The Memorial Tournament Betting Odds – 2015
Carrie Stroup here with your odds on The Memorial Tournament 2015 courtesy of our friends at Sportsbook.ag.
The Memorial Tournament
Muirfield Village Golf Club – Dublin, OH
Sportsbook.ag Odds to Win Tournament
After a rain-soaked weekend at the Byron Nelson, the PGA members will head to Ohio in hopes of a drier four days at the Memorial Tournament. This event was founded in 1976 and has been honoring a new player each year with this year’s being Sir Nick Faldo. The par-72, 7,392-yard course was designed by Jack Nicklaus in his hometown and has hosted such tourneys as the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup.
It will be quite a strong field heading to Muirfield this week as six of the top-10 and another nine from the top-25 of the Official World Golf Rankings will be in attendance. This group will be led by world No.2 Jordan Spieth as last year’s winner, No. 14 Hideki Matsuyama, looks to defend his title. He needed to fend off some tough competition in the win as his 13-under-par score earned him a spot in a playoff with Kevin Na where he won on the first extra hole. Three other players finished in double-digits under par and included big names Watson, Kirk and Scott.
Matsuyama will look to become the seventh player to win multiple times here with the most recent multiple winner being Tiger Woods, who took home the trophy for the fifth time in 2012. Woods will be teeing it up for the first time since the Players when he finished 69th with a score of three-over-par. Let’s take a look at one of the stronger non-major fields of the year and find some solid choices to come away with a win.
Hideki Matsuyama: (+2000) It’s no surprise that the 23-year-old Japanese-born phenom was the winner here last year as he has risen to 14th in the OWGR since then and is putting up big performances from week-to-week in 2015. He has yet to grab a second PGA Tour victory, but has made 14-of-15 cuts this year with seven top-10 finishes; including a runner-up showing at the Waste Management Open and a tremendous fifth at the Masters behind a big Sunday 66. He was able to do so well last year behind hitting 75% of fairways and currently ranks in the top-10 on tour in GIR (70.4%, 9th on tour), total strokes gained (1.718, 2nd on tour) and scrambling (65%, 10th on tour). He’s done no worse than 23rd in each of his last seven events and it would be a surprise if he wasn’t competing for the back-to-back win on Sunday.
Matt Kuchar: (+2400) Kuchar has been one of the more consistent top-echelon golfers on the tour in recent seasons and despite missing just one cut with eight top-25s on the year, he is on pace to finish outside of the top-20 in the FedEx Cup Standings for the first time since 2009. He has also won five times in the past five years while missing a miniscule eight cuts, including the one this year, over 134 events in that time. One of his victories came here in 2013 when he carded a 12-under-par score and outlasted Kevin Chappell by two strokes. That is not his only strong showing here as he has totaled 37-under-par in his other four visits here since 2009 and has done no worse that 15th with two other top-fives in that period. Kuchar should be able to bring his tremendous putting (0.566 strokes gained putting, 12th on tour) to Ohio and get another single-digit standing.
Justin Thomas: (+5000) Thomas has flown up the rankings to 79th in the world during his rookie season and has made 15-of-20 cuts with an impressive 10 of those weekend visits ending in a top-25 finish and another five getting him in the top-10. He has not slowed down as the fields get tougher either, with six consecutive cuts made and four of them within the top-25. Thomas has finished with a score of 69 or better in half (6) of his rounds over the last three events while hitting more than 62% of GIR in each of his last six tournaments. The 22-year-old certainly has some wins in his future with his length off the tee (300.9 yards per, 17th on tour) and ability with the short stick as his putting average (1.724) ranks ninth amongst his peers. Look for Thomas to start making more people take notice of him with his play at the Memorial this week.
Pat Perez: (+8000) Perez continues to impress this season and is currently on a tear with a top-26 finish in each of his last six outings as he comes off of a fifth-place at the Crowne Plaza Invitational behind four straight rounds of 69 or better; finishing with a six-under 64 on Sunday. He’s made 14-of-17 cuts on the year and can thank plenty of that on his 66.9% driving accuracy (33rd on tour) while also ranking in the top-50 in strokes gained putting (.328, 44th on tour) and birdie average (4.03, 19th on tour). Perez is closing in on $17 million in career earnings and has made the cut here in each of the last five years with four of them being in the top-30 and also included an eight in 2013. Perez has just one win in his 356 career events, but has made a living at making it to the weekend and should be able to compete come Sunday this week.<P>
Charles Howell III: (+17000) Howell III has not been having the best season, but the two-time PGA Tour winner has been in the top-35 of the FedEx Cup Standings in each of the past two previous years and has still been solid with 15 cuts made in 20 events. The former Oklahoma State University standout has sprinkled in three top-10s in 2015 and has made the cut at the Memorial in each of his last three attempts, ranking in the top-25 twice. His stats this year show a player that could have a huge performance on any given week as he ranks 26th in driving distance (296.9 yards per), 19th in GIR (69.4%) and 28th in strokes gained from tee-to-green (0.699). Howell should regain some of his past success here and come out with a solid showing in Ohio.
- Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com Senior Reporter
