2015 Greenbrier Classic Betting Odds

Carrie Stroup here with your 2015 Greenbrier Classic betting odds as well as some previews of the top contenders.  

Greenbrier Classic

The Old White TPC – White Sulphur Springs, WV

Sportsbook.ag Odds to Win Tournament

Following a great week at the Travelers Championship, the players will head south to West Virginia for the Greenbrier Classic. This is one of the newest events on the PGA Tour after being established in 2010 and taking place at the par-70, 7,287-yard course. This event is one of three sandwiched in between the U.S. Open and the Open Championship and is typically not attended by many of the top foreign players in the world as they prep overseas. Overall, there are seven players from the top-25 heading to this tourney with No. 18 Louis Oosthuizen and No. 23 Paul Casey being the only two from outside of the United States.

Leading the field will be No. 3 Bubba Watson who is coming off his eighth victory since 2010 when he took the trophy in a playoff against Paul Casey last week at the Travelers Championship. Also joining the field will be Tiger Woods as he hopes to rebound from a horrible performance at Chambers Bay in the midst of a horrid season, and he missed the cut here in his one visit back in 2012. There is typically a ton of scoring done at this course which features plenty of European style holes as each of the winners since 2010 have been in double-digits under par. Stuart Appleby was the first victor here behind a score of 22-under-par; including a Sunday score of 59.

Last year, Angel Cabrera gave foreign players their third win in the five installments of this event when he shot a combined 12-under-par over the weekend and held off George McNeill’s Sunday 61 to win by two-strokes.

There will be plenty of scoring to be done this week and with some solid players joining the field it could be a fun one to watch through until Sunday afternoon, so let’s look at who could come through big and possibly top the leaderboard.

Webb Simpson: (+2500) Simpson is in the middle of another solid campaign as he has made the cut in 12-of-14 events (86%) while being in the top-10 four times. He was also close to getting his fifth career PGA victory when he was the runner-up at the Wells Fargo Championship in May behind a score of 14-under-par. Simpson has been great when coming to this tourney in the past, going 4-for-4 in made cuts in the past four years, ranking ninth or better three times during that stretch. Last year was his best showing as he finished third, improving his score in each successive day and finishing with a tremendous 63 on Sunday. He hit 72.2% of GIR during that impressive showing and he’s been one of the best ball-strikers on TOUR (1.528 strokes gained: tee-to-green, 8^th on TOUR) as his short game is one of the best with a ranking of 21^st in scrambling (63.4%) and 17^th in sand save percentage (60.9%). The 29-year-old should have no issues being one of the top players out there come Sunday afternoon.

Brendon Todd: (+4500) Todd joined Simpson near the top of the leaderboard at the Greenbrier last year, finishing one spot behind him (4^th) after consistent rounds of 67 or better from Friday to Sunday. He hit 71.4% of the fairways during that solid performance and ranks 10^th on TOUR in that category in 2015 with 70.8% of fairways hit as he also ranks in the top-20 in scrambling (63.7%, 18^th on TOUR) and sand save percentage (62.8%, 12^th on TOUR). Those stats have led Todd to a sneaky good season as he has made 15-of-19 cuts (80%) and has been in the top-25 eight times. Two of those have come in his last three events, with the U.S. Open being a missed cut, but ranking 17^th or better in the other two while coming off a 15^th last week after carding a 67 in three of the four rounds. He has been one of the more consistent players over the last few years that is not talked about much and could creep his way into contention this weekend.

Cameron Tringale: (+6000) Tringale has had a great time when playing in the Greenbrier Classic and in the past four years has made it to the weekend each time with two top-four finishes to his name. One of those came last year as his nine-under-par score earned him a fourth-place while he hit 72.2% of GIR and 80.4% of fairways. He is doing well in 2015 as he ranks in the top-50 of the FedEx Cup standings behind made cuts in 15-of-21 events (71%) with four top-25 finishes. He was on the cusp of getting his first PGA victory in New Orleans at the Zurich Classic this year, carding an impressive score of 21-under-par but failing to overtake Justin Rose on Sunday despite a 65. Tringale should be able to continue his solid season at a venue where he is very comfortable.

Carl Pettersson: (+6500) Pettersson will look to become the second Swedish-born player to win this event in the past three years as Jonas Blixt did so in 2013. He has had some success when at the Old White Course, making the cut in each of the five years since the tournament’s inception in 2010 and has two top-20s during that stretch. He’s been slightly inconsistent on the TOUR in 2015, going 16-for-24 (67%) in cuts made, but is currently riding a streak of four consecutive events in which he has made it to the weekend and is coming off of his best showing of the year when he ended in fifth at the Travelers Championship with three rounds of 66 or better. Pettersson is a great scrambler (62.7%, 28^th on TOUR) and has the experience here to put up some nice scores and impress many with his play.

Charlie Beljan: (+11000) It hasn’t exactly been an exceptional 2015 campaign for Beljan, missing more cuts (11) than he’s made, but he does have a third place and was solid at the U.S. Open (18^th). He has been great at this event in the last three years, getting a top-11 twice and was close to grabbing the win in 2011 when he shot 14-under-par and finished in a tie for third thanks to his Friday 62. Beljan has shown he can get some very low scores here and besides that 62 he showed up with a Sunday 65 last year which aided him in a tie for 11^th as he hit 75% of GIR. Beljan is huge off the tee, averaging 309.7 yard per (2^nd on TOUR) and as a result ranks 28^th in going for the green (61.7%). The long hitter has had success here in the past and should put himself in a position to contend on Sunday.