The 2021-2022 PGA season concludes this week with the 30-man Tour Championship to be once again played at East Lake GC, Georgia. For the third successive year though, we face the ridiculous handicap scenario where FedEx Cup leader, Scottie Scheffler starts the 72 hole tournament on -10 followed by the defending champion, Patrick Cantlay on -8. Given the state of Professional Tour Golf at the moment, I fully expect this to be the final time we will endure this format.
With two outright markets to play this week, the Tour Championship Winner vs the 72-hole strokeplay winner, I am interested in getting involved with a player that I was onboard with last week, one Jon Rahm. "Rambo" fell out of the starting stalls last week but powered through the field over the weekend at Wilmington GC, to finish T8th. Whilst I looked seriously at Rory & Xander this week I am quite bullish on Rahm finishing the season on a high following the birth of his second son, just two weeks ago @ 19.00 on the exchange. I've taken 3.25 for a TOP5 also. Rahm started 4 shots back of Cantlay last year to shoot 266 and get within one of eventual FedEx Cup Champions, Cantlay and this year he starts 7 shots back. Likewise does JT and one back of Rory,Cam Smith & Tony Finau. Rahm has posted 7 TOP-5s from his 10 playoff appearances, with a Tour Championship 72 hole return of 1-6-12-11-7. He sounded fired up last week in Delaware as he raced up the leaderboard and he is taken to get off to a much better start this week and potentially win the loot !
At double the price is JT @ 42.00 (4.50 TOP-5) and @ 25/1 - 5 places with the high street. His 72 hole results the past 6 years reads 4-3-3-7-2-6 noting his score have been improving year on year with a 65 thrown in last year and 3 66s in 2020. He is not without a chance this week and proved already this year when winning the PGA Championship that a deficit can be overcome at the death and thought he was worth backing at the exchanges. I've added him 1/4 odds in the each-way market also for the - 4 places winner-without-starting-strokes (72 holes strokeplay)
Selections
3 pts TOP-5 J. Rham @ 3.25
2 pts e/w J. Rahm @ 10/1 - 4 places winner-without-starting-strokes (72 holes strokeplay)
1 pt WIN J. Thomas to win Tour Championship @ 42.00
2 pts TOP-5 J. Thomas @ 4.50
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