After dominating the field last week at the Bridgestone Invitational Tiger Woods has emerged as the clear-cut betting favourite on this week’s odds to win the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester.
Woods won the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone by seven strokes over both Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson, with his week highlighted by a scorching round of 9-Under 61 on the Friday.
That has the world’s top-ranked golfer listed as a 7/2 favourite at most sportsbooks tracked by OddsShark.com for this week’s final major of the 2013 PGA season.
Overall Woods has won the PGA Championship four times in his career, but it’s been six years since he managed to pay off for golf bettors at the event in 2007 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. Woods’ other wins at the tournament came in 2006, 2000, and 1999.
In the last five PGA Championships Woods’ best result was a second-place finish in 2009, and he ended up tied for 11th place last year at the tournament at Kiawah Island behind Rory McIlroy. McIlroy, who has struggled this season, is at 28/1 on the odds to win the PGA Championship at the sportsbooks.
Second behind Woods on the golf odds this week is Phil Mickelson at 14/1, with Lefty looking for his second straight major championship after he claimed the British Open at Muirfield two weeks ago. Mickelson won the PGA Championship at Baltusrol in 2005.
Adam Scott is then at 16/1 odds, with Stenson and Justin Rose at 25/1 odds, Snedeker and Hunter Mahan joining McIlroy at 28/1 odds, and Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald, and Matt Kuchar all pegged at 33/1 odds.
Canadian Graham Delaet is at 150/1 on the odds to win the PGA Championship this week, with David Hearn at 250/1 odds. Delaet enters the week at No. 30 in the FedExCup points standings, and he ended up in 83rd place at the British Open two weeks ago. Hearn sits in 49th place in the current FedExCup standings.
The PGA Championship gets underway Thursday morning and runs through Sunday.
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