{"id":4964,"date":"2022-08-24T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&p=4964"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:47:20","slug":"2022-tour-championship-betting-picks-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2022-tour-championship-betting-picks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Tour Championship Betting Picks Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The PGA Tour\u2019s 2021-2022 season will conclude at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia with the finale of the FedExCup Playoffs. The top 30 golfers in the FedExCup standings will be competing for an $18 million total purse with players guaranteed at least $500,000 just for making it to the Tour Championship. Coming off back-to-back wins at the BMW Championship, Patrick Cantlay will look to successfully defend the Tour Championship that he won last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oldest golf course in the city of Atlanta, East Lake is a city course that was the home track of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones. It is a lush old-school parkland course that features narrow fairways, difficult bermuda rough, uneven lies and fast greens. It is known as a risk\/reward type of course, and is one of the more difficult ones on Tour with birdies typically tough to come by. It has been the permanent home of the Tour Championship since 2004, and it has been held at East Lake 21 times since 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike every other Tour event where all players start on a level playing field at even par, the field this week will begin with staggered scores base on their position in the FedExCup points ranking list. Despite the scorn of most golf fans who despise the staggered start, this will be the fourth consecutive year of utilizing the \u201cStarting Strokes\u201d format which sees players start between 10-under and even par depending on their ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Certain players this week like Adam Scott and Aaron Wise who are starting ten shots behind have no realistic chance at overtaking anyone near the top of the board. This limits the excitement and drama of this final event and makes it one of the more unwatchable golf tournaments of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The honest truth is that a 29-player event that has a staggered start scoring handicap is about as bad as it gets for betting purposes. This format basically eliminates at least 20 golfers from having a chance to win. Part of this is because East Lake is a very difficult course on which to score and mount a comeback. Because of this, some books offer winning odds without the staggered start. In my opinion, that is the best method of approaching this event, but even that has its pitfalls. For example, with every player guaranteed at least $500,000 just for making it to East Lake, how motivated will any golfer be once Sunday comes and they are eight shots behind the leader?<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Klos previews the 2022 Tour Championship, which includes his best outright and finishing position bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4947,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"bs_types":[14],"bs_tags":[29,129],"class_list":["post-4964","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","bs_type-betting","bs_tag-golf-betting","bs_tag-tour-championship"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gettyimages-1416038947-612x612-1.jpg","tags_list":[{"id":29,"name":"Golf Betting","slug":"golf-betting"},{"id":129,"name":"Tour Championship","slug":"tour-championship"}],"types_list":[{"id":14,"name":"Betting"}],"bs_author":{"name":"Ron Klos","profile_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ron-Klos-150x150.jpg"},"bs_term_name":null,"is_paid":"true","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bs_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_types?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"bs_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}