns to Saudi Arabia this week to defend his title at the Saudi Invitational, played at […]
If there’s a perfect place for Tiger Woods to start the 2020 golf season, Torrey Pines Golf Course is probably the location. Woods has been playing the La Jolla, California golf course since his junior golf days. At this week’s Farmers Insurance Open, Woods is a 12/1 pick to win. […]
History keeps repeating itself for Coco Gauff, as the 15-year-old tennis phenom will once again face off against Naomi Osaka in the third round of a Grand Slam, this time at the Australian Open. Gauff survived a sloppy, back-and-forth encounter with Sorana Cirstea in Wednesday, ultimately pulling out the win […]
Two big longshots, Lee Westwood and Andrew Landry, won last weekend, which paid off handsomely for bettors willing to take an otherwise unthinkable flyer. Westwood was playing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on the European Tour. Landry was in La Quinta, California, at the […]
Coco Gauff kicked off her 2020 Australian Open in style, beating Venus Williams in straight sets to advance to the second round in Melbourne on Monday. Gauff won 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 to beat Williams for the second time in the opening round of a Grand Slam tournament. Gauff Gaining Confidence […]
San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan believes history will repeat itself in Sunday’s NFC Championship game when his team takes on the Green Bay Packers in the next Battle of the Bays. When these teams last met on Nov. 24, Green Bay were 3-point underdogs, and left with their […]
Patrick Reed is one of the most polarizing people on the PGA Tour. His latest incident is sure to cause a further divide between fans, fellow tour pros, and the media. The 2018 Masters winner had his lawyer send a cease and desist letter to Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee. […]
San Francisco had the luxury of not playing last week, but it was hardly a bye week before they meet the Vikings in Saturday’s NFC Divisional Playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. The team viewed it as a regular week and practiced, except for those that were […]
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