2023 Tour Championship Odds, Picks & Predictions: Jordan Spieth
The 2022-2023 PGA Tour season will come to a dramatic conclusion this week with the Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
There's a great deal at stake for the 30 players who qualified for this event by making it through the first three tournaments of the four-week FedEx Cup Playoffs. The winner of the Tour Championship will receive $18 million and a five-year PGA Tour exemption. Second place is worth $6.5 million. Every player in the field will earn at least $500,000 for making it this far, along with a two-year PGA Tour exemption and a 2024 Masters invitation.
The Tour Championship uses a unique “starting strokes†system that rewards players based on the number of FedEx Cup points they’ve accumulated throughout the season. The FedEx Cup points leader starts at -10. The No. 2 player starts at -8, the No. 3 player starts at -7, the No. 4 player starts at -6, and the No. 5 player starts at -5. The rest of the field is sorted into groups of five, with groups starting at -4, -3, -2, -1 and even par. Bear in mind that betting odds for the Tour Championship take the starting strokes system into account.
The field features betting favorite Scottie Scheffler, reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm and defending FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy. Will one of the big names claim the title, or will we see a less heralded but red-hot player such as Lucas Glover or Brian Harman win at East Lake?
Let's look at the betting outlook for one of the players who'll be competing in this week's Tour Championship.
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2023 Tour Championship Odds & Picks: Jordan Spieth
Here is our betting outlook and picks for Jordan Spieth.
2023 Tour Championship Betting Stats to Know
- Best odds to win: +27500 (via Caesars Sportsbook)
- World ranking: 12
- Best Tour Championship finish: 1 (2015)
- Last four tournament finishes: T34, T6, T23, Cut
2023 Tour Championship Betting Outlook
It has been a roller-coaster career for 30-year-old Jordan Spieth. The American capped off his incredible 2015 season by winning the Tour Championship at East Lake. However, since the format change in 2019, Spieth has missed the event twice and has finished T20 (-4) and T13 (-12) in the last two. It seems Spieth is finding his groove again this season, although wins have eluded him. He boasts five top-5 finishes and two additional top-10s. He'll have his work cut this weekend, as he starts in the cellar (E), chasing front-runner Scottie Scheffler.
2023 Tour Championship Betting Advice
Considering Spieth has played East Lake Golf Club well in the past, I want to back him in some capacity. I'm going to lay the juice at -165 (Caesars) and say he places inside the top 20. There are quite a few names that I expect him to pass, but don't think he's going to put on a herculean effort and move much higher than the mid-teens. Let's take Spieth to erase the early deficit and climb into the top 20.
More 2023 Tour Championship Picks & Predictions
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- Scottie Scheffler
- Jon Rahm
- Max Homa
- Matthew Fitzpatrick
- Xander Schauffele
- Viktor Hovland
- Brian Harman
- Sam Burns
- Rickie Fowler
- Corey Conners
- Sungjae Im
- Patrick Cantlay
- Wyndham Clark
- Lucas Glover
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Tony Finau
- Russell Henley
- Si Woo Kim
- Keegan Bradley
- Nick Taylor
- Taylor Moore
- Sepp Straka
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Emiliano Grillo
- Jason Day
- Collin Morikawa
- Adam Schenk
- Tom Kim