2022 Tour Championship: First-round leader picks and odds

The 2022 PGA Tour season will wrap up this week with the Tour Championship, and which means there’s only one extra alternative to nail a First-Spherical Chief guess on the best way out.

However earlier than we get to this week’s FRL card, we should always go over the format for the 2022 Tour Championship, as it should influence the technique for betting FRLs this week.

The primary spherical begins on Thursday, Aug. 25 on Golf Channel.

2022 Tour Championship format

Beginning in 2019, the Tour fully overhauled the Tour Championship to ensure that the winner of the occasion was additionally topped the FedEx Cup Championship (in contrast to in 2018 when Tiger Woods received the match, however Justin Rose hoisted the FedEx Cup).

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To make sure there would solely be one champion, the Tour launched a 30-player subject with staggered scoring, or as they name it, “bonus strokes.” The participant (on this case, Scottie Scheffler) who enters East Lake atop the FedEx Cup standings will get a two-stroke edge over the second-place participant, all the best way right down to a 10-stroke edge over the blokes towards the underside.

Right here’s how every golfer will begin the week at East Lake:

GolferBeginning Rating
Scottie Scheffler10-under
Patrick Cantlay8-under
Xander Schauffele6-under
Sam Burns5-under
Cameron Smith
Rory McIlroy
Tony Finau
Sepp Straka
Sungjae Im
4-under
Jon Rahm
Scott Stallings
Justin Thomas
Cameron Younger
Matt Fitzpatrick
3-under
Max Homa
Hideki Matsuyama
Jordan Spieth
Joaquin Niemann
Viktor Hovland
2-under
Collin Morikawa
Billy Horschel
Tom Hoge
Corey Conners
Brian Harman
1-under
Ok.H. Lee
J.T. Poston
Sahith Theegala
Adam Scott
Aaron Sensible
Even par

First-Spherical Chief odds, picks, and predictions

Since he’s beginning with a two-stroke head-start, Scottie Scheffler (-140) is the odds-on favourite to be the first-round chief at East Lake. Patrick Cantlay, who will begin the match in second place, is +220, after which the chances soar to the double-digits beginning with Xander Schauffele at +1000.

Betting FRLs is already a difficult endeavor, however this match’s format throws much more chaos into the fray. In actuality, it’s probably that both Scheffler or Cantlay will finish the day atop the leaderboard, however if you happen to’re not backing one in all them, it's possible you'll as nicely have a punt on a longshot. Why? As a result of if you happen to’re not betting on one of many favorites, it means you’re betting that they each will battle and will fall towards the pack. If that does occur, it brings a variety of golfers into play.

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Sungjae Im
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Sungjae Im (+8000, FanDuel)

Beginning the occasion six strokes again, it should take fairly an effort for Sungjae Im to get off the course on Thursday with the lead. However as defined above, that is simply as a lot a guess that Scheffler and Cantlay will stumble as it's a punt on Im to get scorching scorching. Rory McIlroy (+2900), Cam Smith (+3300), and Tony Finau (+5000) are all beginning the occasion with the identical rating as Im, but they’re being provided at a lot shorter odds than the South Korean. And it’s not like Im is in iffy kind, both.

Scott Stallings
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Scott Stallings (+21000, FanDuel)

When you’re dipping this far down the leaderboard, you're actually hoping that issues fly off the deal with on Thursday and if that does occur, maybe Scott Stallings can take benefit. Essentially the most shocking title within the subject, Stallings is enjoying with home cash after ending T2 on the BMW Championship. Stallings shot 68-68-66-69 in Delaware final week and has completed T13 or higher in 5 of his final six tournaments. 

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