Favorite long shots ahead of the PGA Player’s Championship
Pamela Maldonado offers you her three greatest long-shot golfers forward of the PGA Participant’s Championship from TPC Sawgrass. Be certain that to tune into her weekly movies for her favorites on the high of the board. Can Scottie Scheffler go back-to-back match wins?
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Video Transcript
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PAM MALDONADO: Welcome to “The Yahoo Sportsbook Every day.” It’s a Wednesday, March ninth. I’m your betting information, Pam Maldonado, right here to convey you my three favourite lengthy photographs to wager for the PLAYERS Championship.
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That is proper, it’s time to speak some golf. Now, in the event you tailed me with Scottie Scheffler final week, then you’re feeling fairly darn good. So let’s examine if I can carry a few of that momentum over into this week. So do not forget to additionally catch my high three gamers within the video format on the Yahoo Sportsbook. right here, I do like to order the area for a few of my lengthy checklist gamers, who I actually love extra so for a high 20 than to win outright, however can positively snag a win, and similar to Scheffler final week.
Trying on the course, TPC Sawgrass, a Pete Dye design, over 7,200 yards, a par-72. It’s a difficult little sucker course that features one of the crucial iconic par-3’s on tour, 17, an Island inexperienced, the place many, and I do imply many, see a water dunk. And we’re greater than seemingly going to see the identical this time round.
Completely any model of play can contend at TPC Sawgrass. You possibly can go for workforce no putt, gamers like Corey Conners, Sergio Garcia, all nice ball strikers, oh, however they can’t putt to avoid wasting their lives. You possibly can go for anyone like Abe Ancer, who’s shorter off the tee however extra correct, or you possibly can goal a few of these quick sport gamers like a JT Poston, who would not actually know what to do together with his iron photographs, however he’s larger on the inexperienced and might putt each which manner.
There’s 1,000,000 methods that you would be able to have a look at this. Those that do effectively on Pete Dye designs, those that do effectively in powerful climate situations, those that play effectively in Florida. I am maintaining it easy, and I am utilizing as an alternative simply two knowledge factors. How effectively does a participant do in a robust discipline occasion? So I am taking a look at power of schedule and up to date kind. That is it, these two issues.
I am dumbing it down, as a result of the extra knowledge factors that you just add, I get confused. If I stick to simply these two, as a rule, you are going to be simply effective. Taking a look at course historical past might positively be thought-about, however because the gamers at the moment are taking part in in March as an alternative of Might, it’s a actually small pattern measurement that we now have of two March occasions, and that actually simply would not give me sufficient confidence to carry weight.
47 of the world’s high 50 gamers will likely be competing this week, so it is positively powerful sledding. However right here he goes, my high three gamers to make my lengthy checklist. Participant one, Daniel Berger, plus 185 for a high 20, plus 2,500 for a win. As a result of this match is in March and never in Might, the Bermuda grass is dormant, and it’s as an alternative over-seeded with Bent and Poa. Properly, guess who the most effective putter within the discipline is on Bent-Poa combine? That is Berger.
He took T9 at this occasion final 12 months, and coming off a fourth place end on the Honda Basic. The power of discipline would not fairly match up, however he did acquire strokes in each class, together with almost seven ball placing. And I am speaking confidence. Confidence in golf is simply as obligatory because the precise stats.
Participant two, Scottie Scheffler. Plus 130 for a high 20, plus 2,500 for a win. I am calling this a protracted shot, as a result of Scheffler has received in two of his final three tournaments, The Phoenix Open and the Arnold Palmer. He did miss the lower right here final 12 months, so a high 20 might make extra sense than an outright, however he’s taking part in some improbable golf, so I’ll hold using that wave.
He has gained strokes in all however one class in three straight occasions. And once I say he missed on one class, he is been pretty impartial, dropping lower than a stroke off the tee. If he can stay the identical in a lower than driver course, Scheffler can positively not solely contend, particularly since Bent-Poa is his greatest floor. Might he come out with one other win? I would not be stunned. So give me the most effective ball striker who has a robust quick sport, and I’ll gladly hearth at will each time.
Participant three, Viktor Hovland. Plus 110 for a high 20, 20 to 1 for a win. My absolute condolences in the event you had Hovland final week. He completed T2, however he simply could not make a putt to avoid wasting his life. And so those that are holding a Hovland ticket needed to sit again and watch Scheffler take the win.
I am concentrating on ball strikers this week, and that’s Hovland. Gaining eight and 9 strokes in back-to-back occasions to complete T4 at Genesis and runner up on the Arnold Palmer. We all know that Hovland can contend in sturdy discipline occasions. T13 on the US Open, T12 at The Open. I do really feel higher a couple of high 20, however I would not blame anybody in the event that they wished to return to the outright market.
Simply to recap, the three gamers who made my lengthy checklist of contenders for the PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Daniel Berger, Scottie Scheffler, and Viktor Hovland.
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