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The PGA Tour hits the road again this week, heading into international waters for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
And while last week’s star-studded CJ Cup had plenty of familiar faces, with defending champ Rory McIlroy going back-to-back to return to the No. 1 world ranking, this week’s event may test most fans’ knowledge of field depth. Lucas Herbert is not back to defend at Port Royal GC, leaving a 132-man field that largely comprises some of the PGA Tour’s rank-and-file members. The course uses wind as its primary defense, but it’s also a cozy layout where players have the option to leave driver in the bag - and often are strongly encouraged to do so by the terrain and various hazards that squeeze the fairways.
But this week’s event on the island nation still packs plenty of incentive, as it is once again a standalone tournament offering 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner (the Bermuda Championship was originally slotted opposite the WGC-HSBC Champions, but that tournament in China has not been played since 2019 because of the pandemic). It means that this week’s winner will leave with a full Tour exemption through the 2024-25 season, plus spots in the Sentry Tournament of Champions, The Players, Masters and PGA Championship next year.
The top seven players on this week’s pre-tournament odds board have accounted for exactly one prior PGA Tour win, that coming from Seamus Power‘s triumph at the 2021 Barbasol Championship. The Irishman is listed at +2200, behind both Belgium’s Thomas Detry and this week’s opening favorite, Denny McCarthy. The former Virginia product is known as one of the Tour’s best putters, and he finished T-4 in Bermuda back in 2020. He’ll look to rekindle that form this week, coming off a T-37 finish at Congaree where he went 70-70 over the weekend.
Some notable names that now find themselves tied to triple-digit prices in Bermuda include Luke Donald (+12500), Aaron Baddeley (+15000) and Bill Haas (+25000). Here’s a look at other notable odds, with McCarthy leading the way in search of his maiden victory on Tour:
Odds to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship (via PointsBet)
+1600: Denny McCarthy
+1800: Thomas Detry
+2200: Seamus Power
+2500: Mark Hubbard, Aaron Rai, Adrian Meronk, Nick Hardy
+2800: Alex Smalley, Patrick Rodgers, S.H. Kim, Justin Lower
+3300: Russell Knox, Stephan Jaeger
+4000: Adam Schenk, Byeong-Hun An, Nick Taylor, Greyson Sigg
+5000: Adam Long, Brandon Wu, Callum Tarren, Erik van Rooyen, Robby Shelton, Will Gordon
+6000: Doug Ghim, Garrick Higgo, Sam Ryder, Zecheng Dou
+6600: C.T. Pan, Chesson Hadley, Harry Hall, Lucas Glover, Michael Gligic
+7000: Austin Eckroat, Joseph Bramlett, Peter Malnati, Ryan Armour, Scott Piercy
+8000: Austin Smotherman, Hank Lebioda, Brice Garnett, Kevin Yu, Kramer Hickok, Matthias Schmid, Tyler Duncan
+9000: Andrew Novak, Ben Taylor, Vincent Norrman, Henrik Norlander, Brian Stuard, Charley Hoffman
+10000: Austin Cook, Ben Griffin, Ben Martin, Brian Gay, Chad Ramey, M.J. Daffue, Matthias Schwab, Nate Lashley, Sam Stevens
+12500: Luke Donald
+15000: Aaron Baddeley, Augusto Nunez, Brandon Matthews, Camilo Villegas, David Lingmerth, Fabian Gomez, Harrison Endycott, Michael Kim, Nicholas Lindheim, Robert Streb, Sean O’Hair, William McGirt
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