The penultimate event of the PGA Tour playoffs arrives with the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club.
The latest: The top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings tee it up outside of Denver and that field will be whittled down to 30 for the Tour Championship in East Lake next week. Scottie Scheffler is the favourite to win with Xander Schauffele right behind.
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Scheffler and Schauffele are the only two players with odds shorter than 12-to-1, which makes perfect sense.
The duo have combined for nine wins (three majors) and 12 additional top-five finishes this season. They rank first and second, respectively, in strokes gained total and tee-to-green, well ahead of third place Rory McIlroy.
Castle Pines has never hosted a PGA Tour event but it's safe to say their games travel everywhere — even at 6,400 feet of elevation.
Last week's winner, Hideki Matsuyama, is tied for fifth on the odds board with Viktor Hovland, who put together his best finish of the season (T2) after a string of poor results.
Three Canadians are playing this week with Corey Conners leading the way at +4,000.
BMW Championship best bets
Hovland to win (+1,800): Hovland won this event last year, albeit at a different course, en route to securing the Tour Championship.
The Norwegian was a bonafide top-three player in the world but tinkered with his swing in the offseason, lost it, and completely fell off the map.
Things have turned in the right direction, though, and I've seen enough to believe Hovland is back.
He reunited with swing coach Joe Mayo in May and has picked up strokes on approach in six of his last eight starts. Hovland was fourth out of 70 golfers in SG: APP and SG: T2G last week, per DataGolf, and he posted consecutive rounds of 66 on the weekend to finish one back of Matsuyama.
Clark to win (+3,300): Wyndham Clark's career has been defined by peaks and valleys and it looks like the Denver native is climbing the mountain right now.
He has four top-15 finishes in his last five starts, including a T7 last week and a T10 at the Genesis Invitational in July.
The putter is heating up and the elite ball striking we've seen in the past is returning, too. But one interesting advantage here is Clark's familiarity with the altitude.
He's a two-time winner of the Colorado state golf championship and should have a leg up on the rest of the field there.
Golf picks made at 3:46 p.m. on 08/19/2024.
