Mad Bets: PGA Championship Betting Odds
Minty Bets is joined by Jason Sobel of the Action Network to preview the 2020 PGA Championship.
Video Transcript
MINTY BETS: The PGA Championship is this weekend at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. I'm here with Jayson Sobel of the Action Network to give us his best bets for this tournament. Jason, Brooks Koepka has won the past couple years. Does he have a great shot at winning again this weekend?
JASON SOBEL: You know, if you had asked me that question a week ago, Mindy, I probably would've said, no. He's not playing his best golf right now, even though he plays really well [? at the ?] major championships, a four-time Major winner, of course. We saw him contend for a title at TPC Southwind for last week's WGC, and so yeah, it looks like Brooks Koepka's very much on the radar right now. It seems like any time a major championship is happening, all of a sudden, he gets his best stuff going, and yeah, I absolutely expect him to be in the mix this week at Harding Park.
MINTY BETS: That's the best time to show up. All right, so who do you like to win outright, and who do you think's going to finish top 20?
JASON SOBEL: I loved Justin Thomas last week. He won it. And I think he can go back-to-back. He's firing on all cylinders right now. I expect another big week out of him.
As for top 20s, there are a couple of guys that are playing really well lately, and I think they're a little bit under the radar. Ryan Palmer is a guy who has 11 top 20 finishes in his last 22 starts dating back to this point last year. And so finishing top 20 in half of his starts seems like a pretty good top 20 bet, and you can get a very good price on Ryan Palmer, who's played really well coming off a 64 on Sunday in Memphis.
And another guy who's even more undervalued, Mackenzie Hughes has three top six finishes in his last seven starts. Rolls it so well that, as long as his ball striking is pretty good, I think he can make some birdies on this golf course, and he should be able to surprise some people.
MINTY BETS: Awesome. So I didn't hear you say Tiger Woods at all. Do you expect anything out of him or not really?
JASON SOBEL: You know, the combination of being 44 years old, having four previous back surgeries, only [? playing ?] one tournament since the restart-- even though he has a great record at TBS Harding Park, won there in 2005, was undefeated in the 2009 Presidents Cup, but I think temperatures in the high 50s, low 60s, that's not really a good combination for Tiger Woods. So I don't love him this week. I don't think I'd bet him to miss the cut or anything like that, but I just don't see him being in serious contention come Sunday afternoon.
