When the PGA Championship tees off this week, Tiger Woods will be the highlight of the tournament, as fans and the media swarm on his every move. However, there are other golfers that deserve a look in this tournament. Online sportsbook Skybook has all of the odds for this tournament and for golf betting.
If the 93rd PGA Championship, which begins tomorrow at the Atlanta Athletic Club, goes as it has in the past, Woods must finish no worse than 14th to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which boast a $10 million payoff to the champion.
Woods is ranked 30th in the world but 129th in the FedEx Cup standings. Only the top 125 players qualify for the four-tournament playoff that includes the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston in Norton on Labor Day weekend.
Luke Donald wonders what a No. 1 golfer has to do to get a little TV coverage.
He joked that TV cameras don’t spent much time with their lenses on him, despite the Englishman owning the top spot in the world rankings for the 11th week.
“I understand that when I’m in the U.S., being a player from England, I’m not going to get as much support,” he said.
Donald said his strong showing at Bridgestone last week gives him confidence he can contend throughout the season’s final major. Still, he accepts he won’t match the TV time enjoyed this week by Woods, Phil Mickelson or Rory McIlroy.
To give you an idea of how the game has changed since the demise of Woods, there have been six first-time winners in the past seven majors. If there is a first-time winner this week, it will be the first time since 2003 that all four majors were won by first-timers in the same year.
This tournament is more than just Tiger Woods. There are 99 of the top 100 players in the world in the field of 156 and that will make for some exciting golf to watch and wager on this week.