The BMW Championship is the third event of the FedEx Cup play-offs and presents a number of problems in finding the winner. Tournament venue Aronimink Golf Club returns to the PGA Tour after a seven-year absence, having hosted the AT&T National in 2010 and 2011, events won by Justin Rose and Nick Watney respectively.
The end of Ryder Cup qualifying will dominate the agenda as the European Tour makes its annual trip to Denmark this week. With the corresponding PGA Tour event not counting, the battle for the final automatic place on Thomas Bjorn’s team comes down to his fellow Dane Thorbjorn Olesen and the English pair of Eddie Pepperell and Matt Fitzpatrick.
The FedEx Cup play-offs continue with the Dell Technologies Championship, where Justin Thomas is fancied to defend his title. Twenty three of the world’s top 25 are among a very strong field at TPC Boston.
With the regular PGA Tour season over, attention in the States turns to the first of the FedEx Cup play-offs. The Northern Trust is a limited field event for the top 125 on the FedEx Cup standings, after which the top 100 move on to TPC Boston for the Dell Technologies Championship.
Qualifying for the 2018 Ryder Cup started with last year’s D+D Real Czech Masters and this year’s tournament is the penultimate event in the battle to seal an automatic place in Europe’s team. Now in its fifth year at the Albatross Golf Resort in Prague, the event has a strong history with the biennial team event.
After picking out US PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and Francesco Molinari (6th), the task is to keep the good run going with our Wyndham Championship betting tips. The first selection from the top of the market is Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who has hinted at a return to peak form.
With the final major of the season in the books, we return to regular European Tour action and another new course for the Nordea Masters. Our golf guru Phil Casey hit the target with 18/1 winner Brooks Koepka at the US PGA Championship and is eyeing another nice pay-out this week.
One of the best fields in golf is assembled for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and good cases can be made for a number of star names in Akron. Firestone Country Club hosts the limited-field event for the final time before moving to Memphis next year.
Green Eagle Golf Course in Hamburg hosts the Porsche European Open for the second year running and England’s Jordan Smith is back to defend the title he won in a play-off with defending champion Alexander Levy.
Bwin have several different betting markets available for The Open 2018 and as well as picking our best bets to be the outright winner, we’ve also studied the match betting odds to find some value.
Fans of low scoring should be in for a treat this week as the PGA Tour moves on to Illinois for the John Deere Classic, which has seen an average winning score of 20 under par for the last six years. Bryson DeChambeau was 18 under par in winning his first PGA Tour title last year.
What is usually known as The Greenbrier Classic has been renamed A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, but the quest to find a PGA Tour winner remains the same. The 2016 edition of the tournament was cancelled following devastating flooding throughout West Virginia with Xander Schauffele winning in 2017.
Ballyliffin may have staged a European Tour event before, but that will be of little help in picking the winner of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open this week. Spain’s Jon Rahm has returned to defend the title he won at Portstewart last year, while former champion and world number eight Rory McIlroy is also in the field.
Despite being played immediately after the US Open the Travelers Championship has attracted a strong field and offers up a traditional dilemma, Phil Casey writes. Five of the world’s top 10 – and number 11 Patrick Reed – have made the short trip to TPC River Highlands to find out, including US Open champion Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and defending champion Jordan Spieth.