PGA Championship odds 2018: Tiger Woods among favorites to win at Bellerive

Sadly, the season’s final men’s major has already arrived. The 100th PGA Championship tees off this week at Bellerive in St. Louis. It’s the last time the PGA will be the final major of the year, or serve as “glory’s last shot,” that goofy promotional phrase that was fortunately put to rest. Next year, the PGA is making the big move to May. The Players is falling back to March, and the PGA will slot in between the Masters and U.S. Open. So the majors season will move even faster, with that Sunday at the British Open in mid-July serving as our farewell to golf’s most important events.

While St. Louis in August is, uh, well, not the most palatable atmosphere, the actual championship seems set up well for a great one. First of all, we have the return of Tiger Woods after a three-year absence playing this major championship. That is a sentence we have written at each of the first three majors this season, along with many other tournaments sprinkled throughout this comeback.

Tiger’s last start in this event was an ugly missed cut at Whistling Straits. Back then, he was playing in more pain that we really understood and his game was also a sad, embarrassing mess. It was the worst summer of his career and then he disappeared for two full seasons rehabbing back surgeries. This time, he arrives at Bellerive fresh off a top 10 finish at The Open, where he held the damn solo lead on the back nine of a major. Sure, the intervening start at Firestone wasn’t always pretty, but this is a real, competitive golfer and not that broken-down shell of a player from 2015.

Given how he’s played competitive golf this season, Tiger’s odds, for him, are actually not horrible value. Again, this is all relative, but Woods is 20/1 and that’s not too bad given how out-of-whack the odds can get for the most public golfer of all time. Usually, money comes rushing in on Tiger no matter how well he’s played and the books have to limit their exposure so they keep lowering the odds. That’s led to some really ridiculous numbers when he’s been injured or had no chance to win. Even when he was at the height of his powers, Tiger’s odds were outrageous and poor value, coming in often at 3/1 or even lower. So 20/1 is not bad in the world of Tiger-wagering, especially since he’s shown he can at least contend at a major this year.

2018 PGA Championship Odds

Player	Odds to Win
Player	Odds to Win
Dustin Johnson	10/1
Rory McIlroy	12/1
Justin Thomas	14/1
Jordan Spieth	16/1
Rickie Fowler	18/1
Tiger�Woods	20/1
Justin Rose	20/1
Brooks Koepka	20/1
Jon Rahm	20/1
Tommy Fleetwood	20/1
Jason Day	20/1
Francesco Molinari	25/1
Patrick Reed	30/1
Tony Finau	30/1
Hideki Matsuyama	40/1
Henrik Stenson	40/1
Paul Casey	40/1
Alex Noren	50/1
Phil Mickelson	50/1
Bubba Watson	50/1
Xander�Schauffele	50/1
Marc Leishman	50/1
Patrick Cantlay	50/1
Sergio Garcia	60/1
Matt Kuchar	60/1
Louis Oosthuizen	60/1
Bryson DeChambeau	60/1
Webb�Simpson	60/1
Branden Grace	80/1
Adam Scott	80/1
Zach Johnson	80/1
Kevin Kisner	80/1
Ian Poulter	80/1
Thomas Pieters	80/1
Joaquin Niemann	80/1
Tyrrell Hatton	100/1
Daniel Berger	100/1
Kevin Chappell	100/1
Brandt Snedeker	100/1
Charley Hoffman	100/1
Kyle Stanley	100/1
Byeong Hun An	100/1
Keegan Bradley	100/1
Thorbjorn Olesen	100/1
Rafael Cabrera Bello	125/1
Brian Harman	125/1
Jason Dufner	125/1
Jimmy Walker	125/1
Emiliano Grillo	125/1
Matthew Fitzpatrick	125/1
Charl Schwartzel	125/1
Ryan Moore	125/1
Russell Henley	125/1
Luke List	125/1
Kevin Na	150/1
Russell Knox	150/1
Haotong Li	150/1
Gary Woodland	150/1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat	150/1
Pat Perez	150/1
J.B. Holmes	150/1
Billy Horschel	150/1
Shane Lowry	150/1
Beau Hossler	150/1
Si Woo Kim	150/1
Ollie Schniederjans	150/1
Martin Kaymer	200/1
Peter Uihlein	200/1
Brendan Steele	200/1
Aaron Wise	200/1
Bill Haas	200/1
Chris Wood	200/1
Andy Sullivan	200/1
Danny Willett	200/1
Charles Howell III	200/1
Adam Hadwin	200/1
Cameron Smith	200/1
Chez Reavie	200/1
Scott Piercy	200/1
Austin Cook	200/1
Chesson Hadley	200/1
Ryan Fox	200/1
Julian Suri	200/1
Jamie�Lovemark	200/1
Michael Kim	250/1
Shubhankar Sharma	250/1
Ross Fisher	250/1
Stewart Cink	250/1
Paul Dunne	250/1
Anirban�Lahiri	250/1
Dylan Frittelli	250/1
Alexander Levy	250/1
Nick Watney	250/1
Chris�Kirk	250/1
Jim Furyk	300/1
Padraig Harrington	300/1
James Hahn	300/1
Satoshi Kodaira	300/1
Jordan Smith	300/1
Andrew Landry	300/1
Patton Kizzire	300/1
J.J. Spaun	300/1
Justin Harding	300/1
Matt Wallace	300/1
Jhonattan Vegas	300/1
Troy Merritt	300/1
Jorge Campillo	300/1
Alexander Bjork	300/1
Brandon Stone	300/1
Brian Gay	300/1
Eddie Pepperell	300/1
Jason Kokrak	300/1
Brice Garnett	500/1
Ryan Armour	500/1
Ted Potter, Jr	500/1
Chris Stroud	500/1
Scott Brown	500/1
Vijay Singh	500/1
Davis Love III	500/1
Mike Lorenzo-Vera	500/1
Adrian Otaegui	500/1
Yusaku Miyazato	500/1
Mikko Korhonen	500/1
Sungjai Im	500/1
Seungsu Han	500/1
Whee Kim	500/1
Shugo Imahira	500/1
John Daly	1000/1
Y.E. Yang	1000/1
Paul Broadhurst	1000/1
Yuta Ikeda	1000/1
Ryuko Tokimatsu	1000/1
Thomas Bjorn	1000/1
Rich Beem	2000/1
Omar Uresti	2000/1
Rich Berberian, Jr	2000/1
Matt Dobyns	2000/1
Marty Jertson	2000/1
Shaun Micheel	2000/1
Craig Bowden	2000/1
Michael Block	2000/1
Bob Sowards	2000/1
David Muttitt	2000/1
Jaysen Hansen	2000/1
Brian Smock	2000/1
Sean McCarty	2000/1
Matt Borchert	2000/1
Zach J. Johnson	2000/1
Jason Schmuhl	2000/1
Danny Balin	2000/1
Ben Kern	2000/1
Ryan Vermeer	2000/1
Shaun Warren	2000/1
Craig Hocknull	2000/1
Johan Kok	2000/1

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