Sportsbetting favors Tiger Woods this week as the FedEx Cup playoffs begin with The Barclays at Liberty National Golf Course in New Jersey. The Top 125 players from the PGA Tour are eligible and sports betting online had 7 of the top 10 players in the world in the field.
Sportsbetting at the online sportsbook does favor Tiger in this event but that is no surprise since he is favored in every sports betting online event he enters. Woods is the top choice in sportsbetting at +150 followed by Padraig Harrington at 18-1. Woods is the top player in the world but other contenders have a chance in sportsbetting this week. Phil Mickelson is #2 in the world and he is in this event along with #4 Kenny Perry, #6 Steve Stricker, #7 Sergio Garcia, #8 Geoff Ogilvy and #10 Stewart Cink. Not to be counted out in sports betting online is defending champion Vijay Singh who defeated Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff last year. Singh will have it tougher this year though as last year Tiger did not play this event.
Tiger is a deserving sportsbetting favorite at the online sportsbook in this event. He has won five times this year on the tour although he did not win a major. His last three finishes overall have been first, first and second. The second choice in the sportsbetting odds at the sports book is Padraig Harrington who has had a couple of bad holes or he easily could have won the Bridgestone and the PGA. Don’t count out Lucas Glover who won his last tournament in the New York area and it was a big one, the U.S. Open.
Phil Mickelson has not played well of late but Liberty National is a course he is very familiar with since he is a member at Liberty National. Another serious sportsbetting contender is Steve Stricker who is second in the point’s standings behind Tiger. He played Liberty National last month and said the course suits him well.
There are some golfers to avoid this week in sports betting online at the sports book. Sergio Garcia simply collapsed last week and can’t be trusted to win a big tournament. Kenny Perry is also not playing well of late and seems an unlikely sports betting online winner. It is also hard to like Y.E. Yang as his PGA win was really the only time anyone has ever head of him.