Sadly, the season’s final men’s major has already arrived. The 100th PGA Championship tees off this week at Bellerive in St. Louis. It’s the last time the PGA will be the final major of the year, or serve as “glory’s last shot,” that goofy promotional phrase that was fortunately put to rest. Next year, the PGA is making the big move to May. The Players is falling back to March, and the PGA will slot in between the Masters and U.S. Open. So the majors season will move even faster, with that Sunday at the British Open in mid-July serving as our farewell to golf’s most important events.
PGA Championship odds 2018: Tiger Woods among favorites at Bellerive
The final major of the men’s season is already here and Tiger’s comeback season puts him among the favorites.
While St. Louis in August is, uh, well, not the most palatable atmosphere, the actual championship seems set up well for a great one. First of all, we have the return of Tiger Woods after a three-year absence playing this major championship. That is a sentence we have written at each of the first three majors this season, along with many other tournaments sprinkled throughout this comeback.
Tiger’s last start in this event was an ugly missed cut at Whistling Straits. Back then, he was playing in more pain that we really understood and his game was also a sad, embarrassing mess. It was the worst summer of his career and then he disappeared for two full seasons rehabbing back surgeries. This time, he arrives at Bellerive fresh off a top 10 finish at The Open, where he held the damn solo lead on the back nine of a major. Sure, the intervening start at Firestone wasn’t always pretty, but this is a real, competitive golfer and not that broken-down shell of a player from 2015.
Given how he’s played competitive golf this season, Tiger’s odds, for him, are actually not horrible value. Again, this is all relative, but Woods is 20/1 and that’s not too bad given how out-of-whack the odds can get for the most public golfer of all time. Usually, money comes rushing in on Tiger no matter how well he’s played and the books have to limit their exposure so they keep lowering the odds. That’s led to some really ridiculous numbers when he’s been injured or had no chance to win. Even when he was at the height of his powers, Tiger’s odds were outrageous and poor value, coming in often at 3/1 or even lower. So 20/1 is not bad in the world of Tiger-wagering, especially since he’s shown he can at least contend at a major this year.
Bellerive is a long, mid-century design that should reward some of the biggest hitters in the game. It’s a parklands course and will look dramatically different than what we got at Carnoustie three weeks ago. The long, straight, and highball hitter will do well and that’s who you see among many of the world’s top ranked players. And many of the favorites this week. Here are your odds for the full field to win the 100th PGA Championship at the start of the week:
2018 PGA Championship Odds
Player | Odds to Win |
|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 10/1 |
| Rory McIlroy | 12/1 |
| Justin Thomas | 14/1 |
| Jordan Spieth | 16/1 |
| Rickie Fowler | 18/1 |
| Tiger�Woods | 20/1 |
| Justin Rose | 20/1 |
| Brooks Koepka | 20/1 |
| Jon Rahm | 20/1 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 20/1 |
| Jason Day | 20/1 |
| Francesco Molinari | 25/1 |
| Patrick Reed | 30/1 |
| Tony Finau | 30/1 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 40/1 |
| Henrik Stenson | 40/1 |
| Paul Casey | 40/1 |
| Alex Noren | 50/1 |
| Phil Mickelson | 50/1 |
| Bubba Watson | 50/1 |
| Xander�Schauffele | 50/1 |
| Marc Leishman | 50/1 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 50/1 |
| Sergio Garcia | 60/1 |
| Matt Kuchar | 60/1 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 60/1 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 60/1 |
| Webb�Simpson | 60/1 |
| Branden Grace | 80/1 |
| Adam Scott | 80/1 |
| Zach Johnson | 80/1 |
| Kevin Kisner | 80/1 |
| Ian Poulter | 80/1 |
| Thomas Pieters | 80/1 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 80/1 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 100/1 |
| Daniel Berger | 100/1 |
| Kevin Chappell | 100/1 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 100/1 |
| Charley Hoffman | 100/1 |
| Kyle Stanley | 100/1 |
| Byeong Hun An | 100/1 |
| Keegan Bradley | 100/1 |
| Thorbjorn Olesen | 100/1 |
| Rafael Cabrera Bello | 125/1 |
| Brian Harman | 125/1 |
| Jason Dufner | 125/1 |
| Jimmy Walker | 125/1 |
| Emiliano Grillo | 125/1 |
| Matthew Fitzpatrick | 125/1 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 125/1 |
| Ryan Moore | 125/1 |
| Russell Henley | 125/1 |
| Luke List | 125/1 |
| Kevin Na | 150/1 |
| Russell Knox | 150/1 |
| Haotong Li | 150/1 |
| Gary Woodland | 150/1 |
| Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 150/1 |
| Pat Perez | 150/1 |
| J.B. Holmes | 150/1 |
| Billy Horschel | 150/1 |
| Shane Lowry | 150/1 |
| Beau Hossler | 150/1 |
| Si Woo Kim | 150/1 |
| Ollie Schniederjans | 150/1 |
| Martin Kaymer | 200/1 |
| Peter Uihlein | 200/1 |
| Brendan Steele | 200/1 |
| Aaron Wise | 200/1 |
| Bill Haas | 200/1 |
| Chris Wood | 200/1 |
| Andy Sullivan | 200/1 |
| Danny Willett | 200/1 |
| Charles Howell III | 200/1 |
| Adam Hadwin | 200/1 |
| Cameron Smith | 200/1 |
| Chez Reavie | 200/1 |
| Scott Piercy | 200/1 |
| Austin Cook | 200/1 |
| Chesson Hadley | 200/1 |
| Ryan Fox | 200/1 |
| Julian Suri | 200/1 |
| Jamie�Lovemark | 200/1 |
| Michael Kim | 250/1 |
| Shubhankar Sharma | 250/1 |
| Ross Fisher | 250/1 |
| Stewart Cink | 250/1 |
| Paul Dunne | 250/1 |
| Anirban�Lahiri | 250/1 |
| Dylan Frittelli | 250/1 |
| Alexander Levy | 250/1 |
| Nick Watney | 250/1 |
| Chris�Kirk | 250/1 |
| Jim Furyk | 300/1 |
| Padraig Harrington | 300/1 |
| James Hahn | 300/1 |
| Satoshi Kodaira | 300/1 |
| Jordan Smith | 300/1 |
| Andrew Landry | 300/1 |
| Patton Kizzire | 300/1 |
| J.J. Spaun | 300/1 |
| Justin Harding | 300/1 |
| Matt Wallace | 300/1 |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 300/1 |
| Troy Merritt | 300/1 |
| Jorge Campillo | 300/1 |
| Alexander Bjork | 300/1 |
| Brandon Stone | 300/1 |
| Brian Gay | 300/1 |
| Eddie Pepperell | 300/1 |
| Jason Kokrak | 300/1 |
| Brice Garnett | 500/1 |
| Ryan Armour | 500/1 |
| Ted Potter, Jr | 500/1 |
| Chris Stroud | 500/1 |
| Scott Brown | 500/1 |
| Vijay Singh | 500/1 |
| Davis Love III | 500/1 |
| Mike Lorenzo-Vera | 500/1 |
| Adrian Otaegui | 500/1 |
| Yusaku Miyazato | 500/1 |
| Mikko Korhonen | 500/1 |
| Sungjai Im | 500/1 |
| Seungsu Han | 500/1 |
| Whee Kim | 500/1 |
| Shugo Imahira | 500/1 |
| John Daly | 1000/1 |
| Y.E. Yang | 1000/1 |
| Paul Broadhurst | 1000/1 |
| Yuta Ikeda | 1000/1 |
| Ryuko Tokimatsu | 1000/1 |
| Thomas Bjorn | 1000/1 |
| Rich Beem | 2000/1 |
| Omar Uresti | 2000/1 |
| Rich Berberian, Jr | 2000/1 |
| Matt Dobyns | 2000/1 |
| Marty Jertson | 2000/1 |
| Shaun Micheel | 2000/1 |
| Craig Bowden | 2000/1 |
| Michael Block | 2000/1 |
| Bob Sowards | 2000/1 |
| David Muttitt | 2000/1 |
| Jaysen Hansen | 2000/1 |
| Brian Smock | 2000/1 |
| Sean McCarty | 2000/1 |
| Matt Borchert | 2000/1 |
| Zach J. Johnson | 2000/1 |
| Jason Schmuhl | 2000/1 |
| Danny Balin | 2000/1 |
| Ben Kern | 2000/1 |
| Ryan Vermeer | 2000/1 |
| Shaun Warren | 2000/1 |
| Craig Hocknull | 2000/1 |
| Johan Kok | 2000/1 |
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