{"id":107014,"date":"2016-05-02T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/?p=107014"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:00:04","slug":"pga-early-pga-championship-odds-update-may-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/pga-early-pga-championship-odds-update-may-1-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"PGA &#8211; Early PGA Championship Odds Update &#8211; May 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PGA Tour still has the U.S. and British Opens on tap before the 20116 PGA Championship tees off from the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, but it\u2019s never too early to start wagering on the final major tournament of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a closer look below at the top three golfers expected to emerge victorious from New Jersey in a couple of months\u2019 time, plus a couple of under-the-radar players worth mentioning as well. And for more PGA majors futures odds, check out our updates for the <a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/pga-early-us-open-golf-odds-update-may-1-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/pga-early-british-open-odds-update-may-1-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Open Championship<\/a> right after this.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sports News and Predictions<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/world-golf-championships-2017-bridgestone-invitational-predictions-odds-picks-and-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 WGC Bridgestone International Predictions, Picks, and Preview<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/2017-wgc-bridgestone-invitational-expert-sleeper-picks-and-predictions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 WGC Bridgestone Invitational Expert Sleeper Picks<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/2017-wgc-bridgestone-invitational-expert-picks-and-predictions-pga-golf-betting-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 WGC Bridgestone Invitational Expert Picks<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Early 2016 PGA Championship Odds Update<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Favorites<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Rory McIlroy<\/h3>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/18\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-90156 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Golf-Banner-v1-1-250x130.gif\" alt=\"Golf-Banner-v1-1-250x130\" width=\"250\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>Since the PGA Championship is a major tournament, it is with good reason that the early favorites for such grand events are those found in the upper echelon of the Official World Golf Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy is currently ranked as the third-best golfer in the world right now, but he still has a pair of PGA Championship titles (2012 and 2014) under his belt already, and he\u2019s playing more like the top dog that he once was after suffering a serious injury late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Though his first win of 2016 hasn\u2019t come to fruition yet, McIlroy still has a pair of top-5 finishes, just one missed cut in eight starts, and no other finish outside of the top 30 this season. As such, the Irishman is still in good graces with the oddsmakers as the leading favorite at becoming just the sixth golfer to win the PGA Championship on more than two occasions.<\/p>\n<h3>Jordan Spieth<\/h3>\n<p>Expectations were high this season for World No. 2 Jordan Spieth, who put the sport of golf back on the map with his back-to-back majors wins last year at The Masters and the U.S. Open. So when the 22-year-old sensation experienced a relative slump after winning at Kapalua in January, Spieth proved his doubters wrong by finishing tied for second and nearly winning his second green jacket at Augusta last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Spieth is still quite far from his elite form of 2015, but you also can\u2019t ignore the fact that the Dallas native goes into high gear on the PGA\u2019s grandest stages. Top-5 finishes in all five of his most recent majors appearances, including his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship last year, is what\u2019s mainly keeping Spieth as a darling in the golf betting community as we speak.<\/p>\n<h3>Jason Day<\/h3>\n<p>As of this writing, current World No. 1 Jason Day is being regarded as a shade behind McIlroy and Spieth in the running for this year\u2019s PGA Championship title. Have people already forgotten that he\u2019s the tournament\u2019s defending champion, and that he has four-consecutive top-10 majors finishes right now?<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Day has a couple of wins this 2016 already. While his T10 finish at Augusta was a bit disappointing, but it\u2019s still a superb result nonetheless. Grab the Aussie while he\u2019s still not considered as the leading candidate to win at Baltusrol, because his price will definitely shoot up the moment that he generates sweet returns from the U.S. and British Opens.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sleeper<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Martin Kaymer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-107020\" src=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Martin-Kaymer-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"PGA Martin Kaymer in action\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Martin-Kaymer-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Martin-Kaymer-250x141.jpg 250w, http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Martin-Kaymer.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Consider Martin Kaymer as the Tour\u2019s silent assassin. Although Kaymer only has one top-10 finish to his credit dating back to November of 2014, he has the tendency to go supernova in major tournaments. The German has won a PGA Championship title already (2010), and even secured a massive U.S. Open victory just a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Kaymer has nine top-15 finishes in the majors. Three of them came from the PGA Championship, including his solid T12 finish from last season\u2019s installment of the event at Whistling Straits. Heck, he has more wins from the majors than all of his other outings in the PGA Tour combined.<\/p>\n<p>Play the part of spoiler like Kaymer, and pick him to shock everyone else by siding with the one guy that can truly make the other elite golfers sweat.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Long Shot <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Kevin Na<\/h3>\n<p>Kevin Na kicked off this season with four top-3 finishes through his first six starts, but has then cooled off significantly. A nice T4 finish from the recently concluded RBC Heritage has even him back on the right path for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, none of that matters when dealing with the majors. Na\u2019s best result at a major tournament happens to be his T10 finish at the PGA Championship, but that was way back in 2011. Since then, he\u2019s been a virtual no-show at the event for four years running, failing to make the cut both in 2014 and 2015 after withdrawing from play in 2012 and not qualifying for 2013\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n<p>Na has been quite a trendy dark horse pick this year, but it would still be best to skip on the Seoul-born swinger once he\u2019s officially set to take on Baltusrol\u2019s greens and fairways this July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/6\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Create a betting account now<\/a> to win big from majors futures and all the other exciting weekly PGA Tour events in an instant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/18\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-95579 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Golf-Banner-v1-1-1-8-16.gif\" alt=\"Golf-Banner-v1-1-1-8-16\" width=\"620\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PGA Tour still has the U.S. and British Opens on tap before the 20116 PGA Championship tees off from the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, but it\u2019s never too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":107047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[393,514],"tags":[13468,13469,13470,1336,1639,1832,4115],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.4 - 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