Jason Day won the WGC Match Play Championship last season, becoming a two-time champion just two years after his first win in this event in 2014. Day will attempt to join Tiger Woods as the only other player to win this event three times this weekend in Austin, Texas.
WGC Match Play odds 2017: Day trails betting favorites McIlroy, Johnson, Spieth
Jason Day is one of three past winners in the field for the 2017 WGC Match Play Championship this week, but he’s behind three other golfers on the odds.
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The defending champion is going off at +1600 to defend his title on the WGC Match Play betting lines at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Day is off to a shaky start in 2017, with just one Top-10 finish through his first five events. That slow start could make Jason Day a good value play this week in a format he has thrived in over the last few years.
2015 winner Rory McIlroy is the favorite to win the WGC Match Play Championship this season at +700. McIlroy finished last season on a high note with wins at the Deutsche Bank Championship and TOUR Championship, and has picked up where he left off in 2017 finishing, in the top seven of each of the three events he has played so far this season.
McIlroy is always a threat to win any tournament he enters, but the 27-year-old is particularly dangerous when he is in form.
Like McIlroy, Dustin Johnson (+800 to win this event) has carried the momentum of a strong 2016 into early 2017. Johnson had a breakout season last year with three tournament wins, including his first major at the US Open, and so far in 2017 he already has two wins, with back-to-back wins at the Genesis Open and WGC Mexico.
The American star has finished in the top three in four of his last six tournament appearances.
Jordan Spieth (+1000) has four Top-10 finishes in six tournaments so far this season, including a win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Spieth has eight tournament wins since the start of the 2015 season.
Other potential contenders to win the WGC Match Play Championship include Hideki Matsuyama (+1800), Jon Rahm (+2200), Sergio Garcia (+2500), Justin Thomas (+2800), Tyrrell Hatton (+3000), Phil Mickelson (+3500), Matt Kuchar (+4000), Patrick Reed (+4000), and Paul Casey (+4000).
Kuchar won this event in 2013, and Casey has finished as a runner-up twice here in both 2009 and 2010.
WGC Match Play Odds (see the complete list at OddsShark)
Rory McIlroy +700
Dustin Johnson +800
Jordan Spieth +1000
Jason Day +1600
Hideki Matsuyama +1800
Jon Rahm +2200
Sergio Garcia +2500
Justin Thomas +2800
Tyrrell Hatton +3000
Phil Mickelson +3500
Matt Kuchar +4000
Patrick Reed +4000
Paul Casey +4000
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