Fallen PGA Tour star’s return is our long-shot pick

This week the PGA Tour stays put for the 2024 Sony Open in Hawaii, and we’re choosing a younger phenom as our lengthy shot to win. Here’s our pick, the Sony Open odds, betting favorites and all the pieces else it’s good to know.

American Express odds: Long-shot wager

For the primary mainland U.S. occasion of the PGA Tour season, we’re turning again the clock with our pick for the long-shot of the week: Daniel Berger.

It’s doable you’ve forgotten Berger’s identify — the 30-year-old fell off the face of the professional golf world in 2022 whereas coping with a again harm that saved him out of play for everything of the 2023 season. Prior to the harm, although, Berger was among the best gamers on the earth, incomes 4 PGA Tour wins between 2017 and 2021 along with an invitation on the victorious U.S. Ryder Cup crew at Whistling Straits.

It could be a true longshot for Berger to earn a victory in his first occasion again within the professional ranks after some 18 months away from the game, however a positive Palm Springs format and a few hefty odds make him our pick for this week.

Should you place $10 on Berger to win and he comes via, you’ll earn $800. For insurance coverage, take into account putting further small bets on Berger to complete high 10 and high 20.

Looking for extra long-shot bets on the Amex? Our honorable mentions this week are two of the highest finishers finally week’s Sony Open in Hawaii, Grayson Murray and Carl Yuan (each +15000).

American Express odds: The favorites

Sitting on high of the odds-to-win record at this week’s American Express are a number of Berger’s former U.S. Ryder Cup teammates, together with the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas.

The American-heavy area hopes to ship a correct home-soil victory for the U.S. in California. Reigning American Express champ Jon Rahm is not within the area after leaving to affix LIV Golf in December.

You can see the highest 12 in Sony Open betting odds as of Monday morning beneath, or head over to BetMGM to see the total record of odds and bets for this week.

2024 American Express betting odds (Top 12 and ties)

Scottie Scheffler: +550
Xander Schauffele: +1000
Patrick Cantlay: +1000
Sungjae Im: +2000
Justin Thomas: +2500
Tom Kim: +2500
Sam Burns: +2800
Eric Cole: +3300
JT Poston: +3300
Jason Day: +3300
Min Woo Lee: +3300
Tony Finau: +3300

How final week’s lengthy shot fared

In our first long-shot column of the yr, we picked Akshay Bhatia as our longshot of the week, nevertheless it wasn’t meant to be.

Bhatia completed at 12 beneath, a formidable efficiency that left him simply exterior the highest 20 on the leaderboard, however wasn’t sufficient to offer us our first longshot victory of the yr.

PAST RESULTS

Check out how our long-shot picks have fared all season lengthy beneath.

2024 The Sentry: Keegan Bradley (Odds: +6600; Finish: T45)
2024 Sony Open: Akshay Bhatia (Odds: +6600; Finish: T13)

James Colgan

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James Colgan is a information and options editor at GOLF, writing tales for the web site and journal. He manages the Hot Mic, GOLF’s media vertical, and makes use of his on-camera expertise throughout the model’s platforms. Prior to becoming a member of GOLF, James graduated from Syracuse University, throughout which period he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Long Island, the place he is from. He will be reached at james.colgan@golf.com.