Players championship bets
Players Players championship bets odds, picks, sleepers: Scheffler aims for history, Max Homa among best bets. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL Scottie. Justin Thomas, Si Woo Kim, Tommy Fleetwood, Chris Kirk, Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Jason Day, Adam Scott. Get current Vegas. Geoff Ulrich breaks down everything you need to know to bet on THE PLAYERS Championshipincluding course history, best bets, matchups.
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His putter has been his greatest weapon lately, and he has figured out how to play TPC Sawgrass the last few years with two straight top finishes. Lowry is striking the ball better than he has in a long time, as he has gained over 10 strokes combined on approach in his last two starts.
I like the way he is plotting his way around the golf courses as well. He gained more than 2. He finished T6 here last year on his first try. He has four straight top finishes and has gained 2. He has had some success here, with a sixth-place finish in Scheffler gained more than 4. The second-best player on the PGA Tour is closer Rory McIlroy to the 20th-best player than he is to Scheffler when it comes to ball striking this year.
With so many low-priced values this week, you have to play Scheffler pretty heavily. He finished T12 at the Arnold Palmer but looked a lot better than that for most of the tournament. He has lost over 1. He bounced back with a solid round on Sunday and finished T4 to build on his great run of form.
He gained more than 3 strokes on approach and putted well. He has gained over 1. He has gained over 3. He gained over 6 strokes on approach at Bay Hill after gaining over 3. He has lost 1. He lost over 8 strokes on the green at Bay Hill and still finished with a top finish. Players championship bets Kim has gained strokes off the tee in every tournament since early August He has made eight straight cuts despite losing strokes with the putter in seven out of eight of them.
He has struggled a bit with consistency this year but looked good at Bay Hill gaining over 5. He has gained 3. I believe he will bounce back this week and he will be in play among the others priced close by. He has gained strokes on approach in five out of his last six tournaments, and he has gained off the tee in two straight.
He has two top-six finishes in the calendar year already. He has three straight top finishes and he has gained over 10 strokes combined off the tee in those tournaments. He gained over 8 strokes on approach in Mexico, but he forgot to pack his short game for that particular tournament. He has gained strokes off the tee in five straight tournaments and he has gained strokes on approach in five out of his last seven tournaments.
He will lose some strokes around the green, but he has made up for it with his putter as he has gained consistently on the greens since The Sentry in January. He has gained on approach in six out of his last seven tournaments and finally gained some strokes around the green at Bay Hill. He finished T13 here in He has made the cut here in three out of his last four tries, with his best showing a T Favorites, long shots, and everything in between, the Players has produced a wide array of champions.
And — bad news for Scottie Scheffler — the tournament has never produced a winner in back-to-back seasons. Almost every champion here has also missed multiple cuts. 
Current form does seem to matter, however, as recent winners of the Players have had either a win or a top-5 finish during the season leading up to the event. Of the last 12 winners, Justin Thomas in was the only player to have finished worse than 22nd in their last prior start.
That being said, I looked at a little bit of everything in the stats this week but ultimately applied emphasis to current form, Strokes Gained: Approach, the short game Scrambling and SG: Around the Green , and favored Driving Accuracy a bit over Driving Distance. There are a number of courses that either set up similarly, have shown crossover success, or are other Pete Dye designs that show correlation to TPC Sawgrass.
In six starts this season, Schauffele already has four top finishes, so the current form is there despite a relatively pedestrian 25th-place finish last week at Bay Hill. He has a win at TPC River Highlands, as high as a fourth-place finish at Harbour Town, four top finishes at Muirfield Village and absolutely owns East Lake with a win, three runner-ups, and three additional top finishes at the Tour Championship.
Over the last 36 rounds, Schauffele ranks seventh in this field for SG: Approach and Bogey Avoidance, and is third on the par 4s measuring between yards. The short game appears to be in form for Homa who, in an eighth-place finish last week in Orlando, ranked fourth in the field for Scrambling, third in SG: Putting, and 18th in SG: Around the Green.
He has a win at TPC Potomac, two top finishes at East Lake, a sixth at the Valspar Championship, two top-6 finishes at Muirfield Village, and has taken sixth and 13 th here in past appearances at the Players. In addition to the impressive short game work, Homa is also 20th in this field for SG: Off the Tee and sixth in Bogey Avoidance over the last 36 rounds.
The Georgia Bulldog has always been a good putter on Bermudagrass and that showed up in his fourth place finish last week, where he was second in the field for SG: Putting. Over the last 36 rounds, Henley ranks fourth in this field on the correlated courses I used, including four top finishes at Sedgefield and three top finishes at TPC Sawgrass. Interestingly, we have seen Players Championship winners win four of the last eight Sony Opens in Hawaii, and that does not include Henley, who won the Sony in Now a Florida resident, Lowry has always played difficult golf courses well and has flourished in the Florida Swing.
Just this season, he finished fourth three weeks ago at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches and followed that up with a third-place finish last week. He has a top at Sedgefield, three top finishes at Muirfield, and two third-place finishes at Harbour Town to go along with a ninth-place finish in He seems to have an affinity for Dye designs as he ranks fourth in this field for SG: Tee to Green on Pete Dye courses over the last 36 rounds.
I mentioned the volatility of TPC Sawgrass and the mixed results most players have at this championship. Hadwin is one of the outliers who has been somewhat consistent in finding success here. His last three trips have resulted in 13th, ninth, and 29th place finishes. His only Tour win came at the Valspar Championship and his current form looks good with two top-6 finishes in his last five starts this season.