Masters Odds 2022
Golf Odds John Ram +1100 Justin Thomas +1400 Scotty Scheffler +1400 Cameron Smith +1600 Dustin Johnson +1700 Colin Morricau +1800 Rory McIlroy +1800 Brooks Koepka +2000 Jordan Shepherd + 2000 Spiegel Will Bryson DeChambeau +4000 Joaquin Niemann +4000 Louis Oosthuizen +4000 Shane Lowry +4000 Daniel Berger +5000 Hideki Matsuyama +5000 Mathieu Fitzpatrick +5000 Russell +500000 Sam +5000 Sam +5000000 Russell +500000 Tba + F00 6600 Abraham Ancer +7000 Im Sung-jae +7000 Justin Rose +7000 Marc Leishman +7000 Patrick Reed +7000 Paul Casey +8000 Sergio Garcia +8000 Sig-Jae +8000 Tiger Womps +8000 Billy Horschel +10000 Gary Woodland +10000 Jason Kokrak +10000 Max Homa +10000 Seamus Power +10000 Si Woo Kim +10000 Talor Gooch +10000 Thomas Pieters +10000 Brian Harman +10000 Brian Harman +1000 You 12500 Cameron Champ +15000 Francesco Molinari +15000 Harold Varner III +15000 Kevin Na +15000 Lee Westwood +15000 Robert MacIntyre +1 5000 Tom Hoge +15000 Danny Willett +20000 Erik Spaun0 Kivin000J +2 Spaun0 Kivin000 20000 Mackenzie Hughes +20000 Matthew Wolff +20000 Ryan Palmer +20000 Sepp Straka +20000 Cameron Davis +25000 Garrick Higgo +25000 Kyoung-Hoon Lee +25000 +25000 Min Woo Lee +25000 Min Woo Lee +25000 Min Woo Lee +25000 Min Woo Lee +30000000000 Min Woo Lee +25000 Min Woo Lee +20000000 +30000 Takumi Kanaya +30000 Zach Johnson +30000 Harry Higgs +35000 Hudson Swafford +35000 Guido Migliozzi +40000 Keita Nakajima +40000 Aaron Jarvis +50000 Austin Pigé +50000 Austin Pigés +50000 Austin Grizer +50000 James Greser +50000000 50000 Laird Shepherd +50000 Larry Mize +50000 Larry Mize + Singh +50000 AUGUSTA, Ga. – I love those exterminator style pieces that always show up on the internet before every Masters. They are fun, insightful, informative and thought-provoking, which is a pretty solid recipe for most written assignments, especially for golf tournament predictions. I’ve written some of them myself over the years, but I’ll admit there ‘s an inherent problem with them from the point of view of betting: The facts can be falsified. If you want to eliminate anyone who has, say, blonde pike, because no blond player has won a green jacket in the last two decades, then bleached Brooks Koepka comes out, though that’s not a logical explanation for the exclusion. Again, some facts are better documented than others – and we can use them to help with the decision-making process. Like this: No pre-tournament favorites have won the Masters since Tiger Woods in 2005. (Stay tuned for a column on this dynamic soon.) This is bad news for Jon Rahm in the sense that it is obviously difficult to succeed here with this goal in your back. Ή this: No player outside the top 30 of the Official World Golf Rankings has won over Angel Cabrera in 2009. In fact, while there is a higher par at the top than ever, it does not extend beyond a specific floor. The best of the best can take turns claiming this title, but they do not share it with other children. There are champions like Adam Scott and Patrick Reed. There are many others. No debutant has won over Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. (Sorry, Sam Burns.) Each winner from Scott in 2013 posted at least three of the top 25 on major touring that year in advance. Scott only had two. (Bryson DeChambeau and Louis Oosthuizen go down.) The only winners aged 43 and over are named Jack and Tiger. (See you, Paul Casey and Sergio Garcia.) Does any of this mean that these “excluded” players can not win this week? Of course not. Games are not played on paper and Masters tournaments are not played online. However, this does not mean that the elimination game may not be extremely useful. Whether you are playing brand new, props or matchups, choosing an OAD or large teams, or creating a DFS lineup, the process of finding the right options should start with limiting the options. With so many capable, capable superstar players on the field, it can be a daunting task to just study all the names and pick a few. Using this elimination procedure will be an important technique this week. Let’s go straight to the choices, starting with a man who, well, could just support this non-blonde trend.
Absolute Winner
One player to win the tournament.
Brooks Koepka (+1800)
If you knew nothing about Koepka, if you knew nothing about the big companies and how they played for most of the last half decade, this would seem like an overrated, overblown game. A player who is right in the top-20 of the world rankings who is exactly in 10th place in the standings before the tournament? We usually look for the opposite type of correlation, but as we have all discovered: Brooks does not fit into the usual mold. The idea of culminating four times a year preceded Tigris, but it certainly turned it into a personal war chant. Others have repeated this feeling, but I have asked many of them how they can achieve this low tide and I have not yet heard a perfect answer. (Jason Day gave my favorite answer. When he was one of the best in the world, I asked him that question and he just threw his arms in the air and shrugged his shoulders, shaking his head in search of the words.) Because of this I have been challenging Koepka for so long. Even after the second and third titles of the big league, when he obviously turned on his game like a push of a light switch, I did not think it was possible. After all, as Woods was so influential in the big corporations, it’s not like he’s wandering around places like Torrey Pines and Bay Hill and Muirfield Village. And yet, here was Koepka, who did just that. His initial big win, at the 2017 US Open, was prefaced by three consecutive insignificant results outside the top-30. He posted just one top-10 in his four starts before each major 2018 title. And while he was only fourth a week before winning the 2019 PGA Championship, it was the only start he had made five weeks from second place in the Masters. Suffice it to say that I have become loyal to Brooks. I have come to the conclusion that when he wants / needs to play his best golf, he is capable of doing so. That said, I do not mind getting a little fit in it either. Finished T3 in Phoenix, T16 in Honda, T12 in Tampa and reached the WGC-Match Play quarterfinals. For any other star player, this could equate to a middle ground that could go either way. For Koepka, this means that the light switch has already been shaken, as being healthy and motivated has led to better results in this game than in most of his previous major victories. In an area full of young talent that is largely still unknown products on the game’s biggest stage, I’ll go with the guy who has proven he can upload his game for the moment.
Other OADers
Possible options for single and complete options.
Patrick Cantlay (+2500)
If you asked me for a favorite project at this event three months ago – and believe me, many of you did – I would pick Cantlay. In fact, if you had asked me three weeks ago, I would probably still have chosen him. Ever since he won the FedEx Cup and dominated the Ryder Cup this summer, Cantlay has been destined for a green jacket. Do not misunderstand me: He can still do it, he just fell in second place in my personal ranking. After continuing last year’s hot streak with results 4th-9th-4th-2nd to start 2022, it was Cantlay — not Scottie Scheffler or Collin Morikawa or anyone else — who seemed ready to be the next player to jump. Jon Rahm at No. 1 in the world. Instead, his success began to wane. He completed the T33 on the Riviera, a course that should fit his game as well as his annual schedule. Even so, this was only slightly alarming. A few weeks later, on the right side of the tie in THE PLAYERS, he shot 72-77 to lose the cut. Again, this added to the concern a bit, but Cantlay did not play well in his limited appearances in Florida, so there was almost no reason to jump on the ship. Cantlay then failed to qualify for the WGC-Dell Match Play round-robin group, playing three games that included a stunning performance resembling Goldilocks in a great lap, a mid lap and a very poor lap. Again, failing to get to the weekend in this form is not reason enough to worry about moving forward, but if we add each of its three most recent appearances together, there is enough connective tissue to at least realize it was not playing the best golf coming in this week. The good news is that dynamics have not been important to Cantlay in the past. He had posted a top-10 in his previous eight starts before winning the Zozo Championship in 2020 and had three MCs leading a T23 just before winning last year’s Memorial Tournament. All this will make us breathe easier if we choose it this week. I’m not so sure about Cantlay as earlier in the year, but I still want some significant investment in him this week and I hope the recent mediocrity will scare most others into these types of pools.
Matt Fitzpatrick (+5000)
It will be difficult to find an informed golf observer who would claim that Fitzpatrick played better golf than anyone else on the planet in the last six months. Scheffler is the obvious choice here, and there are probably a few others that would have come to mind before the Englishman. And yet, the Strokes Gained: Total statistic is a pretty powerful barometer of who exactly it is …