When you began this week looking ahead at the upcoming sports betting calendar, you probably didn’t recognize the PGA Tour stop called the Workday Charity Open. That’s because it is a first-year replacement for the John Deere Classic that was canceled due to the coronavirus.

The John Deere Classic will return next year, but for this week, the Workday Charity Open should definitely be on your radar.

Played on the same course, Muirfield Village Golf Course, as The Memorial – which will follow next week – this event will feature three of the top five players in the world, including the return of Brooks Koepka, who withdrew from the Travelers Championship after his caddie tested positive for COVID-19.

The Odds

After his incredible performance over the weekend in which he finished first in driving distance, first in putting, and first on the leaderboard, Bryson DeChambeau is going to sit this weekend out. He won The Memorial in 2018 and will return to the field for that event on July 16.

This week he likely would have been the odds-on favorite, had he decided to play. So with DeChambeau out, here is how the favorites shake out.

• Justin Thomas +1100
• Patrick Cantlay +1400
• Hideki Matsuyama +1600
• Jon Rahm +1600
• Brooks Koepka +1600
• Xander Schauffele +1800
• Viktor Hovland +2200
• Justin Rose +2200
• Patrick Reed +3000
• Rickie Fowler +3000

Patrick Cantlay won at Muirfield last year. For The Memorial, this course runs a bit shorter and with higher rough. But even with the slight changes to the course for this tournament, Cantlay is an obvious top pick.

Justin Thomas, the top name on this list, has a pair of top-10 finishes since golf resumed in June.

Hideki Matsuyama is the surprise on this list. Ranked 23rd in the world, he’s played in two PGA Tour events since play resumed. He missed the cut at the RBC Heritage and finished tied for 21st at last weekend’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, though he did finish sixth at The Memorial last year.

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The PGA Tour returns this week at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, and after such a long layoff, it’s impossible to know exactly what to expect from the golfers as they return to the course without fans. But what we do know is that we can expect some incredible golf.

Because this is the first tournament back since the PGA suspended the season before The Players Championship on March 12, for the first time in the 74 years they’ve been playing golf at Colonial, the top five players in the world will all be competing.

Stacked Field

According to the Official World Golf Rankings, the Charles Schwab Challenge will feature the best five golfers in the world.

• Rory McIlroy +750
• Jon Rahm +1000
• Brooks Koepka +2200
• Justin Thomas +1400
• Dustin Johnson +2800

Of course, the two golfers who most recently played in a competition were Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, as they teed it up in The Match: Champions for Charity. But oddsmakers don’t see that round in May having any influence on what happens this weekend.

Phil is +12500 to win, and Tiger isn’t playing. He hasn’t played at Colonial since 1997, so his absence is not unexpected.

The Rest of the Top 20

Altogether, 16 of the top 20 golfers in the world will be competing this weekend. The other 11 in attendance are (by world ranking):

• Patrick Reed +2800
• Webb Simpson +2000
• Xander Schauffele +2500
• Bryson DeChambeau +2200
• Justin Rose +4500
• Marc Leishman +4000
• Tony Finau +4000
• Matt Kuchar +4000
• Gary Woodland +5000
• Louis Oosthuizen +6600
• Shane Lowry +6600

The tour’s most recent winner, Tyrrell Hatton, is not in the field this week. But the winner before him, Sungjae Im, is. He won the Honda Classic with an impressive -4 (66) in the fourth round on March 1.

The Korean is currently ranked 23rd in the world and is listed at +3300 to win this week in Fort Worth.

Prop Bets of Note

Winning Margin

• One Stroke +225
• Two Strokes +350
• Three Strokes +550
• Four Strokes or More +275
• Playoff +400

Hole-In-One in Tournament

• Yes -150
• No +110
• Rory McIlroy Hole in One +6600

One other prop bet to watch. The last time out, both Justin Rose and Tony Finau missed the cut. The odds on them making the cut this week are:

• Justin Rose Yes (-225)/No (+165)
• Tony Finau Yes (-265)/No (+188)

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