1 golfer in the world and Masters champion, Scottie Scheffler, is the betting favorite at +, with Xander Heritage golf betting odds and Rory McIlroy behind. RBC Heritage odds, picks, sleepers: Tommy Fleetwood, Patrick Cantlay among best bets Like a lot of coastal golf courses, Harbour Town. Cameron Young to win (+, FanDuel). Young has yet to pick up a win on the PGA Tour, but he has been in contention so many times. In his short. PGA TOUR Golf Bets: RBC Heritage Final Thoughts, Betting Card, OAD ; Patrick Cantlay · + Best Available Odds: ; Cameron Young · +
Tougher to say. People have argued that playing the Zurich Classic would better fit the week after the Masters. They feel it would serve as a break from the pressure of competing in a major championship for the players. The fact that the RBC Heritage is now a signature event ramps up the pressure on players to attend this week with all of the money and FedEx Cup points at stake. Of course, some players may see a no-cut event with a big reward as the perfect follow-up to the pressure of trying to win at Augusta National Golf Club.
Hilton Head Island is not a bad place to relax after a stressful week — and I know from personal experience. Even if I had trouble getting out of a few of the bunkers. The winner of the Masters, Scottie Scheffler, is still technically in the field for the RBC Heritage as I am writing this, but I am assuming he is going to withdraw with the birth of his first child coming any day.
Harbour Town Golf Links is a course with a very sticky history. Players who can win or contend here tend to do well year after year. Davis Love III won five times here, while Stewart Cink captured three wins, with the third coming sixteen years after the second. This week, my model will focus on strokes gained approach, strokes gained at Harbour Town Golf Links, strokes gained on shots from to yards, strokes gained from the sand, and one putt percentage.
Driving distance is not a factor, as players will be using their irons and 3-woods off the tee to set up their second shots into the greens on most holes. If you put the ball on the wrong side of the fairway, you can block out your second shot into the green with tree trouble very easily. The greens are smaller than average and demand players control their iron shots into the greens.
The small greens are protected by bunkers and closely shaved run-off areas just off the back of some of the greens. Like a lot of coastal golf courses, Harbour Town Golf Links starts off playing through tight fairways lined on each side by trees before finishing by the shoreline where it is more open and affected by wind. Driving accuracy and positioning will be key for golfers this week.
Odds are from BetMGM and update live. He had been really struggling with his approach shots heading into Augusta National but gained over 3. Heritage golf betting odds He has four top-seven finishes here in his last five tries, and he has gained more than 4 strokes on approach at Harbour Town three times.
He has gained over 5. If you want to play the regional narrative, he won on a Carolina course last year Quail Hollow. Lowry was close to making my outright betting card this week, but his number cratered before I had the chance to bet it. Instead, I will settle for a top finish.
Had he been just even with the field on the greens, he would have finished in the top His irons and his play around the green are excellent, and he clearly likes the course. In his last five appearances at Harbour Town, he has finished in the top 10 three times. In a field of only 70 golfers, I love his chances of finishing in the top I made a double there yesterday so I did not have a good memory there.
Decision with the ball is very important out here. And I hit a lot of fairways, which works well. And I work on the low driver, as well. I did a lot of preparation for this week to get myself ready. A lot of the guys rave about it because you have to work the ball both ways off the tee.
You have to work the ball both ways going into the green. You have to miss it in the right spots around the green to have a chance. And I love it. I work the ball probably a little more than the average guy out here. This is a course when I looked at the schedule starting off that this is one of the places I thought that I had the best chance to contend at.
And I guess after all the dust settled my intuition was correct. Obviously the winds do defend here. I grew up playing in the wind and I grew up playing fiddly courses like this. I just like coming back to this place. I have spoken to Ernie in the past about this event. You really have to see your thoughts. You have to hit a couple of different shots, not shots that you hit often.
Every hole stands out. Even though you have a lot of holes that have similar characteristics of just tight on the left side, tight on the right side with trees, they have slight doglegs that make it exciting to play, make it exciting to try to truly play chess around this golf course, and positioning your tee shot in the right spot in the fairway.
You find it and have a recovery shot, and you have a play. All the greens are made so that you do have a play. You can actually run them all up on the greens. He could hit it further than anybody. So you have guys like Davis, that can overpower courses, that play well here.
You have to position the ball well at times. You have to be really aware of the wind on this golf course. Some good memories and some good visuals for me on this golf course, and it was nice to plug back into some of those and make a few birdies. It really is. Most of them are pretty much 4 woods and long irons. And the greens are so small, you have to be really sharp with your irons to hit the greens.
But you have to be able to control the golf ball. You have to hit high shots, low shots, curve it right to left, left to right. Nine is a good example and 11 is a good example. First Round Leader Analysis : First round leader s , their wave and winning score since Full First Round Leader stats are here. Harbour Town is undoubtedly a course where patience, experience and guile are rewarded.
Pan Gay and Pettersson were experienced professionals who both have a good record on tight Par 70s. Wesley Bryan was both a Tour and tournament rookie who many, despite a great start on the PGA Tour, discarded due to his lack of course experience. Pan victorious after landing nothing better than a 42nd place in his 9 prior appearances that year.
Harbour Town shares TifEagle Bermudagrass — they are overseeded with Poa Trivialis in April — green complexes with Copperhead, home of the Valspar Championship, and as mentioned before, the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook shares Carolina course overtures in its setup. Broadening the TifEagle link out slightly, excellent performances on other TifEagle-type greens featured at Kapalua, Bay Hill from onwards and TPC Sawgrass — overseeded with Poa Trivialis from onwards — link in perfectly as well.
Again extrapolating the TifEagle Bermudagrass angle and looking at the Plantation Course at Kapalua specifically, across the winners here from through , plus Webb Simpson , Stewart Cink , Jordan Spieth and Matt Fitzpatrick from last year, all had top 7 finishes on the TifEagle greens on Maui.
Pan take his maiden PGA Tour victory here. 3m open leaderboard today Patrick Cantlay 2. If we are looking for a player who has superb Pete Dye course form, Patrick Cantlay takes some beating in this field. Love him or hate him, Patrick Cantlay — a little like Jordan Spieth — has Patrick Cantlay tracks, and this is one of them.
I also like his chances as he comes into the RBC Heritage totally under the radar, with form of Encouragingly Cantlay ranked 10th for Approach and 13th for Tee to Green last week at Augusta National, which was his best performance in those categories going back to the Tour Championship last August. That form is like gold dust looking at previous winners of the Heritage.
Betfred New Customer Offer: New customers only. Register excl. Jordan Spieth won here with negative Strokes Gained in , and both Abraham Ancer and Xander Schauffele have come within 1 and 2 shots respectively of winning the RBC Heritage across the past 4 renewals with negative Strokes Gained on the greens.
Zalatoris also has Carolina ties as he went to Wake Forest University, a 5 hour drive up IS77, and on his single RBC Heritage appearance in , despite being exhausted from finishing 2nd at The Masters the week before, Will shot opening rounds of to be 11th heading into the weekend before the almost inevitable drop-off to 42nd. Asked about Harbour Town Golf Links. Sahith Theegala 1.
Sepp Straka will take masses from last week at The Masters. Sepp should be buoyant as he takes the short trip down IS95 to Hilton Head. So I love the look of the Austrian this week on the Bermudagrass he craves. Fascinatingly he was also 3rd here at Harbour Town just 24 months ago. Tom Kim, by his own incredibly high standards, has struggled in Things are now looking up for a player who has dropped from 11th in the OWGR to 23rd in RBC Heritage Tips Follow us on twitter Bamfordgolf.
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