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PGA Championship 2022: Latest field, odds and expert picks

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Phil Mickelson won’t be defending his 2021 PGA Championship when the 2022 PGA Championship starts Thursday at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla. But Tiger Woods will be playing in just his second tournament since a car crash nearly ended his career.

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There is plenty of intrigue and interesting storylines around this edition of the PGA Championship. The move from August to May seems to put a little more excitement into what used to be golf’s fourth major of the season. Now, coming off the Masters, the PGA Championship offers a springboard for the rest of the golf season as we head into the summer with Memorial Day next weekend.

While the early tournament buzz seems focused around Mickelson and Woods — the two most popular golfers of this generation — Scottie Scheffler and his ascent to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings deserves some attention. It should be noted that Scheffler calls Southern Hills his favorite golf course in the world.

Tulsa has had good weather leading up to the tournament that should produce a fast and firm test for the best golfers in the world. Temperatures on Thursday and Friday will be in the 80s with wind gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoons. Temperatures for the weekend will be in the 70s. There’s no real risk of rain, but there’s always a threat of afternoon storms in Oklahoma.

2022 PGA Championship field

The 2022 PGA Championship will feature 156 golfers. The most famous of course being Woods. He made the cut at Augusta National at the Masters, but struggled on the weekend. Woods played a practice round on Sunday at Southern Hills.

Paul Casey and Harris English both withdrew from the tournament over the weekend due to injuries. Bryson DeChambeau continues to be in the field, but given his recent wrist surgery, it’s hard to see him teeing it up this week.

In addition to the professionals, 20 PGA teaching professionals will tee it up at Southern Hills.

What to know about Southern Hills

Southern Hills Country Club is located in Tulsa, Okla. It is designer Perry Maxwell’s greatest course and it was rebuilt in 2018 by architect Gil Hanse. Nearly every hole on the course bends left or right to create difficult tee shots. It’s one of golf’s old-time tests and it has hosted three U.S. Opens and this will be the fifth time it has hosted a PGA Championship.

Maxwell worked on a lot of famous courses with Dr. Alister MacKenzie including Augusta National, Crystal Downs and Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. He also helped renovate Pine Valley, Merion and Colonial.

Hanse said he’d sit on the 10th hole if he was at the course and the 18th hole should provide an interesting challenge coming down the stretch on Sunday.

Woods won the 2007 PGA Championship here and shot a 63 in the second round to propel himself to that championship. He finished the weekend with a pair of 69s and beat Woody Austin by two strokes.

From the first tee, you can see downtown Tulsa and the fairways are lined with trees. Hanse reduced the number of trees in the recent redesign, but they’ll still come into play this week when golfers hit wayward tee shots.

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2022 PGA Championship odds

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2022 PGA Championship Expert Picks

The Athletic’s golf writers are back to give their picks to win this week’s PGA Championship. Josh Kendall correctly picked Scottie Scheffler to win the Masters earlier this year. Let’s see if we can start a streak of correct picks. Dennis Esser also made his best bets and DFS picks for the week. Andrew DeWitt and John Hayes made their Office Pool picks for the PGA Championship. 

The restoration of Southern Hills since we last saw it in a major championship included removing the rough around the greens and installing short grass. Gil Hanse told The Fried Egg this is going to penalize the errant shot into the green — instead of the rough catching it, the edges of the greens will push the ball down 20 feet. So I’m looking for someone with a track record of excellent play on his approach and then with the putter in his hands. That’s Shane Lowry, fifth on the PGA Tour in shots-gained approach this season and 16th putting. Very underrated majors player despite the 2019 British Open win, and I think he gets No. 2 this week. — Hugh Kellenberger, golf editor

Cam Smith cooled off a little starting on the weekend of the Masters, but the 28-year-old Australian still is having one of the hottest seasons on the PGA Tour. He’s second in PGA’s strokes gained category and sixth in the current DataGolf.com rankings. If Smith can find his way off the tee, he’ll be in position for his third win of the year starting Sunday. — Josh Kendall, golf writer

Yes, his putter gives me major pause. And yes, he hasn’t finished better than fourth in his last 15 major tournament appearances since winning the PGA in 2017. But I talked myself into Justin Thomas about a week ago. Southern Hills’ defense is going to be in its greens, so much so, I anticipate, that even some of the best putters going today — Cam Smith, Scheffler, etc — will have an advantage, but won’t be able to *make* enough putts to go and win the whole thing. Similar to Hugh’s thought pattern above, I want to pick a horse who will control shots into those greens, understand the contours, and put himself in position to score. That’s Thomas. He’s in great form in 2022, can be lethal with the driver, and ranks second among the top 150 players in the world in strokes gained tee-to-green over the last three months and fourth in strokes gained approaching the green in the same time span. Also, this dude is due. — Brendan Quinn, golf writer

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Wells Fargo Championship: Odds, predictions, value picks for next PGA Tour event

For the first time in his PGA Tour career, Wyndham Clark will arrive at a golf course as the defending champion.

He broke through at the Wells Fargo Championship a year ago, besting Xander Schauffele by four shots at the Quail Hollow Club. The following month, Clark went on to win the U.S. Open at the Los Angeles Country Club.

His most recent triumph came at Pebble Beach in February.

If not for Scottie Scheffler’s remarkable performances at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, The Masters, and the RBC Heritage, one could make the case that Clark has had the most impressive stretch of golf over the past 12 months.

But luckily for Clark—and the rest of this limited field—Scheffler will not compete this week. He and his wife Meredith are eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child.

With the World No. 1 not in the field, the Wells Fargo odds were adjusted accordingly.

Wells Fargo Championship Odds:

Here are the current odds for players to win, provided by DraftKings:

• Rory McIlroy +800
• Xander Schauffele +1100
• Ludvig Åberg +1200
• Wyndham Clark +1800
• Viktor Hovland +2200
• Tommy Fleetwood +2200
• Patrick Cantlay +2200
• Max Homa +2200
• Collin Morikawa +2200
• Sahith Theegala +2800
• Matt Fitzpatrick +2800
• Hideki Matsuyama +2800
• Justin Thomas +3000
• Jordan Spieth +3000

Wells Fargo Championship Predictions

With no Scheffler, is this a wide-open tournament?

Maybe. Either way, this event is a perfect tune-up for next week’s PGA Championship . Quail Hollow Club, the host of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, is one of the more challenging courses the tour visits each year, requiring precision from tee to green.

Funny enough, the club will host the PGA Championship again in 2025, eight years after Justin Thomas won his first PGA title at Quail Hollow in 2017.

Nevertheless, big hitters, who can also find plenty of greens, tend to do well here. Accuracy is also a must.

Rory McIlroy’s Personal Playground

The only winner of this tournament three times, Rory McIlroy loves competing at Quail Hollow.

His most recent victory here came in 2021, when he bested Abraham Ancer by a shot thanks to a final round 3-under 68. McIlroy relied on his putter that week, ranking third in strokes gained putting.

The Northern Irishman also won here in 2010 and 2015, with the former being his first career PGA Tour win . McIlroy shot a final round 9-under 62 to win the tournament, a course record that stood until 2015, when he bested that with a 10-under 61 during the third round. McIlroy won by seven that week.

This year, McIlroy arrives as the favorite, and understandably so. Fresh off his 25th career PGA Tour win at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans , McIlroy is rounding into form as we approach the meat of major championship season.

The odds reflect that, too. McIlroy’s steep price of a top-10 finish does not return any value at -110, so we like him to finish in the top 5 at +190.

Canadian Contingent Continues to Succeed

Canadian Taylor Pendrith closed out his first career PGA Tour victory in dramatic fashion this past week, thanks to Ben Kohles’ heartbreaking bogey on the 72nd hole.

As such, Pendrith gained entry into this week’s field and next week’s PGA Championship, a major step for his budding career.

But Pendrith is not the only Canadian that has played well as of late. Nick Taylor won the WM Phoenix Open in February, Corey Conners has not missed a cut this season, and Mackenzie Hughes is trending in the right direction.

Yet, of that group, we like Conners to play well at Quail Hollow once again.

Last year, Conners tied for eighth at the Wells Fargo Championship, carding under-par rounds on all four days. He hit the green in regulation 76.4% of the time, which ranked fourth in the field—not a surprise given his exquisite ball-striking abilities.

Conners ranks fourth in strokes gained approaching the green and third in greens in regulation on tour this season. He also finds plenty of fairways, doing so at 68.73% of the time, which is well above the tour average.

Considering this, we like Conners to improve his performance from a season ago and finish within the top 5 at Quail Hollow at +1100.

Alex Noren will fly under the radar into another top-10 finish

Perhaps the most underrated player on the PGA Tour this season, 41-year-old Swede Alex Noren has played in 10 events, finishing in the top 25 on seven occasions.

His best finish came at last week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson, where he shot a final round 6-under 65 to finish in solo third.

The stats reflect his strong play this season, too. Noren ranks 6th in total strokes gained and second in greens in regulation percentage, trailing only Scheffler. He is also first in scrambling percentage, saving par nearly 75% of the time when he misses greens.

The only knock on Noren is that he ranks 145th on the PGA Tour in total driving distance, which could prove difficult at Quail Hollow, a course that measures nearly 7,600 yards.

Still, Noren has too many things going on not to consider him. We like him to record his third top 10 of the season at a price of +800.

Wells Fargo Championship Longshot Pick

Before the 2024 Masters Tournament, Sepp Straka, the first Austrian-born player to represent Europe in the 2023 Ryder Cup , could not find any consistency in his game.

Four missed cuts and two top-20 finishes at The Sentry and The Players had him teetering all over the place.

But something clicked at Augusta National . He tied for 16th that week then recorded his best finish of the season at the RBC Heritage, tying for fifth.

Straka then finished in a tie for 11th at the Zurich Classic, playing alongside Brice Garnett.

After an off week, the former Georgia Bulldog arrives at Quail Hollow fresh and ready to contend again at a major championship venue. He ranks second on the PGA Tour in driving accuracy percentage, finding fairways at nearly 80% of the time.

He also has found 68.82% of the greens this season, which ranks 36th on tour.

Even though he missed the cut here a year ago, we believe Straka’s accuracy and above-average ball-striking can lead him to his first PGA Tour victory of the season. At +6000, the Austrian is worth the longshot.

Wells Fargo Championship Winner

Of those players without a PGA Tour victory in 2024, nobody has played better than Xander Schauffele, who ranks third in total strokes gained this season.

We believe his oh-so-close narrative changes this week, with Schauffele emerging victorious at Quail Hollow. He ranks 10th in strokes gained off the tee and is 27th in strokes gained approaching the green—both solid attributes for success on this tough golf course.

He has played well on this course, too. Schauffele finished solo second at Quail Hollow a year ago, which included a 7-under 64 during his third round. He also tied for 14th in 2021.

The question becomes if he can make some putts, as he routinely puts himself in the best of positions. He tied for second at The Players and finished solo eighth at The Masters, but if he could have had a few more putts drop, those solid performances may have turned into memorable wins.

Alas, we believe that Schauffele does just that this week. He arrives with the second-lowest odds at +1000 behind McIlroy, and will gallop into Kentucky full of confidence for the PGA Championship.

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2024 Wells Fargo Championship odds, picks, Fantasy golf power rankings: PGA Tour predictions, expert best bets

Taylor Pendrith took down the field in an exciting edition of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson to qualify him for the Majors and get him into this week's field at the elevated Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte. With Scottie Scheffler skipping this week due to the impending birth of his first child, the field is wide open for this week's event. Only 70 golfers will compete this week for the $20 million purse in advance of next week's PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy is the +800 favorite, followed by Xander Schauffele (+1000), Ludvig Aberg (+1200), Patrick Cantlay (+1600), and defending champion Wyndham Clark (+1800).

With an excellent field for this Signature Event, who can you trust for your Wells Fargo Championship golf picks? Before you set your 2024 Wells Fargo Championship golf lineups or make any PGA Tour bets, you NEED to see the Fantasy golf rankings from Fantasy expert Eric Cohen .

Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2024 Players Championship (Scottie Scheffler +550), 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scheffler's first career victory at +2800). He also gave out S.H. Kim as a +11000 longshot last week, who finished tied for 4th place.

Eric is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show (live on Tuesday, May 7th at 7 p.m. ET).  Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions has made positive gains on their golf picks.

Now, Cohen has studied the field set to play at Quail Hollow and revealed his Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy golf rankings. 

We can tell you he is backing the 2017 PGA Championship winner at Quail Hollow, Justin Thomas. "Gaining nearly 2.7 strokes with the putter at Harbour Town marked his best putting tournament of the season and could a sign of things to come. Even in the midst of a poor 2023, JT gained more than seven strokes ball striking here en route to a T14, so if he can putt even slightly above average, watch out."

On the other hand, Cohen is fading Patrick Cantlay at +1600. "The irons and putter simply haven't been consistent in 2024. He finished T23 here last year despite losing more than two strokes on approach, so tread carefully again this week."

Cohen also is backing several underdogs in his 2024 Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy golf picks, including a 200-1 longshot who would be a nice piece for DFS lineups ! If this player can pull off a stunning result, it would bring a HUGE payoff and be a valuable piece for Wells Fargo Championship Fantasy golf lineups. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any fantasy golf picks.

Who wins the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow ,  a nd which 200-1 longshot could bring a HUGE payout and be the difference for your Fantasy golf picks? Join SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's Fantasy golf rankings and picks for the Wells Fargo Championship, all from the Fantasy expert who has delivered a positive ROI with his golf picks !

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Bolton: Embrace weather variable for this week’s Lone Star shootout

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In a perfect world, we’d prefer to eliminate the unpredictability of the elements of an outdoor sport in favor of data sets that help us understand what our eyes are witnessing. But golf is an imperfect pursuit.

As detailed below, THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson will be staged in conditions that, well, amount to the opposite of “golf in a dome” that often serves as the setting for The American Express in the Coachella Valley every winter. Sure, La Quinta, California, isn’t immune to rain and wind, but it’s typically a placebo compared to north Texas in springtime.

So it goes. Deal with it. Embrace the random.

While conditions should be OK most of the time north of Dallas, this still will be a week when it’ll feel like it’s going to be better to be lucky than good. That yields the chance to have some fun.

If your profile is to play it smart and safe, great. But if you’ve ever thought about being a little, say, counterintuitive, give that a go at TPC Craig Ranch. A shootout already is promised, so there’s that headwind for otherwise predictable results, but better-laid plans don’t necessarily apply when the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Golfbet Insider Rob Bolton | THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson

At the end of every round and eventually the tournament, there could be a little to learn about the experience, so even if it doesn’t go your way, that’s still something to take forward for the next time the roof is open.

Since Monday’s Power Rankings, in which I always review the weather for the first time every week, the risk of inclement weather for Thursday’s opening round has increased. It includes a very good chance for thunderstorms. Because of the danger, bet the over on a delay at some point. Friday’s forecast is more favorable.

When this happens, it can be shrewd to stack based on the draw in DFS. While blending in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf is advised for the long haul, short-range considerations all but demand betting on the coin flip. You’re already in shark-infested waters, so you might as well jump in with a plan to sink or swim. Treading is only for also-rans.

Another change in the last two days is when the wind will challenge most. Because it’s always the hardest to predict, there are two types of gamers – those who have complained about it and those who will – and you know who you are. Moving Day on Saturday now presents as the best of the bunch, albeit for seriously breezy conditions for Sunday’s finale.

All in all, when the conditions are a crapshoot for a shootout, conviction in decisions is the driving force. Ignore the nuance, dismiss the edge and go all-in on the most compelling combination of factors for your sensibilities.

Power Rankings wild card

Keith Mitchell (+375 = Top 10) … Cashmere Keith has been a top-20 machine in 2024 and he hasn’t gone consecutive starts without one in his last eight starts. Prior to a T28 with Joel Dahmen at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Mitchell placed T14 at the Valero Texas Open for his sixth top 20 of the season. He remains a rock star off the tee and on approach, so the challenge has been wringing consistency out of the putter. Both of his previous appearances at TPC Craig Ranch were when it played as a par 72 (2021 and 2022) and he averaged 69.25. To consider qualifying for next week’s Wells Fargo Championship, he’d need to podium this week, but this finish would be just fine for us.

Other notables

Aaron Rai (+160 = Top English) … Man, what to do with this guy. The Brit always presents so attractively but he isn’t plus value for a finish unless you shop in the market for top 20s at +225, and he’s had only two of those in a dozen starts this year. That’s why to beat five others among his countrymen is the smarter move. (At +350, Matt Wallace is second-shortest among the subset.) Sits 13th on TOUR in greens hit and T32 in proximity.

Daniel Berger (+130 = Top 40) … At some point, he’ll be reinserted into the option to make or miss the cut, but we can’t complain about the kickback for this finish. No, he hasn’t reconnected with the firepower that pushed him to the front of the stage, but if you’re going to hedge on when he’s going to deliver again, you might as well lean in when his only finish at TPC Craig Ranch is a T3 in 2021. The long game is back so you’re relying on this being the week when he (finally) finds magic with the putter. Two top 40s in nine starts this season.

Taiga Semikawa (+225 = Top 40) … With Peter Kuest hogging the headlines among non-members at TPC Craig Ranch, it’s easy to overlook the 23-year-old from Japan who’s making his fourth PGA TOUR start of the season. He’s making the trip from a T24 at the ISPS HANDA CHAMPIONSHIP but his youth is a weapon against jet lag. He’s already a four-time winner on the Japan Golf Tour where he placed second in the Order of Merit in 2023. We’re not asking for a victory (at +25000), just a return to some form that rewarded his muscle off the tee and precision on approach on his home circuit last year.

NOTE: Not everything needs a setup. For a variety of reasons, these lines are too enticing to ignore.

• PARLAY: Thomas Detry, Keith Mitchell and Adam Schenk (+190 = All to Make the Cut)
• Aaron Baddeley (+200 = Top 40)
• Rafael Campos (+333 = Top 40)
• Nico Echavarria (+300 = Top South American)
• Nate Lashley (+125 = Top 40)
• Henrik Norlander (+230 = Top 40)
• Kevin Tway (+170 = Top 40)

Notable WDs

Patrick Rodgers … This is his second early withdrawal of the season (WM Phoenix) to go with his mid-tournament exit from the Valero Texas Open, but he’s 37th in the FedExCup with three top 10s among six top 25s. Look for him as well at Quail Hollow Club next week.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout … A T3 at the ISPS HANDA CHAMPIONSHIP in Japan on Sunday lifted the South African to 53rd in the Official World Golf Ranking, so he’s in terrific position to qualify for the U.S. Open when the top 60 gain entry at the conclusion of the PGA Championship for which he’ll qualify via the OWGR early next week. He also might sneak into the field at next week’s Wells Fargo Championship via the Aon Next 10, in which he’s currently ninth.

Charley Hoffman … Rests after a T4-T11 fortnight that lifted him to 59th in the FedExCup. Suffice it to say that the 47-year-old has capitalized on the opportunities yielded by long-range insurance of a career earnings exemption this season.

Membership notes

Erik Barnes … Will Zalatoris is a headliner among the comeback stories in 2024, but Barnes deserves similar attention. Now almost 13 full months post-reconstructive surgery on the MPFL in his left knee, he’s 87th in the FedExCup with a playoff loss at the Puerto Rico Open punctuating six paydays in nine starts. Has eight starts on a medical extension to collect 46.563 FedExCup points. (He’s closest to his goal among all golfers on medicals.) That would require no worse than a solo 19th-place finish (worth 47 points) at TPC Craig Ranch where he’s making his debut. Because he’s already cleared the threshold for conditional status, he’s eligible for the Playoffs even if he falls short of the target on the medical, but fulfilling the medical would promote him from the graduate reshuffle category to the Major Medical category. It also would grant him the opportunity to tee it up in every open without sweating the cutline for entry on conditional status.

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2024 PGA Championship odds, picks, predictions: Tiger Woods projection by golf model that nailed the Masters

Tiger woods, an 82-time pga tour winner, is expected to be part of the 2024 pga championship field at valhalla golf club.

The 2024 PGA Championship will take place at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., beginning on Thursday, May 16. Tiger Woods is a 15-time major champion who just set a record by making his 24th cut in a row at the 2024 Masters. Now, he'll look to replicate his past success at Valhalla Golf Club, where he won the 2000 PGA Championship. How will Tiger's body hold up to another grueling week against the best players in the world and which 2024 PGA Championship contenders should be on your radar?

Woods is scheduled to play and is a 125-1 longshot in the 2024 PGA Championship odds, while Scottie Scheffler is the 3-1 favorite after his win at Augusta. Jon Rahm (10-1), Rory McIlroy (10-1), Brooks Koepka (12-1) and Ludvig Aberg (12-1) round out the top five in the PGA odds board for the second major championship of the season. Before locking in your 2024 PGA Championship picks or Tiger Woods props, be sure to  see the golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now with the PGA Championship 2024 field taking shape, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.

Top 2024 PGA Championship predictions 

One major surprise: Collin Morikawa, a 22-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. The 27-year-old Californian is already a six-time PGA Tour winner and a two-time major champion, winning the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park and the 2021 Open Championship at Royal St. George's.

Morikawa is currently ranked No. 13 in the Official World Golf Ranking and 11th in the FedEx Cup standings after following up his t-3rd at the Masters with a solo ninth at the RBC Heritage. He's made the cut all four times that he's played the PGA Championship and he's finished top 10 in eight of his 17 career major championship starts.

The model has also examined where Tiger Woods finishes. The 48-year-old made the cut at Augusta but the wheels fell off over the weekend and he'd go on to finish 60th overall out of 60 players who survived the cut. However, he'll have the luxury of playing another course where he's had a lot of success. 

He won the PGA Championship at Valhalla in 2000 but missed the cut when it was held on the same course in 2014. However, Tiger did just finish his first four-round PGA Tour event since the 2023 Genesis Invitational at Augusta last month and he'll be looking to build off that as he continues to try to tailor his game to his physical limitations.  The model just locked in its Tiger Woods PGA Championship picks here. .

How to make 2024 PGA Championship picks

The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds longer than 20-1 to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the PGA Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters .

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Scottie Scheffler 3-1 Jon Rahm 10-1 Rory McIlroy 12-1 Ludvig Aberg 12-1 Brooks Koepka 12-1 Wyndham Clark 16-1 Xander Schauffele 18-1 Joaquin Niemann 22-1 Collin Morikawa 22-1 Patrick Cantlay 22-1 Viktor Hovland 25-1 Cameron Smith 25-1 Bryson DeChambeau 28-1 Max Homa 28-1 Hideki Matsuyama 30-1 Jordan Spieth 33-1 Justin Thomas 33-1 Cameron Young 35-1 Tony Finau 35-1 Matt Fitzpatrick 35-1 Tommy Fleetwood 40-1 Tom Kim 40-1 Dustin Johnson 40-1 Tyrrell Hatton 45-1 Min Woo Lee 50-1 Sam Burns 50-1 Jason Day 50-1 Shane Lowry 50-1 Brian Harman 60-1 Sungjae Im 60-1 Patrick Reed 65-1 Abraham Ancer 65-1 Russell Henley 65-1 Sahith Theegala 65-1 Louis Oosthuizen 75-1 Corey Conners 75-1 Keegan Bradley 75-1 Rickie Fowler 80-1 Adam Scott 80-1 Talor Gooch 90-1 Harris English 100-1 Justin Rose 100-1 Si Woo Kim 100-1 Gary Woodland 100-1 Kurt Kitayama 100-1 Daniel Berger 100-1 Sepp Straka 100-1 Tiger Woods 125-1 Keith Mitchell 125-1 Phil Mickelson 125-1 J.T. Poston 125-1 Sergio Garcia 125-1 Mito Pereira 150-1 Billy Horschel 150-1 Eric Cole 150-1 Thomas Pieters 150-1 Ryan Fox 175-1 Seamus Power 175-1 Mackenzie Hughes 175-1 Denny McCarthy 175-1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175-1 Victor Perez 175-1 Marc Leishman 175-1 Davis Riley 200-1 Adam Hadwin 200-1 Harold Varner III 200-1 Jason Kokrak 200-1 Robert MacIntyre 250-1 Francisco Molinari 250-1 Joel Dahmen 250-1 Aaron Wise 250-1 Steve Stricker 350-1 Michael Block 500-1

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