Welcome to Players Championship week, which is the PGA Tour’s best non-major week. This year, 27 of the top 30 golfers in the Official World Golf Ranking will be playing at TPC Sawgrass. The only three golfers not on that list aren’t allowed to play because they switched to LIV Golf.
Because there are so many good golfers at the top of the PGA Tour, it’s hard for sportsbooks to pick a betting favourite right now, but they have to. Who do you think will win the Players Championship?
Who is most likely to win the 2023 Players Championship?
Who is the favourite to win the Players Championship shouldn’t be the question. It should be about who is most likely to win the Players Championship.
That’s right, World No. 1 Jon Rahm and World No. 3 Rory McIlroy are tied at the top of the odds board right now. At +850 odds, Rahm and McIlroy are both the favourites to win the Players Championship.
That’s not too much of a shock, given how good both players have been this year. Before his T39 finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week, Rahm had won three of his first six starts to start the season and never finished worse than T7. McIlroy, who is from Northern Ireland, won his first tournament of the year at the CJ Cup. He just finished second at the API, one shot behind the winner, Kurt Kitayama.
Rahm and McIlroy are both good enough to be co-favorites this week, and it wouldn’t be surprising if either of them won the Players Championship on Sunday.
Cameron Smith won the most money on the PGA Tour when he won the Players Championship. As of March 6, all odds come from FanDuel.
Jon Rahm +850
Rory McIlroy +850
Scottie Scheffler +1000
Patrick Cantlay +1900
Max Homa +1900
Justin Thomas +1900
Xander Schauffele +2500
Viktor Hovland +2700
Tony Finau +2800
Collin Morikawa +2800
Will Zalatoris +3200
Jordan Spieth +3200
Matt Fitzpatrick +3400
Tyrrell Hatton +3400
Cameron Young +3600
Jason Day +3600
Sungjae Im +3700
Joohyung Kim +4100
Shane Lowry +4800
Keegan Bradley +5000
Rickie Fowler +5000
Keith Mitchell +5500
Corey Conners +6500
Si Woo Kim +7000
Sam Burns +7000
Sahith Theegala +7000
Chris Kirk +7500
Tommy Fleetwood +8500
Hideki Matsuyama +8500
Kurt Kitayama +9000
Justin Rose +10000
Adam Scott +10000
Tom Hoge +10000
Francesco Molinari +10000
Harris English +10000
Webb Simpson +14000
Aaron Wise +14000
Brian Harman +15000
Wyndham Clark +15000
Seamus Power +15000
Russell Henley +15000
Gary Woodland +17000
Alex Noren +17000
Billy Horschel +18000
Ryan Fox +18000
Davis Riley +18000
Taylor Montgomery +18000
Sepp Straka +19000
Adam Hadwin +19000
Min Woo Lee +19000
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