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2018 PGA Championship odds: Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas favored
The final major of the season is upon us–and the final time that the PGA Championships is the final major of the season is upon us as well. Next year’s competition will fall between the Masters and U.S. Open, owing to the PGA Tour’s calendar reshuffle.
Something less textually convoluted: Dustin Johnson is the favorite at 8-1 odds.
Rory McIlroy 12-1, Justin Thomas 14-1, Jordan Spieth 20-1, Brooks Koepka 20-1, Jason Day 20-1, Rickie Fowler 22-1, Justin Rose 22-1, Jon Rahm 25-1 and Tiger Woods 28-1 round out the top 10.
7,547-yard par 71 Bellerive, which underwent a $9.5-million renovation in 2005-06 to get up to major standards, plays host. The course performed well as the venue for the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, and players will be keen for a chance to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy at the Missouri course for the first time since 1992.
Here are the odds for the full field, courtesy of Bovada.
Dustin Johnson 8-1
Rory McIlroy 12-1
Justin Thomas 14-1
Jordan Spieth 20-1
Brooks Koepka 20-1
Jason Day 20-1
Rickie Fowler 22-1
Justin Rose 22-1
Jon Rahm 25-1
Tiger Woods 28-1
Tommy Fleetwood 28-1
Francesco Molinari 33-1
Patrick Reed 35-1
Tony Finau 40-1
Alex Noren 50-1
Henrik Stenson 50-1
Patrick Cantlay 50-1
Paul Casey 50-1
Xander Schauffele 50-1
Bubba Watson 50-1
Hideki Matsuyama 66-1
Marc Leishman 66-1
Joaquin Niemann 66-1
Webb Simpson 75-1
Thorbjorn Olesen 75-1
Bryson DeChambeau 80-1
Louis Oosthuizen 80-1
Matt Kuchar 80-1
Kyle Stanley 80-1
Phil Mickelson 100-1
Sergio Garcia 100-1
Branden Grace 100-1
Charley Hoffman 100-1
Ian Poulter 100-1
Kevin Kisner 100-1
Zach Johnson 100-1
Gary Woodland 100-1
Brian Harman 100-1
Daniel Berger 100-1
Keegan Bradley 100-1
Byeong-Hun An 125-1
Kevin Chappell 125-1
Luke List 125-1
Aaron Wise 125-1
Matthew Fitzpatrick 150-1
Rafa Cabrera-Bello 150-1
Russell Knox 150-1
Adam Scott 150-1
Brandt Snedeker 150-1
Charl Schwartzel 150-1
Russell Henley 150-1
Ryan Moore 150-1
Shane Lowry 150-1
Thomas Pieters 150-1
Tyrrell Hatton 150-1
Si Woo Kim 150-1
Emiliano Grillo 200-1
J.B. Holmes 200-1
Jason Dufner 200-1
Jimmy Walker 200-1
Beau Hossler 200-1
Eddie Pepperell 200-1
Billy Horschel 200-1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat 200-1
Kevin Na 200-1
Haotong Li 200-1
Alexander Bjork 200-1
Anirban Lahiri 200-1
Cameron Smith 200-1
Dylan Frittelli 200-1
Jamie Lovemark 200-1
Jhonattan Vegas 200-1
Julian Suri 200-1
Nick Watney 200-1
Paul Dunne 200-1
Shaun Micheel 200-1
Shubhankar Sharma 200-1
Stewart Cink 200-1
Troy Merritt 200-1
Whee Kim 200-1
Brendan Steele 250-1
Charles Howell III 250-1
Danny Willett 250-1
Chesson Hadley 250-1
Chris Wood 250-1
Pat Perez 250-1
James Hahn 250-1
Ross Fisher 250-1
Adrian Otaegui 250-1
Alexander Levy 250-1
Andrew Landry 250-1
Brandon Stone 250-1
Brian Gay 250-1
J.J. Spaun 250-1
Jim Furyk 250-1
Jordan Smith 250-1
Jorge Campillo 250-1
Matt Wallace 250-1
Michael Kim 250-1
Padraig Harrington 250-1
Ryan Armour 250-1
Scott Piercy 300-1
Adam Hadwin 300-1
Brice Garnett 300-1
Chris Stroud 300-1
Mike Lorenzo-Vera 300-1
Patton Kizzire 300-1
Satoshi Kodaira 300-1
Scott Brown 300-1
Sungjae Im 300-1
Vijay Singh 300-1
Yusaku Miyazato 300-1
Yuta Ikeda 300-1
Martin Kaymer 300-1
Austin Cook 300-1
Ollie Schniederjans 300-1
Peter Uihlein 300-1
Ryan Fox 300-1
Andy Sullivan 400-1
Chez Reavie 400-1
Justin Harding 400-1
Mikko Korhonen 400-1
Paul Broadhurst 400-1
Ryuko Tokimatsu 400-1
Seungsu Han 400-1
Shugo Imahira 400-1
Ted Potter Jr. 400-1
Y.E. Yang 400-1
Bill Haas 500-1
Davis Love III 500-1
Jason Kokrak 500-1
Matt Borchert 500-1
Sean McCarty 500-1
Thomas Bjorn 500-1
Jaysen Hansen 750-1
John Daly 750-1
Matt Dobyns 750-1
Michael Block 750-1
Brian Smock 1000-1
Craig Hocknull 1000-1
Danny Balin 1000-1
Jason Schmuhl 1000-1
Marty Jertson 1000-1
Rich Berberian Jr. 1000-1
Shawn Warren 1000-1
Ben Kern 1500-1
Bob Sowards 1500-1
David Muttitt 1500-1
Rich Beem 1500-1
Ryan Vermeer 1500-1
Omar Uresti 2000-1
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SuperStroke acquires Lamkin Grips
SuperStroke announced today its purchase of 100-year-old grip maker Lamkin Grips, citing the company’s “heritage of innovation and quality.”
“It is with pride and great gratitude that we announce Lamkin, a golf club grip brand with a 100-year history of breakthrough design and trusted products, is now a part of the SuperStroke brand,” says SuperStroke CEO Dean Dingman. “We have always had the utmost respect for how the Lamkin family has put the needs and benefits of the golfer first in their grip designs. If there is a grip company that is most aligned with SuperStroke’s commitment to uncompromised research, design, and development to put the most useful performance tools in the hands of golfers, Lamkin has been that brand. It is an honor to bring Lamkin’s wealth of product innovation into the SuperStroke family.”
Elver B. Lamkin founded the company in 1925 and produced golf’s first leather grips. The company had been family-owned and operated since that point, producing a wide array of styles, such as the iconic Crossline.
According to a press release, “The acquisition of Lamkin grows and diversifies SuperStroke’s proven and popular array of grip offerings with technology grounded in providing golfers optimal feel and performance through cutting-edge design and use of materials, surface texture and shape.”
CEO Bob Lamkin will stay on as a board member and will continue to be involved with the company.
“SuperStroke has become one of the most proven, well-operated, and pioneering brands in golf grips and we could not be more confident that the Lamkin legacy, brand, and technology is in the best of hands to continue to innovate and lead under the guidance of Dean Dingman and his remarkably capable team,” Lamkin said.
Related: Check out our 2014 conversation with Bob Lamkin, here: Bob Lamkin on the wrap grip reborn, 90 years of history
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Tour Rundown: Pendrith, Otaegui, Longbella, and Dunlap soar
Take it from a fellow who coaches high school golf in metro Toronto: there’s plenty of great golf played in the land of the maple leaf. All the greats have designed courses over the USA border: Colt, Whitman, Ross, Coore, Mackenzie, Doak, as well as the greatest of the land, Stanley Thompson. I’m partial to him, because he wore my middle name with grandeur. Enough about the architecture, because this week’s Tour Rundown begins with a newly-minted, Canadian champion on the PGA Tour. Something else that the great white north is known for, is weather. It impacted play on three of the world’s tours, forcing final-round cancellations on two of them.
It was an odd week in the golf world. The LPGA and the Korn Ferry were on a break, and only 13/15 of the rounds slated, were played. In the end, we have four champions to recognize, so let’s not delay any longer with minutiae about the game that we love. Let’s run it all down with this week’s Tour Rundown.
PGA Tour: TP takes TS at Byron’s place
The 1980s was a decade when a Canadian emergence was anticipated on the PGA Tour. It failed to materialize, but a path was carved for the next generation. Mike Weir captured the Masters in 2003, but no other countrymen joined him in his quest for PGA Tour conquest. 2024 may herald the long-awaited arrival of a Canadian squad of tour winners. Over the past few years, we’ve seen Nick Taylor break the fifty-plus year dearth of homebred champions at the Canadian Open, and players like Adam Hadwin, Corey Conners, Adam Svennson, and Mackenzie Hughes have etched their names into the PGA Tour’s annals of winners.
This week, Taylor Pendrith joined his mates with a one-shot win at TPC Craig Ranch, the home of the Byron Nelson Classic. Pendrith took a lead into the final round and, while the USA’s Jake Knapp faltered, held on for the slimmest of victories. Sweden’s Alex Noren posted six-under 65 on Sunday to move into third position, at 21-under par. Ben Kohles, a Texan, looked to break through for his first win in his home state. He took the lead from Pendrith at the 71st hole, on the strength of a second-consecutive birdie.
With victory in site, Kohles found a way to make bogey at the last, without submerging in the fronting water. His second shot was greenside, but he could not move his third to the putting surface. His fourth was five feet from par and a playoff, but his fifth failed to drop. Meanwhile, Pendrith was on the froghair in two, and calmly took two putts from 40 feet, for birdie. When Kohles missed for par, Pendrith had, at last, a PGA Tour title.
360° and in!
A nervy par save by @TaylorPendrith to remain one back as he seeks his first PGA TOUR victory @CJByronNelson. pic.twitter.com/LVFXUSidSg
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 5, 2024
DP World Tour: China Open in Otaegui’s hands after canceled day four
It wasn’t the fourth round that was canceled in Shenzhen, but the third. Rains came on Saturday to Hidden Grace Golf Club, ensuring that momentum would cease. Sunday would instead be akin to a motorsports restart, with no sense of who might claim victory. Sebastian Soderberg, the hottest golfer on the Asian Swing, held the lead, but he would slip to a 72 on Sunday, and tie for third with Paul Waring and Joel Girrbach. Italy’s Guido Migliozzi completed play in 67 strokes on day three, moving one shot past the triumvirate, to 17-under par.
It was Spain’s Adrian Otaegui who persevered the best and played the purest. Otaegui was clean on the day, with seven birdies for 65. Even when Migliozzi ceased the lead at the 10th, Otaegui remained calm. With everything on the line, Migliozzi made bogey at the par-five 17th, as his principal competitor finished in birdie. To the Italian’s credit, he bounced back with birdie at the last, to claim solo second. The victory was Otaegui’s fifth on the DP World Tour, and first since October of 2022.
.@adrianotaegui birdies the 16th to tie the lead at -17 ?#VolvoChinaOpen pic.twitter.com/p4tfE5DRJa
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) May 5, 2024
PGA Tour Americas: Quito’s rains gift title to Longbella
Across the world, superintendents and their staffs will do anything to prepare a course for play. Even after fierce, nightime rains, the Quito TG Club greeted the first four groups on Sunday. The rains worsened after 7 am, however, and the tour was forced to abort the final round of play. With scores reverting to Saturday’s numbers, Thomas Longbella’s one-shot advantage over Gunn Yang turned into a Tour Americas victory.
64 held the opening-day lead, and Longbella was not far off, with 66. Yang jumped to the top on day two, following a67 with 66. He posted 68 on day three, and anticipated a fierce, final-round duel for the title. As for Longbella, he fought off a ninth-hole bogey on Saturday with six birdies and a 17th-hole eagle. That rare bird proved to be the winning stroke, allowing Longbella to edge past Yang, and secure ultimate victory.
.@TBalla21 eagles 17, shoots 65 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the KIA Open. pic.twitter.com/TTOL2LxSdh
— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) May 4, 2024
PGA Tour Champions: Dunlap survives Saturday stumble for win
Scott Dunlap did not finish Saturday as well as he might have liked. After beginning play near Houston with 65, Dunlap made two bogeys in his final found holes on day two, to finish at nine-under par. Hot on his heels was Joe Durant, owner of a March 2024 win on PGA Tour Champions. Just behind Durant was Stuart Appleby, perhaps vibing from his Sunday 59 at Greenbrier on this day in 2010. Neither would have a chance to track Dunlap down.
The rains that have forced emergency responders into action, to save hundreds of lives in the metro Houston area, ended hopes for a third day of play at The Woodlands. Dunlap had won once previously on Tour Champions, in 2014 in Washington state. Ten years later, Dunlap was the fortunate recipient of a canceled final round, and his two days of play were enough to earn him TC victory number two.
Off the green? No worries for @ScottDu12500063
8-under solo leader @InsperityInvtnl pic.twitter.com/hoj5OujL5C
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 4, 2024
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Ryan Diliberto
Aug 6, 2018 at 2:15 pm
Its a par 70
Squid
Aug 6, 2018 at 2:52 pm
No, it’s Par 72
https://www.pga.com/events/pgachampionship/course
Ryan Diliberto
Aug 6, 2018 at 2:56 pm
nope still a 70