Betting Tips – Handicapping The Deutsche Bank Championship
NCAA football betting players are starting their regular season on Thursday, but the PGA is into the second event of the FedEx playoffs, the Deutsche Bank Championship. Steve Stricker is the defending champion, and he’ll be one of our five to watch at the TPC at Boston.
Golf Betting – Tee-Off Is Thursday Morning, Approx. 7:00 AM ET
Tiger Woods (+715): The world’s No.1 player showed signs of getting his game back with a T-12 at the Barclays, and he won here in 2006. Woods also finished T-11 here last year, shooting a 63 on Sunday to come up five shots short of Stricker, and if he can put together four solid rounds, watch out. NFL betting players would compare Woods to LaDainian Tomlison, who was cast aside in San Diego, and is trying to prove everyone wrong with the Jets.
Steve Stricker (+1015): Stricker finished T-3 at the Barclays with a bogey-free 66 on Sunday, and he’s finished in the top 13 in his last three trips to the TPC at Boston. At the Barclays, Stricker was T-6 in greens-in-regulation, which always gives him a chance to show off what is arguably the best putting stroke in the PGA.
Dustin Johnson (+1815): Johnson finished T-4 here last year, and has arguably been the best golfer of the second half. If not for his penalty at the PGA Championship, he’d probably be a major winner by now, and then there was his 82 on Sunday at the U.S. Open. But with each setback, Johnson seems to come back stronger, and his prodigious length off the tee gives him a big advantage at a course that isn’t that hard.
Adam Scott (+3050): Scott fans would call it a sports betting bonus if he managed to win this event, which he did in the first edition in 2003. Scott has two top-10s in his last three starts, and it’s because he’s been dropping some putts: Scott is seventh on the Tour in greens-in-regulation, but 158th in putting. He hit a few big ones at the Barclays en route to a T-9 finish, and maybe that will spark his confidence this week in Boston.
Angel Cabrera (+6550): The two-time major winner finished T-15 at the Barclays, and he’s racked up three straights top-25s at this event, including a T-4 last year. Cabrera is one of those players who usually shows up in the bigger events, but he’s still a bit wild: in his last nine starts, Cabrera has either come away with a solid finish, or he’s missed the cut. Going on patterns, he should miss the cut this week, but with his history at the TPC at Boston, Cabrera is a great online betting darkhorse to ride.
