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The 2021 PGA Tour season is expected to create even greater betting interest than we saw this past season as fans will start to return to courses to watch live golf, and more and more states start to offer legal sports betting.
Interest in golf wagering was at an all-time high in 2020 despite the coronavirus slicing into a chunk of the schedule.
“It was a sensational year for golf and not only for the majors, but for each and every weekly tournament throughout the Tour,” DraftKings Sportsbook director Johnny Avello told TheLines. “I’m looking forward to the 2021 campaign and expecting a herculean handle.”
The early PGA Tour schedule in 2021 features some premier events to pay attention to, leading into the four majors. They include:
- The Farmers Insurance Open Jan. 28-31 is at Torrey Pines Golf Course, which is host of the 2021 US Open in La Jolla, CA.
- The annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is Feb. 11-14 at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The World Golf Championships – WGC Mexico Championship is Feb. 25-28 in Mexico City.
- The King is honored at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill March 4-7 followed by The Players Championship March 11-14 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
- The World Golf Championships – Dell Technologies Match Play is at Austin Country Club in Texas March 24-28 just two weeks ahead of the 2021 Masters Tournament.
A full listing of the PGA Tour tournaments in 2021 are listed below, along with golfers to watch and the four major championship previews. Full coverage of the events with previews, odds and information you can bet on will be updated at TheLines the week of each tournament.
Golfers to watch in 2021
Dustin Johnson: Johnson finished 2020 as the betting favorite at all four majors in 2021. His 2020 Masters Tournament victory was just his second career major title, but it was his third win of the calendar year, in addition to the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup. He was named the PGA Tour Player of the Year for the second time in his career prior to his victory at Augusta National Golf Club.
Bryson DeChambeau:DeChambeau was the most talked about player in golf upon the Tour’s mid-June restart. His increased size and swing speed led to his commanding 6-stroke victory at the US Open and vaulted him as high as No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking. He entered the week of the Masters as the betting favorite, but had a disappointing T-34 finish.
Brooks Koepka: Koepka went into 2020 at No. 1 in the OWGR and the betting favorite at all four majors. The two-time winner of both the US Open and PGA Championship struggled amid injuries and was ultimately forced to withdraw from the US Open. A T-7 finish at the Masters should have restored some faith for 2021 and strong results early in the season will surely move him back up the odds board.
Jon Rahm: Rahm moved from No. 3 to No. 2 in the OWGR over the course of a strong 2020 campaign, overshadowed only by Johnson. The Spaniard earned his third career solo PGA Tour victory amid major-like conditions at the Memorial Tournament and later defeated Johnson in a playoff at the BMW Championship. He hasn’t yet won a major but has five top-10 finishes in 16 appearances as a professional across all four tournaments.
Rory McIlroy: After winning four times on the PGA Tour in 2019, McIlroy went without a professional victory in a calendar year for just the second time since 2008. The four-time major champion hasn’t accomplished the feat since doing so twice in 2014, but he finished in the top 10 at both the Masters and US Open. His 2012 PGA Championship win was at 2021 host venue Kiawah Island Golf Resort, where he won by 8 strokes.
Justin Thomas: Thomas was the PGA Tour money leader for the 2019-20 season, ending with the Tour Championship. His three victories on the season came against small but elite fields at The CJ Cup, Sentry Tournament of Champions and WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Of his 13 career PGA Tour wins, four have come in January or February, with the other nine spread between August and November.
Tiger Woods: A list of golfers to watch in any given year would be amiss without Woods. He slipped from No. 6 to No. 41 in the OWGR over the course of a year that saw him play just nine events with a lone top-10 result (T-9) – coming at the Farmers Insurance Open last January. The 2021 US Open will be played at that same venue (Torrey Pines-South), where Woods has averaged 2.40 strokes gained on the field per round across 45 career rounds. His best odds to win a major in 2021 are for The Open Championship at Royal St. George’s Golf Club, where he tied for fourth in 2003.
Collin Morikawa: Morikawa has won three times since turning pro at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open. After getting his first win in an alternate-field event at the Barracuda Championship, he broke through with victory at the Workday Charity Open in mid-July and followed with a PGA Championship title a month later. He had a disappointing end to 2020 with three missed cuts in his final eight PGA Tour events.
Matthew Wolff: Few golfers made as big of a leap in 2020 as Wolff, who catapulted from 117th to 15th in the OWGR. He collected three runner-ups in 2020 with two of those coming behind only DeChambeau at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and US Open. He lost in a playoff at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
Viktor Hovland: Hovland got his first PGA Tour win at the Puerto Rico Open and managed to break the tournament’s long-standing curse with a win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic to end his 2020 PGA Tour schedule. He followed it up with a T-3 finish in Dubai the next week and ends the year at No. 14 in the OWGR. The Norwegian was the low amateur at both the US Open and Masters in 2019, and he’ll play Augusta National as a pro in 2021 after failing to qualify in time for the 2020 tournament.
PGA Tour odds
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Majors previews
A glance at all of the 2021 golf majors, which includes The Masters, PGA Championship, US Open and Open Championship.
Masters Tournament
- Course: Augusta National Golf Club
- Location: Augusta, Georgia
- Date: April 8-11, 2021
- Par: 72 / Yardage 7,475
- Purse: $11.5 Million / Winner $2.07 Million (2020)
- Defending Champion: Dustin Johnson
- Twitter: @TheMasters
The 2021 Masters will be played at Augusta National in April just five months after Dustin Johnson won a green jacket with a record-breaking 2020 win. Johnson’s 5-stroke victory and 20-under par score of 268 was an all-time Masters scoring record and his second major championship win.
Johnson enters 2021 as the No. 1 ranked player in the world. He (+750) is the early Masters favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook, followed by Jon Rahm (+1000), Rory McIlroy (+1000), Bryson DeChambeau (+1100) and Justin Thomas (+1100).
For a complete preview of the 2021 Masters and odds for the event, go to our Masters page here.
PGA Championship
- Course: Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean Course)
- Location: Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- Date: May 20-23, 2021
- Par: 72 / Yardage 7,676
- Purse: $11 Million / Winner $1.98 Million (2020)
- Defending Champion: Collin Morikawa
- Twitter: @PGAChampionship
The 2021 PGA Championship will be one to watch with stunning coastline views overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Designed by Pete Dye, the Ocean Course boasts the most seaside holes in the Northern Hemisphere with 10 hugging the Atlantic and the other eight running parallel to those.
The Ocean Course is carved through ocean-side marshland, keeping a completely natural look and allowing an unequaled combination of golf, beauty, and nature. The brisk and unpredictable breezes off the Atlantic will add another challenge along with firm and fast greens as golfers shoot for a major title and the Wanamaker Trophy.
McIlroy will be one of the leading favorites in the 2021 event. McIlroy won the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island at age 23. His 8-stroke victory and 13-under par 285 total gave him his second major championship and broke Jack Nicklaus’ record in the PGA Championship for margin of victory.
Collin Morikawa was a young, rising star in 2020 and he captured his first major title in the PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco.
For a complete preview of the 2021 PGA Championship and odds for the event, go to our PGA Championship page here.
US Open
- Course: Torrey Pines (South Course)
- Location: La Jolla, California
- Date: June 17-20, 2021
- Par: 72 / Yardage 7,698
- Purse: $12.5 Million / Winner $2.25 Million (2020)
- Defending Champion: Bryson DeChambeau
- Twitter: @usopengolf
The 2021 US Open will be played at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, CA. Torrey Pines hosts for the second time. Tiger Woods won the 2008 US Open in an 18-hole playoff that went to sudden death and 19 holes to outlast Rocco Mediate for Woods’ 14th major title. The winning score was 5-under par, 283.
The 2008 event attracted 295,000 fans at Torrey Pines. Spectators are likely to be able to attend the 2021 US Open following the coronavirus pandemic that shut down live fan attendance at PGA Tour events for much of 2020.
Torrey Pines is a public golf course and sits on the coastal cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the community of La Jolla. The South Course was redesigned by Rees Jones in 2001 and plays to 7,698 yards from the championship tees. The Par 72 course is also host to the Farmer’s Insurance Open in February with the event played on both the South and shorter North course.
The most recent winners of the Farmer’s Insurance Open at Torrey Pines are Marc Leishman (2020), Justin Rose (2019), Jason Day (2018) and Rahm (2017).
For a complete preview of the 2021 US Open and odds for the event, go to our US Open page here.
Open Championship
- Course: Royal St. George’s Golf Club
- Location: Sandwich, Kent
- Date: July 15-18, 2021
- Par: 70 / Yardage 7,165
- Purse: $12.5 Million / Winner $2.25 Million (2020)
- Defending Champion: Shane Lowry
- Twitter: @TheOpen
Golf’s oldest major championship returns to England and Royal St. George’s for the 149th Open. The 2021 event will be most anticipated major after the 2020 Open was cancelled due to COVID-19 and the global pandemic.
Located on the Kent coastline, the seaside links at Royal St. George’s last hosted the Open in 2011 when Darren Clarke captured the Claret Jug with an emotional victory. Clarke’s 5-under par and 275 total was 3-shots better than Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
For a complete preview of the 2021 Open Championship and odds for the event, go to our Open Championship page here.
2021 PGA Tour schedule
Complete 2021 PGA Tour schedule.
| 2021 Date | Tournament | Course/Location | Defending Champion | FedExCup Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 7-10 | Sentry Tournament of Champions | Plantation Course at Kapalua, Kapalua, Maui, HI | Justin Thomas | 500 |
| Jan 14-17 | Sony Open in Hawaii | Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, HI | Cameron Smith | 500 |
| Jan 21-24 | The American Express | PGA WEST (Stadium), La Quinta, CA | Andrew Landry | 500 |
| Jan 28-31 | Farmers Insurance Open | Torrey Pines (South), San Diego, CA | Marc Leishman | 500 |
| Feb 4-7 | Waste Management Phoenix Open | Waste Management Phoenix Open | Webb Simpson | 500 |
| Feb 11-14 | AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am | Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, CA | Nick Taylor | 500 |
| Feb 18-21 | The Genesis Invitational | The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, CA | Adam Scott | 550 |
| Feb 25-28 | Puerto Rico Open | Grand Reserve Country Club, Rio Grande, PUR | Viktor Hovland | 300 |
| Feb 25-28 | World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship | Patrick Reed | Patrick Reed | 550 |
| Mar 4-7 | Arnold Palmer Invitational | Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, FL | Tyrrell Hatton | 550 |
| Mar 11-14 | THE PLAYERS Championship | TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | Rory McIlroy (2019) | 600 |
| Mar 18-21 | The Honda Classic | PGA National (Champion), Palm Beach Gardens, FL | Sungjae Im | 500 |
| Mar 24-28 | World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play | Austin Country Club, Austin, TX | Kevin Kisner (2019) | 550 |
| Mar 25-28 | Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship | Corales Golf Course, Punta Cana, DOM | Graeme McDowell (2019) | 300 |
| April 1-4 | Texas Open | TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks), San Antonio, TX | Corey Connors (2019) | 500 |
| April 8-11 | Masters Tournament | Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, GA | Dustin Johnson | 600 |
| April 15-18 | RBC Heritage | Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head, SC | Webb Simpson | 500 |
| April 22-25 | Zurich Classic of New Orleans | TPC Louisiana, Avondale, LA | Ryan Palmer/John Rahm (2019 team event) | 500 |
| April 29 - May 2 | Valspar Championship | Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead), Palm Harbor, FL | Paul Casey | 500 |
| May 6-9 | Wells Fargo Championship | Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC | Max Homa (2019) | 500 |
| May 13-16 | AT&T Byron Nelson | TPC Craig Ranch, McKinney, TX | Sung Kang | 500 |
| May 20-23 | PGA Championship | KI Golf Rsrt. - Ocean Course, Kiawah Island, SC | Collin Morikawa | 600 |
| May 27-30 | Charles Schwab Challenge | Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, TX | Daniel Berger | 500 |
| June 3-6 | The Memorial Tournament | Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, OH | Jon Rahm | 550 |
| June 10-13 | Canadian Open | St. George's G&CC, Toronto, ON, CAN | Rory McIlroy (2019) | 500 |
| June 17-20 | U.S. Open | Torrey Pines (South), San Diego, CA | Gary Woodland (2019) | 600 |
| June 24-27 | Travelers Championship | TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, CT | Dustin Johnson | 500 |
| July 1-4 | Rocket Mortgage Classic | Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, MI | Bryson DeChambeau | 500 |
| July 8-11 | John Deere Classic | TPC Deere Run, Silvis, IL | Dylan Frittelli | 500 |
| July 15-18 | Barbasol Championship | Keene Trace Golf Club, Nicholasville, KY | Jim Herman | 300 |
| July 15-18 | The Open Championship | Royal St. George's GC, Sandwich, Kent, ENG | Shane Lowry (2019) | 600 |
| July 22-25 | 3M Open | TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, MN | Michael Thompson | 500 |
| July 29 - Aug 1 | Olympic Men's Golf Competition | Kasumigaseki Country Club, Saitama, JPN | 0 | |
| Aug 5-8 | Barracuda Championship | Tahoe Mt. Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, CA | Richy Werenski | 300 |
| Aug 5-8 | World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational | TPC Southwind, Memphis, TN | Justin Thomas | 550 |
| Aug 12-15 | Wyndham Championship | Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, NC | Jim Herman | 500 |
| Aug 19-22 | THE NORTHERN TRUST | Liberty National Golf Club, Jersey City, NJ | Dustin Johnson | 2,000 |
| Aug 26-29 | BMW Championship | Caves Valley Golf Club, Owings Mills, MD | Jon Rahm | 2,000 |
| Sept 2-5 | TOUR Championship | East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, GA | Dustin Johnson | 0 |
The 2020 Masters Tournament is finally here. Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, will welcome a field of 92 this week with the tournament running Nov. 12-15. It’s the first-ever fall Masters after it was postponed from mid-April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’ll still be no patrons allowed on the grounds as Tiger Woods aims for a second straight and record-tying sixth career green jacket.
Usually the unofficial beginning of the PGA Tour season, the Masters is the third-to-last individual tournament on the 2020 Tour schedule. It will be played again in its usual position next spring, with the 2021 Masters set for April 8-11.
Below, we’ll look at the favorites to win the Masters and all the betting options, with a breakdown of Augusta National and all the key stats to know when making your betting picks.
2020 Masters: Betting advice
The Masters Betting Guide
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Bryson DeChambeau +750Dustin Johnson +850Jon Rahm +1000Justin Thomas +1100Rory McIlroy +1200Xander Schauffele +1400Brooks Koepka +1600Patrick Cantlay +2500Hideki Matsuyama +2800Tony Finau +2800Tyrrell Hatton +2800Bubba Watson +3000Patrick Reed +3300Tiger Woods +3300Webb Simpson +3300Collin Morikawa +3500Jason Day +3500Masters Betting Promotion
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2020 Masters: Betting options
Masters futures have been available on BetMGM for over a year with the 2020 tournament postponed seven months by the pandemic. Those have been frequently adjusted throughout the 2020 PGA Tour schedule and will remain available as outright odds to win.
Early this week, additional options were made available. These include tournament placings, group and matchup betting, and round-by-round leaders. Tournament props will be released for things like whether or not there’ll be a hole-in-one or a playoff.
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Shortly after the green jacket is awarded Sunday afternoon, futures odds for the 2021 Masters Tournament will be posted.
The course: Augusta National Golf Club
The most famous golf course in America and the only annual host of a PGA Tour major, Augusta National has been prepped and altered to play to its usual standard during the first fall Masters.
ANGC measures 7,475 yards and plays to a par of 72. Elevation ranges from 160-310 feet with sometimes severe undulation forcing golfers into some creative shots even from the middle of the fairways.
The Bentgrass greens are well known as the most challenging putting surfaces in all of golf. They’re multi-tiered and feature mind-bending, sweeping breaks. They’ll also play exceptionally quick and competitors can quickly see the tournament slip away by having their ball roll off the false fronts.
Water is a prominent hazard on the back nine. Nos. 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16 all feature water along the fairway and/or green. The rest of the course is guarded by tight tree lines and well-positioned greenside bunkers.
The Masters Betting Guide Tips
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2020 Masters: Key stats
Experience has been far more important at Augusta National than any other PGA Tour venue. No one has won here in their first appearance since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. The only other two to do so were Horton Smith and Gene Sarazen in the first two runnings of the tournament.
Putting is the most important skill. While extremely difficult to predict success on a tournament-by-tournament basis, Strokes Gained: Putting over a large sample and 3-Putt Avoidance need to be in your stat model. Success on Bentgrass, in particular, is important. Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green should also be considered.
Par 4 Efficiency: 450-500 Yards is next. Of the six holes to play below par last year, four of them were the four par 5s. Only the 350-yard third had an average score below par among the par 4s. Playing the par 4s even par for the week is a success.
2020 Masters: How to watch
ESPN and CBS will split television coverage of the 2020 Masters, but the entire tournament will be streamed on Masters.com. Featured groups will begin at 7:45 a.m. ET Thursday.
Sunday’s final round will be aired from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET, with the first groups beginning play at 8 a.m. ET.
The tournament will also be streamed on ESPN+, CBS All Access and FUBO. Sign up at those links to watch the entire tournament.
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