2022 Tour Championship picks: Best long shot bets to win at East Lake

The 2022 PGA Tour season will conclude this week with the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta, Georgia. The event will start Thursday morning, Aug. 25, and will probably be broadcast on Golf Channel and NBC.

Beginning in 2019, the Tour Championship adjusted its format to make sure that the winner of the occasion was additionally topped the FedEx Cup Championship (not like in 2018, when Tiger Woods gained the event however Justin Rose hoisted the FedEx Cup).

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To perform this, the Tour launched a 30-player area 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
Okay.H. Lee
J.T. Poston
Sahith Theegala
Adam Scott
Aaron Clever
Even par

Due to the event’s distinctive construction, bookmakers have posted an outright marketplace for gamers to win the event with the bonus strokes and a separate one with out the bonus strokes (the participant to submit the perfect 72-hole rating). 

Listed below are two lengthy pictures — one with bonus strokes utilized and the opposite with out — who may repay at East Lake this week:

Tour Championship picks with bonus strokes utilized

Viktor Hovland (+6600, BetMGM)

It’s going to be fairly the duty for Viktor Hovland to make up an eight-stroke distinction and overtake 14 gamers on this area, however he’s one of some gamers on this vary who ticks two essential bins.

At the beginning, his odds are lengthy sufficient to make the chance of backing him price it. And secondly, he’s received the expertise wanted to place collectively a few scorching rounds to climb the ladder. Hovland’s kind isn’t something to write down dwelling about, however he did end T4 at The Open Championship final month and is coming off taking pictures a 65 on Sunday. The Norwegian shot 67 or higher in 4 of his final 12 rounds, and if he can keep away from falling off the rails like he did on Thursday and Saturday on the BMW Championship, he’s received a shot to make a run over 72 holes.

Viktor Hovland
Viktor Hovland
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Okay.H. Lee (+8000, FanDuel):

Whereas Okay.H. Lee has virtually no likelihood of creating up the 10-stroke distinction and profitable the FedEx Cup, his odds to submit the perfect 72-hole rating (or ‘win the event with out bonus strokes’) are completely price a punt in a 29-man area. Lee, who simply missed the playoffs final season, comes into East Lake purple scorching after ending T20 on the St. Jude Championship after which T5 finally week’s BMW Championship, which he capped off by taking pictures 65 on Sunday. Like several longshot, Lee might want to have his putter working to even stand an opportunity in opposition to a few of the elite gamers on this area, however that’s not out of the query for the South Korean.

Final 12 months, we noticed a longshot, Kevin Na, tie Jon Rahm for the perfect 72-hole rating, so there’s no motive to doubt that it may well’t occur once more.

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