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2023 Tour Championship Odds, Picks & Predictions: Tom Kim

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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: Tom Kim

Here is our betting outlook and picks for Tom Kim.

2023 Tour Championship Betting Stats to Know

  • Best odds to win: +17500 (PointsBet)
  • World ranking: 16
  • Best Tour Championship finish: N/A
  • Last four tournament finishes: T6, T2, T24, T10

2023 Tour Championship Betting Outlook

Tom Kim makes his first appearance at East Lake this week, and I expect him to make some noise. Entering this tournament in tremendous form, Kim has made six of his past seven cuts, with four top-10 finishes over that stretch. Add in his win at the Shriners Children’s Open and three other top-10 finishes this season, and the 21-year-old continues to cement his status as one of the game’s next big stars.

2023 Tour Championship Betting Advice

While I have lofty expectations for Kim this week, an eight-stroke deficit to Scottie Scheffler is just too much ground to make up. I do not think playing Kim in the finishing position markets would be a bad call, although I am personally staying away.

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