2024 The American Express Odds Scottie Scheffler Favored Over Patrick Cantlay
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Golfer2024 The American Express OddsScottie Scheffler+600Patrick Cantlay+950Xander Schauffele+1200Sungjae Im+2200Tom Kim+2200Justin Thomas+2400Min Woo Lee+3000J.T. Poston+3200Sam Burns+3500Eric Cole+3700Jason Day+3700Tony Finau+3700Wyndham Clark+4500Taylor Montgomery+4500Si Woo Kim+5000Chris Kirk+5500Adam Hadwin+5500Rickie Fowler+6000Cameron Davis+6500Akshay Bhatia+6500Andrew Putnam+6500Stephan Jaeger+7500Shane Lowry+8000Alex Noren+8000Alex Smalley+8000Daniel Berger+9000Beau Hossler+9000Davis Thompson+9000Adam Schenk+9000Taylor Pendrith+9000Billy Horschel+9000Keith Mitchell+9000Thomas Detry+11000Aaron Rai+11000Erik van Rooyen+11000Ben Griffin+11000Justin Suh+11000Tom Hoge+12500Will Zalatoris+12500Golfer2024 The American Express OddsRyo Hisatsune+14000Matt Kuchar+14000Matt Wallace+14000Kyoung-Hoon Lee+14000Austin Eckroat+14000Christiaan Bezuidenhout+14000Nick Taylor+14000Brandon Wu+14000Grayson Murray+14000Patton Kizzire+14000Matti Schmid+17500Mark Hubbard+17500Matthieu Pavon+17500Michael Kim+17500Ben Kohles+17500S.H. Kim+17500Sam Ryder+17500Lee Hodges+17500Sam Stevens+18500Garrick Higgo+20000Nicholas Lindheim+20000Vince Whaley+20000Doug Ghim+20000Alexander Bjork+20000Jake Knapp+20000Christopher Gotterup+20000Carl Yuan+20000Dylan Wu+20000Greyson Sigg+20000Robert MacIntyre+20000Ryan Palmer+22500Chesson Hadley+22500Ryan Moore+22500Cameron Champ+22500Will Gordon+22500Taiga Semikawa+22500Harry Hall+22500Maverick McNealy+22500Tyler Duncan+22500Alejandro Tosti+25000Golfer2024 The American Express OddsRobby Shelton+25000Chad Ramey+25000Joseph Bramlett+25000Davis Riley+30000Charley Hoffman+30000Scott Stallings+30000Harrison Endycott+30000Lanto Griffin+32500Matthew Nesmith+32500Nate Lashley+32500Jhonattan Vegas+35000Adam Long+35000Jacob Bridgeman+35000Callum Tarren+35000Sami Valimaki+35000Hayden Buckley+35000Nick Dunlap+35000Camilo Villegas+35000Adrien Dumont De Chassart+35000Joel Dahmen+35000Joe Highsmith+40000Ben Silverman+40000Zac Blair+40000Carson Young+40000Kevin Streelman+40000Troy Merritt+40000David Lipsky+40000Aaron Baddeley+40000Ben Martin+40000Max Greyserman+45000Parker Coody+45000Chandler Phillips+45000Andrew Novak+45000Norman Xiong+45000Kevin Yu+45000Nicolas Echavarria+45000Golfer2024 The American Express OddsChez Reavie+45000Martin Laird+45000Patrick Fishburn+50000Justin Lower+50000Pierceson Coody+50000Roger Sloan+60000Mac Meissner+60000Paul Barjon+60000Chan Kim+60000Peter Malnati+60000Zach Johnson+60000Hayden Springer+60000Jimmy Stanger+60000Trace Crowe+60000Josh Teater+60000Wilson Furr+75000Rico Hoey+75000Ryan McCormick+87500David Skinns+100000John Pak+100000David Lingmerth+100000Bill Haas+100000Brandt Snedeker+100000Michael Block+125000Tyler McCumber+125000Tom Whitney+125000Andrew Landry+125000Kevin Kisner+125000Scott Gutschewski+125000Rafael Campos+125000Jason Dufner+125000Bronson Burgoon+125000Kevin Dougherty+175000Hale Jr. Blaine+200000Yuxin Lin+200000Tyson Alexander+200000J.B. Holmes+200000Ben Taylor+250000Ryan Brehm+250000Raul Pereda+300000
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The PGA Tour heads to La Quinta, California for The American Express after Grayson Murray held off Byeong Hun An and Keegan Bradley in a three-man playoff on Sunday to win the Sony Open in Hawaii.
While Jon Rahm is not in the field this week to defend his title at The American Express, this week's field is among the strongest in the tournament's history with 22 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and it is highlighted by the No. 1 player in the world.
Scottie Scheffler predictably opened as the outright betting favorite to win The American Express at bet365 on Monday morning at +600 odds as he makes his fifth appearance in the desert. His odds have remained steady at +600 to win as of Wednesday afternoon.
Scheffler has put on a ball-striking clinic since the beginning of 2023 as he has made 21 official PGA Tour starts in that span and finished in the top 12 in 19 of those 21 starts. His two other finishes were a T23 and a T31 as he has been consistent but has somehow only won twice in this span because of his struggles on the greens.
Scottie Scheffler's tee to green rankings in his last 17 events.
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The Texas Longhorn's season debut at The Sentry, where he finished T5, was more of the same as he led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green but lost strokes putting as he finished four strokes behind eventual winner Chris Kirk.
This is Scheffler's fifth appearance at The American Express as he has made three of four prior cuts, with his best finish coming in 2020 when he was solo third.
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Patrick Cantlay is next on the odds board behind Scheffler at +850 to win The American Express. The UCLA Bruin is making his sixth start in the desert, and in his four starts here since he became a PGA Tour member in 2014, he has finished in the top 26 all four times, including a solo second in 2021.
Cantlay is coming off of a T12 at The Sentry when he gained strokes off the tee, on approach, around the green and putting. His odds have drifted slightly to +950 to win as of Wednesday afternoon.
Cantlay's frequent partner in match play competition, Xander Schauffele, opened the third and final golfer at odds shorter than 20-1 this week at +1000 on bet365, and he has since moved slightly to +1200. The San Diego State Aztec has played this event three times before as he has had boom-or-bust results, with two missed cuts in 2016 and 2017 before a T3 here last year. Schauffele began his season with a T10 in a strong showing at Kapalua.
Justin Thomas also will make his season debut this week after skipping the Sony Open in Hawaii and failing to qualify for The Sentry. The 15-time PGA Tour winner opened with the fifth-shortest odds to win this week at +2200 on bet365 and now sits at +2400.
Thomas played three events in the fall as he finished in the top five of all three events: fifth at the Fortinet Championship, fourth on the DP World Tour's Nedbank Golf Challenge and third at the Hero World Challenge, an unofficial PGA Tour event. The Alabama product has played in The American Express just twice before as he missed the cut in 2014 before finishing T7 in 2015.
Min Woo Lee also makes his much anticipated PGA Tour season debut as he now has a full PGA Tour card for the first time in his career. The 25-year-old Australian has made five worldwide starts since October as he finished in the top 15 in all five events, highlighted by a win at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship on the DP World Tour and another win at the SJM Macao Open on the Asian Tour.
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鈥?Min Woo Lee (@Minwoo27Lee) December 5, 2023
Lee opened at +2800 outright odds to keep cooking and win his third title in his last six worldwide starts this week in the desert as he makes his tournament debut. He has since moved slightly to +3000 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Daniel Berger also returns to PGA Tour action this week for the first time since the 2022 U.S. Open after battling back injury. The four-time PGA Tour winner opened at +5500 odds to win this week as he makes his fourth start at The American Express. He has made two of three cuts at this event, highlighted by a T12 in 2019, but his odds have drifted to +9000 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Finally, some other notables in the field this week and their outright odds include Sungjae Im (+2200), Tom Kim (+2200), Si Woo Kim (+5000), Chris Kirk (+5500) and Davis Thompson (+9000).
2024 The American Express Course PreviewThe American Express is the first event of the 2024 PGA Tour season that will be hosted by multiple courses: PGA West Stadium Course, PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course and La Quinta Country Club. All 156 golfers will play one round at each course before a 54-hole cut, and the final round will be held at the PGA West Stadium Course.
La Quinta Country Club is 7,060 yards,聽PGA West Stadium Course is 7,187 yards, and PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course is 7,159 yards. All three courses are par-72s with four par-5s, 10 par-4s and four par-3s.
The PGA West Stadium Course is the only one of the three that has Shotlink data, which makes handicapping this week a bit more of a challenge than some other tournaments on Tour. Historically, golfers who have excelled on approaches from 50-125 yards, 150-175 yards and over 225 yards have been the most successful at the PGA West Stadium Course, which like TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course, was designed by Pete Dye.
These courses have relatively small greens and favor golfers who play aggressively, and the scores of past winners reflect that as every winner of The American Express in the past decade has been at least 20-under par. Strokes Gained (SG): Approach has historically had the highest correlation with SG: Total at the PGA West Stadium Course, followed by SG: Putting, SG: Around the Green and then SG: Off the Tee.
Like Pete Dye's design at his first Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, his final three holes at PGA West Stadium Course feature a risk-reward par-5, an island-green par-3 and a water-lined par-4 as his finishing stretch. He described these three holes as "maybe the most difficult finishing holes I've ever built."
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2024 The American Express Past WinnersSi Woo Kim, Andrew Landry, Adam Long, Jason Dufner, Bill Haas, Jhonattan Vegas and Charley Hoffman are all past winners of The American Express who are in the field this week.
YearPast WinnerWinning Score2023Jon Rahm-272022Hudson Swafford-232021Si Woo Kim-232020Andrew Landry-262019Adam Long-262018Jon Rahm-222017Hudson Swafford-202016Jason Dufner-252015Bill Haas-222014Patrick Reed-282013Brian Gay-25